First, an article in BusinessWeek, IBM calls it's outsourcing "strategic people sourcing". What a nice term. Do you read low wages and lost jobs into the quaint phrase?
When the manafactuing jobs started to leave this country during the Clinton administration, the buzz was this was good for our ecomony, the workers of decent paying jobs would simply be retrained and earn even higher paying service jobs. As even more "free trade" agreements were signed, white collar jobs left our shores for low wage counties such as India. Now your taxes are reveiwed in India, by someone earning $12,000 a year that doesn't eaven pay US taxes.
Even worse, 40 states use offshore call centers for their unemployment compensation. This is so ironical, the government condones and even supports our jobs leaving this country, the displacement of our highly productive workforce and when these people who losst their jobs go to file for unemployment benefits they actaully working with the very people who displaced them. Not only did we lose the tax revenue from our workers, we pay (eaquals higher trde deficet) some cffshore company that does add to our tax coffer thats pays some low paid worker who also pays no taxes to the state. Wouldn't it make more sense to provide a job to a local worker and collect taxes to help relieve the burden to the state?
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