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To: mishedlo who wrote (275824)	1/31/2004 12:36:07 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 436258

<<<What jobs can we possibly produce here that can not be done somewhere else for less.>>> For over 40 years now, US companies having been spending US$billions on top of US$billions on programmers writing really stupid computer programs. There was never any return on investment. Perhaps pennies on the dollar. Outsourcing will not remedy this situation. The Indian and Chinese programmers will turn out even more stupid programs. Only now we will pay a lot less for these stupid programs. The real work is in defining what has to be done. That will require a workforce that is highly educated. As an example, in health care, health care workers will have to get their acts together (the doctors, administrators, systems analysts that are required to translate the health care inductry requirements into effective and sustainable computer systems). That is a greater resource requirement than that is available to us. You can then turn over these specifications to the Chinese and Indian drones in their software factories to churn out. Any time we want to, we can take back that kind of work, But, who really needs it. Sure lazy programmers in the US are going to be impacted. The competition for that kind of work will intensify. To get the kind of high paying jobs, US workers will need to acquire more skills and do the things that foreign workers cannot do. Yes the competition for low end jobs will intensify. There is no free lunch. To get the higher standard of living, you have to stay one step ahead of the competition and move up on the food chain. It has always been this way. Advanced societies can not remain frozen in time. They have to get ahead and stay ahead of the competition.