[CSM]

I found this article while looking for a different one written by this author. His current article in the National Review is better than this one. If I can find it I'll post it.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Willie Green ain't gonna like this.

Facts confuse him so.

[Mears]

Sorry,CSM,but no one wll ever convince me that outsourcing of good jobs is good for our economy as long as there is one unemployed person in this country with the skills to do the job,

It benefits the corporation itself, and the stockholders,not the workers---God,I sound like a Communist here,but that's the way I feel

[mommybain]

This is what I don't get about all this: these articles consistently maintain that only the lower-paying jobs are being outsourced and offshored. The company I work for is outsourcing and offshoring IT jobs that are not lower-paying. We have an old system that is sunsetting and a less-old system that is being modified. The maintenance programming tasks on the old system are being outsourced. My coworkers and I spent months documenting everything we did to analyze and make programming changes to that system, and then performing "knowledge transfer" sessions to impart our wisdom on the programmers from Covansys that were taking our old jobs so that we can move onto new ones. All well and good, but.....

It took us years to learn that old system, and the performance we're getting from the offshore contractors indicates that they really needed years to learn to do our jobs, not months. What a surprise! The end result here is that folks who were supposed to be freed up by now to move onto greener pastures are still hand-holding the contractors. In the meantime, the greener pasture has deadlines approaching and no staff to do the work. Soooooo, we have foreign contractors learning the new stuff too.

Gives me a headache.

[Ronzo]

Why We Have Nothing to Fear from Foreign Outsourcing

Other than a loss of QUALITY jobs;
a further errosion of the middel-class;
putting technlogy in the hands of those who may, one day, use it against us;
and watching highly skilled engineers and technical people now working as greeters at Wal-Mart and selling vinyl siding...

Nope, nothing to fear at all...