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The one thing I want to stop is the point that someone is going to bring up.
"It's good because it will mean a person in India will be able to eat while someone in America will have to give up their Mercedes".
Once you get out of school (that your parents are probably pay for), you'll realize that when you lose your job, and the jobs you are skilled for are cut, you don't just trade in your Mercedes for a Honda and get on with life.
You look for a job quickly, while you lose your savings if you have any, and then your mortgage (i.e. home), and most of your stuff, and you keep going down until you find a job that will keep you going at your current level.
The people that drive Mercedes will be the ones to get a big bonus for firing your ass, and will lose their Mercedes for a Rolls.
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I don't think it's good (at least in the short term) for the US. It's certainly good for India, and is probably good for other parts of the world.
As a tech person, I'm certainly not happy about 10% of the jobs I could do being gone by 12/2004 and a much higher percentage in the years after. This means jobs will be a lot harder to get and pay a lot less once you get them.
As a person living in the US, any big blow to our economy like this is going to be bad. Hundreds of thousands to millions losing their jobs is bad news for all of us. When your neighbors are jobless, your life is affected.
What I don't know is if the the correct thing to do is to fight the movement or jobs, or just take the hit and look towards the future.
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