Those exported jobs is a direct result of massive government regulation (some 70000 pages) which does nothing to aid business, but increases the amount of overhead in trying to comply with the regulations. Please read this report, complied as of March 2005, which indicates that the costs (at that time) of compliance is over $1.4 trillion per year, a cost of over $4600 for every man, woman and child in the US. http://mwhodges.home.att.net/regulation_a.htmThat is your government in action helping the "little" guy and driving not only jobs over seas but whole companies as well. In order to survive, companies need to make profits, which is a measure of how they are doing. When government drives up costs of doing business, especially non-productive costs, they desire to escape rather that participate. Just think what you might do if the government increased your taxes by 3-4 times what you now pay, without any benefit.Just to clarify, jobs and the need to add jobs is a direct result of production. If there is no reason for producing something, there is no reason to hire anybody (except for government which does not care about profit or loss). What the country really needs to do is slash taxes of all kinds, slash government spending and end government intervention in private business. Then you would see a real economic future in the US. Just consider that every single dollar that the government spends is taking that dollar out of the private economy which could be put to productive use. Nothing the government does is sustainable, except their inflationary spending. Obama is clueless regarding economics and will not admit that the gigantic spending of the stimulus and budget deficit is a complete failure, and Bush was just as bad.