Dave, did you catch the last episode of 30 Days? Was all about outsourcing.

The few that I've spoken to at Dell have been ok.

There was an article in GQ where the author outsourced his life--literally. All his dealings from fights with his wife, to congratulatory things for his son were done through India. Very funny, yet sad piece.

We are handing over our country. Outsourcing is the worse thing that we can do. Its not a nationalistic feeling either. Its simply the thought of us gradually losing control of our own destiny in a way.

another argument against raising the minimum wage.

Dave, did you catch the last episode of 30 Days? Was all about outsourcing.

The few that I've spoken to at Dell have been ok.

We are handing over our country. Outsourcing is the worse thing that we can do. Its not a nationalistic feeling either. Its simply the thought of us gradually losing control of our own destiny in a way.

I'm not trying to pick on you (between here and the MW thread), but could you explain this further?

There are also security issues concerning companies giving outside access to sensitive customer information. In April of 2005, a high-profile case involving the theft of $350,000 from four Citibank customers occurred when Indian call center workers in Pune, India, acquired the passwords to customer accounts and transferred the money to their own accounts opened under fictitious names. Citibank did not find out about the problem until the American customers noticed discrepancies with their accounts and notified the bank.[6]

Outright fraud is also a concern. In 2005, Intel discovered and fired 250 Indian employees after they faked their expense reports.[7] The firings followed from Intel's internal Business Practice Excellence program of expenses claims. The report concluded that fraudulent practices such as "faking bills to claim your allowances like conveyance [and] drivers’ salaries" were some common malpractices in India. Intel would not put up with such fraud. NASSCOM, which is a forum of IT and ITeS companies, has attempted to address these fraud concerns in India by creating the National Skills Registry. That database contains personal and work-related information, enabling employers to verify a staff member's credentials and allowing police to track the background of workers.

Opponents often dismiss these reports, saying that fraud and corruption exists everywhere. However, it is disingenuous to therefore insinuate that fraud and corruption is uniform from nation to nation. Corruption is in fact measured for comparison by Transparency International, through their Corruption Perceptions Index.[8] Popular outsourcing destinations such as China (3.2/10) and India (2.9/10) rank low on the index, meaning high levels of corruption.

That being said, security related issues, such as falsifying expense documents, or compromising client financial information, are rare when taken in to account the number of offshore personnel and projects they are associated with.

My point is, these coutries control us as we outsource all our products, our services, etc to them. What if they just stop or, demand more money, etc? What about all that credit info you give out to them? All those addresses, etc. People can use that information for no good.