>I wonder if India hires illegal immigrants just as the U.S. does? What would happen if millions of Americans or Britains suddenly showed up in India looking for work? Would we get free school and medical care as Mexican immigrants receive here now? (this is the reality here in NC)

Well presumably not :)

But this thinking will not stem the tide of what is happening anyway. I understand that India has more PhD’s per capita than any other country. These are smart people. I read it’s cheaper to have an X-ray digitized and sent to India for real time analysis than to hire a local radiologist to do it. I read it's becoming cheaper for US firms to ship their accounts to India and for them to simply return the audited statements than to do it locally :)

This is an unreal time where even the best white-collar jobs are going to follow the blue-collar jobs of the last several decades.

Do you hear that Indian voice on the MS help line? "That Mr. Anderson is the sound of inevitability" :)