Now, Nasdaq live from Bangalore (India Times)

[patriotvoice]

The announcement has caused a stir in the news world. It's one thing to have India answer Britrail phone calls and troubleshoot for Dell, but what happens when journalists who report on the subject feel their own jobs are threatened?

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/486354.cms

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[POed_Ex_Repub]

1. Gee... well now

Maybe they'll actually pay a little closer attention to the issue. (Although it's probably too late anyway)

[pinniped]

2. Outsourcing is good for the US (chimp said so) so it must work...

for others as well.

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. According to the WH these jobs are actually products

that we are exporting, and this somehow helps our foreign trade.

I have to actually give them credit for the shear weirdness of their logic!

[salin]

9. he didn't say that...

oh - dear me.

Sorry George, you don't get to count those jobs as assets that lower the overall trade deficit. Bafoon.

Sad thing is that he doesn't even try to connect with folks - beyond his corporate cronies any more. This is good news for his buds (bigger and bigger profits)... so there is no reason to be concerned or express concern... so to the public (who may have lost their job)... "dark skies are going to clear up.... put on a happy face.."

[baby_bear]

4. This is huge in India

Earlier today I searched on "outsourcing," and almost all the articles were from India news sources. In addition, this appears to be a similar issue for Britain. There seem to be plenty of British legislators willing to farm out jobs to India.

Just google, you'll see. It appeared to me that it is an issue that has gotten ahead of us. Now we are playing catch-up.

This isn't a new article (although it was to me today), but it's enlightening as to this subject. http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_1137.shtml

s_m

[arikara]

6. Thanks, good article

The exploitation of the worker is on the increase. Where I work, the unpaid OT is expected but donating labour doesn't guarantee that they will keep you on either. They put the fear into everyone by quarterly firings. I'm just so fed up with it, we need to have a revolution.

The first thing is to take personhood away from corporations; and make them accountable to the community, the environment, and then the shareholders. And if they screw up, their charters should be revoked.

[Kenneth ken]

5. Please edit your post

In LBN the subject line needs to be the same as the story headline you're linking to.

Apart from that, I personally don't see anything "just" about more outsourcing; nor do I understand why you might be pleased about this.

[Voltaire99]

7. Outsourcing: hope for rebirth of liberalism

As Americans see that laissez faire economic policies are hostile to their livelihoods, the right wing can only lose support. The pendulum, after many a long bitter moon, could soon be swinging back again.

The big question is not whether Americans will tire of being sold out by the right. They will. No, the big question is whether the Democratic Party will be able to offer a sufficiently distinct and useful alternative to conservative policy. Will it learn to stop kowtowing to its right-centrist, anti-regulatory leadership?

[He loved Big Brother]

8. That, most definitely, is the big question.

And I believe it's an especially huge question in regards to the potential youth vote. It's because of that demographic that the Democratic Party needs to hurry up and decide if it's platform and leaders will offer voters a reasonable alternative to the right wing. They have a lot of years of voting ahead of them.

[fujiyama]

10. The question is...

what kind of populism will arise?

The left should see to it that it is a progressive vision, which is tolerant and inclusive -- rather than a Conservative Pat Buchanan type, which is meanspirrited and nasty.

[Bhaisahab]

11. Dont blame India for outsourcing brothas

for years and years the west had been screaming at us to open up our market, throwing big words at us like "globalization" and "free trade".

well, looks like free trade isn't a one-way street, where only the rich countries get to dump coca cola on us.

if you want to take, you gotta give a little. its a cosmic rule, isn't it?