[seppel]

Fully agreed. Big Business has given up on the concept of nations. They consider normal workers in western countries as usefull and replaceable idiots, to be replaced by cheaper workers in upcoming "nations", until they scuttle them for some other current Fourth World nation. Big Business is unpatriotic. Their god is the buck.

[hispanichoosier]

They consider normal workers in western countries as usefull and replaceable idiots

IMO, our students are dropping out of engineering programs because they're "too hard" for the average student produced by our publik skool system. I can't blame Cisco for moving its operations to places where the employees are better prepared for high-level work.

[dr_who_2]

Fully agreed. Big Business has given up on the concept of nations. They consider normal workers in western countries as usefull and replaceable idiots, to be replaced by cheaper workers in upcoming "nations", until they scuttle them for some other current Fourth World nation. Big Business is unpatriotic. Their god is the buck.

I'm sure successful business leaders regard people like yourself as not-so-useful, redundant idiots. India's attracting all this investment because at long last Indians who share your mindset are being laughed at. It's a shame that the U.S. and the world economy has so many cycles and upheavals, but it's nothing new and the whiners out there do nothing more than delay the inevitable or make these problems more acute.

[old-ager]

> Big Business has given up on the concept of nations

Of course. Our nation has to require allegiance of everybody who operates here. Damn the multinationals.

[Bonus Onus]

at the risk of inflaming this argument, I would argue that it borders on racist to oppose companies hiring workers who are equally qualified to do a job (if not much more) solely because those workers live in a different country. Are you worth more than someone in India? Do you deserve employment more because you are privileged to live in such a prosperous country as America? Even if one was to completely disregard the argument that Outsourcing allows American businesses to lower costs of production and therefore lower prices for consumers as well as grow faster it is impossible to ignore that any opposition to a company hiring an Indian instead of you is flat-out nativist and racist.