A 10-year time capsule

Ten years from now - I'd like to look back at this thought just to see if it ever came true:

Outsourcing: that which takes jobs from the US and places them overseas.. Cheaper labor, more revenue for businesses.. This is a concept that President Bush has actually encouraged because (as I read this weekend in a magazine) this administration forecasted that the outsourcing jobs would be replaced by "higher paying, more sophisticated jobs.."

That hasn't happened..

But wait.. There's more..

Where are these jobs going?? Does anyone really have a clear clue?? Does anyone have a clear cut understanding of exactly what jobs have been outsourced?? We do know that some of them were technology based, even customer service is now overseas.. It's not too unlikely to call up customer service and speak to someone in India, Japan, or South Korea.. But down the road, what makes us confident that these countries where we've outsourced to, will remain our allies in the years to come?? hmmmm.....

Like Osama - once a friend, now an enemy..

So if we outsource to a country (assuming we're not outsourcing to Iran, or other countries that don't really like us right now) and they become our enemy, consider this: these countries have access, (in whatever degree - that's still debatable) to your account, our technology, and likely can figure out what to do better than we can with it..

The point is, if you give a child a set of blocks, they can usually figure out more creative things to do with those blocks than just stack them on top of one another.. What happens when that child gets angry and throws those blocks, smashing your $1,000 vase, breaks a window or injures someone??

Remember.. Someone from the Administration spoke on Bush's behalf: "In February, Gregory Mankiw, a top economic adviser to President Bush, said offshoring could hold long-term benefits for the economy."

But what about the war on terror??

If we have our companies and corporation exposed overseas - expanding the potential of a terrorist threat EVEN MORE........ but if this administration has the mindset that as long as it "could hold long-term benefits for the economy," we could be fucked down the road..

Of course in a perfect utopia, 9/11 wouldn't have happened, we would be living in peace and harmony throughout the world, there would be no sickness, no famine, nothing that separates those who can get anything they want to those who can barely make ends meet..

I pray that 10 years from now, when I open this - what I just outlined never happened.. I pray that 10 years from now we will be on the road to a perfect world.. I pray..