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Study Claims Offshoring Doesn't Cost US Jobs

Posted by kdawson on from the uh-huh dept.

SwashbucklingCowboy writes "Infoworld has an article up about a survey by the Software & Information Industry Association claiming that offshoring doesn't cost American jobs. The article quotes the executive director of the SIIA as saying, '[Offshoring] was used almost entirely as a form of expansion, not as a replacement.' Well, if a job is created elsewhere that could have been created in the US, isn't that a job lost?"

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  1. Offshoring cost me my job by JavaManJim · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I worked for a major retailer for 17 years, then Feb 18 2005 wammo! My job was replaced by offshoring. The person now at my desk is a figurehead (or project manager) for a programming group in Bangalore.

    Thanks,
    Jim

  2. Re:Not relevant. by Vicissidude · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Most free traders label everyone who doesn't agree with them protectionist, even though the label doesn't always fit. Lou Dobbs and everyone for fair trade do not want to cut off trade completely. They just want fair protections for the working class, which isn't an unreasonable request.

    Free trade never has existed. And it probably never will exist. That's because corporations have built in their own fair protections for their own benefit: copyright, patent, and intellectual property laws. In all the talk and bluster regarding free trade, people like you never ever mention these protectionist laws that benefit the big corporations.

    Big businesses are just as protectionist as everyone else. They just don't want anyone to see or point out their hypocrisy when they sing the praises of free trade and deride the rest of us for the same protectionism that they practice.