[alancarp]

If we hadn’t dumbed down the educational process we wouldn’t be needing these folks from outside the country.

The education process is not the problem - at least not yet. I was personally displaced and my job was outsourced to an Indian firm hiring exclusively Indian workers. For 2 months now, I have been going begging for a job (without a result). The H1 and H2 visas are currently maxed out, which means well over 100,000 American jobs are going to foreign nationals -- and that's not even counting the jobs outsourced in the manner my job was taken.

Now 100,000 is not 5,000,000 -- the total job losses to date... but it's a start and the money those 100,000 would be spending in this country would be a certain stimulus to our economy.

[nyconse]

I am sorry, this truly stinks. I think we must boycott companies that do this as much as possible...hit them in the only area they care about their pocketbook...God know they care nothing for this country.

[nyconse]

Praying for you, my husband’s job hangs by a thread...he now is expected to work from 5:30 AM until say 7:30 PM-in order to maybe keep his job. He also has to go in on weekends of course. This brave new world populated with H1B visa holders, illegals, extra work for no pay truly stinks. It’s not a world I want to leave my kids-the world brought about by globalization, free trade and corporate greed. Global corporations have demonstrated that they have no love for their country; I would never purchase anything from IBM and other companies like them who have demonstrated their complete contempt for America and her people...they have caused as much damage as the 9-11 murderers-maybe more.

[chimera]

I think a lot of this outsourcing to Bangalore is/will be coming back to bite some of these companies. Here is an interesting personal anecdote. General Electric has an on-line invoicing system that their suppliers have to use. They outsourced all their back office and help desk functions to Bangalore. So the time came when I had a problem generating an invoice to GE and of course contacted the help desk. I got an e-mail back in a couple of days from Sandeep Boobobaleeboo in Bangalore assigning a trouble ticket and assuring me that they get on the problem "right away". Well, sure. Every week that the problem went unsolved I'd send them an e-mail reminder. Going on two months unresolved I called the buyer and said I wouldn't be doing any more work for them until this one invoice was resolved. The buyer, a very nice American lady in Ohio whose job it was did not including troubleshooting invoicing problems, went online to the invoicing system and within a couple of hours the invoice was processed and payment was pending. Problem solved in America after two months.

So, I learned two things. Deal with Americans who have a stake in the situation. Next, put a price tag on inaction. You know, the old money talks, everything else, well, you know...