When You Outsource

First you kill pets, subvert herbal drugs and toothpaste.

Then you kill people.

You make this country more dependent on the economies and political instabilities and cultures of those not your own -- to our clear detriment.

You make this amazing and wonderful country less independent, and more dependent upon the whims of second, third and fourth world countries.

And there is a reason we are considered a FIRST WORLD culture.

Because we are, quite frankly, superior to our lessers. They are called "third world countries" for a reason.

It is because they are our inferiors, plain and simple.

Due to their cultures, their environment, their geography, their mindset, their overarching religions, their ignorance, their stupidity -- I couldn't care less.

Many nations are inferior simply because they are, because of any or all of the above factors.

We place a priority on kindness, consideration, fairness, transparency, ethics.

Other developing nations couldn't care less about our rules, our attorneys, our tort system, our liabilities, our immunities, our entire sense of stability, our good will, our fair intentions. Or the health and well being of our citizens.

They do what they do when they do it, because we have purchased it, we have written it, we have paid for it, we have been forced to do it.

Because we have been convinced that "outsourcing" is the future.

But is it really?

How do we compete with countries whose line workers will be satisified with 95-cents per hour?

I am, clearly, at a loss.

My first thought: protect my country.

But how can we compete with a line production worker whose government (the U.S.) mandates health care, overtime, fair treatment, fairness in discipline, vs external governments that are completely open in terms of wages and benefits?

I ask you: what is the answer?

BZ