[11th_VA]

That would explain why H-P and all the other high tech companies have added so many jobs since the '80s.

You Mean this HP:

Hewlett-Packard to slash 14,500 jobs

Over the next year and a half Hewlett-Packard plans to cut 14,500 jobs, or around one in every 10 of its 150,000-strong employee base. The bulk of the jobs are likely to be lost in the support areas of information technology, human resources and finance, HP said in an announcement on Tuesday.

[eskimo]

Over the next year and a half Hewlett-Packard plans to cut 14,500 jobs, or around one in every 10 of its 150,000-strong employee base.

I've noticed that most of the phony "free trade" huckstering profiteers either pay no attention to reality or are purposfully distorting it in an effort to mask their irrational greed.