Intel to Build $300M Plant in Vietnam

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[demsux]

WTF is wrong with USA?

[Euro-American Scum]

WTF is wrong with USA?

Haven't you figured it out yet? All we have here is a bunch of lazy, illiterate deadbeats with their hands out for freebies. How can that possibly compare to the innocent, oppressed peoples of color of the third world who are willing to work for $0.15 per day, 24/7 with no bathroom breaks?

[-=[_Super_Secret_Agent_]=-]

jobs americans just won't do.

[mylife]

doing business with commies is becoming the American way

[Always Right]

WTF is wrong with USA?

Unions, regulations, and lawsuits perhaps.

[BARLF]

When President Clinton entered office in 1993, the United States had an economic embargo on Vietnam. He not only lifted the embargo but also restored diplomatic relations and, earlier this year, the two countries singed a bilateral trade agreement You might look here. Has Clinton turned lobbyist?

[Doctor Stochastic]

Taxes.

[Marine_Uncle]

This stuff has been going on for so long it is now simply accepted as good business. Profit margins must be maintained. What better place then allow for commies to be ingaged in learning all the engineering techniques in wafer packaging and testing. Then in a few years you will see Intel will erect a full wafer fab facility there. So eventually they will gain all the skills required to produce close to leading edge silicon IC. Off course, we must also give them the latest and greatest in the way of simulators and layout tools so they can start making their own stuff. In short we shall give them the capability to design and fabricate high end chips for their own industries in due time. This has been going on for years, how do you think Taiwan got started, just to name one. Things are not as they may appear. Off course good old boy bean counters could give a fizz less. They maintain their nice salaries for the present.

[Echo Talon]

Thats why I buy AMD processors, at least they build plants in Germany. Intel stinks.

[bosshog]

I purchased a plant in VN in 1997... workers there were paid about $100 per month for 45 hour weeks... breaks were allowed at anytime and on my visits there during the breaks I'd play basketball with them. They have a 92% literacy rate for males... 85% for females and are one of the top 15 countries in the world for infant survivability.

I think you are a bit harsh about the Vietnamese... perhaps not about the Americans..

Excellent work force... capable of ISO9000 quality standards. FU government but much easier for a US company to deal with rather than the Commy Chinese.

JMHO
Jim

[Bookmark]

"Intel to Build $300M Plant in Vietnam

Why not build it in the USA and give jobs to our unemployeds?

[Calpernia]

Since our investigative teams are still finding our MIA, why doesn't this put Vietnam in violation of their peace agreement?

[eraser2005]

The question is whether or not Vietnam is cooperating in the search, not whether or not remains are still being found and identified. It is *VERY* likely that the remains of many US soldiers were not recorded, buried, marked, etc. War sucks, and sometimes people are just lost. Combine that with a thick jungle and you'll never find everyone lost. It is tragic, but it is fact. If Vietnam is cooperating with the search, they are not in violation. The story you link to has no evidence that they are hiding anything....

[beaver fever]

A friend of mine and his wife started a web dev company in Ho Chi Minh City ten years ago that had a training school that graduated 150 native graphics people, script jockeys and programmers every six months.

They sold out to their Australian partners and retired with a nice packet of cash. They still live there and love it.

No tech worker in Viet Nam works for $0.50 per hour.

For $300.00 a month ten years ago you could rent a nice 1400 sq ft villa with a cook/housekeeper.

I'm sure the price has gone up but the country is still a bargain.

[Just Lori]

Unions, regulations, and lawsuits perhaps.

BINGO!

[Calpernia]

>>>It is *VERY* likely that the remains of many US soldiers were not recorded, buried, marked, etc.

It is also *VERY* likely that documentation has been distroyed and obstructed concerning our US soldiers.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1209454/posts?page=187#187
April 27, 1992

Memorandum for: Vice Chairman, Senate Select Committee on Prisoners of War and Missing in Action

From: John F. McCreary

Subject: Legal Misconduct and Possible Malpractice in the Select Committee

(snip)

a. On 9 April 1992, the Chairman of the Senate Select Committee, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, in response to a protest by other members of the Select Committee, told the Select Committee members that "all copies" would be destroyed. This statement was made in the presence of the undersigned and of the Staff Chief Counsel who offered no protest.

b. Later on 9 April 1992, the Staff Director, Frances Zwenig, an attorney, repeated and insured the execution of Senator Kerry's order for the destruction of the Staff intelligence briefing text. I personally delivered to Mr. Barry Valentine, the Security Manager for SRB-78, the original printed version of the intelligence briefing text. I also verified that the original was destroyed by shredding in the Office of Senate Security on 10 April 1992, along with 14 copies.

(snip)

d. On 16 April, the Chairman of the Senate Select Committee, Senator John Kerry, stated that he gave the order to destroy "extraneous copies of the documents" and that no one objected. Moreover, he stated that the issue was "moot" because the original remained in the Office of Senate Security "all along."

(snip)

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1209454/posts?page=189#189
May 3, 1992

Memorandum for: Vice Chairman, Senate Select Committee on Prisoners of War and Missing in Action

From: John F. McCreary

Subject: Possible Violations of Title 18, U.S.C., Section 2071, by the Select Committee and Possible Ethical Misconduct by Staff Attorneys.

(snip)

i. Senator Kerry's remarks prompted follow-up investigations (See paragraphs 4 through 9 of the attachment) and inquiries that established that a copy of the text was not deposited in the Office of Senate Security until the afternoon of 16 April. The Staff Director has admitted that on the afternoon of 16 April, after receiving a copy of a memorandum from Senator Bob Smith to Senator Kerry in which Senator Smith outlined his concerns about the destruction of documents, she obtained a copy of the intelligence briefing text from the office of Senator McCain and took it to the Office of Senate Security. Office of Senate Security personnel confirmed that the Staff Director gave them an envelope, marked "Eyes Only," to be placed in her personal file. The Staff Director has admitted that the envelope contained the copy of the intelligence briefing text that she obtained from the office of Senator McCain.

(snip)

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1209454/posts?page=190#190
October 30, 1992

Memorandum for the Record

From: John F. McCreary

Subject: Obstruction of the Investigation

(snip)

Suspected Leak of Information on Le Quang Khai

5. The second issue of suspected misconduct concerns witness Le Quang Khai. Although Le made a public statement concerning POWs on 12 September 1992, no agency of the US government contacted him concerning his POW information. He told me on 26 October that some men who represented themselves as FBI agents contacted him to attempts to recruit him to return to Vietnam as a US intelligence agent for six months. After which his request for asylum would be favorably considered.

6. On 30 October, Mr. Robert Egan of Hackensack, New Jersey, who is a close friend of Mr. Le and the intermediary whereby the Committee Staff met Mr. Le, informed McCreary and LeGro that the FBI had again contacted Mr. Le. A person representing himself as an FBI person called on 30 October to set up a meeting with Le to discuss Le's working as an intelligence agent for the FBI's POW/MIA office.

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[Jimbaugh]

I am tired of the SUITS giving American away. It's time for a little outsourceing of the SUITS.

[Thunder90]

Oil, raw materials, and high tech/chemical goods from Russia, Cheap goods from China, what else???

[eraser2005]

Interesting... but it doesn't say a thing about Vietnam covering anything up. Your point? That politicians in DC cover things up? I'm shocked!