Outsourcing America: What's Behind Our National Crisis and How We Can Reclaim American Jobs.(Book Review)

Outsourcing America: What's Behind Our National Crisis and How We Can Reclaim American Jobs, by Ron and Anil Hira (New York: American Management Association, 2005), 236 pages, hardcover, $21.95. Available from American Opinion Book Services, P.O. Box 8040, Appleton, WI 54912 (plus shipping and handling); by phone at 920-749-3783; or online at www.aobs-store.com.

Even before the creation of our constitutional republic, America was recognized in Europe as the incubator of a new kind of society built on what is now called the "middle class." It was the aspiration and realistic hope of every American that he could become self-sufficient, improve his economic standing, and provide his children the means to enjoy an even better standard of living.

For decades, the American middle class has been under siege by a cultural elite determined to undermine its moral foundation, and a political ruling class bent on destroying the economic base that sustains it. The strip mining of America's manufacturing and hi-tech sectors through "outsourcing" is the most visible front of that ongoing war against the middle class.

In their useful book Outsourcing America, Ron and Anil Hira, internationally recognized experts on economic policy, demonstrate that the exodus of manufacturing and tech jobs abroad is the intended product of federal policy, rather than an undesired incidental result ...