Quote Originally Posted by Loki View Post
The work won't be done in India because there are numerous challenges that arise from outsourcing jobs. A large portion of the jobs that were outsourced a decade ago were moved back to the US because of those unforeseen challenges. Most of those problems don't exist if you simply get people from third world countries to come to the US to do those jobs at half the cost and then replace them with a new wave of third world workers when they start demanding higher pay. So no, the alternative isn't outsourcing, but keeping Americans in those same jobs.

I'm curious, would you support expanding this program to every industry then? If there are accountants, actuaries, or even bartenders and plumbers from the third world who would be willing to come here for 2 years to do those jobs at half the American cost, just to be promptly replaced by a new wave of workers from those same countries, would you be ok with that?
Don't see a huge problem. While I don't support unlimited migration I'm comfortable with what you're proposing. Lower cost of labor (white collar or blue collar) leads to lower prices for consumers.

And while there are issues with outsourcing - as the technology improves we'll see more and more of it. This is a global economy we can't bury our heads in the sand and ignore it or put in place isolationist policies that allow us to delay fully competing with the world.