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IT jobs are getting hit pretty hard here in the US, although I'm fairly safe in my own job - for the time being at least. That said though, there are several things that really bother me about outsourcing. One is that our politicians say, well, we can just retrain for another job. Retrain for what? And what about the "older" workers? Like it or not, there is age discrimination in the work force. Where do they find another job when they've been displaced? How many times in your lifetime might you have to retrain because of outsourcing? Who pays for the retraining?
How is it good for the US economy to use tax dollars to put Americans out of work, and give their jobs to people in other countries? And these are people who will never pay US taxes! I see our elected officials concerned with the well being of corporations but not the well-being of the citizens.
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