Glen - you make some good points, but keep in mind that everything you worked on while here at GE is proprietary. If you want to speak in generalities about a product or component, that's fine, but do not use specifics. As an example, if you want to talk about in-sourcing a specific appliance (such as a refrigerator), I would use the example that all of the major appliance players have out-sourced refrigeration manufacturing to other counties and/or companies. With respect to the ice maker issue, you can reference it as a component, but cannot go into specific detail about the issues. On the flip side, I think topics that are common knowledge, or well publicized, are ok (like your reference to the fact that most of our market is domestic).

1. When you outsource, you lose competitive advantages
a. Our suppliers are building our units, and their units, and get to learn firsthand best practices and implement them on their units
b. By us buying units from asia, we are making the sourcing company more established in a market that we want to enter (emerging mkts)
c. We outsourced to LG (Asia), who outsourced to a plant in Mexico. We could have outsourced to Mexico ourselves. Samsung is doing the same thing (moving from asia to mexico).
2. When you outsource, you have very little control over quality
a. Difficult to make necessary product changes on the fly *talk about Ice makers and how we can mostly suggest good ideas, but can’t really tell them what to do
b. Miss critical details, such as which way the stainless steel comes off the role
c. How we were able to catch the problem with our own WKK boards, but when we switched from LG to Samsung, we lost the ability to troubleshoot the boards ourselves and can’t make simple fixes overnight, like making it so when the fridge is unplugged, it boots up in normal mode.
3. With the dollar losing value and unemployment going higher, it gets cheaper to manufacture in America.
a. Most of our business is in America
b. Shipping costs would be lower
c. We have a lot of excess capacity in our existing plants (no need to go and build factories)
1. When you outsource, you lose competitive advantages 
You also tend to outsource to non-industry leaders, because the leaders basically don't need you. This leaves you with a lot of work to get the lower tier player up to your standards. If you are lucky to get a big player, you find you have little to no leverage. If they want to raise price, they will. Many times, these guys won't even sign a contract with you, or if they do, they play hardball with the terms. 
2. When you outsource, you have very little control over quality 
You have to be very diligent, but suppliers have the ability to make changes that you are not aware of. As a result, there is a chance for underlying problems that can go undetected until they cause huge issues in the field. One example that we experienced, as well as many others in the electronics industry, was the use of counterfeit electrolytic capacitors by manufacturers of electronic control boards. Most of these originated in China. They led to premature failures of the control boards with increasing failure rates over time. 
3. With the dollar losing value and unemployment going higher, it gets cheaper to manufacture in America 
You mention excess capacity. We have some, but not a lot of it is useful. Retooling is very expensive.