Okay, since you asked for numbers, we have this poll: 65 percent happy with their jobs, 6 percent unhappy, and 30 percent neutral. As a special bonus, it shows how many people commute more than 25 miles to work (19 percent).

But, what the hell. Let's stipulate that a huge number of Americans have crappy, poor-paying jobs with miserable conditions.

And what's your point? That we should artificially raise the prices of goods on these same miserable people and lower their standard of living to marginally increase the number of things made in America? So that some people can quit their miserable jobs and go to work at a factory that magically moves back from overseas? Is this going to be a less miserable job?

When discussing outsourcing, aren't we talking the kind of jobs that are getting exported to India, China, Mexico and other places? Are these jobs that normally include air conditioning, corner offices, and huge benefit packages?

Maybe you have an idyllic view of the Good Old Days when everybody had a great job. Probably union. If you look at unemployment rates since 1948, there really isn't any Golden Age.