Then you have people like me who through no fault of their own, are forced into semi-retirement due to the lack of interesting and challenging work. I spend my

Then you have people like me who through no fault of their own, are forced into semi-retirement due to the lack of interesting and challenging work. I spend my time working on open source projects and living off my investments and rental income, but I'd prefer to be employed. Is laying off Americans in a poor job market with few opportunities because most of the interesting work has been moved overseas really a judicious use of resources and talent? If it costs X amount of dollars to live in a certain area of the planet, and companies don't employ workers in that area of the planet, how can the company continue to have sales in that area over the long term? Employers are really not all that serious about hiring. The economy really isn't in good shape when compared to before 2008. They'll hire people with very specialized skills at a bargain pay rate, but that's it. There are two ways out of this. In the best case, the cost of living will decrease in first world countries and meet the third world counties in the middle. In the worst case, there will be war on a scale similar to World War II at the end of the Great Depression. War is a good stimulus for the economy and it puts people to work. I'm hoping for the former and not the latter.