'I lost my job to India, all I got was this lousy T-shirt'

The Indian Express ^ | Friday, June 25, 2004 | Thomas L Friedman

[Willie Green]

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[E. Pluribus Unum]

You must be terribly disappointed that the economy is improving, eh Willie?

[Phantom Lord]

'I lost my job to India, all I got was this lousy T-shirt'

Its NOT your job! Its the companies job.

[Dead Corpse]

America is so much more innovative a place than any other country.

We used to be. Then we let lawyers take over. Now, we are just waiting until some idiot Democrat gets back in office to crash the whole thing.

[sam_paine]

Friedman had to get the friggin dig in at tax cuts after all! Last line even! Just once !

[zencat]

"Shut up and finish your beer; there are sober kids in India."

[Jim Robinson]

"...erode the strength and quality of our government and educational institutions."

Bwahahahahahahha!

[dead]

radical tax cutting

A 7% top federal income tax would be radical.

[drlevy88]

''I just read about a guy in America who lost his job to India and he made a T-shirt that said, 'I lost my job to India and all I got was this (lousy) T-shirt.'

Which was, of course, made in China.

[drlevy88]

So shall we encourage companies to be Free Traitors?

[Willie Green]

It's not improving at all.
There is a short-term illusion of prosperity fueled by deficit spending,
But Greenspan is getting ready to increase interest rates.
That'll strain federal resources as increasing proportions of federal revenue must be diverted simply to service interest on the National Debt.
Such a debtload is unsustainable by a "service economy".
Neocons are trying hard to rehabilitate LBJ's Great Society on a global scale,
but their irresponsible pursuit of both "Guns and Butter" is fundamentally flawed.
The American Middle Class will get stuck with the bill, no matter how the spinmeisters lie.

[drlevy88]

Well, maybe it was made in China.

[discostu]

We should encourage companies to turn a profit, therre's nothign traitorous about seeking lower labor costs. The traitorousness lies in the government and unions that force companies to look outside america for those lower labor costs.

[drlevy88]

Guns and butter? I say guns and lard, to dip the bullets into when we shoot at terrorists.

[drlevy88]

This is America's real edge. Sure, Bangalore has a lot of engineering schools, but the local government is rife with corruption; half the city has no sidewalks; there are constant electricity blackouts; the rivers are choked with pollution; the public school system is dysfunctional; beggars dart in and out of the traffic, which is in constant gridlock; and the whole infrastructure is falling apart.

And America is going to have to decay to that before trade with India reaches an equilibrium?

[maestro]

'I lost my job to India, all I got was this lousy T-shirt'

India has 'food stamps' and 'welfare'......?

[Tax Government]

This article promotes the expecatation that America can maintain an edge economically because of its culture of innovation. I don't think that is realistic, in any sense. Any useful aspect of our culture can and will be copied.

[swarthyguy]

There's no unemployment insurance either.

[Willie Green]

This article promotes the expecatation that America can maintain an edge economically because of its culture of innovation. I don't think that is realistic, in any sense.

Friedman is clearly smothering us in globalization manure.
We're supposed to be unconcerned that high-tech jobs are being outsourced to India because of all the entrepreneurial money-making opportunities that exist printing T-shirts.

[finnman69]

Speaking of Bangalore, I get to spend hours on Dell's tech support tonight Weeeeee!