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The ultimate price of outsourcing jobs; Ota Carmody; Beaver County Times; November 2, 2010.
Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.
“Outsourcing jobs from the United States has been going on so long now that our country is being run by foreign countries.”
[RWC] Two other of today’s letters expressed the same privacy concerns as this letter. I believe Ms. Carmody meant “offshoring,” not “outsourcing.” Outsourcing is when a business contracts with another business to perform some functions. For example, a business may contract with a janitorial business for cleaning services instead of doing the cleaning with its own employees.
“Now it is the transcriptionists at Heritage Valley. How low can you go?
“I have always trusted our doctors and medical facilities, but no more. I want my medical records to stay within the hospital, not in a foreign country. We have no privacy anymore.
“Keep it up, America, and we all will be sitting around like a bunch of zombies while the rest of the world has all of our jobs. Tell me what the younger generation has to look forward to.”
[RWC] To have any credibility on the privacy issue, Ms. Carmody and like-minded individuals need to convince us they want to see income taxes eliminated and they oppose government-run, taxpayer-funded healthcare like Obamacare. Why? What greater invasion of privacy is there than the financial “full body cavity search” we go through every year when we must detail every aspect of our finances for multiple levels of government (income taxes, property taxes, etc.)? Perhaps the only greater invasion of privacy may be the access to our healthcare records required by socialized healthcare programs like Medicaid, Medicare, Obamacare, SCHIP, et cetera.
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