The answer is because if they don’t they will go out of business. Picture an American company that makes TVs. Their competitors in Europe and Asia are paying laborers in China 88¢ an hour, while our company is stuck paying $22 an hour in Iowa. Who is going to sell more TVs?

There is no stopping the outsourcing; it wasn’t any one person’s decision or one political policy. Those people in China are STILL going to make TVs, with or without our involvement, and markets around the world will still buy them. If we want ANY piece of that money to come here, if we want to at least keep an American brand name on them, then we have to outsource the jobs. Otherwise, it’ll be a Chinese or a German brand name on there, and we’re out of the game entirely.

The only alternative to outsourcing is walling off our economy, and saying that we can only buy American goods and can only sell things to other Americans. Then we’re just passing around the same old dollars, never bringing any new ones into the country, while the rest of the world enjoys rising economies.

But it’s not about me, it’s about finding someone in India that is willing to do a lousy version of what I do for 1/10 of the cost. Corporate managers are compensated based on short-term profits not long-term growth. Therefore, they have no incentive to keep jobs onshore which is more expensive in the short-term, but keeps key knowledge and strategy close by as well as strengthens the domestic market for the crap they sell. The more jobs they help create, the more people are willing to buy their widgets. By outsourcing, they are losing quality thus reducing brand perception, moving knowledge and strategy offshore, and risking the security of customer data. We need laws that strengthen the nation’s economy and business in the long run, not give corporate managers a chance to make a fast buck!

All in all, I am NOW working longer hours, at a much less satisfying job (it actually sucks), for about 20-25% less than I was making just 3 years ago.

My company was once a very highly respected company for the way it treated employees and the loyalty that created. We were long term focused, made great products. but now? ha! Upper management pushes harder and harder so they get their *quarterly* bonuses. Below VP level, people, and I mean a LOT of people are now pushing 55-60+ hour weeks for fear of losing their jobs.

With all this said – I still consider myself LUCKY. Even with the ~20% pay reduction, I still make very good money. But one thing has drastically changed. I no longer circulate my money. It all goes into savings. Every spare penny. And while this is good for me, we all understand it is at the expense of the local economy.

The saddest thing is to see my kids now graduating from college (two in the last four years!). They are entering a dismal job market with no hope of “true” recovery in the foreseeable future.

Some of the justifications for corporations moving jobs overseas are:

1) lower labor cost.
2) lower benefits costs.
3) lower taxes.
4) less environmental regulations.

How do we sum this up and give it a name?

In other words, one of the reasons American corporations moved jobs overseas was to escape the high cost of American democratic socialism.

We don’t live in the United States of America anymore. For too long it has been The United Democratic Socialist States of America.

Many in this nation, democrats and republicans alike, elect socialist congressmen, and vote to send socialists into executive positions.

American consumers demand choice and competition. If they don’t like one car, they can go to a different dealership.

But how is a corporation going to escape the high cost of socialism when there is only one socialist American government?

Easy, you move out of harms way, meaning, you move production out of the country. It’s a defensive move.

It’s easy for the American people to rail against corporate America for exporting our manufacturing base. If they want to know who to blame, perhaps they should first examine their own voting record, and look in the mirror. We are dealing with a shallow public mindset, and a form of hypocrisy.

This country does not know what free trade really is. The only free trade we have is in black markets.

And, we had this supposed “project leader” who was a native of India hire other consultants that shared his heritage. And what I noticed about each one was the fact that their didn’t know anything about what we hired them to do. The majority of these people learn on our dime. Just like the project leader they hired here, their credentials are usually false. I took the time to Google one sentence from this guys resume, and what did I find? I found someone else’s resume online, and this guy took 75% of his resume verbatim and used it in his. And, the remaining 25% that wasn’t, I found on two other resume’s online. And here’s the best part, one of them was a sample resume.