Outsides are snatching away jobs from Americans.

Well, I don't really think that anyone is actually snatching the jobs. It is our country just giving them the work because they will work for much cheaper. There is an awful lot of outsourcing and that has taken a toll on the job market here in the States. As for the illegal immigrants...well they are here illegally so it seems that something should be able to be done. Maybe instead of going after the immigrants though, we should go after the companies so willing to hire them.

Is it true, and if it is true then we should be ashamed and stop migrating to USA, stay in our own country and help our country grow. If India and China are emerging economies, then they should recall their citizens snatching jobs from Americans in their country and return to their own countries. I think citizens in every country has every right to claim such a claim because they should be the first people to be given prority. In my country, there 26 000 illegal mirgrant workers from one particular country working in the jobs supposed to taken up by the nationals. The nationals then have no work to do so they resort to crime and illegal activities. It is a big problem. Cheap labour is a lure, but governements should stop and America is doing it and it is best for the country.

hi doctor didi well all very good to say oh lower wager then all willhave jobs but I am an American living here and if the low wages do not make ends meet with the high cost of living then what the hell are we supposed to do? we need to keep the wages commensurate with the cost of living or we are all going to end up paupers here in our wonderful country that goes overboard helping every other countrybut our ownl.Jobs are so scarse that most are still unemployed. we must make enough money at our jobs to afford to live in our own country so all you with your fancy job schemes are forgetting peopole must pay rent buy food pay for utilities and gas for the cars to get to work no lower wages just makes it that much worse.trust people from other countries to think they know what we should do , come here live here on out wages and see if you can make ends meet before giving advice.

It's not just in the USA, it has been going on for some time here too. I'm not racist, nor against immigration, which can be very good for a country like ours, especially if they spend the money they earn here & not send it back overseas to their country like they have been doing more & more! Immigration used to create jobs & fill impossible vacancies in our workforce. Now immigrants & non-native-borns are competing head to head with us for our jobs. Add this to the fact that most companies operating here are foreign owned &/or foreign controlled & you end up with a very unbalanced equation! Jobs & affordable housing are both in very short supply here & immigrants are blamed for driving house prices through the roof, so most young people who do have jobs cannot even afford to get a loan & once they have one, quickly find that they cannot maintain both it & their household. Are we supposed to live in a shed or a shipping container (if that were even possible with the price of land!) just because we cannot afford even a small house whilst being paid a pittance to hold what once used to be a very good job when we studied for years for the minimum university qualifications to get the position in the first place? Lower wages is definitely not the answer here. A level playing field would be nice... ___________________________________________________________________________________ ...Like that! Instead of what we have now: / / / / / Get the picture?

Well the first thing they have to do is stop all out sourcing. Bring the jobs home. Now as far as the legal immigrants here in the US, they should not loose there jobs. But, if the companies stopped getting all those tax breaks and bail-outs, it would force their hand to create jobs right here in the US. The problem is that the right give all the tax breaks to these big companies to create jobs, but they fail to create any. On the other side of that coin, the companies, want to keep and make as much as they can, so thats where the immigrants come in to play. They would rather pay non americans lots less money to work longer hours to gain more profit. Now I as you, legal or illegal immigrants, is it fair to them either? aren't they being used as slaves to the corporate machine? Yes they are. This country is upside down and a major revolt in is order.

I think you're right in suggesting lowering cost of labor for local people. It's not the job snatchers. I don't think anyone is snatching jobs. If local people would be willing to work with the same pay as Asians then I don't see why companies would opt for another race. If local people wants to work multiple jobs then they should. I don't see why the wages should vary if both concerned parties are doing the same job. The key is not be picky with job opportunities these days and be happy with mediocre wage. I don't think prohibiting immigrants would be a good idea. Firstly, although immigrants snatches jobs, they also contribute as consumers because, those immigrants needs to eat and buy supplies for daily living and also buy imported things to send to their loved ones.

It is not the fault of developing countries if the USA govt cannot halt pvt companies there in outsourcing jobs.You have given the right reason why this is happening.the real reason is that the American public had all these years gotten used to receiving high perks and freebies in their jobs when the US economy was booming.One just have to see the extremely high bonuses that were given to the top executives of the companies.However since the economic meltdown and even before that when the American companies realised how cheap labour in India and China was they started the process of outsourcing which has become a tidal wave now.Indians and Chinese are ver hard working and the money that they get in US Dollars is more than what they could make in their own countries.Realising this US companies went all out outsourcing thereby saving themselves a lot of money by avoiding perks which are normally given to their own people.

The United States of America has always been a melting pot for immigrants all over the world. I find alot of pride in that although it is a mind boggler to how we can all have jobs when these Asians have come in and taken a good portion of them. I really have no idea what the answer to this is. It isn't going to change.

I can't see the USA limiting immigration from China,India or any other country! What the USA needs to do is stop letting all these illegal immigrants who come here from like Mexico and other countries come here! We also need to send home illegals who come here legally to attend college but then drop out! Then they are here illegally! Those are the people taking our jobs here! Another problem is,like you said,so many jobs when over seas because of the cheaper labor! Now people are getting fed up here about that and some are trying to buy American as much as possible! It will help create more American jobs but we can not we will never be able to have all the products made here! Not possible! Any way that is my opinion!

Well, I think that decreasing the cost of labor would be something that would be very difficult to have happen in the United States because of the fact that our cost of living is so much higher than that in many of the countries that are getting our work. For example, my husband is a machinist and he really is underpaid in this country to be able to support our family, but he does it because that is what he knows how to do. If he was to have a reduction in his wages, there would be no way that our family would be able to survive.

For me yes it is the only way to find job that can make them exact money to it's living.

In order for something like this to work here the cost of living must decline too. How on earth can we accept labor at cheaper earnings if the cost of living here continually keeps rising. If we accept cheaper labor then we can't pay our rent and then not have a place to live. Does not add up and will ONLY work of the cost of living too lowers.

Yes it is true that Asian like me are snatching jobs from Americans. And it is all due to globalization. For people like me it is very easy to get an jobs from american as there are many freelancer website. Usually bidding on projects in freelancing sites, I give the minimum (no american or western people can bid such low) rate. Although that minimum is very much for us in Asia. And the employer always gives the project to low bidders. Though work quality is never compromised. The main problem for asian countries is unemployment. If they were employed in their asian country they would not have snatched job from American or western people. So in my opinion this problem has to be solved first.

Well it is rightly said people suffer due to outsourcing of jobs,as the labour is cheap.Government and the private sector should come out with plan to benefit each other.The government should regulate these private companies and restrict to some part their outsourcing like 75%(given a free-will of 25%).And in return the private companies can cutoff some percentage of pay from the employees and also some percentage of tax cut to the companies. Of-course the companies has to suffer some loss in profits that it actual made but they should understand it is for the betterment of their country and their people. And saying about legal immigrants you must realise that are also an asset for your country,they not only pay tax also they also add value to your country. But immigration also need to be strictly regulated.

For my point of view about that topics, well we know asian like us were lot of population going to USA as migrant workers, but they were not snatching any jobs from US citizens but the reason why some of them were capable to go to US, or qualified to worked there as immigrants workers, we cannot blame some indian or chinese who wants to migrate in US, any nationalities or any races all there purposes was to worked. In fact not only US have a problem like that also UK, and also in middle east country they were implementing... I guess US country would not found any migrant workers outside if they have enough people to worked with them, and also we were asian had low salaries compares to US citizen...the government of America should considered about that one..