I remember a time when I used to call the customer service department for my cell phone company and be invited with a nice voice with a distinctive American dialect. It would always interest me (it was also a tool to keep me from going off on the company representative) to find out where the person was from. I was often calmed by this because I am often angry when I call these companies. It got to the point where I could almost speculate what part of the country they were from. I would hear New York accents, island accents, Texas accents, accents from the Midwest, etc. The accents that used to be refreshing on the other end however, now annoy me. Why do they annoy me? They annoy me because I am no longer hearing the accents of the hard working American, I am hearing the accent of someone from a foreign country that is taking the American’s job. Is foreign outsourcing good for America?

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Is it really cheaper to outsource jobs to foreign countries? Why aren’t these jobs being given to American citizens that need work? There is a rising trend in America that is causing our jobs to float across the waters to cheaper laborers in foreign countries. Not only are service jobs headed in this direction, but manufacturing, industrial and IT jobs are crossing the waters as well. I think that it is really hurting our economy. Our economy is not only strengthened by private businesses, but it is equally strengthened by tax paying Americans. When jobs are sent overseas, valuable tax dollars are lost. Corporations do not have to pay employment taxes and other taxes associated with business operations when dealing with their foreign divisions, and the employees are not contributing to the American economy via taxes either.

I like to call this phenomenon organized illegal immigration. It is not a physical form of illegal immigration, but it is a financial form. Illegal immigrants receive the benefits of living in this country without having to contribute to the society and equally employees of America’s major corporations overseas do not contribute to the American economy, but reap the benefits of American free enterprise. Pretty soon only mid-level managers will be in America and entry level and support positions will be maintained overseas if more people do not speak out on this issue.

If this trend continues, most college graduates will find themselves better suited moving overseas to get their first job so they can eventually get promoted back to America!