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sasha031 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-11 07:35 PM
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India Corporations Are Outsourcing To The US For Cheap Labor
Edited on Tue May-24-11 07:36 PM by sasha031
This is the new normal. The United States has become a third world country. As I pointed out in a previous article, America exports more raw material and imports more finished goods. Now it turns out that foreign corporations from India are looking to outsource, due to the workers in that country demanding higher wages and a higher standard of living. That country is India. Yes, the country where most of our customer service phone calls go to, are now looking to outsource tele-sales to the United States.

So congratulation to the conservatives, you have officially succeeded. The American worker is now on a level playing field with a developing nation. For years conservatives have told the American people that they were the defenders of American exceptionalism all the while stripping our standard of living right from beneath us. American exceptionalism isn’t just our military or our democracy; it is the standard of living we all used to enjoy. A standard of living that was the envy of the world. That part of American exceptionalism was too expensive for shareholders and corporate boards and to that fact, the American middle class has become equal to the Indian workforce.

Rather than defend the American worker’s wages, conservative policies have driven the nation to the point where corporations are looking to our shores to bolster their profit margins and take advantage of cheap American labor.

http://www.politicususa.com/en/india-corporations-usa

more here
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1389963/Indian-firms-look-U-S-cheap-labour-outsourcing-goes-circle.html#ixzz1NAnI12dI
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mia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-11 07:43 PM
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1. K&R
This is so sad...
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0rganism Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-11 07:47 PM
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2. happened sooner than I thought it would
I figured "the jobs will come home" when our labor standards roughly match those of other 3rd-world countries exploited by the capitalist ruling class. I'm surprised at how quickly it came to pass, though - guess we didn't have as much to lose as I thought.
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sasha031 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-11 07:57 PM
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3. all the old labor battles will have to be fought all over again
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