Offshoring. At what point will our politicians seriously look into this?

[Deja Q]

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1221384.cms

Excerpt: NEW DELHI: Offshoring of legal and para-legal services to India is the next big thing in the BPO space. Though still in its nascent stage, it is expected to grow in a big way.

Also, offshoring has got to be a factor in this: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,168658,00.html

But productivity gains affect how companies absorb rising costs such as energy, and slowing productivity may mean these could take a bigger bite out of corporate profits. Alternatively, if firms succeed in passing on higher costs to customers, it could have implications for inflation that the U.S. central bank will monitor.

(as if cutting peoples' livelihoods in favor of offshore people who make 1/20th or less than what the American had, thanks to a cost of living our same corporations set, wasn't enough...)

I say to you this: If the Democrats do not unite against the selling of our very infrastructure in this vile fashion, don't bother looking for me at the polls in 2006. I will not waste my time. And you know what? The Dems are too bought and paid for to give a rat's.

BTW: Most politicians are lawyers. Maybe they can get their jobs offshored too. China already owns the rest of us. They are just as communist and fascist as always, so why we treat them as friends is beyond me.

[acmejack]

1. When we replace them with people who are on the our side!

There are very few who remember their constituents. But they never forget a donor!

edit so I didn't sound stupit

[elehhhhna]

2. Law firms, of which I am intimately familiar, cannot possibly

offshore their work and maintain the integrity and confidentiality of their clients' documents. The opportunities for corporate espionage are too great.

[Deja Q]

3. Integrity, like sausages, can be bought. Besides,

there IS no such thing as integrity anymore. It's been sold too.

[elehhhhna]

6. hyp, ain't no way a corp client would let their documents go offshore--

may as well just fork them over to opposing counsel and close shop.

Seriously.

[Deja Q]

8. Pity.

Still, self-preservation. Survival of the most serf-servingly unchristian.

:shrug:

[hatrack]

4. When Wal-Mart sales figures hit a three-year skid

When home mortgage defaults hit 15% annually nationwide.

When GM & Ford declare bankruptcy because no one can afford to buy their cars anymore.

When the Westchester County Public School system starts firing teachers to make up for budget cuts and collapsing property tax income from people who can't pay their property taxes.

When China buys Microsoft.

But until such time, they won't care. And when they do start to care, why, of course by then it will be far too late.

[Pobeka]

5. When they are all living in India, and think the labor in USA is cheap.

Then they'll start looking into seriously off-shoring the work from India to the USA.

Oh, wait, that wasn't what you were getting at was it?

;-)

[ramapo]

7. When Americans demand it

Most Americans are pretty much oblivious until they lose their job, so when more Americans lose jobs, at some point there will be a tipping.

[Deja Q]

9. Well, what should I hope for then?

Rocks and hard places, my dear fellow. Rocks and hard places.

:cry: