[citadel84]

HERE HERE.
This is much to do about nothing. What we are seeing is an unfortunate consequence of fundamental economic change. No politician or government can repleal the Law Of Competitive Advantage.

[CarrotAndStick]

Did you mean, 'ado'?

[jpsb]

I can, tariffs

[GOP_1900AD]

Perhaps you misunderstood my post. To me, outsourcing is both a fad, and, a cop out for enterprises (or those who run them) which either lack the skill to do comprehensive cost management, or, in spite of having the skills, choose not to turn them into comprehensive strategies due to pressure for short term cost reduction, or both.

[expat_panama]

No politician or government can repleal the Law Of Competitive Advantage....   ...I can, tariffs

That's what it boils down- a clash between those that want to work to feed their families, and those that want to raise taxes on the workers so as to feed others.  The cartoon of post #32 raises an interesting question-- why not fire CEO's and hire others who're willing to work for a tenth as much?    My answer is because the high price CEO's are the one's that they're hiring in the US while they're outsourcing.

And there's a heck of a lot more new jobs in the US than are packed in boxes and mailed over seas.

 

[Hop A Long Cassidy]

>>>"No politician or government can repleal the Law Of Competitive Advantage."

I agree. We in the US received a big benefit when countries like India and China took their labor off the market through Communism and Socialism. Now, these labor markets are coming back on the market and they will drop down domestic US wages in areas where foreign competition can. There's little we, or our government, can do about this.

However, remember that after Sputnik was launched (many years ago) the US started up a concerted effort to catch up with the Ruskies in education. Accelerated programs were started across the US.

I think this offshoring will have the same effect - as it calls into question the low-quality, NEA-controlled monopoly on education that exists now.

(We had our chance once: remember how Republicans promised to eliminate the Dept of Education but didn't have the guts?)

There are many warning signs in this article and in others that US employers are moving offshore for BETTER workers as well as cheaper ones.

To the extent this is true, then we'd better recognize it right away and deal with it quickly. Quality workers depend on education but also on social values such as hard work, punctuality and so forth.

In this regard, we need to address our education crisis along with the parenting crisis in the US: the lack of two parent families. Education is one dimension, and stable families is another. Without fathers in the homes the schools will be mere detention centers for the kids.

We also need to drop much of the welfare that encourages people to not work and to adopt anti-society values. If a person doesn't have to work then why try to better himself.

Unfortuately, a society usually has to reach a deep crisis point before the pain forces a change in behavior. Even then the results might not show up for another generation.

Hopefully we can change peacefully -- ahead of the crisis. But I wouldn't bet that way.

Hoppy

[RussianConservative]

Yes, China has competitive advantage of slavery, no pollution laws, no worker safety laws, no unions, no anything but obeying the elites of the facist system...what has America or Europe to compete with that?

Ask how many chinese on $.20 per hour can afford to buy anything they make?