How Outsourcing Creates American Jobs

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hhaha
http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba480
He along with Bruce Bartlett are among of the one that advocated outscoring.These bloodsuckers mongoloids that act like they know economy,Race to bottom in search for fast profit.They even dare to tell you is good for american worker.Mf primitives mongoloids that think they know economics and have no sense of real marco economics and consequences on the race to bottom

andy christopher of NY 4:02PM January 22, 2011

I happen to work for a major telephone company. I have seen and experienced the joy and benefits of outsourcing first hand. I have seen hundreds of my fellow IT employees leave because of outsourcing. In 2001 we were told that we were going to add a number of temporary employees to our group. We were told to think of them as our 'partners'. Each one of us were required to train these guys. Well, after 6 months most everyone in my group received a 30 day letter stating that our jobs were being eliminated. I happened to leave my group before this happened to me, but all of the other members are gone.
This same scenario repeated itself in groups throughout the company and is still continuing to this day.
Entire buildings filled with IT workers are now empty or sold off and all of this work is being done in India. If a single word is uttered against outsourcing we are immediately labled a racist or called lazy whiners and told to go out and reinvent ourselves.
I worked my ass off for my entire career working 60 - 100 hours per week because I truly felt that my hard work would be rewarded. It no longer matters how hard you work because the company looks at us as overpriced Americans and will get rid of us without warning.
I am all for helping my fellow man rise up out of poverty, but not at the expense of me and my family. This is the first generation that won't send their kids to college because most of the jobs they will train for are outsourced to other countries. Now, parents are telling their kids to learn a trade instead because these jobs can't be outsourced.
It's funny I read some of these posts telling us that outsourcing helps us and actually creates high value jobs. Most of these people that I have worked with now have high value jobs at Home Depot, Wal-Mart + Lowes.

Steve Redmond of CA 4:27PM March 13, 2010

Matthew is out of his mind!
Obviously he slept through Econ 101. Unless America stops dealing with slave trading countries,the only jobs available will be jobs fit for slaves.
Question for Matthew - Whos corporate ass are you kissin?

T. of MI 2:31AM February 24, 2010

Matthew is out of his mind!
Obviously he slept through Econ 101. Unless America stops dealing with slave trading countries,the only jobs available will be jobs fit for slaves.
Question for Matthew - Whos corporate ass are you kissin?

T. of MI 2:27AM February 24, 2010

I have to agree with Big Jonn of CA. I live in Michigan where the auto industry once thrived and where the unemployment rate in Flint, Michigan is well over 20%. Let's talk about outsourcing creating more jobs!!! Matthew may not be holding a crack pipe, but he certainly must be doing some type of hallucinogens!

Musetta of MI 1:49PM February 22, 2010

I think Matthew Bandyk should put down the crack pipe.
Entire communities and towns througout the United States have been devastated from the lack of jobs resulting from outsourcing.
Companies that outsource make a larger profit so it benefits them.
Why is economic recovery going to take so long ?
Because so many jobs have been outsource! Duh!

BIG_JONN of CA 9:13PM February 07, 2010

I worked for a major airline in the U.S. for more than 5 years before the work was outsourced. There were over 9700 Aircraft Technicians that worked in the US at this particular airline company and they were all licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration. The company I worked for laid off over 5700 licensed aircraft technicians and outsourced the majority of the maintenance performed on its aging fleet. The fleet was not reducedsince the layoff. The number of flights have also increased since this layoff.
The work is now being outsourced to the lowest bidder. According to the current F.A.A. regulations, endorsed by the airline corporations, the company that performs the outsourced work is only required to have 1 licensed technician to sign off the work. This requirements allows multiple incompetent, underage, underqualified people with no experience to modify, repair and inspect the aircraft that occupy our airspace. The companies 1 licensed individual would then be allowed to sign entire work orders off returning aircrafts to airworthiness.
The next time you and your wife suzy and your kids step on an aircraft from one of our major airlines, remember that you believe outsourcing creates jobs.
In a sense I guess your right. Jobs will be created with fire rescue, hospitals, hazmat crews, ambulance drivers, flight nurses and TV reporters after the accidents.
Airlines did have a substantial increase in accidents directly after Sept. 2001 when they laid off massive qualified technicians. Although the media did not shine much light on that subject (wonder why).
THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK. Outsourcing does not improve the quality of the our lives. Ask the citizens in Duluth, Atlanta, or Detroit.

D Detroit of MI 11:25PM November 11, 2009

Some reports put that for every billion dollars of industry to leave America, 2 to 3 billion dollars worth of industry come into America and are formed in America. So Outsouricing makes work, and makes money. If we dropped our corporate tax to even just the median, not even the lowest, we would have more jobs than we have employees, and be out of deficit in ten years, and millions more would have insurance.
The threats not from outsouricng, its from becoming incapable of taking any skilled labor because we're becoming the dumbest nation in the world.

Clarence Oliver of MA 10:20PM November 05, 2009

I work on oDesk - and have for the past year and a half. I love the system they have set up, I have plenty of work - and - get paid well. Surprise - I also live in the U.S. Yes, outsourcing does create jobs for the U.S. and oDesk is a great example.
The area that I live in is rural and there's very few opportunities as far as jobs go. oDesk has been a lifesaver for my family!

Susan of KY 10:25AM October 24, 2009

Is this some kind of joke.
Such ridiculous Anti-American sentiment only comes from paid advocacy favoring multinationals out to race to the bottom of cheap labor. Undermine the American Middle Class with crud like this and you undermine the American economy. We hear the same BS from companies who evade paying taxes in America because the public wants to spend money on education, affordable healthcare, infrastructure, etc.
Sorry if we don't for a second believe this corporate press release.

Hank of TN 9:37PM October 21, 2009