Comments on: Keep the immigrants, deport the jobs? http://www.scottallan.com/2006/06/keep-the-immigrants-deport-the-jobs.html Slapping my bumper stickers on the Internet Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:19:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: <![CDATA[Scott Allan]]> http://www.scottallan.com/2006/06/keep-the-immigrants-deport-the-jobs.html#comment-29 Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:54:59 +0000 http://scottallan.com/?p=152#comment-29 Thanks for visiting. I agree this is an unavoidable trend as technology grows and the world gets smaller. Theoretically, the companies that are saving money by outsourcing will be investing those savings into other jobs here in the U.S. creating more wealth. I would bet though that the temptation to reinvest it overseas will be much greater.<br/><br/>It's difficult when you spend 20 years training in one industry such as computer programming to be told that you may have to start over in a completely different industry. Perhaps we will eventually all be working in Human Resources and make all our money outsourcing work to other countries. One giant Temp job. Too bad they didn't offer those classes when I went to college. Thanks for visiting. I agree this is an unavoidable trend as technology grows and the world gets smaller. Theoretically, the companies that are saving money by outsourcing will be investing those savings into other jobs here in the U.S. creating more wealth. I would bet though that the temptation to reinvest it overseas will be much greater.

It’s difficult when you spend 20 years training in one industry such as computer programming to be told that you may have to start over in a completely different industry. Perhaps we will eventually all be working in Human Resources and make all our money outsourcing work to other countries. One giant Temp job. Too bad they didn’t offer those classes when I went to college.

]]> By: <![CDATA[Anonymous]]> http://www.scottallan.com/2006/06/keep-the-immigrants-deport-the-jobs.html#comment-28 Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:12:55 +0000 http://scottallan.com/?p=152#comment-28 I've got some bad news for you Scottie. I'm not from the US but I do admire the US and what it has achieved (especially in regard to technology). But the problem is that the US is still looking inwards when the global economy is booming. The US, with its huge internal costs can not keep up. Your CFO's know this and are outsourcing offshore to stay competitve. The end result will be a levelling of "quality of life". There will be winners and losers and I'm not sure how the US can win this one. Just my opinion. I’ve got some bad news for you Scottie. I’m not from the US but I do admire the US and what it has achieved (especially in regard to technology). But the problem is that the US is still looking inwards when the global economy is booming. The US, with its huge internal costs can not keep up. Your CFO’s know this and are outsourcing offshore to stay competitve. The end result will be a levelling of “quality of life”. There will be winners and losers and I’m not sure how the US can win this one. Just my opinion.

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