I just chewed someone out in a chat room

and put them on ignore because they told me their job is outsourcing.

Before I did that, though, I did confirm- politely- that this guy's job is indeed to send American jobs to India- and yes, he did state the name of the country.

I unloaded on him.

"So, you're involved in economic treason, then. Over 3.5 million jobs lost in the last three years, and you're partly responsible. You must be vey proud of yourself. Did you bother to think about the families you're putting out onto the street? You do realize none of those jobs are coming back, right?"

Then he left. :)

Oh, dear.... was I too harsh?

I have NO time for people whose job it is to cost other people theirs in the name of giving that job to another country. If he were in my home and said something like that- regardless of how well we hit it off or how much fun we were having- I'd show him the door, and make DAMN sure it hit him in the ass on the way out.

Sorry. I draw the line at economic treason.

Just kiddin I'm not an Indian...hey it's kill or be killed in chat rooms!

Yahoo Chat, in Politics Lobby:4. Very conservative.

Gay.com.

at gay.com?

It never fails to astound me how people can hold beliefs that act against their own self-interest... and that of their 'friends'.

Sorry.... anyone holding such a job should be ashamed of themselves. What an evil, evil form of employment.

I truly hope outsourcing ends soon, just so this prick can see how it feels to lose his livlihood for a change.

A white, native English speaking, First World outsourced worker, that is... It was a job, and it paid the bills, and if it put Americans out of work, well, I'm sorry as hell, but I had to eat too.

Personally, I'm of two minds about the whole outsourcing thing. While it's a terrible problem to completely undermine your domestic economy by sending first manufacturing then service-industry jobs outside (and what next?), I'm also in favour of raising the standard of living all over the world. Unfortunately, with the type of economic system we currently have (capitalism with a diminishing amount of market constraints), employment is getting to be a zero-sum game, and a certain percentage of unemployment is always desireable from employers' points of view (that way they can keep the workers in line, and also ensure themselves of a steady supply of fresh blood, plus, labour surpluses keep prices down).

Put da Yankee man down on his big behind yas sir!

What did you do?

Sure, we can teach them- TO BUILD THEIR OWN TECH SECTOR.

'Nuff said. THEY DON'T DESERVE OUR HARD EARNED JOBS.

Outsourcing to India may bring jobs to India temporarily but then outsourcing companies move on to places with even lower wages like China or Indonesia. The only answer is to use our clout with the WTO/WB/IMF to force member countries to establish an IMW that's a living wage instead of their current practice of forcing debtor nations to cut wages and break labor unions, which ultimately ruins their economies, Argentina being a good example.
We are taught to believe that we are in a zero-sum game between wealthy and poor nations when actually the game is between an extremely wealthy few and an ever more impoverished many. Balancing this equation would cause no one to suffer, reduce the political power of multinational banks and corporations and make a more stable, less terrorized world. This is the key to achieving all the goals of progressives.
I know Gephardt and Kucinich have made this issue a priority but I don't know about the others. Any candidate who does not make this a priority does not deserve our support, IMO.