Outsourcing Jobs to Foreign Countries

Outsourcing American jobs to Foreign Countries

WUI student

University of Phoenix

COM 110

Professor Olivia Miller

August 13, 2006

Outsourcing American Jobs to Foreign Countries

Outsourcing American jobs to foreign countries is slowly destroying our economy.

You hear it all the time on the news, and you read about it the paper. Unemployment is

rising, the cost of living is rising, and our economy is on shaky ground. So what exactly is outsourcing? Well in my opinion, outsourcing is a very selfish way for companies and businesses to save money. They send jobs to workers overseas who require less pay than an American worker does, in doing this these businesses of course make a larger profit on their goods and services. “Never have there been fewer business leaders willing to commit to the national interest over selfish interest, to the good of the country over that of the companies they lead.” (Dobbs, 2004, p.2). I have to agree, for the amount of profit these companies that outsource make, they harm the greater