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Curses! Outsourced Again!

By Joseph McDaniel, Esq.

The Faithful Readers of this Simple Back-Country Arizona Bankruptcy Lawyer will recall that one of my favorite TV Shows this season is called Outsourced.

It's funny, clever, well-written, well-acted, and overall a good piece of family fun. It makes me laugh until tears run down my face.

The actual business practice of outsourcing U.S. jobs to another country, on the other hand, makes me upchuck. And sometimes it makes me angry as heck.

I recently spoke to two different computer guys who had made good incomes as loyal employees of large companies for a decade and a half.

And both of them had been thrown under the bus by their U.S. employers without a second thought.

Now, outsourcing undoubtedly makes it easy to get a few good quarterly reports, and publicly-traded companies live and die on their quarterly reports.

But Ford Motor became great in a fairly simple way: it paid its American Workers enough so that they could afford to buy a...wait for it....Ford Automobile!

Currently, there are plenty of U.S. Companies that have it both ways. They outsource the good jobs they have to India or China, and sell freely to the same people they have injured, by punishing worker loyalty.

What happens when a good-paying job is outsourced?

Well, both of the formerly-highly-paid guys know one thing that happens: they stop dumping money into the U.S. Economy. More specifically, they stop going out to dinner here in Arizona, no matter whether in Phoenix, or Mesa, or Chandler, or Tempe, or Casa Grande. And their wives stop shopping in Scottsdale and Paradise Valley.

That has a poop-flows-downhill effect on businesses that formerly supplied their needs. So those businesses, in turn, fire employees or close.

Get the picture? Poop flows downhill. Restaurants close; theaters close; kiddy ballet studios close.

And the dreams of those hardworking entrepreneurs die, and bankruptcy cases get filed all around the table. And all around the great State of Arizona, one of the bankruptcy capitals of the United States!

Now, as a simple back-country Arizona Bankruptcy Attorney, I don't know exactly how to fix outsourcing of U.S. jobs by the same companies that want to sell without restrictions to U.S. citizens who are no longer good enough to get paid to work for those companies.

But I'll bet if I were a very-well-paid, fixed-for-life politician in Washington, I could think of something that would help persuade companies that throw Americans under the bus that maybe they get to pay a little extra for the privilege of selling to U.S. Citizens, because they no longer employ 'em. 

If the companies don't love us enough to employ us, maybe they shouldn't have the privilege of unrestricted access to selling in the U.S. Market.

Just a thought. Probably wrong. But I sort of hate it when people cry in my office, no matter how much I pretend it's okay.

Because these guys were long-term, loyal employees; but the loyalty was all one-way, you know? The company sure showed them no loyalty!

Tomorrow's topic?

My favorite Means Test Exception!

Be there or be square!

Full post as published by Arizona Bankruptcy Attorney Blog on December 21, 2010 (boomark / email).