Outsourcing is good for the economy. So says Bruce Bartlett:

Any jobs saved in the short-run by restrictions on outsourcing will come at the expense of better jobs in the future that will not be created.

(Link via instapundit.) Bartlett refers to Daniel H. Pink's article The New Face of the Silicon Age, where Indians argue that outsourcing is only fair, and he concludes,

What begins to seep through their well-tiled arguments about quality, efficiency, and optimization is a view that Americans, who have long celebrated the sweetness of dynamic capitalism, must get used to the concept that it works for non-Americans, too. Programming jobs have delivered a nice upper-middle-class lifestyle to the people in this room. They own apartments. They drive new cars. They surf the Internet and watch American television and sip cappuccinos. Isn't the emergence of a vibrant middle class in an otherwise poor country a spectacular achievement, the very confirmation of the wonders of globalization - not to mention a new market for American goods and services? And if this transition pinches a little, aren't Americans being a tad hypocritical by whining about it? After all, where is it written that IT jobs somehow belong to Americans - and that any non-American who does such work is stealing the job from its rightful owner?

How come I found that via google at The Acorn but couldn't via Wired's search engine? The Acorn's got other outsourcing stuff, too.