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Originally Posted by Lebenz
On the other hand, according to someone I spoke with recently our friends in India all get about 16 years of compulsory education. Given the higher standard of education they experience, especially combined with lower pay for their efforts, I can understand why the incentive to hire these folks is there. It is truly the free market at work.
At the same time, it is a betrayal of the local efforts. Rather than try to encourage folks to get a better education, our companies are simply abandoning us. That, IMO is the core issue we face.
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You are absolutely right.
I should keep my mouth shut, since I (a Canadian) have my summer job to thank at the hands of an American company who has outsourced work to another American company (not public) who owns the Canadian company (not public) that employs me
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I get a great hourly wage which, after working the summer, inables me to PAY for my university tuition ($5063.50 this coming september) for the YEAR, with money left over. AND I don't have to worry about paying for hospital stays if I were to ever have an accident or get sick either.
In the province I live in, Ontario, the number of my contemporaries pursuing higher education is quite high. Everyone seems to be educated in Ontario here. I've since, changed my focus in my undergraduate, to stream into going after a profession (not law, by the way). It may be my only hope at a secure future, without the constant worries of job security etc...
I'm scared for you Yankees. You seem to have lost your way, the apathy towards American made products is evidence. I'm scared because I owe my paycheque to American ownership. I personally think most american car products for example, are up to the build quality levels of imported nameplates. People just don't want to buy them (for various image reasons or the halo effect of imported brands on uninformed/anti-car people). I'm a little upset that people here in Canada think cheap goods made in China are the latest, the greatest. When you stop building
widgets you open yourselves up for invasion. We are a perfect example (the American branch plant economy which had destroyed most of our Canadian firms after WWI).
We depend on you Yanks for our standard of living, certain groups of us Canucks talk smack/talk tough like we don't need you but, we are weak, we do. If you guys falter, so do we.
What's next?
