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To: spunkets
"No one is shipping the jobs offshore." Really? Most of IBM's 315,000 employees are today already overseas. But now IBM is planning to move an additional 4,700 programing jobs offshore. from http://www.e-thepeople.org/article/27989/view?viewtype=best "The demand for the services is being met by capable folks charging less." Another way to say that jobs are going out of the country and to foriegners (illegal or legal). "College should be a place where students learn how to think, do and operate in the world. It's not a place to learn fixed job skills to exist in some theoretical high paying niche forever." What is all the education prior to college for? Where will they learn the skills to do the jobs? Do you really think that companies will hire someone that has no clue how to do a job, just because they know how to "operate in the world"? How can you learn to do and not have job skills? Is that like learning how to just be?
48 posted on 01/21/2004 7:22:37 AM PST by looscnnn ("Live free or die; death is not the worst of evils" Gen. John Stark 1809)
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To: looscnnn
"Most of IBM's 315,000 employees are today already overseas. But now IBM is planning to move an additional 4,700 programing jobs offshore."

Container freight?

"Where will they learn the skills to do the jobs? Do you really think that companies will hire someone that has no clue how to do a job, just because they know how to "operate in the world"?"

It's the individual that operates in the world and their destiny is their responsibility, not employers, or the govm't. They can either learn skills that enable them to know, understand and do many things, or limit themselves. No one owes others a job and a guaranteed income. Barring govm't interfere, high pay occurs when supply lags demand. When supply leads demand in a free market wages drop. That's a reality college educated folks should know and understand well. When they fail to apply it to their own situation, they might find themselves a victim of economic reality.

"Another way to say that jobs are going out of the country and to foriegners (illegal or legal)."

Analyzing reality with misnomers and falsehoods does not promote understanding. The US promotes Freedom inside and outside it's borders. That requires free market principles be adhered to regardless of border.

62 posted on 01/21/2004 7:53:54 AM PST by spunkets
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