Sometimes I see something on Facebook or on the 'Net that is
so outrageous, I either blow it off or try to confirm it. Blowing off some of
the stuff is at our own peril and confirming the information creates angst. But
it’s necessary.
So it was a little while ago when I saw something — the
illustration to the left — that I thought was so outrageous that it couldn’t be
true. But I checked, and it is true. The New York Times story on June 3
explains what is happening at Disney and elsewhere all over the world. This is
just another version of outsourcing — instead of shipping the jobs out, we bring
the cheaper labor here. Insourcing the outsourcing.
It is, of course, the amoral free market/capitalism
that makes it OK for “bidness” to do this in corporatist ’Murica.
Lest you think this isn’t close to home in Amarillo, take
note that the H-1B visa was part of the Wallace
Bajjali pitch that the City Council swallowed.
We need more critical thinking
in our civic lives. More analysis. And we need a rage against the machine to
take back our government, not by destroying and neutering it as the Tea Party
would have us do; but, by empowering it to stand as a balance against the consequences
of unfettered and uncontrolled capitalism.
Take this to the bank, so to
speak: Our future generations depend on it.
