Microsoft moving jobs overseas?

[QUOTE=malibu]Mattboy:
What are we gonna do when this country spirals into another depression, stock market crash, whatever the devastating implications are... because our economy is not driven by corporations making huge profits--the economy is driven by consuming. [/QUOTE]

We're going to make it even more easier to get a credit card! Debts all around!! Muahahahahahahahahaahahahaahah!!! Then we sink...

Oh wait, thats whats already happening.

I replied to your post earlier Mali-boogedy-boo

And keep in mind that new industires are popping up every year. For every item invented, every new discovery, people are needed to make the product, and do research. Look at how many jobs computers have created. Those jobs were never there in the early 80's. Next year, I'm going to invent the "Hooglehub", the next biggest thing after the car and the computer. There will be 7 "Hooglehubs" in every house. Somebody is going to have to make the "Hooglehubs", somebody is going to have the sell the "Hooglehubs", and somebody is going to have to do the accounting paperwork for the "Hooglehubs".

Sending jobs overseas will allow us to do more research to create new products. How many of the greatest inventions of mankind have come from America in the last 125 years? You think we will stop now? Allowing another country to do our labor will allow us the time to simply invent more things, meaning more jobs. It's a neverending cycle, not a dead end.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying we're invincible, but I think it would be negligent of us to simply say that we need to stop hiring overseas labor because we should keep our money here. It's the same as the Wal-Mart argument. Wal-Mart makes all the local dollars and sends them out-of-town and out-of-state. People complain, but they don't stop shopping there. Well anyways, that's a different argument, but what I'm getting at, is this: if you don't like that Microsoft/Nike/IBM/Gap is sending jobs overseas, don't buy their product. You said it's a consumer-driven-economy, so show them how you feel with your dollars, or lack of them.

If corporations can free up money in their salary budget, they can put more into R&D. The more they put into R&D, the more products will come out, equaling more jobs. Again, I think it would be negligent of us to not give this opportunity a chance. Bypassing the opportunity to get labor cheaper to free up money for innovation would be a far greater mistake.