On the surface we could say that it is a shame attempts to make sure all Americans have the opportunity for "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" on par with other developed countries are being met with such resistance, but of course those jobs were going overseas anyways in accordance with current corporate trends and the new health care law is just being used as an excuse to speed up the process.
My former company did the same thing in 2009. We were told in early 2008 that within five years the company would downsize its American workforce by a third, as the those jobs were to be shifted to Ireland (analyst jobs), India (programming), and The Philippines (call centers). As the company was a long-time important fixture in both Chicago and Lincoln they were expecting negative publicity from the move. Then the recession hit in late 2008, and by the end of 2009 all layoffs had been completed, speeded up to be covered by the recessionary spike of layoffs and avoid negative publicity...and it worked, news of the start of the layoffs in early 2009 got just a single paragraph mention on an interior page in newspapers in both cities, just considered a footnote to a recession that had not caused those layoffs in the first place.
Jason Rees wrote:
I took 24 hours to mourn.
There are plenty of Republicans who could have won that election, why did they not run? I have voted in eight presidential elections, four times for Republican candidates and four times for Democratic candidates (2016 will be a tie breaker!). Counting local, state, and national elections, I voted for some Republican and some Democratic candidates on Tuesday as well. I, and other independant moderates, would have voted for the right Republican presidential candidate this time, Romney and Ryan were just not the right candidates. Maybe 2016. My hope is that Tuesday's results break the influence of the extreme elements on both sides, given how ineffectual they ended up being this time. It would be nice if the so-called Tea Party and the un-named equivalent on the Democratic side would fade into the history books now.
Republicans will also get their base to vote for them, as occured on Tuesday, they just have to honestly and sincerely appeal to the moderates to win.
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The tea party movement IMHO was very valid but got hijacked by the Republicans. The candidate I'm thinking of here was Ron Paul, who was basically disowned by the Republicans. I look at the "occupy wall street" movement in the same light, they were not militants, they were disgusted with the same system Ron was disgusted by. What you have in the US is crony capitalism, corporate fascism call it what you will. Capitalism made the US great, but you don't have that now.you had a great constitution.........Bush attacked it with the patriot act and Obama continued the onslaught ...in a sense ( please forgive me for saying this) it is better that Obama gets elected because Bernanke will carry on printing dollars until the dollar collapses.you are $16 trillion in debt , why default on that ? why not go for $100 trillion.so he will continue to print and sensible folks can buy their gold, their guns and their farm land......Romney would have got rid of Bernanke and the pain would have come much sooner, but much less..I'm not gloating, the US and the UK are teid at the hip and we will eventually get what you get 
.so prepare