Job security hopes fading
Here is another article to read Outsourcing: What to do? written by Mark Gongloff for CNN Money.
This whole outsourcing issue disturbs me to no end. Who thought this would be a good idea for America, more importantly, for the masses of Americans who are now unemployed Americans? Maybe it is just a small facet of a larger problem, and maybe the suffering caused by these job losses will be short-term, but that doesn't make it bother me any less.
I think we, as Americans, can start to do something about this. Flood your state representatives in congress and the senate with letters telling, asking, pleading them to bring the jobs back to America - make sure to have your friends to the same. Second, if it wasn't made in the good ole U.S. of A. don't buy it. Find some local entrepreneur to help support. Stop supporting companies who have decided to lay off Americans in favor of lower labor costs by outsourcing those same jobs.
-->> unrelated, but not really. Yesterday C-Span showed back to back keynote speakers from this past weeks Democratic National Convention in Boston. I still think that the Reverend Al Sharpton is a nut job, but I could actually relate to some of what he was saying. I was extremely impressed by the way John Edwards presented himself and to a lesser extent by what he had to say. John Kerry's acceptance speech was moving at times, but I had to keep reminding myself that 1) this was nothing more than the Democratic pep rally 2) most politicians use "pretty words" and tell us what we want to hear. I will watch the upcoming Republican National Convention in New York and I'm sure I will have to keep reminding myself of those same two things. I can't wait until the debates begin! <<--
