If the jobs at General Motors or DaimlerChrysler’s plant in Delaware suddenly moved to China, people wouldn’t be shocked. Manufacturing jobs have been moving offshore for years. But what if major corporations decided it was cheaper working with lawyers in India?

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Here I am listening to Thom Hartmann’s radio show when he brings up this same exact article about corporations hiring lawyers in India who know the American legal system; instead of hiring American lawyers.

The cost of working with lawyers in India averages $50 to $70 an hour, compared with an American lawyer with the equivalent experience who would get paid $200 or more. An Indian lawyer working as a temp would cost $20 or less, where as one in this country would cost up to $70 an hour.As more work shifts to legal companies abroad, the number of jobs lost in the United States is expected to jump from about 23,000 this year to about 79,000 in 2015, according to a 2004 report by Forrester Research.

I wonder if this is what Tom Friedman really wants? Soon no industry will be safe in this country. America needs wholesale reform and inoculation from “World is Flatism“. We have to start exporting goods once again. We have to ensure that Americans are educated so that we don’t have to import the highly educated from other countries.