When it comes to dodging work, we tip our hats to an unidentified developer who outsourced his programming duties to a Chinese company while he surfed the internet all day. Brilliant! But imagine if he devoted as much energy to his actual job. Someday, he might've gone somewhere.
According to a report by the Alliance for American Manufacturing, 2.7 million American jobs -- most of them in manufacturing -- have been lost since 2001.