The Irony of Outsourcing
"We have to stop providing tax breaks for companies that are shipping jobs overseas and give those tax breaks to companies that are investing here in the United States of America...
We can't have toys with lead paint in them that our children are playing with.
We can't have medicines that are actually making people more sick instead of better because they're produced overseas.
" Senator Barack Obama said during a debate with fellow rival Senator Hillary Clinton in Cleaveland, Ohio.
Being a forerunner of outsourcing and having read the above statements by a probable future president of one of the highest outsourcers in the world, just gave me the shivers.
I can just barely imagine how many jobs are going to be lost and how many lives are going to be broken if these presidential hopefuls sit in office (It is interesting to note that both the Republicans and Democrats are criticizing outsourcing and making it a flagship for their campaigns acquiring the sympathy of workers who allegedly lost their jobs due to outsourcing).
I can understand their fear of losing their jobs to another country but it is something that is worth studying and discussed upon.
My only point of contention is this, should American workers point the blame on something which they themselves have drafted and implemented after lots of heavy debates and discussions? Suppose that Outsourcing has driven enough problems in America, hasn't America earned something from Outsourcing if not more? Outsourcing tapped the best and the brightest in other countries for even less than half the price of its original market value in the Outsourcers homeland.
Obama having stated "We can't have medicines that are actually making people more sick instead of better because they're produced overseas" is certainly uncalled for and instead causes more divisiveness between the outsourcer and the host country.
The strengths and weaknesses of outsourcing as I see it should be gauge according to its effectivity in upgrading the economy of the host nation.
As such the power of outsourcing and the future thereof is as sure as the power of the global market to ensure on meeting the demands of labor in poorer nations.
In the final analysis outsourcing as a whole is not a disadvantage but a global demand by third world nations to partake of the knowledge, skills, and manpower first world nations could offer.
We can't have toys with lead paint in them that our children are playing with.
We can't have medicines that are actually making people more sick instead of better because they're produced overseas.
" Senator Barack Obama said during a debate with fellow rival Senator Hillary Clinton in Cleaveland, Ohio.
Being a forerunner of outsourcing and having read the above statements by a probable future president of one of the highest outsourcers in the world, just gave me the shivers.
I can just barely imagine how many jobs are going to be lost and how many lives are going to be broken if these presidential hopefuls sit in office (It is interesting to note that both the Republicans and Democrats are criticizing outsourcing and making it a flagship for their campaigns acquiring the sympathy of workers who allegedly lost their jobs due to outsourcing).
I can understand their fear of losing their jobs to another country but it is something that is worth studying and discussed upon.
My only point of contention is this, should American workers point the blame on something which they themselves have drafted and implemented after lots of heavy debates and discussions? Suppose that Outsourcing has driven enough problems in America, hasn't America earned something from Outsourcing if not more? Outsourcing tapped the best and the brightest in other countries for even less than half the price of its original market value in the Outsourcers homeland.
Obama having stated "We can't have medicines that are actually making people more sick instead of better because they're produced overseas" is certainly uncalled for and instead causes more divisiveness between the outsourcer and the host country.
The strengths and weaknesses of outsourcing as I see it should be gauge according to its effectivity in upgrading the economy of the host nation.
As such the power of outsourcing and the future thereof is as sure as the power of the global market to ensure on meeting the demands of labor in poorer nations.
In the final analysis outsourcing as a whole is not a disadvantage but a global demand by third world nations to partake of the knowledge, skills, and manpower first world nations could offer.