Top economists and high-wage earners rethink OFFSHORING

In an article on offshoring, the Christian Science Monitor finds top economists rethinking the old equations, and those who earn over $100,000 a year less enthusiastic about the trend to send tech jobs abroad.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0305/p01s03-usec.html

Comments

[Wayne Baird]

Seems like we have only been scratching the surface on all of the oportunities in outsourcing.

As California's new governor has demonstrated, you do not have to be an American born person to be a governor. Why not hire people from China or India to run most of our public political offices - from Senate all the way down to city council. They could do most of the same jobs at a fraction of the price. Even the majority of the presidents staff could be outsourced. All of the paperwork and other bureaucratic work could be accomplished in China, and all we would need here would be a local flunkey to do the trivial in-person photo ops.

Next we could outsource the bulk of the press and television media. Why is it that those on-the-scene vehicles have to be satellite transmitting their stories to some US-based broadcast center. They could just as easily be sending the stories to China or India to be processed and disseminated at a fraction of the price. It shoudn't be a problem if Andy Rooney's replacement starts speaking with a little more of a Cantonese accent. And who's to know if Life magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the New York and LA Times is being processed in Bombay or the US. The savings in media presentation could become quite exciitng.

As you can see - we've really just scratched the surface on all of the potential savings we can get here from outsourcing. Let's start becoming a little more creative.

[benita]

Outsourcing is here to stay ... let's learn to live with it.