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To: illyia who wrote (165526)	7/8/2005 1:01:46 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I don't think decline is inevitable because demographics come and go. As populations age, immigration can take over. We are, however, watching as the government and corporations outsource professional jobs to lower cost countries. This is a relentless drain of middle and upper middle class jobs following closely on the heels of manufacturing jobs. Microsoft is doing R&D in Beijing. Massachusetts General outsources radiology to India. Even jobs that don't actually go offshore have reduced salaries and benefits because they are open to the competition of overseas work forces. Why in the world does this make sense for the US of A as a country? The arguments have always been: 1. The US of A can afford to outsource manufacturing because our population will simply become better educated and take more high level jobs. 2. The US of A can afford to outsource manufacturing because our population will simply move to white collar service jobs and life will be better. Instead, skilled manufacturing jobs have gone away and those who held them get to go work at Wal-Mart. Instead, those white collar service jobs can now be easily outsourced as well. Surprise! It's the hollowing out of America leaving only the ultrawealthy at the top and everyone else on the bottom. This is what we're working towards for our children? If so, why?