Bush Policy on Outsourcing: Your Thoughts?

Question

Do you agree with the current administration's policy of outsourcing jobs overseas?

If so, how do you feel it benefits the average, middle-income American family?

If not, please give rational reasons for your opinion as well.

Answer 1

No. I am not a fan of outsourcing. Especially the outsourcing of sensitive projects related to homeland security and others.

However, do understand that this is not merely a Bush issue. Clinton was also a heavy proponent of outsourcing jobs (Bush Sr. started NAFTA, Clinton signed it into law). His wife also had close ties to India's Tata Consulting. I can't stand Bush, but this isn't merely a Bush problem.

Corporations run America now. It's not really a partisan issue.

Ever watch Lou Dobbs? I highly recommend him for further info on outsourcing of American jobs:

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/

Answer 2

No. The Neoconservatives outsourced US resources and jobs so they could make more money. This is part of the New World Order that Reagan was strong-armed to sell to the nation during the 1980's when the Capitalists realized they could garner greater profits that way by dipping into the pot that would be transferred overseas. The program took off under the Bush Administration.

Unfortunately, the Neoconservative Republicans are happy to depress many areas of the American economy in order to make this extra profit. The deficit for the American family is a loss of income, possible bankruptcy, foreclosers and struggle. If Americans don't begin to voice their opinions through writing, speaking and e-mailing, even good Republicans are asserting that the nation is doomed.

Answer 3

If he outsources all the jobs, then what are the illegals going to do?
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Yes it is very tough on a middle class family. There is no way that an American can work at a job and make $2 a day, or even less in some countries.

Take a look around at all the businesses that have closed or left the country because of cheap products pouring into AMerica. I was in Industry for nine years. I was laid off when cheaper overseas products came in. The company had a sad joke that it was cheaper for us to give the customers $100 and tell them to buy the product from overseas. Because for us to compete, we had to cut into our manufacturing cost, deeply.

I honestly believe Bush doesn't care about the middle or lower classes. Only his rich oil buddies. So if he can make America look like more people are working by hiring three illegals for the price of one skilled laborer, what does he care. It really skews the unemployment numbers and makes it look like Amercia is doing well.

Besides food, what is last product you bought in Wal-Mart that still said Made in USA. You notice that Sam Walton's belief of "We buy American when we can" or "American Pride" is not even in the stores anymore.

And don't give me outsourcing is tele-marketers and low paying jobs. Yes it is, But also highly skilled programmers, scientists, engineers, on-line tutoring, and on and on.

On NPR about a year ago, they talked about a ship or abandoned oil rig off the coast of California just barely in international waters (isn't that like 12 miles out), that housed several hundred programmers to from overseas. The cables or wireless could easily be set up and they didn't need work visas. Anf they can work at 1/4 what an America needs finnacially to do the same job.

Answer 4

Personally I am against it, it undermines job safety and wage standards. If a company can potentially move to another country with cheaper wages, more lenient environmental standards, or more lenient job safety standards, that puts pressure on domestic workers to lower their own standards. And outsourcing jobs isn't necessarily a good hting for the workers in other countries either. It exploits them and when an even cheaper work market is discovered, they are themselves forced to lower standards or lose a company which had become a major employer. By becoming a major part of a local economy, the company makes the functioning of that economy dependent on them. So while that economy had been independent before, it now relies on the work provided by the company, making the threat of them leaving more serious. The result is that local economies that originally work with multi-national companies in order to grow become dependent on them. Rather than empowering the workers of other nations, the exploitation of outsourcing makes them dependent. Also, outsourcing by a company can cause it to grow and provide cheap products and services, but the problem is that the consumer then becomes addicted to those cheap products and services. The company cannot raise prices, and so must remain outsourced. But that makes companies themselves more vulnerable to geo-political events. A crisis in one part of the world can shut down the domestic economy. Finally, the big myth of globalisation (and the moral justification behind outsourcing) is that once the entire world works 9 to 5 jobs and consumes corporate products, everyone will be happy. But we can see today that such a vision is ecological suicide and destructive of communities too.

Outsourcing is a feature of capitalism. I think its ironic that a lot of people attacking outsourcing are big defenders of capitalism. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Everybody thinks free trade is wonderful as long as its giving them cheap products, but nobody wants to lose their job so low-wage workers elsewhere can make those cheap products.

Answer 5

EVERYONE outsources jobs overseas, but I'd like to know just what jobs you're talking about that the current administration is allegedly outsourcing?

Many average, middle-income American family wage-earners aren't qualified for jobs that are being outsourced, or don't want the jobs, or are unwilling to retrain, travel, or go overseas to perform these functions. Better learn sooner rather than later that you are part of a GLOBAL economy, and if you don't go with the flow you won't survive.

Answer 6

How does it benefit an middle income American family? I feel that outsourcing hurts our economy and allows inflation to balloon, which is probably a reason for why the gas prices are so high? I don't really think outsourcing jobs helps any middle-income American family, but what does one expect when hardly anyone in this country wants to work for a living anymore?

Answer 7

No. I am a computer programmer, and a lot of work is being outsourced to India. This drives down wages, because a computer programmer in India probably makes 10% of someone in the U.S. The same thing is happening in the customer service industry and in accounting to some extent, not to mention all of the manufacturing being done in China.

I have no problem with someone from India or anywhere else coming here to compete, because they will have to be able to afford our higher standard of living, and their employers will have to adhere to our environmental and other regulations. I can't compete with someone in India who doesn't need to be paid much because their standard of living is so low, they probably pay no taxes, have poor healthcare, and their employers can operate more cheaply because they are unregulated.

This has clearly brought our standard of living down, and has helped widen the gap between rich and poor, and will continue to do so until this is stopped. Of course, this is what the Bush Crime Family wants - a small group of rich people who control everything, and a large group of poor people who can be kept ignorant and forced to go along with whatever they are told in order to survive.

Answer 8

In a free market system there's no way to stop it. What can he do? Pelosi is running around talking about taking away tax incentives, but that will not help. When Mexico pays $4/ week and the US has to pay $14/hour no tax incentive will help. We're currently at very low unemployment. It shows we're changing, which is good. However, it will have to be education that changes workers. There's no other way. Bush agrees with this.

Answer 9

He is a moron. He did nothing about capping oil company profits as it would hurt the rich at the middle income & poor expense. He doesn't give a rat's patooty about all the high paying manufacturing base jobs going to China another words, all he cares about are his rich buddies profits. It doesn't benefit the middle-income American family. He is clueless as to what it takes to maintain a decent standard of living. He wants to privatize social security, he calls it a "general fund" & keeps dipping into it, where as he has never paid into it, If he or anyother politician did, it wouldn't go broke. SSI is not a "general fund"; it is paid into by working people, I know this because for the last 30 years my check stub says so. It is there incase you become disabled & can never work again, or as a supplement to a pension system. He is a crook & the worst president in history. Step up to the plate & make this world a better place, Lord knows they [the school teachers ] are keeping our kids in the dark by not teaching them anything about what is really going on in the political world, it's sad.

Answer 10

the USA was an industrial power house,steel,electronics,cars etc etc since we ship these jobs over seas what high-paying jobs do we have? look at auto industry they pull up stakes and a hole town is devastated which leads to families have problems i.e.financial,emotional etc etc and how can the american worker compete with a worker in a nother country making 90 cents a hour?isnt it about time we start worring about people in this country?