[lelio]

Why does it take white collars to get attention.

I was cognizant of the issues in offshoring in manufacturing -- however there was always room for advancement in the blue collar realm. Step up to being a skilled machinist, or the shop foreman. Or send your kids to school to become an engineer.

But where do the white collars have to go after their professions have been offshored? Graduate to being a WalMart greeter?

The people really getting screwed in this are the blue collars that sent their kids to college and now see their jobs being offshored to countries that have 10% of our cost of living.

[Cronos]

But where do the white collars have to go after their professions have been offshored? Graduate to being a WalMart greeter?

The good ones won't lose their jobs. THe good desginers, programmers etc. will always be worth it and they will survive. BUt the ones who just rode the wave in the 90s with little or no programming skills will be left by the wayside -- and those are the ones making the biggest noise -- because they want mediocrity to pay as well as it used to. Well, sorry, it won't, the bubble is gone and the supply is not so far below demand as it used to be.