US Slump to Prop Up India as Next Offshoring Hotspot ("Dude, Where's My Job?!")

Dodging the continent for cheap labor means a lot of engineers have put their time and money into a a degree with little hope for a return on their investment.

And future generations of engineers and IT people will be discouraged from pursuing the degrees for the same reason. We'll become a nation of lawyers and salepeople. The arguement used to be that it was the old jobs going overseas and why protect the buggy whip industry when we should be preparing for the 21st century. Well, those 21st century jobs are all going overseas as well. Usually starting there.

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