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Fasten your seatbelts. This certainly may/will figure in the Presidential Campaign.
1 posted on 05/14/2008 5:37:09 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
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To: AmericanInTokyo

might be a good one for the Asian ping list...just thinkin’ aloud....


2 posted on 05/14/2008 5:38:54 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Your Free To Vote 4 McCain. I Won't. I Don't Want To Hear Your Gripes Thru His 4 Years of RINO-ism!)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Nothing new here, jobs have been going to India as fast as they can be shipped there.


3 posted on 05/14/2008 5:39:05 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: AmericanInTokyo

I’m sure there are a lot of good programmers in India, but as a percentage, it is much lower than the US. I can tell you that many of the Indian student I’ve seen cannot program their way out of a paper bag. But they are polite and speak good English. In any case, the cost savings is probably going to be largely an illusion.


5 posted on 05/14/2008 5:40:14 PM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

To all the gleeful Indians,.... you’ll get yours. Just wait.


13 posted on 05/14/2008 5:52:19 PM PDT by StolarStorm
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Bump


15 posted on 05/14/2008 5:54:25 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Your Free To Vote 4 McCain. I Won't. I Don't Want To Hear Your Gripes Thru His 4 Years of RINO-ism!)
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Something that I can’t get over...

Government imposes high operating costs for a company that does business in the US. So the company decides to lower costs by moving their production off-shore.

Everyone is surprised.

The “solution?” Demonize and further increase the costs on those very same companies for trying to save on their operating costs in the first place.

Of course it’s silly to wonder exactly what might happen if the government were to set up a system that actually encourages businesses from moving to the US, rather than encouraging them to move away.

Mark


21 posted on 05/14/2008 7:18:20 PM PDT by MarkL
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Offshoring is great. The best US employees -- the ones management doesn't lay off -- leave for other jobs. The ones who are left are kept busy trying to fix the mistakes made by the offshores. Instead of innovating and moving ahead, the company treads water.

Management, in a stroke of pure genius, concludes that American workers just aren't very productive, and their solution to the problem they created is still more offshoring.

23 posted on 05/14/2008 7:45:50 PM PDT by Campion
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Offshoring to India has been going on for some time. The problem is that supply of competent IT people has not kept up with demand and costs are growing.


34 posted on 05/15/2008 4:20:03 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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