What jobs can be offshored?

Let's start a list of those that have been:

* IT Support
* Programmers
* Web designers
* Manufacturing
* Animation (cartoons/movies)
* Other (please add)

Now, theoretically, let's start a list of those that could be:
* Writers
* Doctors (new technologies allow docs in foreign countries to operate via the internet and robotic tools. :scared: Having enough quacks at home with real hands is worrysome enough, but over the internet 6000 miles away?! The expensive jobs can go overseas while the peon jobs stay here and our country has nothing good to do with peons.)
* Actors (the cast of "Friends" did their much vaunted final episode offshore, with variants so nobody would know how it would end. :eyes: At $1 mil 'salary' per episode, networks will want to cut this down too...)
* Other (please add)

When oil becomes so expensive that we can't maintain our society's technological superiority, how is money going to help the greedy bastards who put us all out to pasture? Or the housing bubble, the health care bubble, the perpetual wars/deficit bubble... Who needs peak oil, our economy is hanging by a thread...

The 1950s had their problems, but even back then, economically speaking, we didn't have the gulf between wages (some say WW II helped people realize that we should all have living wages.) Carter changed all that because graphs clearly showed the imbalance begining in 1979, though Reagan only made things far worse and Clinton not reversing the trend... (in 1979, the 'living wage' margin was slightly higher than the minimum wage. CEO pay was 40x that of the average worker. Poverty was a set wage. In 2004, CEO pay is 536x+ that of the average worker, the average worker does twice as much work (so as far as I'm concerned, CEO pays is 1024x+ that of the adverage worker), people need two full-time minimum wage jobs just to barely make a liveable wage, and the poverty level hasn't really been adjusted to match inflation, et al. Then add the $7+ trillion national debt that's only growing at a massive rate, how taxes are also being shifted to the middle class while being cut from the upper class, how jobs are being offshored - which is the lifeblood OF the middle class, so when the middle class disappears that deficit is only going to worsen... if people don't see the social engineering by now (or, worse, support those engaging in these vile trends), then they deserve to suffer.)

I think corporate america and the repukes know full well what's going to happen. They're $aving up in hopes that their money will save them when our economy finally implodes (it can't be far off, that's for sure). Which is ironic, because of our population, they're the worst possible candidates to be chosen for survival.

Everything as soon as the technology is improved. This is a good thing. This is the opposite of 'Beyond Thunderdome'.

Just go to an Indian call center and:

*Find a person with a lot of hair, a shrill voice, and a no scruples
*Blowdry and shellac their hair until its a fire hazard
*Give them Fox's daily "talking points" memo straight from GOP HQ

and . . . !presto!

you have much cheaper John Gibson/Brit Hume/Pumpkinhead Russert/etc.

Yeah they can write or act overseas, but they themselves cannot be replaced by Indians. If you want to say the crew that work on movies and TV shows then I would have to agree.

To add, you can put down college professors, many classes are done via webcast.