Where are the jobs ?

Well I think I know after today.

I called up FPL (Florida Power & Light) to pay
my electric bill and a lady with a slightly South
American accent answered to take my information.

I asked what country she was in. Costa Rica.

Then I called up my telephone company to pay the
bill. Another person with a heavy accent talking
so fast I couldnt understand what was being said,
answered.

I asked what country he was in. India.

So if you want an AMerican job, now you know where
to find them.

... you can apply for one of the jobs being vacated by all the new troops leaving for Iraq. ... and they won't be back for their jobs for a long time.

Good pay, get to see foreign lands....just sign here. ;-)

Julie

to go to your local electric and telephone company offices and complain about the fact they are outsourcing American jobs overseas. Explain that soon, Americans won't be able to afford their services and thus they are "killing the goose." Anticipating they could care less about what you say, I wonder, is there a place on the net we can research and report on companies who have taken our jobs out of the country? If not, perhaps we should make one. Then we should begin protesting, visibly, around these places so everyone will know where there jobs have gone.

:shrug:

Just a thought.

and it's divided into 'high paying, professional jobs', and 'low paying menial jobs'. This trend has actually been happening for the past 15 years. This is the reason why income has become so stratified in the US. The middle class is getting squeezed, and pushed into the lower income brackets.

Soon, there will only be two segments; the ultra-wealthy and the poor. The poor will far outnumber the ultra-wealthy. Sort of like the early 1900's, the era of the robber barons.

As if that weren't bad enough, lower paying jobs are being siphoned off to other countries. Labor economists have been predicting this for quite a while.

I believe that the long-term effect is some kind of income equalization. Wages will go up in countries like India and Mexico, and wages here in the US will get pushed down. It sucks, I know.

to Manila. It's thousands of jobs, and the biggest economic issue in the country in my opinion, and I really don't know what to do about it. Neither do the candidates apparently, but it's a disaster for the country.