Think Outsourcing is a new problem? They did in the 1800s too.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 at 08:30AM It was during the 1800s, when we began using our railroad system to move goods across the country from our shipping ports. Back then, it brought people in remote areas, the goods they needed for survival. Living in the mid-west in the 1800s would make the railroads a vital part of your very survival! If a drought devastated the food crops in one part of the country, the railroads could bring the food to the drought stricken areas. If medicines were needed, the railroads could deliver them faster than any man could ever do on horseback. During the cold winters, trains full of winter clothing and blankets rolled in to home towns across the country. Trains could also deliver the guns they needed then for their personal protection and hunting. When I stopped to think about it, railroads may have kept many of our ancestors alive and in doing that, they enabled us to be here today to complain about outsourcing! I agree that outsourcing is causing us to lose jobs. But, it is also creating new demands for jobs in industries like shipping, supply chain, distribution, and logistics. We can’t stop outsourcing, any more than we could stop a train. It’s progress, whether we think so or not. Better times are coming! Visit the Wall Street Journal for the great article I read on their site! 
I was reading an article on the Wall Street Journal last night, which helped me to understand that outsourcing is a not a new problem for America. We’ve been complaining about it since the 1800s!
Change is a necessary evil of progress. What is happening now has been happening for over 100 years. People were complaining about outsourcing back then, just as we are now. The railroads and shipping ports forced the closure of small businesses then, just like the situation we’re experiencing today. But, life is better today than it was back then. Some would argue that point, I know, but if I had the choice of which time period to live in, I would definitely choose the era I’m living in now.
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