Comments on: Vietnam: The next offshoring hot spot?

Despite country's "growing and youthful IT workforce," China and India to remain dominant in outsourced business services.

[JadedGreg]

Simple solution

It's all very simple.

Any country that establishes a trade surplus with the U.S. should be taxed to make up for it and the funds should go directly into Social Security until we can afford to have our own families again and not only through the good will of crooked business owners looking for windfall profits by driving wages down.

End of subject.

[Lucas Jans]

Xenophobic thought

Trade deficit? Try trade surplus. According to Forbes, through the first 8 months of this year, the US has a $6.4 Billion trade surplus with Vietnam.

In regards to your idea... isn't the problem with American's not competing on the global market place? Why should Americans be working in factory and other menial labor jobs? Our cost of living is much to high for this. If we really want these kind of jobs, we should stop living a first-world lifestyle, and the jobs will come back.

We need to pour money into re-educating those factory workers to compete on the global marketplace. Dumping money into entitlement programs is not going to fix the root of the problem. Education is the root. Spend our money there (instead of wars!)

[Stating]

We've Already Offshored Nut Production To 'Nam

Why not offshore high-tech to 'Nam? We've already offshored nut production. The next time you stop by Trader Joe's, read the labels on nut products like cashews. You'll see that they either come from 'Nam or Thailand. The nutcrackers, well of course they are from China. After you eat your 'Nam nuts then you can brush your teeth with Chinese toothpaste.

[djacobsonw]

vietnam

why is the most recent story on Vietnam IMPOSSIBLE to find on your website and this outdated one featured? Where is "Vietnam becomes crouching tech tiger?"

[tuvinh]

Vietnam will become leading software outsourcing in near future!
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