Posted on 01/03/2005 12:03:06 PM PST by jb6
Just had an online interview with one, and damn his english was hard to understand but not that bad. Now we had an import for a tester who wrote JUST LIKE he spoke, which meant hours of wasted effort figuring out what the hell he was talking about.
I have more then once flat out told them I could not understand a word they say. The I ask to speak to some I can understand.
GE, an early adoptor of the offshore-to-India business model, has just completed the sale of their ground breaking India based contracting operations. Wonder what they see that the rest of the pack don't.
You are correct. I refuse wherever possible, to deal with someone who can't pronounce English well enough to be understood. The Indians do have a good vocabulary, but I have trouble understanding them. I've all but given up on Dell computers because of this.
That has been my observation about cars for some time.
In fact, a favorite point of mine is to point out that adjusted for inflation, the different categories of cars (economy coupe, sport coupe, midsize sedan, etc) cost as much today as they did in 1965. Multiplied times 6, a Volkswagen Beetle cost what a Kia does now. A Cadillac El Dorado cost what a Lexus does now. Yet an auto loan was three years then while it is six years today.
Let us sketch two possibilities.
1. Bush's policies on immigration fatally divide the GOP along class lines. His diversion of political capital that the cultural right was expecting him to spend on them will leave them alienated and embittered in 2008.
2. The Dems (and there are strong indications that their base sees this) recognize that economic populism is the only weapon they have against "moral values". After all, the Christian Right was all New Deal Democrats two generations ago. And to be a Christian is to believe that there is a higher principle than maximizing shareholder equity at the expense of workers.
3. By being an immigration hawk, Hillary can pick up Arizona and/or Colorado and assuming that she gets all the states Kerry did, she's in.
I think Hillary is smart enough to realize that NAFTA was politically a blunder.
The New Democrats did not give a damn about their blue collar electoral base. After all, they could all go to community college and learn Visual Basic and HTML, couldn't they ? NAFTA, the legislative centerpiece of the first Clinton term, was a betrayal of Joe Sixpack. Joe Sixpack responded by rejecting a Democratic Party that cared more about gay marriage and abortion than it did about him. So their "victory" cost them the House, the Senate, mayoralties and governorships.
Kerry's stabs at economic populism were befitting a man who has seven mansions and lives off his wife's money.
Hillary is smarter. Without economic populism the Democratic Party has nothing.
Good post I agree. When it comes to certain issues the Dems and Repubs are both for sale.
Good political calculation. But remember when Hillary was pretending to be an evangelical, and how hollow it sounded? I wonder if she can hide her scorn for Joe Six Pack.
You are absolutely right. I am already there with being out of the IT sector for 2 years now and trying my trade in selling for a start up IT firm run by a couple of 20 somethings who couldn't find their asses in broad daylight.
My wife and I just did a home equity loan 2 weeks ago to payoff the high interest credit cards. I have 2 in college with her going for her doctorage. We are becoming a bunch of educated idiots. 2005 will be the end of my marriage and my financial future. The only avenue left will be driving a truck over the road and bankruptcy.
The hardest part is no one is listening. No one in my church who I have tithed to smithereens, my parents who are millionaires and won't spare a dime, and my kids who have been living off a meal ticket. In the next 6 months, it is going to come to a crashing end and all I will have is a dog with me behind the wheel of a Kenworth or Peterbuilt.
The funny part about all of this is our Government is responsible by allowing the H1 B's to come in and take our jobs away and then allow them to be shipped overseas.
The funny part is that this will be the downfall of our Government and all of the programs. NO BUCKS - NO BUCK RODGERS.
I love that poster! Thanks!
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