No more Twinkies - Hostess out of business

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Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

It'll go even farther; just wait. A friend of mine who works in the legal profession told me that his law firm is testing out not assigning secretaries to the lower level lawyers; instead, they will email documents and things they need done to a floor of people they will never actually interact with. He thinks they'll eventually look to ship that sort of job overseas, too, or to a state with much lower wages.

States like West Virginia are absolutely booming, relatively speaking. Companies realize they can find an English speaking, young, energetic workforce that appreciates the work and is willing to perform a lot of the administrative tasks that can be farmed out of the larger metropolitan areas at a fraction of the costs.
Incorporate real-time documentation processing and it's a no-brainer - cost-wise.

The larger issue I have is that even some of the most higher-level, intricate, detailed work is going off-shore. I work for an international corporation that has call centers all over the world. Typically the highest level of support resides here, but we're seeing even those jobs moving to the Philippines and India.

Without sounding obstructionist, I think the answer lies in holding the companies that make a pretty penny selling their goods and services in the USA accountable to paying that back - not by increased corporate taxes, but with a requirement to keep decent jobs here.

You want to sell your products in the US? Then you need to be required to maintain a commitment to the country by employing our labor. Period. Not excusing the practice by semi-enforcing some sort of back handed excise tax that can be manipulated by politicians, but an actual federal mandate.

Considering that these same corporations basically own the legislature, I'm not holding my breath.