One reason I am even more adament about ridding us of this president is that I have been in the midst of being offshored for the last year after 15 years with a company which I won't name for self preservation reasons. I am training my Indian replacements in order to receive severance and a bonus upon my departure. 5 people making less than our minimum wage and little to no benefits will replace me. The company isn't worried about performance it's the bottom line savings.
I doubt anything will be truly done to stem the flow of jobs overseas, the guilty corporations donate to both parties, but at least Kerry mentions something. Bush will never do anything about it. I disagree with his proposed solution however. Why should we offer tax breaks to stem the flow? Why not treat corporations who want to act like a foreign corporation like a foreign corporation? Why should these corporations, many who pay no tax, receive any benefits if, on top of it, they are not employing US citizens/tax payers? Offshore accounts to avoid taxes...X% of your workers reside and work in other countries (work that could be performed here) then you are now considered a foreign corporation. Abuse the H1B visa program you are prosecuted. The H1B visa program is designed to provide talent/skills that cannot be found here in the USA. Leading up to the Y2K dilemma Corp America whined and repeatedly were successful in getting congress to raise the allowable number of H1B visas sighting a shortage of programmers. After Y2K, those visas are good for seven years, these people were then set about the task of taking what they've learned over seas and Corp America began laying off American high tech workers. yes the dot.com burst had a bit to do with the downturn but that wasn't/isn't the talent/skills being offshored.
So, will anything truly stem the flow or are we all relegated to service industry type jobs until salaries and benefits are rock bottom enough to be employable in other fields? I think that's where we are going. But the plus is I will have lot's of fishing time this summer.