[grey_whiskers]

No cheers, unfortunately. . .

[PeteB570]

Our county government outsources. When we get our tax bill in the mail we sent it to Charlotte, a few counties over.

The county says they save money by outsourcing. If they can do it why not the rest of us?

[indcons]

Note to self: read later.

[BJungNan]

Kerry Outsourcing Trade Mission To China Includes pics

[raybbr]

So clearly, there has been a great rush to send all kinds of work overseas. But WHY? The usual answer is “To be cost competitive. We could not survive as a company if we continued to pay exorbitant American salaries.”

My neighbor, who supplies scaffolding to nuclear power plants, decided to contract with a company in China to build his parts. They wined and dine him. Supplied him with prostitutes and he paid his monies to the local governors.

He goes there about every two months to "see" that his parts are made properly. He save about 15 to 20 percent on parts. He felt he had to do this to stay in business.

The kicker is that he gets about 75% to 80% of the contracts here in the U.S. He has no real competition.

It's greed. Plain and simple.

[raybbr]

ping

[A. Pole]

The (thankfully!) former head of Lucent and then of Hewlett-Packard, Carly Fiorina, was quoted as stating that no American had a right to a job just because they were American.

Free trade bump!

[ex-Texan]

Outsourcing Cartoon . . . Don't shoot me. Just joking.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

The smart American company it will send all kinds of money overseas, to stimulate the economy of other countries, so that they can start buying goods when the US consumption tapers off.

A great one liner! Not as funny as, "Take my wife.. Please!" But not bad.

It's on the par with the Charlie Brown cartoon with Lucy holding that football for Charlie.

Sure, India and China are going to hold that domestic market spot for American companies.

As Lucy says, "Ha! Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!"

[GOPJ]

Remember the two biggest destinations for outsourcing: China and India. What do these companies have in common? Cheap labor, and a large pool of relatively young buyers for American products. What else do they have in common? They are both primarily third world countries; on the whole, they cannot afford American products. So what’s an enterprising CEO to do? The answer is obvious: start a stampede of companies to relocate to China and India. This will do two things. First, it will directly lower all sorts of costs (no Social Security tax, no EPA, fewer lawyers…). Second, it will send all kinds of money overseas, to stimulate the economy of other countries, so that they can start buying goods when the US consumption tapers off.

(*)McKinsey’s motives in this, however, may not be as pure as the wind-driven snow, or even the silt-ridden Ganges. According to an article from The Times of India, McKinsey is being paid to generate jobs in India:

You were a tad ahead of your time with this piece... even down to the self-serving early corruption... Nice.

[central_va]

Kill the H-1B visa. KILL IT!!!!!!!

[central_va]

Free Traitor™ bump.

[Callan]

Barriers to entry in software are much lower than a physical factory. Different risks in some cases, but certainly both would have a job skills aspect that we would want to keep “in shore.”