This is the one big problem I have with Post #37. Americans who are having their jobs replaced aren't required to do a damned thing -- they can walk away tomorrow, and leave their employer in a bind. In fact, someone with that kind of initiative might end up doing very well for themselves. Someone who is paid $80,000 per year is earning about $40 per hour. If this person walked away from his job tomorrow and his employer still needed to get those Indians trained, he could probably go back as a consultant and charge the same employer about $150 per hour for the same damned work.
I think it's about time we stopped looking at the U.S. work force as a bunch of people sitting around in an orchard waiting for apples (jobs) to fall out of the trees. They may have to wait a long time for those apples, because the ones who bring a ladder and pick their own apples aren't going to leave much behind.
I also think a lot of these complaints about "First World jobs going to Third World countries" is a lot of nonsense. If someone in China or India is just as capable of doing a certain job as someone here in the U.S., then either China and India are no longer Third World countries, or the U.S. is no longer a First World country. For that specific job this is the case, at least.