Now that America is being outsourced into oblivion, the clamor will increase, calling on the Administration to find a way to stop the hemmoraging of jobs to offshore.
And while those jobs continue to move to Bangalore or Mumbai or Delhi, the Democratic candidates (read Hillary) will promise to insulate Americans from the pain like an opiate.
Just damn.
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I am suspicious about something though. Half a year ago, you heard practically nothing in any of the media over the matter. Today, it is starting to be pushed by big media-- as a situation so dire that something must be done.
Did things change so much in the past 6 months? If so, what, how and why? These would be important questions then.
But my perception is that not much has changed in the last 6 months. Outsourcing was happening before, and it may be happening more now but only on an incremental level from 6 months ago-- but the coverage of it is exponentially higher now. This makes me suspect that it is somewhat of a manufactured issue. There is no way that it went from a non-story to the top story in 6 months without something radically changed-- or unless the media was downplaying it before and/or overplaying it now. There would have been no media pressure to downplay it before. That leaves overplaying it now. With it in Newsweek (which had Dean on the cover), and with it being an issue aimed at computer savvy people and with Dean treating the internet as his home state, it wouldn't shock me if some of the outsourcing drumbeat was being prodded on by his camp.