Posted on 07/30/2003 2:20:00 AM PDT by sarcasm
NEW DELHI: The United States of America is currently facing a double whammy, thanks to the growing tide of "outsourcing" worldwide. While high-paying tech jobs are moving overseas - especially to India, US workers are being replaced by their less demanding (in terms of dollars) foreign counterparts.
Just as millions of American manufacturing jobs were lost in the 1980s and 1990s, it's now turn for the white-collar American jobs to disappear. Foreign nationals on special work visas are filling some positions but most jobs are simply contracted out overseas.
A US media report said that till now nearly half-a-million American tech jobs have already found their way offshore, and India has been the hottest spot for these migrants. The other destinations include Philippines, Malaysia and China.
A survey done by Gartner Inc. says that one out of 10 jobs in the US computer services and software industry could shift to lower-cost emerging markets by the end of 2004.
Research director at Forrester Research, John McCarthy, who has studied the exodus of white-collar jobs overseas, was quoted as saying in ABC TV, "The train has left the station, the cows have left the barn, the toothpaste is out of the tube... you're not going to turn the tide on this in the same way we couldn't turn the tide on the manufacturing shift."
After all, it's all about cost savings that matters. Indians are all working at a fraction of the cost paid to the American workers. For example, American computer programmers earn about $60,000, while their Indian counterparts only make $6,000.
California-based consulting company - NeoIT - that advises American firms interested in "offshoring" jobs previously held by Americans feels, "They need to significantly reduce their cost of doing business."
While, Wipro's Vivek Paul notes that American workers might resent the "offshoring" trend, but all Americans will benefit in the long run.
While, Wipro's Vivek Paul notes that American workers might resent the "offshoring" trend, but all Americans will benefit in the long run.BA63, AH-YUP! Peace and love, George.Isn't this like pissing on your back and telling you it's raining?
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Free trade with third world countries and massive illegal immigration, the results are there for everyone to see.
Five more years of these policies and I can expect to spend the rest of my life living under a democratic regime, that's who the unemployed and poor are going to vote for. Now that is tyranny and repression.
I actually consider it more insulting along the lines of "...Shut up and enjoy it you know this rape is good for you."
Well I will agree the term "Free Traitor is loaded and very harsh. The ineccisarily loaded part I believe is very debatable. Now I prefer to usually refer to them as those who argue for the current tarde envirornment which is anything but Free Trade no matter what they call it. But the ratuional for free traitors is as follows. China has stated tehy are engaged in economic warfare against the USA. Those who support the current trade envirornment and call it Free Trade are not only lying they are giving direct support to a nation that freely admits to being at war with the USA. Benedict Arnold merely gave information to teh British in return for maney and a better job. Many of those who syupport so called Free Trade routinely admit their motivation is financial. Where is the difference between General arnold and those people?
However, I shall try to restrain myself from using teh term "Free Traitor" a whole lot.
You may but I won't ... anyway thanks for posting to Go-ordinance for me yesterday ... I did get my boat and it may not be as broke as I originally thought
Yes, what we have under the current “so-called” leadership in Washington is Corporate Welfarism. Our government through foreign lobbying and the enactment of 10,000+ page Insider Trade Deals has given corporations (especially big party contributors) free reign to ship American Jobs overseas with impunity. They can even replace American Workers here with Foreigners under L1 and H1B visas!
Who picks up the tab for social costs when millions of Americans lose their Jobs? The American Taxpayer of course! This is all about Gov/Biz Cronyism and like you so eloquently pointed out it—it has virtually nothing to do with free trade.
The bottom line of the treasonous trade policies our government has put forth is that it enriches and rewards repressive regimes where freedom does not exist while destroying America’s wealth, culture and system of governance.
With leaders in Washington like this who needs enemies?
That's exactly what is going to happen.
Isn't this like pissing on your back and telling you it's raining?
LOL. Perfect Analogy.
I remember my childhood in the 1970s pretty well. I remember cars without air conditioners, houses without air conditioners, one television set per house (receiving broadcast stations), one telephone in the kitchen, no personal computers, no video games, expensive long distance calls, cars with AM radios, fast food and prepared meals as a rarity, no day care, no expensive skateboards or competition quality bicycles, sneakers from Keds or K-Mart, etc., etc., etc. We simply have a lot more stuff now than we did now. Was my childhood rough? Of course not. That was middle-class suburbia in New Jersey and I was fine.
I know people who don't have cable to satellite television, have old clunky computers, old cars without A/C, who don't eat out, use day care, by fancy name-brand clothes, etc. You can still live pretty frugally if you want to but most people don't want to.
The only thing I will agree with you on is real estate. It simply isn't possible to find a cheap place to live. And if I had to guess (I haven't seen the figures), I'd say that the percentage of income that people spend on real estate and taxes is a large part of what has gone up and food, basic clothing, etc. as a percentage of a person's income probably hasn't increased all that much or may have gone down. Part of the problem is that real estate prices are now pegged for double-income families, something that was only starting to be felt in the 1970s.
...and you lived?
You may be behind the power curve. Once personal investments have achieved a level [that varies from person to person,] further success in business is greeted warmly, not with consternation. Some of the collar jobs, white or blue, are already gone, but those who have invested wisely and not borrowed up to the hilt for SUVs, houses, things for the house are in good positions. Instant gratification by possession of symbols of affluence is not affluence. A big-wheel pickup truck in the hands of a college student is not a party aid, but an economic anchor. Our Federal debt is over $6 trillion, our personal debt is at least that much. We'll be forced, often by early choices, to work for the rest of our lives just to get back to even, and that is why disappearing jobs seems so serious.
Best Fregards.
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