goods and services than we export. This is what is happening
when we outsource manufacturing and other business
processes. Outsourcing is importing. We outsource such a
significant amount of our manufacturing and other business
processes that our imports greatly outweigh our exports.
Manufacturing used to make up a significant amount of this
country`s economy. When the manufacturing process is sent to
a foreign country, so is the money. This is also true for the
other business processes outsourced. Billions of dollars are
sent to the countries outsourced to every year; dollars that
would have stayed in the U.S. if businesses had decided to
have their products manufactured and their services
performed in the United States. We currently run trade
deficits with a number of countries that we outsource to.
Outsourcing is constantly draining the U.S. economy (Ensinger
2011).
Offshore outsourcing also adds to the national deficit in
another way. Many of the American workers who have lost
their jobs because the business they worked for decided to
outsource will either not find work or find work in a lowpaying job. This greatly reduces the amount taxes the
government is able to bring in (Ensinger 2011).