50 Is the New 65: Older Americans Are Getting Booted from Their Jobs -- and Denied New Opportunities

[Demo_Chris]

50. It goes hand in hand, but at this point what can you do?

Neither party is interested in unraveling Free Trade, they both want more of it. And at this point it's probably too late anyway, the horse is out of the barn. And as you pointed out, this is doubly true for 'service' type jobs that do not have to be performed here. It is now EASY to employ professionals from, for example, India. I was looking into this for my own business in fact. There are companies who will do it all for you, you just tell them what you want, and they employ the people to make it happen.

The company I was looking into had video interviews with their workers. One in particular stood out as typical. The woman had some kind of Masters -- in math if I recall -- and she was thrilled to be working for this company, saying that the fourteen an hour she earned was enough to purchase a home for herself and her family. And this company will arrange for whatever type of employees you need, for as many or as few hours as needed, plus help ensure that they understand what it is you want and that it's getting done. And they just collect a cut of the pay. So if you needed someone for data entry, or online research, or whatever, why go through the hassle of employing an American -- the minimum wage, unemployment insurance, worker's comp, all the rest? Particularly if you only really need someone for maybe twenty hours a week. Just hire someone from India.

I just looked it up, the median income in India is about $90 per MONTH.

How in the hell is an American going to compete with that? Answer: they can't, and soon enough every job in America that can be outsourced WILL be outsourced. And the employer won't have to figure out how to do it, these outsourcing companies will come to them, they'll knock on that American employer's door and offer to save him a bloody fortune.

I don't know what the solution is though. The only sane and easy answer was to stay out of that race to zero in the first place and say hell no to free trade. Kinda late for that now though.