Outsourcing opportunities and woes

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Outsourcing Opportunities and Woes

Outsourcing must have seemed like a good idea at the time. Here are two interesting examples that I've run into in just the past two days.

Outsourcing #1

Yesterday the analysts on the financial channel were speculating that the supply chain has gotten a tad too long. The West Coast ports are at capacity and some businesses are having problems getting in parts, etc. And... no one considered that "just in time" inventory could be a problem?

Outsourcing #2

This one made me compelled to pull up my portable soapbox. I heard it on CNN/Lou Dobbs today while I was starting dinner. It seems the Dallas school district is thinking about hiring illegal aliens to teach in the schools. They say they can't find enough Americans who are fluent in English and Spanish to fill the "low paying" jobs.

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