to the public education system liberals have defended for the past forty years, many high school graduates are nearly functionally illiterate. Not so in India" (Buchholz, 2004). It is also widely cited that the other factors in the outsourcing equation are worker protections such as OSHA, social security and health care; and corporate taxation for which the United States has the highest in the world.
             The opponents of outsourcing to foreign countries perpetuate a total different view of the situation at hand. They agree that outsourcing is nearly impossible to stop and in many cases, it is necessary, however, it is at the speed at which the companies are moving the service sector overseas that sounds the alarms. The paces does not allow for the gradual absorption of the dislocated worker into the workforce through retraining, as did the manufacturing and textile revolution. Opponents also argue that the educational issue is a moot point due to; one, illiteracy in India alone is thirty-five percent of its populace and two;
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