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Originally Posted by The One and Only...
That's only half the story. Outsourcing is supposed to also increase the quality of jobs in America, because more of them will rely on a higher education base. And for the last time, OUTSOURCING DOES NOT CAUSE JOB LOSS.
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No, but it leaves people who aren't qualified for the "new and better" jobs shit out of luck, doesn't it? It ends up lowering the quality of THEIR job, because now they have to go work at Wal-Mart without benefits. Not that it isn't anyone's doing but theirs, however now you have a growing segment of your population that has to re-educate and is none too happy about it.
A lot of times those people are too old for it to make any difference anyways. They end up being poor, their kids end up being poor, and it goes on and on.
Now, it's true that out-sourcing ends up doing more good than bad in the long run. North America would still be purely manufacturing based, whereas more than half of the economy is powered by the service industry now; we outsourced all of our manufacturing to Asia. However, the "new and better" jobs are gobbled up by the people who already had a high enough education to fill them to begin with. The people who are unemployed can't fill the gaps because they aren't qualified, otherwise they would have had those jobs to begin with.
Long term = good. Short term = bad.