[Wombat101]

The problem is not foreign wages or lack of regulatation in foreign countries, although they do play a big part in the decision to move jobs overseas. The issue is the MENTALITY of your typical manager in corporate America who cannot see beyond a bottom line.

The software and programming fields are not really all that crucial to the American economy (although they are important), it's the banks, brokerages, and other businesses that handle money that are.

I'll bet that once a major corp (and I'd bet on a bank) has an OOOPS! and finds a Chinese, Pakistani or Russian "replacement worker" doing something nasty that either funds terrorism, drug sales or launders money with customer accounts or has a major security breach, THEN you will see a rethinking of the whole issue of shipping wrk overseas. The lawsuits alone would dictate a change in policy.

[Wombat101]

P.S. I'm a systems automation programmer with Citibank....

[kenth]

I agree, there are a lot of factors, from the poor education system to the corporate mentality you mentioned. Too many have come to view the stock market as a get rich quick scheme, fueling the idea that the profit margin must be inflated at any and all cost. If it means shoddy products, including software/support, produced by cheap foreign labor, so be it.

[TankerKC]

I'll bet that once a major corp (and I'd bet on a bank) has an OOOPS! and finds a Chinese, Pakistani or Russian "replacement worker" doing something nasty that either funds terrorism, drug sales or launders money with customer accounts or has a major security breach, THEN you will see a rethinking of the whole issue of shipping wrk overseas.

Just curious...what would the reaction be if there was a mojor OOOPS! and an American worker caused it?