It is raining right now in East Egg.  It is to be like this all day long, like as if I had someplace to go today.  But looking at the radar I don't think so and I think it will clear up by lunch time. But it is a chilly 58 right now.
I watched the TV show on Fox News on Ch5 about outsourcing making babies to India. In my opinion the whole thing stinks. But I can understand why to a point. According to the news it costs about $100K in the United States to have a surrogate have your baby. Outsource it to India it is half that amount so no wonder why American families look in that direction.

Again by sending American jobs to India the companies save millions for the labor rate there is a lot less than here. A JAVA programmer here gets about $80-120K per year plus benefits. In India that same job goes for $12K tops with no benefits. No wonder jobs are being outsourced. This same practice has now hit parenthood.

The women who are surrogates often come from impoverished areas so the few nickles they make go towards making ends meet. With the way a lot of India is in poverty there is no short supply of wombs.
But families who go this route and outsource the making of their babies are taking major chances. The laws in the United States are designed to protect both the surrogate and the baby-less family. One of the reasons the cost here is so high. Tons and tons of red tape which you do not have with outsourcing, or at least not as much. The quality of medical care in places like India is very questionable as they do not have the same standards as we do. So no wonder the costs here are high.

But the family also have another problem, what if the surrogate does not want to give up the baby and takes off?  It happens here in the US but at least we have laws, attorneys and courts that the family can turn to.  Our laws do not apply to other countries and the family has little recourse should the surrogate disappear.   And if that happens the family could be out all that money.

One thing on the show scares the crap out of me, in one clinic the surrogate stays in the clinic from the moment of implantation of the embryo until birth.  Is this a form of imprisonment to be sure that she surrenders the baby?  Of course she may never get the chance to hold it in the first place.  And with the economy being so bad in India who is to say that they are not abducting women to use them as brood mares since making babies has now been outsourced?  Sounds far fetched?  I bet it can and might just happen.

To me, this is outsourcing at it's worse and should not be permitted.  What needs to be done is for the costs here in the U.S. come way down so it will no longer be profitable to be outsourced to a third world country.

Today I am doing more resumes.  Like always.  The workshop at the unemployment office on LinkedIn was the best so far.  I picked up a lot and am going to use it on my LinkedIn profile.  That too is in today's game plan.

My wife and I have been talking about going to Key West.  The answer is YES!!!!  Now to concentrate on how much this will run and nail the particulars down.  I am going to use June 12th as a target for arriving in Key West.  We might do the 13th instead as the target date depending on several factors.  To save money the 12th would be the date.  It will cost more if we do the 13th for that would require an additional day or so in Key West for the car rental place in Miami is closed on Sundays.

Part of today's fun is to come up with numbers and more numbers and more numbers.  The big part that I am doing right now is researching hotels for the best price.  I reached out to three of them with some questions, Travelers Lodge, Days Inn and Ibis Bay.  The email to the first two hotels bounced back and I got their email address right from their websites.  Ibis Bay has not responded as of this writing.

Looking at the webcam at the Hog's Breath Saloon it is 77 degrees there and it is pouring rain.  Not fun weather.  Looking at Duval Street from Sloppy Joe's webcam I see that there are more people than I did yesterday, but the rain!  Just for the heck of it I went to the webcam at the Conch Tour Train and see that it is down.

Right now I have 267 friends on Facebook.  That is 267 potential networking resources for a new life in Key West.

Anyway I have to get back at it.
'till next time.