You make good points about the fact that title companies and vendor management companies outsource to us.I don't see the problem as one of outsourced jobs. It is the wholesale export of the private lives of American Citizens.

I spoke with my local County commissioners this week as this county is concidering digitizing the public record. The county clerk had assured them that she had no intention of publishing this data over the internet. They seemed horrified to learn that Texas open records law mandates that she must release all digitized public documents in digitized form at cost. Cost translates to about $7 per 10,000 pages. The entire public record of the Lubbock County citizens could probably be obtained for less than $2000. Once obtained in this way the records no longer belong to the American public they belong to the buyer who is free to duplicate and distribute in any way he deems fit.

The local admistrator of the Women's Protective Services seemed outraged to learn that the secret locations of their shelters might soon be available for annonymous access by anyone in the world.

The average American citizen has far more at stake here than his job or the convenience of foreign abstractors at stake here. He has his identy, security and saftey at risk. So if you want to help them, let them know what is going on and what is really at risk. Ask the politicians not to trade the convenience of the few for the security of the many. If they refuse ask the people they are supposed to serve. Ask your local citizens if they mind if the government publishes their private information over the internet for the convenience of stalkers, organized crime identity theives and foreign agents?