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Now here is a summary of this nonsense...
In the article linked from this one on defending outsourcing and promoting how it is "good" they said "The "incremental economic activity" from offshore IT outsourcing created more than 90,000 net new jobs in 2003, and is expected to create 317,000 net new jobs in 2008, according to the report. "
Okay, so in 5 years we have a net gain of 407,000 jobs.

However, in another article it is stated "Research's widely published prediction that 3.3 million service industry jobs will move to other countries in the next 15 years"

So, assuming a logical progression of jobs created, we can safely say that there will be about 1.5 million jobs created in 15 years, but 3.3 million jobs will be outsourced. That puts us at a deficit of 1.8 million jobs. For argument sake, lets just say it...there will be over 2 MILLION unemployed Americans for outsourcing. I still can't see how this is good.

I read another article on here that said "for every dollar that is outsourced, the US economy sees a return of $1.12 to $1.14"
Okay...but who gets that extra 12 to 14 cents per dollar? Is the US economy really just a reflection of some CEO's bonus check? Because I'm not seeing it? All I'm seeing are higher fuel costs, higher education costs, higher medical costs, higher cost of living (making it even harder to compete), higher food costs...everything.

No matter what smoke they blow up your butt, outsourcing can NEVER be good...except for the elite few at the top. For America, it can never and will never be good. There is no way to justify it. Even when they say things like "Well outsourcing allows ### jobs to be created" that number is ALWAYS less than the number of jobs outsourced.

We are letting corporate America bleed us dry...and soon there will be nothing left. We will be the third world country. Look at Russia. Once they were the second largest super power on the planet next to America. Now they are basically a 3rd world country which lives and breaths in poverty and crime.

Its looking more and more like a mirror to our lifestyle every day...
Posted by: Stellardyne   Posted on: 09/25/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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