The outsourcing of factory ownership is a sensitive matter, because it goes hand in hand with the outsourcing of jobs.

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"The comparisons (to Swift Boat) are apt, particularly with the Bain outsourcing of jobs charge because there is a thin veneer of truth to that just as there was a thin coating of truth with the attacks of Kerry not deserving his medals, " Arterton said.

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Outsourcing has been so incredibly successful because it farms out low-level tasks to markets with plentiful cheap labor.

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This conclusion is not obvious to most people because jobs lost because of imports (or outsourcing, or factories relocating abroad) are more visible and more easily associated with trade than the jobs created by exports.

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"Gov. Romney has pointed to his experience as a corporate buyout specialist as the central basis for his candidacy, yet he has bristled at any examination of it because he profited off of bankrupting companies and outsourcing jobs, applying an economic philosophy he knows Americans strongly disagree with, " said Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt.

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