Outsourcing failing U.S.

I guess repeated lies get traction with time. Once the nonsense is understood it is usually too late to correct the consequences of misinformation. Such was the case with “outsourcing” first our manufacturing then almost everything else from tech support to medical transcriptions to even some legal work. All this should have generated jobs in the U.S. Did it?

There is still some work that cannot be done “remotely.” To push the price of that work down we need, as Harold Sirkin announces in his column (Dec. 27), to “reform” the existing H-1B visas program for technical workers. Companies have a pool of qualified U.S. technicians but those people are not qualified enough because they need to pay their mortgages, student loans, etc.

The technical “stars” from India (that country is the most popular H-1B source in IT) do not have those limitations, and what they lack in technical skills, communication and cultural fit they make up with their low cost.

And because that is what companies value most, yes, companies push for more H-1B workers. The bottom line of some companies can improve that way but certainly not the U.S. economy, much less the future of our young technicians.

Peter Dolina

Veradale