This has nothing to do with legal American workers. It means the stockbrokers and the bankers will get more money, that's all.
The change in my company over the past 15 years has been phenomenal. When I started there, my branch office had a half dozen "admin" staff, dispatchers, parts clerks, three managers (one for sales, one for admin and one for technical) and three supervisors (one for sales and two for technical).
Today, there are only two of those people left. The sales manager and myself (I'm the tech manager). Technicians are self-dispatched as service calls come in over the web and page out. Billing is mostly automated. I enter the technicians expenses into a software program and checks are automatically cut for them and mailed out. Parts and supplies are automatically replenished and shipped to the technicians directly - all I do is review the orders on-screen. About a hundred other innovations I won't even bother to go into.
But our total staffing continues to decrease even as our revenues and gross margin increases year after year. Bascially the way it is in my company, if you aren't in the field selling or out in the field turning a screwdriver, your job is in jeopardy. Even I'm not taking my management job for granted. I've already gotten certified on Microsoft systems and keep myself up to date technically just in case it is decided that branch managers are no longer needed.
Well, there you have it. The offshoring industry's new mantra to spin their selling-out of Americans. Americans are too stupid to hold technical jobs.
I can't even begin to describe what a phenomenally bad idea the outsourcing of tax return preparation to India is. There aren't many kinds of financial information that are more confidential and/or sensitive than that needed to prepare even a relatively simple return. And we've decided to ship this job off to people working half way around the world. It's a completely idiotic business decision. Have we lost our common sense?
Only through protectionist legislation, This has been tried before. It always leads to even worse long-term problems.
This never seems to include CEO and executive pay. People who are, in their view, the only employees who cannot be outsourced and replaced.
I'm wondering how they pay for an $80,000+ education on $12K a year...
To all who say American workers are not good enough workers to compete, I tell you, "It's a lie. Get out of my wonderful country!"
Take your anti-American sentiment to the countries you believe hold the keys to your happiness and prosperity. Don't come back.
Right on two counts out of three. But I've seen code written by the Ten Little Indians that was so garbled and inefficient it had to be completely reworked, at considerable expense to the company.
It reminds me of a guy who used to favor going to huge buffets for lunch. We'd always complain that the food was crap. "Sure," he agreed, "but it's CHEAP."
In the 1800s, a "managerial hierarchy" developed in corporations in which professional managers (i.e., "white collar" workers) added value by being transmitters of information. This was at a time when large numbers of workers were either illiterate or uneducated, and needed to have critical information about the production processes digested, then parceled out to them depending on their task.
MANAGERS WERE CONDUITS OF INFORMATION. That was their primary job in "management."
But with the advent of computers, and with a super-highly educated workforce (i.e., virtually everyone with a high school degree and 25% of the workforce college educated), these managers no longer added value when a "line" employee could obtain critical information by going on his company's computer and getting it himself, usually hours or days before he got a response from his boss.
Most companies could not explain this phenomenon. They knew it was occuring, and they knew managers were no longer "profitable," but could not specifically say why. In the 1990s, we saw the first big wave of these managerial layoffs. There will be more, because managers (not all, but many) HAVE BECOME BOTTLENECKS TO INFORMATION TRANSMISSION WITHIN A CORPORATION.
Now, as for the Indian x-ray readers, there is likely some of that going on, but I can tell you that the trend is the other direction---hiring lower cost DOMESTIC workers (i.e., "nurse practitioners" and "lab techs") to do in-house work in doctors' offices instead of adding expensive doctors. These are good paying jobs that don't carry the risk of malpractice nor the burden of years' of medical college debt.
1. No matter what the GOP does, it is easily demogogued by the Democrats, who have no idea what to do about it either and even if they did, still wouldn't because it goes against their own voter base.
2. The GOP could partially address it by staunching the flood of illegal immigration, but won't because they are afraid of offending the "Hispanic Vote".
Illegal immigration is soaking up millions of jobs at the lower end of the spectrum, is depressing wages in the lower and lower-middle end of the wage spectrum, removes a needed employment source for temporarily unemployed workers, is a cash drain on the collection of legal taxes, is a cash drain in the services system (especially medical and social services), is toxic to the rule of law, and is a horrendous balance-of-payments problem as much of the cash is sent overseas for work performed here.
Item 2 is also perfect for the Dems to demogogue. They can promise all sorts of free stuff to voters, both legal and illegal, while simultaneously beating the GOP to death for their heard-heartedness.
The only losers are Americans who want to mind their own business, control their own destiny, and work an honest job.
Invest some of your part-time, (NOT your money), in a
It is time to strengthen the National New Business Incubator located on the internet with a Tax and Regulation Free Economic Enterprise Zone. The Zone will provide employment opportunities to any positively motivated dislocated worker and invest existing public transfer payments, underutilized public resources, technology, and part-time professional services in new business initiatives. The new businesses operate in the Zone to create new wealth and new jobs here in America. Member corporations and individuals would receive tax benefits for their participation, investments and contributions. A tax free financial market could be established in the Zone to raise investment capital.
How is that, exactly?
'First, US economic activity needs to pick up substantially, said Kellner.''We will manage not only to muddle through but to create jobs to add to our overall well-being,'' said Kellner. ''I have faith in the system. Somehow or another, we'll create jobs that can't be exported overseas.''
And what jobs would those people.