@klumper .. but to say your words are "prophetic" implies something that is, for the most part, 'predicted to occur in the distant future'. Trouble is, everything you've pointed out is, sadly, past-tense. You are absolutely, g@rdamn, right!
"...So instead of investing sensibly in the future by subsidizing higher schooling or vocational training domestically, and taxing offshore-labor products, our industry moguls simply look away as more and more Americans are duped out of work. "
You know what i like to call what's happening in the Western world at the moment - and what you've already astutely pointed out: Insourcing (remember, you heard it here first)
OK, wt*? .. you'd rightly ask, but it's really quite simple if you'll bear with me:
In the U.S., U.K., Western European countries, Australia and New Zealand the situation has taken a nasty turn for the worse. Instead of the acknowledged model of "outsourcing" - where big corporates / multinationals send their operations off-shore to: China, South East Asian countries, India, etc, the new world orderlies (as i like to call this group of big corporate, cronies) have gone insidious on us by, instead, bringing the cheap labor into each of the *currently* wealthy, Western countries i've just named.
If you take a step back to just contemplate and think about it, it makes perfect sense for these 'cronies': (1) they save a fortune by avoiding relocation costs to move operations overseas, (2) the "half-a-dozen-peanuts-a-day" work force have their flights paid for, to move to a Western country and (3) all that remains is to slowly and insidiously (-that key word again) weed out domestic / local help. Granted, my way of spelling it out may be a little convoluted .. but you get the general principle - and that's really all that counts. So there it is .. right there .. Insourcing 101.
All told, i really believe the attack upon our way of life is made much worse by what you and i know, but few will ever really care to admit - at least not publicly:
* Insourcing on a huge scale has been gaining momentum for at least the last 5-10 years and i predict will overtake - if not replace - outsourcing.
* Local Workforce Phase Out: We, that is, those born in Western nations will be the first big casualty of insourcing as far as employment goes.
* Nationals deliberately dumbed down: toning-down of traditional, western education standards so that the foreign (i.e. incoming) workforces are (by design) also higher educated and therefore preferred for employment over nationals.
CONCLUSIONS: The irony is, that if insourcing as i've described it *really* takes off than there may just be a wave of returning multinationals bringing operations back to Western shores - but almost certainly for all the wrong reasons.
The time for talking is over .. the time for action is here.
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