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BTW, consulting companies, such as Keane, also outsource development efforts to India. They even own an Indian firm. The price is about 1/3 of American workers, and the quality is about half, but profit is profit. We Americans are competing with people whose standard of living is far below us. The result? Corporate owners make more profit, and we Americans earn less and live at a lower standard. Tariffs are supposed to support OUR way of living. We should be using them far more often.

Tariffs are supposed to support OUR way of living.

I may not agree with your opinion, but I will defend to the death your right to pay artificially-inflated prices?

BTW, consulting companies, such as Keane, also outsource development efforts to India. They even own an Indian firm. The price is about 1/3 of American workers, and the quality is about half, but profit is profit. We Americans are competing with people whose standard of living is far below us.

Offshore outsourcing has been occurring for ten years. IBM, Dell, Delta Airlines, Hewlett-Packard, and hundreds of other companies whose names you would recognize utilize Indian, Phillipine, and even Chinese IT and telemarketing resources.

As to India, the quality of and productivity of Indian programmers and project managers are equal to American workers; in the telemarketing arena, 90% of those hired have college degrees. India has the highest number of college graduates per capita of any country in the world.

You may as well get used to outsourcing. If anything, the pace will only accelerate in this decade.