I wonder if there would be any interest nationally in boycotting those
companies that are exporting American jobs to places like India.


None. People substitute their wallets for their brains as it is, no hope that
they'll avoid making the same substitution (in large numbers) for their social
consciences.

I learned an interesting thing about human nature several years ago. Seattle is
a pretty liberal place, with a lot of greenies.
Back in the early 90's I offered electric cars for sale on my used car lot. A
local co-op built "kit cars" and installed electric motors and batteries. They
releid on me to sell them. I used to drive one back and forth to work, and on
company errands. Great little vehicles for 20-30 mile, round-town runners.
"There will be a lot of interest in these," I thought. I was right!

I must have had 600 greenies on the lot in just a few months. Every time I
showed the electric cars, the conversation when something like this.

"Wow, dude! This is way cool that you've decided to offer these electric cars.
We got that hole in the ozone, all this pollution, people getting sick on fumes
everywhere, and we're going to run out petroleum some day. This is just
bitchin!
Everybody ought to buy one!"

When we 'd get around to asking for the order, the conversation always went
from
"everybody ought to buy one" to "everybody except me ought to buy one. I've got
some special personal reason why I'm forced to continue to drive my gasoline
car- but the rest of the world? They ought to get with the program and go
electric!"

Sigh.

We all have a long list of social goals we'd like to see accomplished, if only
*everybody else* will make the sacrifices we're unwilling to make ourselves.