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To: epicure who wrote (7551)3/5/2004 11:55:50 AM
From: tsigprofit  Read Replies (1) of 20773
 
I think people will get angry, and vote Bush out.
We also need real discussion, and real plans, on how
to address the outsourcing issue.

I was always basically free trade.

But in the IT industry, we are seeing more and more jobs going to India. I saw on the news last night - this outsourcing all started simply enough:

* first call center jobs were shifted
* then some programming
* medical transcription
* review of tax forms
* now higher level skills like financial analysis, X-Ray analysis

We need to slow this down. If not - how are middle-class people going to pay for expensive US homes, taxes, medical care, and college educations for children - if their jobs evaporate and move to India?

Also - how can the US be a major world power if most of it's highest level jobs are outsourced? We will lose the entire technical and professional class.

And what happens if one day 10 years from now - Pakistan nukes India - and most of the US capacity in computers, financial analysis, even legal and medical skills - goes up in a billow of mushroom clouds?
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