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.
I do not disagree the rules need to change. Between stoeln intellectual property from the Chinese, sweat shop labor in Vietnam, off shoring tech support to India, etc. we have been taken advantage of. Add in the envirowacko obsession with developing our vast energy resources, and we have a recipe for diasaster.
We need someone to clear present what the issues are (ie unfair competition, onerous regulatory burdens, unwieldy tax code, etc) and then present how we can get our competitiveness back. Newt and Romney ain’t the ones who can articulate that kind of vision for America.