Have you noticed all the "exploitin' the worker" and "people are gonna rise up" and "suspending habius(sic)" you hear from some people. Very "Workers of the World" sounding.
Some of these guys seem to forget that trade is voluntary. If nobody wanted Chinese goods, WalMart would be full of Americcan goods.
If Mexicans couldn't do the work for less, only Americans would be doing the work. If EDS is making a mistake, they'll be punished by their customers. Oh yeah, that's already happening.
Luckily, someone who's a math major is very employable in the financial services industry. They can make the big bucks and never have to go to work at WalMart or Circuit City.
Hmm. Financial services companies are actively outsourcing jobs to India, including many of those that require math.
India has a long and distinguished history in mathematics. As you probably know as a math major, one of the greatest raw mathematical talents of the last two hundred years was the Indian mathematician Ramanujan. The history of his collaboration with Hardy and Littlewood is one of the great stories in mathematics.
In fact, the U.S. doesn't have such a distinguished record on its own; while Russia, England, Germany, Hungary, even Japan and China have produced many distinguished mathematicians among their citizens, a lot of our mathematical talent has come from immigrants.
This not to disparage our own mathematicians; we have had many fine native ones. But on the whole, we haven't yet produced the high-end ones in the numbers that some other countries do.
As to jobs in mathematics, you can expect us to outsource mathematics jobs in large numbers to other countries, since many of these are examples par excellence of jobs that can be done merely with a computer and an Internet connection.
Defrauding the Navy is a BIG mistake...