So outsourcing is good for America? Don't think so!
Haliburton is overcharging in Iraq and it's our tax dollars paying for it. I realize that they are a target because Cheney used to head it but does that make it right? I'd like to see all of the companies over there that are ripping off the taxpayers exposed. My point is that we're being scammed and no one is doing anything to stop it. Seems the only ones screaming about it are Libertarians!
As for combat pay, again, that money is coming out of our tax dollars. Nice work if you can get it. I know there have always been war profiteers but, once you know it's going on, what are you going to do about it? Should we condone this amazing rip-off of our tax dollars simply because it's always gone on? Are we going to continue the practices of the Clinton era or are we going to get real and do something about it?
I'm not a Libertarian but, I sure can identify with some of their positions, especially when it comes to private companies feeding at the public trough.
Pay attention!! Many companies thought outsourcing was a good idea. They are learning that, in some instances, they were wrong. Their customers didn't like having to talk to someone they could barely understand when they had a problem with a product or service. The companies have also found that some folks in the world don't work quite as hard as Americans do.
What's not mentioned in the uproar over 'outsourcing', which has taken it's place in the corporate bashing pantheon along with 'junk bonds' and 'mergers and acquisitions', is that America is the recipient of the outsourcing done by some large firms including Honda, and Toyota. Those companies are building plants in this country, and are paying good wages in areas that really need the wages, such as Alabama and Tennessee.
Yes, the money being paid to Halliburton is coming out of our tax dollars. Who else is going to pay for the war? I don't consider it profiteering because these folks are taking huge risks to provide these services. How many people associated with Halliburton and other so called 'profiteers' have died in this war? Remember the picture of the charred bodies hanging from the bridge? I don't think most Americans ever realized that those folks were working for one of those companies that you think was 'profiting' from the war. I don't think their employment justified their treatment, do you?