It's not Outsourcing. "Job Exports" is more accurate.

[elehhhhna]

"outsourcing", by which most mean offshoring, should be called something much more sinister. They're exports. They are not coming back.

[acmavm]

1. You're right. I love the quaint phrases that people come up with when

they want to disguise a program or whatever that harms the American people.

[BlueEyedSon]

2. "Labor Arbitrage"

[mhr]

5. Global Labor Arbitrage

eom

[Paxdora]

3. I love good neologisms...

"Job Exports", "Job Exporting"....

sounds right on the money, telling it like it is!
Progressives need to start re-framing the issues the way "Karl Rove and the Rethugs" do (e.g.- tax "relief" for tax-dodging).

[brokensymmetry]

4. Yep.

And people wonder why the deficit is expanding...why consumer debt is going through the roof...why Social Security is in trouble.

It couldn't possibly have anything to do with a decline in wages resulting in a decline in tax revenue, could it? B-)

[ProfessorGAC]

6. Good Catch!

Outsourcing is a legitimate business operation in which certain elements of the business are found to be more EFFICIENT when done by a firm outside the customer company.

It has nothing to do with sending the jobs out of the country. A small business can outsource ALL of its HR functions, including benefit adminstration and payroll. But, it would be outsourcing if they went down the block or to the next big town to find the firm to do it.

This allows growth without adding people in the short term, and still keeps people in a relatively local area employed.

Outsourcing is a function of efficiency, not just cost. A professional HR firm has the infrastructure and the professionals to do a MORE efficient job. That's how the cost effectiveness comes into play. Not just cheaper, but more efficient results for the money spent.

Just shipping jobs overseas to get lower wage people to do it is not outsourcing. It is, as you suggest, job exportation and woefully shortsighted given that this whole macroeconomy is consumption driven.
The Professor

[OutsourceBush]

7. It is WAGE BUSTING on a massive scale

They want to push everyones wages down, they see American workers as over paid. They are treating us like we are unions. They won't be happy until we make third word country wages and walk around bear-foot.