DuToit has a great (to me) take on NAFTA, "outsourcing " and the overall contempt that the Ph.D class has for blue collar workers

The reason this (outsourcing) is getting more attention is that while manufacturing jobs were being displaced, they were blue-collar jobs. Without using class-warfare rhetoric, nobody cared if textile workers in Alabama lost their jobs to a sweatshop in Bangladesh, because their impact on the country, even as a group, wasn’t that great.

But he goes deeper, much deeper, than that, discussing the inequitable exchange between high paid skilled labor export vs the cheap labor import...Good Read