[Goodgirlinred]

I see. I am just trying to figure out why everything is being outsourced. They have cheap labor. Do they do everything as well as our workers for less? Their standard of living is so poor. Ours is so high. Is it too high? What is wrong with this picture? Are we living beyond our means? Are we demanding too much in wages? Are unions running up the wages and taking some of the money? I just don't understand. Even my doctor is sending his dictation to Manila to be transcribed and he gets it back within 24 hours. He is a very conservative Republican, but he said it is business. He has to be able to make a living. He is not a rich man, either.

[schu]

First, "everything" is not being outsourced. But if you are a company, much like yourself, you are going to do things as cheaply as possible, just like you shop on-line or at Wall-mart for the best price.

This idea that searching for the best bargain is traitorous or immoral just does not make sense. Everyone does it, so what?

So the people in the US need to grow up, there are people, and lots of them, in the world who are willing to work for less. The response to that is make yourself more valuable, to do a better job, to improve your skills, to fix our countries problems (tort, taxes, education, etc). Everyone is a "free agent" an "entrepreneur" as a previous poster said. Buy a business, go to school, reeducate yourself, be more diligent at work, and, for those slackers, make them accountable.

What else would you propose?