[A. Pole]

Outsourcing platforms, especially the knowledge jobs platforms in India, are commissioning U.S. think tanks and consultants to do "independent" studies that prove "outsourcing is good for the U.S." Certainly, the people who are benefiting from outsourcing want us to think it is good for us.

Independent studies bump.

[international american]

BUMP

[Clintonfatigued]

The people who commission and conduct these "studies" should be told to bump off.

[PhilipFreneau]

Please remove my name from your list.

[optimistically_conservative]

This is hardly an independant group, study, or report. This is a first person rant. The group is a liberal economic think tank: http://www.mbginfosvcs.com/

The claim that 57,000 net new jobs have been produced in the last 12 months belies the bias of this apocalyptic creed.

During the past 12 months, the second year of economic recovery, the U.S. economy eked out 57,000 net new jobs in nontradable low-pay services, leaving the economy millions of jobs short of normal performance.

"This is not a picture of an economy that is doing well. Low income jobs in nontradable services are the only sources of employment, while high value-added jobs that pay good incomes continue to disappear."

You can find this exact same quote from the 80s being used against Reagan.

[BIGZ]

Labor accounts for aprox 10% of costs. Where did the jobs go?

High taxes, EEOC, Workers Comp., The Enviromental BS, OSHA, Litigation, Unions, Medical costs, Government intervention, Affirmative Action, Local intervention, high energy costs, on and on and on.

[Happy2BMe]

"Certainly, the people who are benefiting from outsourcing want us to think it is good for us. Independent studies bump."

A. Pole. Where is a good single source to view the "people benefiting from outsourcing?"

Tnx . .

[neutrino]

Thanks for the ping!

I disagree with the article on one tiny, almost insignificant point - doctors and dentists are NOT safe. Remotely operated medical robots are a reality. Here's a link

I think people fail to realize the very real threat to our nation from outsourcing. It's easy to say that it doesn't matter if some engineer can't find a job and waits tables instead - but where will our future technology come from? Certainly, it won't be given to us by China!

So we are disposing of our seed corn. And those who don't believe it should take a look at the faculty of large research universities - the faculty are imported because few American students make the cut to get their PhD in the hard sciences.

Others don't care about the downward shift in the wage structure - but how are we to service the present debt if incomes fall so steeply?

The loss of jobs needs to be stopped, and it needs to be done now.

[bvw]

The obvious is buried by the panglossian inertia!

We are living on the isle of lost boys, and around us there are so many braying donkeys!