teachers, road workers, construction workers, cleaning people, travel industry, restaurant workers, government workers, health care workers, sales people, and much more, are going to be outsourced to any significant extent?

Doesn't appear you've spent a lot of time thinking about this.

I suppose my job might could be outsourced. If it were, I'd find something else, might take awhile, but I would. I get it's tough for some who lose their jobs, but that's why you do something to make sure they get the help and assistance they need.

factory workers, teachers, many sales people.

I've thought about it quite a bit and never claimed that every job could be outsourced but by no means have we hit bottom and technology makes some occupations one would think is a lock to be much more precarious than most would guess.
Hell, if you can't imagine how one might outsource an accountant then I don't know what to tell you.

yourself indispensable. If you are a clerk, it could happen, but not likely.

Accountants are totally replaceable, you are making an appeal to personal pride not logic.

Loss of jobs means loss of people buying goods, which means less freight to haul around.

It also means less tax revenue, so that road worker won't have a job. Besides, less trucks mean the road upgrade can be postponed.

Travel industry and restaurant workers? Yes, the poor are well known for their extensive use of travel agents and high-priced destination travel. They also dine out all the time instead of eating out-of-date cans of beans.

Retail? Someone's got to be able to afford to buy in order to sell anything.

Skilled factory workers? Guess what! You can train people who do not live in the US to do skilled factory work! It's an amazing discovery that results in things like your iPhone being "designed in California", yet "made in China".

Teachers and government workers? No tax income. We can fire a bunch more of those to save money.

Sure, you are probably capable of asking if people would like fries with their meal. However, you will be competing with a whole lot of other people for those lovely jobs.


Ah yes, remember how we were going to magically make all displaced factory workers into computer programmers when NAFTA passed? Didn't quite work out that way, did it? Must've been those lazy workers fault.

Means more jobs for port people, shippers, etc. Might mean more auto jobs with Honda, Toyota, et.. Big engineering construction companies might do more work in foreign countries, taking skilled employees with them. Those folks will return with money for homes, etc.

We might build and run hospitals overseas. Lots of things are possible, and it could be better for us and the world.

so are certain specialties in Medicine, like radiology... hell, quite a bit of the daily reporting is leaving as well, or getting automated.

Travel industry... I don't know about you, but I have not used a travel agent in decades. I could go on...

Clerical accounting might be oursourceable, but most things that require contact with clients, etc., are tougher.

I doubt much reporting goes to Vietnamese, losses there are probably due more to technology and less print media.

Most of today's job loses are due to factors other than a shipping of jobs overseas.

http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/179555/journatic-staffer-takes-this-american-life-inside-outsourced-journalism/

http://thedailybanter.com/2012/07/us-newspapers-outsourcing-journalism-to-the-filipines/

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20120901/MAGAZINE/309019954

http://www.curemd.com/billing-services.asp

http://www.industryweek.com/supplier-relationships/are-you-ready-launch-your-outsourced-supplier

http://www.forbes.com/sites/xerox/2013/07/12/the-benefits-of-outsourcing-finance-and-accounting/

http://www.outsource2india.com/services/tax.asp

I could go on. What I find really troublesome about your who cares attitude is precisely that attitude.

Don't worry, I will not cry if you lose your job. Especially if that job is outsourced to India, China or Vietnam. For that matter Mexico or Canada. This attitude of yours is just freaking amazing, because I am positive this was happening under Bush, you would be the first in line to scream bloody murder and treason. But since it is a Dem, it's ok. Have I mentioned today how much I dislike rank partisans regardless of who they are?

Sid

taking the side of the rich rather than the American worker.

Since I am still years from Medicare, with a chronic illness, things could get tight.

by lying, corporate vipers pretending to be our representatives. This is a corporate coup of democracy itself, carried out by sociopaths who have traded in their humanity for some filthy money.

And to every political hack who gets a little paycheck for shilling for this predatory garbage that will destroy the lives and futures of millions of actual human beings:

Did you have a conscience to start with? Is this *really* what you are?

Do you hug your children at night with the same hands that type this slimy, viperous propaganda?