Annotated Bibliography

Bibliography

Forrest, Bryn. Digital Outsourcing: Risks, Pitfalls, and Security Considerations. 1 March 2007. 2 April 2008 http://www.wardpeter.com/2007/03/digital-outsourcing-risks-pitfalls-and.html.

This website is where I learned what is bad about digital outsourcing. It has a power point presentation that tells you about digital outsourcing. The main thing I used it for is to find out what digital outsourcing was. I had never heard of it before I stared this paper.

Myers, Linda. U.S. underestimates jobs lost by outsourcing, labor experts assert. 21 October 2004. 2 April 2008 http://www.news.cornell.edu/chronicle/04/10.21.04/outsourcing_jobs.html.

This website has a lot of good statistics. I used several of them in my paper. They really has strengthened my argument. It gives real statistics form the Midwest. This will show how much it hits home.

NYHAN, JOHN COOK and PAUL. Outsourcing long-term effects on U.S. jobs an issue. 10 March 2004. 10 April 2008 .
I am using this site to get a lot of my theory on the long term effects of outsourcing. Such as, the fact that it will increase unemployment rates. This will cause a recession because people won't have as much money to spend and this causes our economy to fall because their isn't as much money to be made.

Service, Digital Outsourcing. 2 April 2008 http://www.digitaloutsource.net/.

This is website of a company that U.S. companies pay to do their data processing. It showed me why companies do what they do. It gave me insight into what digital outsourcing is and how easy it is to do.

WREN. WREN Report: U.S. Unemployment Rate at 3-Year High. 6 April 2008. 9 April 2008 http://www.hfbusiness.com/story/story.bsp?sid=95160&var=story.

I used this site to get my unemployment rate. This was used to strengthen my argument. This is shows that we are entering economic hard times and if something doesn't change it could become much worse.

Outline

Define Outsourcing
-What most people think outsourcing is Outsourcing of jobs
*How many jobs are estimated to be lost to outsourcing. (Myers, 2004)
-Define Digital Outsourcing
*The new age of outsourcing is to out source your data processing. (Service)
Define the problems of outsourcing.
-People lose jobs.
*stats of outsourcing
-Digital outsourcing loses people jobs to.
* (Colaboration, 2007)
Solution to Problem
-Tariff of goods of companies that outsource to other countries.
* This will off set the companies from getting cheaper labor by making so they have to raise their prices and lose costumers or leave their prices and lose the profit from cheaper labor.
*Digital Outsourcing will be harder to track because its done over the internet, but will still be possible because a companies employment records go through the government and if they start to lay off all their data processors they must have started outsourcing.
* Will also need to get rid of the tax breaks companies are receiving for outsourcing right now.
*The Government will have to make and enforce it just like the do with any taxes.
*If the Government gets started drawing up these tax laws then they would probably go into effect in about 2-4 years.
*This is already an issue in the current Presidential election and if the right person gets elected then and gives a push it will happen. That’s why as American citizens we need to voice our concern with this topic which would push the government to lobby to stop the outsourcing of our jobs.
*This will only affect the large companies who outsource negatively. Over all, it will boost the U.S. Economy by making more jobs in the U.S., which means more money for people here and more money being spent.


Conclusion
-restate problem
-restate solution
-call people to vote and petition to end outsourcing.

Bibliography

Colaboration, T. N. (2007, March 1). Digital Outsourcing, Risks, Pittfalls, and Security
Considerations. Retrieved April 2, 2008, from http://www.wardpeter.com/2007/03/digital-outsourcing-risks-pitfalls-and.html

Myers, L. (2004, October 21). U.S. underestimates jobs lost to outsourcing. Retrieved April 2, 2008, from Cornell Chronicles: http://www.news.cornell.edu/chronicle/04/10.21.04/outsourcing_jobs.html

Service, D. O. (n.d.). Retrieved April 2, 2008, from http://www.digitaloutsource.net/

in class essay 3

I haven’t found a topic I really like that much, but as of now it would be outsourcing. Outsourcing is when big companies get move their factories to another country to exploit their cheap labor, which in turn takes jobs away from people in the U.S. I have just heard that most of outsourcing is digital. I had never heard of digital outsourcing until yesterday. Mr. Slabaug told me about and said it would be a good subject to research. People say outsourcing is a good thing for the poorer countries that the companies move to because it gives them jobs, but it also makes them dependant on that job and that company. This makes it easy for the company to exploit the country and its people. If we could eliminate outsourcing it would be a good move to lower unemployment rates. This alone is good reason to try to stop companies from outsourcing. The reasons companies do this is because not only do have to pay American workers more, you also have to give them benefits like health insurance, vacation time, and maternity leave. The companies can’t really be blamed for wanting to outsource. They are just trying to make the most money they can just like everybody else. The government is the only thing that can stop outsourcing. I think they should put high tariffs on products that are made by companies who out source. A tariff on products made by companies that outsource would force them to either raise their price and lose some customers or leave the price the same and lose some of their profit margin. This would counter act the cheaper labor, making it equal to just keeping business in the U.S. The only way we can stop companies from outsourcing is to make so it cost too much to take advantage of cheaper labor in the long run.

Common Sense

Common, by Tomas Paine, sense uses mostly logic to make its arguments. It has good reasoning like why is a small island 2,000 miles away ruling an entire continent. The great rebuttal it also it makes is the fact that Britain was said to be the mother country, but then why would a mother treat her children so badly. In that time it was unreasonable for Britain to try governing the colonies because it would take a year for a colonist to make a petition and receive word on what was decided. Another argument is that the colonies aren’t just made of British immigrants. The colonists were from all over Europe. What gave Britain the rights to the colonies any more than the other European Countries? The colonists left Britain to get away form its persecutive rule. Now, why did they think they were allowed to rule people that left their country? Its like saying a country has the right to rule refugees that flee the country. The British also ruled the colonies for their benefit not for the country as whole, but for one small section of the country. The thing I thought was the most interesting is how the colonies were the best place to make ships, and would have been a large factor as to why Britain had such a good navy. Why would you treat your source of Navy strength as nothing more than slaves to exploit?

audio

Albert Pujols

youtube video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl2UUunlI2Q