Oh, do “we?” Are you an employer? I am. Why don’t you explain to us how one goes about “sending a job.”
What economic and regulatory factors do you suppose might adversely affect American competitiveness?
Employers send jobs all the time.
I am an employee so I am not speaking as a sender, but many many Americans have been unemployed by “American” companies who laid off the Americans, and sent their jobs to elsewhere. The exact jobs the Americans were doing, is now done in another country for less money.
Happens all the time. Millions and millions of jobs.
America has been racked by this, for an entire generation now.
Absolutely.
I’m not saying there isn’t a reason. Which is why I want our government to recognize this and change our tax code to start to entice American jobs back, to America.
But I absolutely think jobs are sent.
Every day. Absolutely.
Easy.
An employer in the US tells an employee in the US "Your services are no longer needed". Then, they send an e-mail to the division in India saying "You are now responsible for performing the work that the guy over here that I just got rid of used to do".
If that job involves software development, the division in India will fail miserably, but the Morons with MBAs in the US will rub their hands together in glee, saying "Yes, they're failing, but they're failing inexpensively".