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Small Town USA Competing With India

Posted by Zonk on from the now-that-sounds-like-a-plan dept.

William Hood writes "According to a news article at ABC, companies are sometimes opting to outsource to rural USA rather than foreign countries. Although it still achieves the same result of lowering the value of a job, I think the idea of moving to a larger house that costs less in a town with no traffic is a much better option than flying to Bangalore to train your replacement." From the article: "Sebeka is 14 miles from the closest traffic light, hours from the nearest Starbucks coffee shop and a far cry from the Chicago suburb he left. 'There is no traffic,' said technical consultant Clayton Seal, who also works in Sebeka. 'Anytime, day or night, you can cross Main Street -- almost don't have to look 'cause there's nobody there.' Seal also lost his job to outsourcing."

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  1. 3rd world what? by joey_knisch · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Enter 1000 jokes about Nebraska being 3rd world...

    Not that they wouldn't be justified.

  2. From the blurb by deepestblue · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    ... moving to a larger house that costs less in a town with no traffic is a much better option than flying to Bangalore to train your replacement ...

    If moving to a smaller town is an option, why isn't moving to Bangalore? Oh, I know - "irreconcilable cultural differences". Somehow, when immigrants to the US encounter the same culture shock, it's all right because they're getting "a better life". Talk of being spoilt.

    Disclaimer: I'm an alien in the US. From India, at that.

  3. Can't happen by ylikone · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That can't and won't happen (making it illegel to outsource). As long as north america has a strong capitalist force which everyone embraces, it will continue to be fine to outsource. What will happen is that eventually it will level out all around the world. The global economy will make everybody poor. Except the rich who run the corporations, they will get richer. The gap between rich and poor will widen significantly. What will happen then? Maybe a revolution.

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    Meh.
  4. Re:Outsourcing should be illegal. by benjamindees · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    How do you support our country if you're sending our jobs overseas?

    Ding ding. Here's your wake up call. These companies are supporting the country by shipping jobs overseas to free up Americans to fight in foreign wars.

    The US gov't won't outlaw outsourcing because it's by design. As outsourced techies are working at McDonalds, the people who should be working at McDonalds are being shot at in Iraq.

    If everybody had jobs they could do right here, no one would voluntarily sign up to fight the Jews' wars for them. And the last time they tried to force people to fight a needless war, all hell broke loose.

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    "I assumed blithely that there were no elves out there in the darkness"
  5. Re:Sounds like a change for the better. by MSBob · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    You've already shipped all your worthwhile jobs. None are left. Bush and Co. transformed America into an economy of fried chicken huts. Enjoy your bright new future. The only reason America isn't a third world country is that oil is traded in US dollars which creates an artificial worldwide demand for greenbacks. As soon as some Arabs band together and start trading oil in Euros your economy will take another nosedive and you'll see the value of those suburban McMansions go right into the gutter. Then the Chinese plasticware will no longer be so cheap at Walmart.

    Screwed with the rest of the world for fifty years? Guess what? Payback Time!

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    Your pizza just the way you ought to have it.
  6. Re:Larger house on smaller salary, huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Yeah, but I don't expect to see any burning crosses in my front yard or clinic bombings in Seattle.

    No but if you're a Republican in Seattle you can expect those oh so peacefull liberals to trash your yard/house for expressing a different political view than them. Liberals today are as bad as the KKK in the 60's.

  7. Re:Larger house on smaller salary, huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Liberals today are as bad as the KKK in the 60's.

    Really?? How many republicans have they killed? How many republicans have they strung up or dragged behind their pick-up trucks? How many republicans did they keep out of the public schools or prevent from exercising their right to vote? You really are full of it, you redneck idiot!