Posted on 06/29/2007 2:48:14 PM PDT by HarmlessLovableFuzzball
I wonder how long it will take them to out-source the jobs to India.
Just wait for the tax cuts to the “rich” to roll back....
Outsourcing was(is) overhyped. It’s there, but not to the extent the libs will have us believe.
I wouldn’t call 4 years a short downturn.
100% - BS
It’s just getting started.
Oh course we have Americans wanting to make sure that Americans do not get the jobs. The video is un-f**king believable.
B4L8r
Yeah. Sure the college students will trust this. Since a mere 5 years ago corporations halted all college hires in IT — some of them did it 2 years in a row — and many withdrew previous offers. College students got burned big time — while professionals with many years of skills were laid off and unemployed for months — up to two years in many cases.
Like the immigration bill, the issue here is trust. Invest 4-5 years in a degree just to find your job went to India. I think many will wait to see.
Hi-tech has been and is moving out of California. Companys can’t find people that know what they are doing.
Don't you mean Japan?
No...wait...that was a generation ago.
Just as there is no way that Japan could manage to swallow up all the jobs in the US, so too there is no way that the US can deny jobs to China and India.
China and India suffer from long-standing cultural limitations which have caused them to struggle in competing with the industrial might of the US.
But there is no inherent reason that China and India cannot overcome those limitations. As they do, jobs will appear there, allowing productive people to do what productive people do ... produce.
If you adopt the attitude that success for the Chinese means failure for you, then I think you are going to make some bad decisions.
How are you harmed if a neighbor down the street, struggling to make ends meet working at McD sixty hours a week, decides to go back to school to study engineering? Will that cost you your job? Or will all the economic boats rise with the rising tide?
Will you not be able to succeed in this world if a middle-class consisting of a billion Chinese and Indians decide to adopt a middle-class lifestyle? If you can succeed in such a scenario, then how do you expect them to make the transition to such a situation, if not by importing jobs and productivity as their economic attractiveness permits?
Jobs may be on the increase but so are the H1-B visas which means the jobs won’t be for Americans.
ping
“your job”
Your? Self-employed heading to India?
Don't you mean Japan?
No...wait...that was a generation ago.
Ya' nailed me there because I've been out of that business (but not the hobby) for quite a length of time.
I wrote my last commercial application in 1998 and it is till in use today, but in a short time, it may as well have been written in Egyptian hieroglyphics.
The economic burden of Kalifornia doing what Kalifornia does is not a burden that a high-tech company should have any interest in taking on.
Kalifornia refuses to discipline itself fiscally at a time when the economy is booming. The state is attempting to take over the solutions to every conceivable problem of mankind, from mandating medical insurance, to solving the non-existant human-caused global warming, to dictating to people in the Tahoe basin that they can't clear the natural vegetation around their homes.
The costs of all of these things, of necessity, fall on Kalifornians. As the productivity of Kalifornians falls, the standard of living must fall also.
Kalifornia has purposely become a haven for millions of under-educated illegals. The medical problems and education burden for these millions has been placed on the backs of the productive. Those who can most easily leave, will do so. The productive who consider moving to Kalifornia will opt not to do so.
For many years I worked in a group making custom tooling for a semiconductor fabrication operation. We expected our projects to be productive for a minimum of five years and considered extrapolating past ten years to be totally unrealistic. Sounds like your application has done just fine.
When I visit the plant (which is quite infrequently now) I take considerable pleasure in seeing that a controller I built in 1975 is still operating. I would be very surprised if anybody still there knows that. Or cares.
What exactly do you mean by 'controller' ?
It's a controller of a motor which is handling semiconductor materials during processing. The motor behavior is controlled by operator settings and feedback to the operator is supplied to verify the operation.
The application would be rather trivial using a microcomputer; but such were not available then.
Really? Find me a H1-B guy straight off the plane that companies want to send to a client site to show the flag.
“Ring Ring”
“Yes, XYZ Company”
“Why did you send this freaking wierdo over here?”
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.