Has American Citizenship Morphed from a Blessing to a Curse?
By
Dr. Sherman N. Miller
It is now time to start looking seriously at issues for the 2008
Presidential election that transcends political parties. The new
president needs to reestablish a pervasive mindset that native born
American citizen workers are deserving of good economic respect and not
be forced into being economic chattel by modern day robber barons.
Currently de facto slavery is reshaping America’s economy to the
detriment of its native born citizens. The modern day slavers are
exploiting two deadly techniques to debilitate the American worker.
Outsourcing jobs to both domestic and foreign suppliers signals that
one’s job is cheaper done outside, so he or she is expendable. Illegal
immigration offers slaver status to modern robber barons because these
illegal aliens are quasi slaves being pitted against American citizens
in low skilled domestic jobs that cannot be outsourced to global
suppliers in developing nations. The robber barons can laugh aloud, “Why
pay a high price citizen when you can get three illegal aliens for the
same money!”
I chatted with people who worked for a company that meets corporate
outsourcing needs. These people worried aloud that the United States was
setting itself up for significant political and economic shocks should a
radical change in the world order occur. They argued that depending on
the continued positive relationships with foreign countries supplying
significant goods and services left the nation vulnerable to the
political whims of these supplying nations. They cited the high priced
Middle Eastern oil as a prime example of the US economy being held
hostage by our reliance on foreign producers of our goods and services
who are acting against our national interest.
When our discussion turned to the outsourcing of vital corporate and
customer personal information the comments that people in foreign
countries now have access to personal information on millions of
American citizens were bone chilling. It was tough digesting that
foreign customer service representatives now have knowledge of our
personal business that they can share with whomever – friend or enemy.
These foreign customer service representatives are today’s legalized
strikebreakers because the growth in their use devalues American workers
by showing that there are global competitors waiting to take American
jobs who are willing to work for less pay and under third world business
practices.
As the discussion shifted back towards domestic corporate outsourcing,
the issue of allowing someone outside of the corporation to have access
to strategic business directions might be nightmarish. Do these outside
sources provide venues to industrial spies to steal confidential
information from a service supplier? As employees leave at outsourced
service suppliers, how good are corporate secrets with these
knowledgeable people moving from job to job? Does this outsourcing
signal to your employees that corporate allegiance is now out of vogue
for the corporation has no long term commitment to their employees’
development, so it is everyone for herself or himself?
It is therefore important to hear from the Presidential candidates on
what their plans are to reinvigorate the stature of the American worker
in the US jobs market. Will the 2008 Presidential candidates allow
continued de facto slavery to be the counterbalancing force working
against American workers’ realizing their economic clout?
