More like... 'March Our Heads Up Our Rear Ends' Rally...

The world is changing...FAST...

Get used to it, or get left behind.

jobs being outsourced "over the water to foreign countries."

I agree with you Jethro that one needs to "get used to it" and that protests to keep jobs here will not work.

That still begs the question: "How much doses it REALLY cost this country to outsource jobs to foreign countries?"

It would be one thing if we kept producing high value added goods being sold to other countries while we were outsourcing jobs with low value. However, one only has to look at the USA to see what Canada will be like in short order if we do not get our act in shape. The USA has been loosing manufacturing jobs at an extreme rate over the last 5 years. People in the computer fields have been feeling the same pinch. Those who were told 15 and 20 years go to get degrees in computer programming and their future will be bright are sitting in the unemployment lines at a time which should be the height of their careers.

So, I do not know what “getting used to it” means in your mind. In my mind it does not mean sitting back and relaxing. It means that there is a structural problem in the world as it moves more quickly and as jobs are transferable from one country to the other through notions of free trade as well as increasing capacity of communication and transportation. In addition, the notion that human resources are just that, resources to be toyed with as if they were minerals in the ground rather than the very material which makes up our society. We are foremost about self preservation - preservation of our communities first, then the other communities after ours.

Whose responsibility is it to preserve our communities – extended family, city, region, province, country? All of ours, including the businesses and governments we create. Not every worker can create their own job. Job creation is normally left up to larger and more formal organizations.

Where is the job creation in this case? The most positive way this could be looked at is job preservation. Preserve some jobs to keep the company running, while outsourcing others. So who is going to create the new jobs to replace those outsourced? Are we in for more McJobs? Or is someone getting some real wealth producing jobs so that we can pay those living in other countries who are now doing our jobs?

http://www.thetyee.ca/News/2005/10/19/USOutsourcing

A good article, from my point of view, about outsourcing .....

The power of the global free market economy is irresistible...

'Getting used to it' doesn't mean giving up, but it does mean that we all have to learn the rules that govern that new global economy.