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To: montanatim

Is it at all possible that any jobs in the US are created by outsourcing? Say jobs created by lower costs of the product, or folks moving to more value added endeavors, or jobs created by outsourcing due to folks with bucks from outsourcing directly or directly increasing the demand for American goods? Is that at all possible, given that there is no real evidence I know of that outsourcing is hurting the macro American economy?


18 posted on 10/03/2004 4:42:39 PM PDT by Torie
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To: Torie

Let's take this to the ultimate. The whole concept of outsourcing is to lower consummaton prices by minimizing production costs. So let's outsource our entire production economy so our consumpables are the cheapest possible. Then what exactly do you do for a living? What would the world want from the US?
Do you want to produce in life or just consume?


24 posted on 10/03/2004 4:50:09 PM PDT by montanatim
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To: Torie
Say jobs created by lower costs of the product, or folks moving to more value added endeavors

Where do people who work in the Knowledge space move to when they've been replaced by people that work for 1/10th of their cost? I suppose they could all start selling stuff on eBay.
32 posted on 10/03/2004 5:02:03 PM PDT by lelio
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To: Torie

well, pickup truck manufacturing by foreign corporations is increasing in the US. oh, we have a tariff on imported light trucks - nevermind, bad analogy.


34 posted on 10/03/2004 5:03:38 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: Torie; A. Pole

Service jobs are almost always less payinng, less skill intensive (thus also open to Mexican take over) and have fewer benefits. Take away the US endless credit system and the whole house of cards collapses. Sooner or later it will happen anyways, as almost all the credit is financed by foreign investment and that has been dieing off from low interest rates.


116 posted on 10/04/2004 11:10:34 AM PDT by jb6 (Truth = Christ)
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