[ElCapitanAmerica]

> The day my job can be done by someone in a Third World country, it's time to change careers. Because once that happens, either that country ain't a "Third World country" anymore, or I'm no better than an uneducated, ignorant peasant.

Any job that requires thinking and not physical presence can be done overseas. As for "no better than uneducated, ignorant peasant", gee, I saw a lot of these peasants in my masters programs, many of them where getting their Phds at my local STATE university.

Ignorant peasants with Phds taking your jobs away, meanwhile, you're going to be driving trucks.

Yeah, that sounds like a winning combination for the future of the nation. Might as well tell everybody in engineering to quit and start practicing mowing lawns.

[Alberta's Child]

As for "no better than uneducated, ignorant peasant", gee, I saw a lot of these peasants in my masters programs, many of them where getting their Phds at my local STATE university.

Like I said -- then they ain't "Third World" anymore, now are they?

[valkyrieanne]

Any job that requires thinking and not physical presence can be done overseas. As for "no better than uneducated, ignorant peasant", gee, I saw a lot of these peasants in my masters programs, many of them where getting their Phds at my local STATE university.

Exactly. Taking the money from the pockets of taxpayers so that foreign students on visas can come here, get a subsidized education, and then take US jobs is *suicidal madness.*

What we need is a tariff on products that are outsourced - it doesn't matter whether it's tennis shoes, computer software or hardware, or call centers. Companies that use *any* non-US outsourcing along the line should pay *tariffs* for that "privilege."

More expensive products? Perhaps. But perhaps less social chaos from the implosion of the middle class.