Give us your personal verdict over Global outsourcing.  Also, do you think which direction of trade policy is better for the economic welfare of the US as well as the rest of the world; one US policymakers continue to move the US toward a more open and global economy by promoting trade, or one US policymakers move the US toward more closed and isolated economy by protecting US industries?

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