The Vicious Nepotism-Outsourcing-Unemployment Cycle

The problem with us Americans is that we are adept at creating problems but don’t know how to solve them. That was not the case with our forefathers who were problem-solvers. Our leaders used to be called in by Europeans to settle their internecine rivalries.

But now we create problems for ourselves and if pressed for a solution we indulge in gimmicks:

Scapegoat-hunting and buck-passing.

Nowhere is this more pronounced and more demanding than the in the employment field.

Crying about Chinese and Indians stealing our jobs will not help.

Because no Chinese or Indian ever came swimming over the seas and put guns on our unpatriotic CEOs’ heads demanding, “Outsource now! Else you are dead!”

Instead our own politicians and the CEOs emboldened by them sent the jobs away. Let us go back in history.

Richard Nixon dismantled our manufacturing base to woo Chinese away from Russians. He conveniently forgot that Chinese were also Communists. He conveniently forgot that his own people were losing jobs.

And we the people foolishly supported this because majority of the workers who lost millions of jobs were African Americans. No I am not African American. But I will call a spade a spade.

The very few who opposed these were painted as Communists. Yeah, right, American Communists opposing exporting jobs to Chinese Communists!!!!!

But such biased, myopic actions recoiled on us when decades later computer jobs went abroad. Unlike before, there was such a hue and cry, even though the jobs lost were not in millions. Why? Because this time the unemployed were non-African Americans!!!

If we had brains we would have raised our voice against Nixon and stopped it then and there. Not wait until we are personally affected.

Okay what precipitated the problem this time?

We went after the Windows system conveniently forgetting that our older mainframes were still working on Pascal and Cobol. And as year 2000 approached, we belatedly realized that most of our educational institutions no more teach the old languages. Thus started the import of foreign computer guys into the country. OK, I can understand that as an emergency measure.

But by this time our CEOs’ crooked brains started working. Instead of sending those people back at the end of their contracts, they started utilizing the foreign staff as cheap labor.

Let me be frank about something. There is lot of nepotism in our country. Whites reserving jobs for their own kith and kin. Blacks reserving jobs for their kith and kin. Now Brownies have started emulating both.