Paul Ryan may be career politician but at least he is willing to tell the American people the truth about the fiscal condition our country is in....I see in a British paper this comment which also applies equally to the USA.........At the heart of much brainless thinking is the hope that we can somehow ring-fence our cosy, wildly over-entitled social model from the icy winds of Asian competitiveness. This is utter folly. To have a chance to compete with the Chinese, Indians and Koreans, we shall have to work harder, pay ourselves less, retire later, and accept major cuts in social benefits.
Scarcely any country in Europe yet accepts such realities.
I challenge anyone reading this to go look at any of the competitive bidding sites where freelancers go, such as eLance.
What you will see are people with entire company support out of India, Hong Kong and Malaysia who bid on contracts requiring serious technical expertise—which they appear to have—at 10% of the price many Americans must have to support ourselves modestly.
No joke.
Milwguy, I don’t disagre, for the most part, but we need protection and tariffs that push these folks away from us. They are stealing everything—and we’ve given it to them like Christmas presents gone wild. They, however, do not return the favor. No one. We are being robbed blind.
Indians have even been known to negotiate H1B contracts that provide them with ONE MONTH OFF after someone comes here to marry them. Or, should they go back to India for the marriage.