Do I Have My Job Today?
In a mood to curse the Indians…Why? A job just got shipped to INDIA…Didn’t get that? OUTSOURCING…and who’s at the receiving end? Our pal…now you know why we are really pis*ed. Outsourcing has a big effect on Americans. Now, when we say ‘effect on Americans’, we mean ‘US’– average, everyday, ordinary people. Perhaps you’ve noticed, many Americans have recently lost their jobs (and thats not because of recession–recession is a good cover up).
Let’s face it, this will continue to happen as long as outsourcing has no legal restrictions placed on it (Obama seems make sense on this issue). What concerns the most is not only the mass amounts of debt it causes, but the families that it tears apart. The stress of losing a job, job security, the loss of income, and loss of comforts from said money. Job does play a major role and can have a huge effect on all types of relationships in an employees life. Let’s not talk about about how the loss of money causes depression. We are sure most of you have experienced that a bit for yourselves!
It’s tiring to hear about “poor big business” folks losing money. They have more money than we could ever dream of even seeing. The distinct feeling is that those “poor big business” folks are saving more than they‘re losing…. But what makes it truly sick is that big businesses try to say that it’s for our own good.
“We’re laying you off so you can afford to buy our competitively priced items!”. If these greedy hellions really cared so much, they would keep their employees. The way we see it, if they kept their legal American citizen employees, not only would the employees have more money to spend, they would probably end up buying more than they needed from that company. Nothing encourages overspending like an employee discount.
Maybe we are the odd ones here or maybe we should just lay back and accept the fact that eventually America will end up as a Socialist country. The kind country run completely by big businesses, one where there are only two classes of people – the wealthy business owner and the worker drones. It’s scary to see it happening already. Honestly, we think that at least part of it can be blamed on outsourcing, because it takes away jobs from Americans and gives even more leverage to big business.It will destroy our country from the inside out, if this trend of unchecked outsourcing is allowed to continue. Care to buy some cheap Chinese toys?
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Posted: August 13th, 2009 under Outsourcing Crap.
Tags: cheap products, indian outsourcing, job loss, outsourcing, outsourcing rants, pink slip
Comments
Comment from dLook
Time August 15, 2009 at 5:03 am
Whilst I agree with your story and James’s comments (I do like that WC quote) I have to add that sooner or later US consumers have to realise that everytime they buy from a business who outsources they are contributing to their own future unemployment.
In Australia we have a “Made In Australia” campaign which encourages people to buy Australian Made and help secure their own future.
This campaign is now in its 20th year and is only just starting to gain some traction.
I believe the issue of outsourcing to other countries can only be solved by consumers. Unfortunately most consumers think with their wallets instead of their brains.
Comment from lypo-spheric vitamin c
Time August 15, 2009 at 9:55 am
this is globalization, it makes everybody even/same. sooner or later american has to accept that if they want their job they have receive pay as low as what an indian has. OR american will loose more jobs to others..
or , if one wants to enjoy higher pay than others, one has to have a special skill that others do not have.
sad to say, but i think it will happen soon..
Comment from James
Time August 13, 2009 at 1:24 pm
Dead on with this post!
Unfortunately, however, we can’t compete with foreign labor at .25 cents an hour, or .25 cents a day.
The bottom line is the bottom line, and that is, wages & salaries dictate, more than anything, the cost of production (not that we produce anything anymore). If cost of production is higher, as is the case in the US, than we can not sell a good or service as cheaply as, say, Mexico, China, India, and the list goes on.
Also, when you have a tax and spend form of government, as we currently now do, than there is a point to where it becomes The Law of Diminishing Returns. As has become the case in the US.
As Winston Churchill so eloquently stated:”For a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity, is like a man standing in a bucket trying to lift himself up by the handle.”
Unfortunately, we all are in this bucket we call the US Economy, and there is no one left to lift the handle.
Very shortly, there will be no one left to pay the taxes.
“The times, they are a changin…” – Bob Dylan