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  They can keep their stupid words and ridiculous explanations. This is about greedy corporate executives who are willing to sacrifice the future of our nation for short term profits. Who do they think will buy their products when they succeed in "downsizing" our economy to third-world nation status?

  GovExec.com reader Posted March 16, 2004 8:24 AM
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  If it walks like a duck, looks like a duck, sounds like a duck....... it's still OUTSOURCING. I don't care how you dress it up or what color you paint it - it's still outsourcing. The socio-economic repurcussions will be staggering - maybe not in this decade but down the road our crumbled social structure will finally be reduced to pulverized fine dust thanks to greed. Our government and our industries have sold the American worker out. There will be chaos one day but all corporate America and our government see is $$$GREEN$$$$. The American worker sees only bad things coming as a result of this sell out. This makes such a loud statement about the priorities of our leaders and CEOs. I put little stock in the establishment today. I cringe when I read articles like this because it's just more bad news for Americans.

  Diane Posted March 9, 2004 7:48 AM
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  What happens to the tax revenue for the state and federal government if the American worker is not collecting a weekly pay check?

  Patricia Posted March 3, 2004 8:32 PM
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  Whose jobs are we talking about here? The top managers jobs? When all companies are 90% or more outsourced overseas, what jobs are left? Who will buy their products when 80% of the workforce in the US is unemployed? I don't think managers are looking at the long term BIG picture effects of these efforts.

  GovExec.com reader Posted March 3, 2004 4:15 PM
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  Nowadays notifications informing workers that they no longer have a job aren't pink, but the message is still the same. Corporations may want to consider that, for the American workers left without employment by outsourcing, offshoring, world-wide sourcing, the terminology is irrelevant. To add insult to injury, our citizens are often asked to train those who will take their jobs away; and, particularly in high tech arenas, quality is degraded by this lowest-bidder approach.

  One of the long term consequences of this shift in employment practices is the erosion of loyalty to, or trust in American employers; our citizens are learning this the hard way now, but it will eventually become apparent worldwide as corporations continue to hop to the lowest bidder (perhaps we'll develop a new defintion for job hopping!)

  Personally, my family now plans to boycott IBM and Storage Technology, Inc. due to this type of activity; we'll just source what we need world-wide.

  Cecelia C. Rice Posted March 3, 2004 2:09 PM
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  No matter how softsoap the terminology, i.e., outsourcing, world sourcing, competitive sourcing, it all boils down to the American people losing out. American companies go overseas to India, China, Taiwan, Korea, etc. to cut THEIR costs - not to cut OUR costs. In the end, people have lost their livelihoods but they still have to pay for mortgages and rent and food and clothing and gas etc. We (Americans) may buy items at lower costs but we have also bought items NOT MADE IN THE U.S.A. and frequently the products do not have the high quality that OUR products once had, i.e., shoes fit slightly differently, woven materials may wear out faster because the material is cheaper or the process doesn't produce a well-finished product. Our steel mills are all but gone, so now we pay higher costs to IMPORT a product we once produced. Even lumber is being imported. We, a great nation, are on our way to becoming a third world country. If American companies are going to jump ship and go offshore to save a dollar, then I think they should be penalized monetarily to the point where it makes more sense to them to stay here and maintain the strength of our country. In addition, we need to make it beneficial for companies to remain on our soil and that may mean restructuring costs that companies must pay in order to remain in business.

  GovExec.com reader Posted March 3, 2004 1:26 PM
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  I would like to see the outsourcing of the judicial, legislative and executive branches of the government, so that folks learn the rest of us live in rural America where things are hard and most of us do not get a check every two weeks. Baby if we are sinking you're coming with us.

  GovExec.com reader Posted March 3, 2004 10:55 AM
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  You can put perfume on a hog.....but it's still a hog.

  GovExec.com reader Posted March 2, 2004 5:12 PM
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  Instead of 'down-sizing' and 'outsourcing' we see 'right-sizing' and 'worldwide sourcing'. If only George Orwell were alive today to see 'newspeak' taken to the depths of human imagination.

  GovExec.com reader Posted March 2, 2004 12:40 PM