[quote=GH][quote=CA renter]Next, we’ll off-shore all the tech jobs, then the medical services jobs that don’t need to be performed here. Then, we’ll off-shore all our financial services jobs, since there are plenty of people around the world who would gladly do those jobs for a tiny fraction of what our financiers are being paid. Of course, we need to off-shore our legal work. A well-trained attorney in India can do what a lawyer does here for 1/10 of the cost. Best of all, we won’t have to provide health benefits or 401ks or any other kind of benefit for anyone, since there are billions of people around the world who can easily take every single American job and do it for a fraction of the cost!
Life will be grand when every American is working for $10/day!!!! All our problems will be solved![/quote]
Are we as far from this goal as your post might have one believe?
X-rays are evaluated by doctors in India
Software is primarily written in India
Most contracts and general non court room law is handled in India
Chances are your taxes are completed in India or Philippines
There is a 95% chance every item in your home is made in China
I tried to explain to my California Park Ranger brother in law he lost his job because I lost mine, but he could not see where the $10,000 a year I used to pay in California tax had anything to do with his job??? Go figure??? For the past three years I have filed a LOSS tax return which cannot go on forever so hopefully I am figuring out the new world, but the State no matter what they raise taxes to cannot get one cent out of me. The plan?[/quote]
Absolutely, we have been spiraling in this direction for decades. I guess that was my point. We have a “pension/public union” crisis because there was a private sector crisis (the off-shoring of the sheeples’ jobs — and the only ones protesting this were the union workers, BTW).
At what point do we decide to get in front of it and turn it around; or, are we just supposed to drag everyone else down with those who have already been taken out?
I’d rather see EVERY American worker benefit from the reversal of the trends of the past ~30 years. I’m not at all advocating for public unions alone. It’s just that I understand how tearing down the few remaining unions (and the few remaining decent jobs) will cause the rug to be pulled out from everyone else as well.
