Outsourcing-Are we cutting off our nose to spite our face?

By: Darnetta O. Matthews

    Once upon a time in America, virtually anyone with a high school education and the willingness to work hard could get a good job.  Fifty years ago a "good job" would enable someone to own a home, buy a car, take a couple of vacations a year and retire with a decent pension.  Unfortunately, those days are long gone.  Every single year the number of "good jobs" in the United States actually shrinks even as our population continues to grow.  Where in the world did all of those good jobs go?  Economist are tossing around terms like "outsourcing" and "off shoring" to explain what has happened, however most Americans don't understand what that really means. What this really means is sending work somewhere else.

My questions are, what is this doing to our economy? Are the jobs that are being outsourced being taking away from able body workers here? What is this saying to our children and the future of our country?

     With it being so important to lead by example why wouldn't children want to just outsource they chores, or homework? They could hire someone for less then want they have and get the job done, does this really teach them the value of hard work and being independent? My experience with calling customer service for say T-mobile has been terrible at best. I get so frustrated because I'm not understanding them and vise-versa I have received wrong information and switched from department to department only to be sent back to someone who I understand and who understands me. So is this really a good business practice?

     In learning more about the cultures that get these jobs and how much they are in need of them is it fair to us? As their economy is growing ours is getting worse. Unemployment is at a record high, the poor are getting poorer and the "middle class" in disappearing. The top reasons to me for "outsources" or "off shoring" is for the rich to get richer.

    With things being the the way they are my concern is this country and where we are headed we could be like the countries that the jobs are going to with big beautiful buildings everywhere and people living in poverty around them. So my question still remains "are we cutting off our nose to spite our face"?