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To: SoCalPol

Here is Fiorina insulting freedom and the American people at the same time. She PREFERS communist educated labor over American educated labor. That does make her a good global socialist candidate for Senate, if you’re a free traitor.
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Two leading Silicon Valley chief executives, reacting Wednesday to criticism they’ve shipped too many high-tech jobs overseas, defended hiring workers in India and China and warned that the United States and particularly California were in danger of losing their competitive edge to the Far East.

“There is no job that is America’s God-given right anymore,” said Carly Fiorina, chairman of Palo Alto information technology giant Hewlett Packard.

The comments came as part of the tech industry’s counteroffensive against intensifying criticism about the export of high-tech jobs.

Fiorina warned against the growing protectionist backlash, saying the only alternative to losing jobs overseas was to make a national decision to stay ahead of foreign competitors by improving grade-school education, doubling federal spending on basic research and forming a national broadband policy, as Japan and Korea have done.

“It’s interesting to me that so many people talk about China or India or Russia as being a source of low-cost labor,” Fiorina said. “Truthfully, over the long term, the greater threat is the source of well-educated labor. And if you look at the number of college-educated students that China graduates every year, it’s close to 40 million. The law of large numbers is fairly compelling.”

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179 posted on 05/08/2010 6:44:18 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer
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To: hedgetrimmer

You must be a paid Boxer lackey.


180 posted on 05/08/2010 7:00:23 PM PDT by SoCalPol (Reagan Republican for Palin 2012)
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