The problem with America is that its working citizens believe they are entitled to a good, healthy life for themselves and their kids, and retirees believe they are entitled to live to die due to 'natural causes.' Clearly, this is all far too expensive and unrealistic. Americans need to dial back their expectations.
India is prospering because the low level workers and their families understand and accept their god-given fate. Living under railroad bridges, with young mothers giving birth as the trains roar past is accepted by the millions of upper and lower class Indians as a simple matter of 'birth fate.' Americans have much to learn from India's customs and beliefs.
IBM, which on its global employment web site, lists many tens of jobs for high level employment in India, grasps the realities of the Indian economy and social structure: those who go to Princeton or Duke and return home to Delhi, or elsewhere in country, are entitled to be employed at high salaries in their home country, India. It's understood that American wages are far too high to allow corporations such as IBM to make a decent profit margin, and this is why IBM has decided to cease reporting its employment levels on a country by country basis, so as not to highlight the company's belief in maximal profit on a global basis. But IBM is a mere example. GM, having invested a lot of money in Brazil and China, is equally respectful of its need to generate profit that is not possible if it were to manufacture in the United States.
Congress, grasping the problem, has continued to provide tax incentives to companies like IBM and GM to move overseas, because Congress realizes that contributions come from healthy corporations, which have to outsource to remain healthy. Even big pharma, which has overseas manufacturing at low labor rates, seeks Congress's help in maintaining the illusion that 'drugs from Canada are unsafe' as it sells U.S. citizens drugs that are manufactured in India and China, with associated huge beyond belief markups.
Meanwhile, Americans remain captivated by Sarah, by Fox News, by Glenn, by Rush, and Tea Party threats, as they sit in front of their Chinese made 50" LCD flat panel TV's, using ipods and ipads built in China. Nike sneakers are on sale this weekend for 20% off, of the x5 markup at retail, and GM is set to sell the Volt that goes 40 miles on a huge, heavy battery, subsidized by taxpayers. A lawyer making $500/hr. calls his Chevy dealer to get on the waiting list. An unemployed IT engineer, with a family, learning that Harry Reid went home for Easter rather than passing UI extensions, sits on the edge of his bed with a gun. And America rolls along as usual, with NPR telling its listeners that the DOW is up to 11,000 once again.