  While that may be true for individual companies, the data show
that overall, “offshoring” from other countries to the U.S. is
greatly benefitting the American economy.  As this chart shows,
most foreign direct investment does not go to low-wage countries
like China and Mexico—it goes to the United States!
Protectionists would be shocked – shocked! to find that many
huge multinational corporations actually prefer to produce in
the United States with U.S. workers.  U.S.-based multinational
corporations employ 22.9 million Americans—more than twice as
many people as they employ in China, Mexico, and all other
countries combined. Foreign-owned multinational corporations
employ another 5.5 million people in the United States.  When
talking heads or campaigning politicians assert that outsourcing
is costing the U.S. jobs, they’re telling only part of the
story. The whole picture shows that U.S. workers do just fine
competing for jobs in a global marketplace, and in fact the
United States continues to win the war