If you don't mind me asking, what is your industry?

There are some people that got the short end of the stick here. Those are the people who globalization has forced to accept lower real(inflation adjusted) wages - the ability for something to be done almost anywhere...well..means something can be done almost anywhere. In order to have the businesses not outsource the job, we have to lower our Price on the Labor Market so that when all costs are factored in, it is equal to or lower than the price of the substitute good of Labor now on the market.

While this is the short end of the stick for some people, I also want to remind you that from a global standpoint, this is progress. I mean, I like to pretend we're the center of the world as much as the next guy, but fact is as we become less and less restricted by geographic barriers, we're becomming less and less the center of even our own worlds. In short, it sucks, but its gotta be.



Fuel prices are their own beast of an animal and in no way assosciated with your job being outsourced. Interestingly enough, though, they ARE assosciated with the price of milk doubling; fuel costs have an effect on all businesses which use them, and hence the price of their goods - whether they import, export, or keep it in the US.