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Friday, February 22, 2008

Sourcing Voters through "Outsourcing"

"Shipping Jobs Overseas” seems to be one of the flavors of this US election. Hillary Clinton joined party rival Barak Obama in promising an end to tax breaks to companies that ship job overseas. US presidential candidate openly blaming “Shipping jobs” to China and India for rising US Employment. However can someone actually look into the viability of this? I have been reading lately where certain sections of society of the great “Dream Land” (USA) does consider that Indians took their jobs. America has always been a great advocator of democracy, equality, etc and by no means has this article reflects on this great nation, but don't they need to stop beating the same tunes over and over again. In the latest twist on globalisation, it is now possible to hire a personal assistant in India to take care of just about anything for you. When we are talking about that level of globalization, can we still afford to remain in the frame of Outsourcing being the devils advocate.

Is outsourcing a relatively a new phenomena? Well, I guess NO…..It started when farmers started farming and the other just did not require growing their own vegetables. In certain ways they outsource their vegetable growing work to the farmers. We need to remove this conditioning in the age of globalization and free trade for developing and sustaining global competitiveness. Are India and China not big markets for American products? Are Indian, Chinese people not buying enough Windows or iPod, drinking enough Pepsi or making substantial investment in the US markets? Then why are we still living in the notion that outsourcing is a part of the devil’s creation.

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