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Yeah, I see it all the time too, a lot of banks have their processing centers in India as well, I've seen it myself. When I was working in the sector placing orders with mobile notaries to close loans, I saw names on the orders and said, "boy those names are funny looking" and I figured they were Indian names. I do understand that businesses need to find ways of doing things for the lowest cost but in other ways this is deteremental because it puts Americans out of work. Even if you ignore that part, what if something happens to the computer system in India where they have a power outage, terrorist attack, nuclear war with the Paks, you name it, you're crippled. I often joked that "if there was a nuclear war between the Indians and the Paks, in a way it would be a good thing, we can bring the jobs back here." B-P Sometimes I don't think it would be a bad idea. B-P I know there is fallout and stuff but I remember Red China lighting off H-Bombs as a kid (I was born in 1966) didn't affect us here too much. B-P

Although I do give President Bush my support and I support our policies in the Middle East, I think we need to take a look at our outsourcing policies, our H1-B polices and whatnot and assess our risks if we continue down this path. One of my concerns is that we are creating more out of work Americans, potentially unreliable systems that can bring things to crashing halt, and so on.