The problem here is that while being forced to make a change can be a beneficial experience in the longrun, it is actually the opposite in locations where those that are laid off from their jobs were in low-income manufacturing positions. Manfacturing is more often than not, repetitive movements that require little or no education or training. These positions only pay barely enough to survive on to begin with and when the job is gone, there is no money in the family saved to put towards education or periods of time with no income. Education is very expensive in the U.S. and most families fall into the 'barely making it category but make too much money to qualify for government grants' category. Not only that, but many highly qualified technical people lost jobs during the last 2 years and they are all out there competing against each other for every job that becomes available. Businesses that are hiring are receiving literally thousands of applications for a single position.


>>I think the anti-outsourcing posts in this forum stem primarily from two points of view (1) that outsourcing to increase profits at any cost to society at large, the environment, etc, is not acceptable (which I think most of us would agree with), and (2) from an emotional point of view - if you are the one who loses his job then whether that loss is due to a factory robot, another person in the same country, or to another person in another country will be of little consolation. In other words, its complicated ...
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>Hi Jos,
>I undersood second emotional point. To be jobless is not funny thing.
>Byt I am not agree with first one.
>The outsoutcing not only increase profit, but its increase society porductivity.
>It force people, who lose their jobs because of outsuorcing, to learn new technologies, to become more productive than in their previous job and to survive.
>I start business, because of outsourcing. When I lost my job 12 ago I was in weightlessness. But learned English and majored in MA in economics. After 2 years I was on the board with new knowledge and 10 times more productive than in previous job.