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Made in China - the effects of outsourcing

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Old 11-21-2008, 04:20 PM
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As America plunges in to recession, many consumers are looking for cheaper, more economical solutions to their daily needs. As companies compete against each other to meet our growing demands for cheaper products, many are forced to outsource to China, and India. Such actions complicate things in countries where the companies were originally based, causing many problems.

When companies outsource to cheaper countries like China, the most prominent thing that happens is unemployment in the original country. Even though cheaper products is better for the consumer, many times this can lead to a weakening infrastructure and possibly a recession in the country that they were originally based in. Many of those countries need those jobs to support their economy. For example, in America, unemployment rates are rapidly increasing, and more and more main working class people are just hired immigrants illegal and legal. Before, the American image was hard working, doing any jobs for our country. Now, I'm not so sure we have the same image, partly from the unpopular wars that we fight.

Outsourcing to only a few main countries also cause other problems. If China's economy falls into a recession, much of their exports will stop, causing a major decrease in the number of supplies to many major countries like the U.S.. Outsourcing is sort of like buying oil from the Middle East; we are sending our jobs and money overseas, that could have been used to help stimulate our own economy, not theirs. If China is to become a world superpower along with the U.S., it won't be entirely from their own actions that cause their increase in power; it will also be from our actions too, handing them our ability to have a true workforce.
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Old 11-26-2008, 04:02 PM
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While outsourcing might be good for business its bad for US workers, so no.
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Sometimes it is good to outsource, but most of the time it isn't so no.
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somtimes if you out source you will gain but then somtimes you will lose and this is one time that you will lose
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I say that outsourcing could be the right choice, but not outsourcing could also be the right choice. It just depends what is happening. Like Achilles said, outsourcing spends valuable money that could be getting us out of out financial problems. By outsourcing to countries like China, we're litterally putting the fate of our economy in the hands of China. Would you give $100to a stranger whose actions you can't predict and tell them to invest it for you? The answer would be no, you would invest it for yourself, which is why we need to put the fate of our economy into our hands, not China or any other outsources. If our financial state is good, we could use outsourcing to help a developing country get a better economy and try to gain some allies. Like I said earlier, it just depends on our financial state.
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