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Strangely enough, American's didn't see it coming with automobiles or radios, either.

http://www.itpaa.org/modules.php?name=News&file=ar ticle&sid=1737

But offshore companies are the only way that state agencies can get someone who had the expertise and the ability to get the job done on time, on budget and provide the quality product that we were looking for... (scroll down to "Kitty Pilgrim reports", about halfway down the page). The Nebraska Dept of Labor outsourced the development of their new unemployment insurance system to TCS America, one of the largest consulting firms in India. TCS, hot off botching a similar job in New Mexico, was supposed to write the software on-site in Nebraska, and hire 25% of their work force locally. I think they were later released from that requirement because of the "difficulty finding suitable workers". What that means is they couldn't find enough Indians in the area to hire, since of course American workers aren't good enough to meet their high standards...

Exactly right- I can't think of a single more pro-corporation anti-American organization. Corporatism is the new communism- seeking to use the power of the corporate dollar through lobbyists to restrict the free market down to just a few oligarchial players.

The ITAA is for: Replacing all American high-tech workers with H-1b indentured servants, Removing Verifiable voting from American voters, is for guest worker visas to replace American Workers, and is headed by the guy who destroyed Cesar Chaverez's attempt to unionize farm workers back in the 1970s. And we expect a man named GARCIA from this group to be pro-USA enough to head such an important post?

http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/itaa.real.html

http://www.itpaa.org/modules.php?name=News&file=ar ticle&sid=622

that he'll try to prevent off-shoring (i don't know specifics here, though)
I don't think so...
The problem with Kerry is that he is trying to be all things to all people. Somewhere you heard he was anti-x, but his very next speech to another interest group he is pro-x.
No one has ANY IDEA what the hell this guy wants to actually do. All his plans are secret until after the election...

Why not let him know how you feel?

Even better, e-mail him directly!

Don't forget to tell Scott Kirwin what you really think.

I'm sure Scott Kirwin, founder of the Information Technology Professionals Association of America, made this comment from his cell phone, lodged behind the wheel of his luxury car headed back to his 6 bedroom $2.5M home, fresh off a lunch of caviar and Dom Perignon... I hate to think that the head of an organization named the Information Technology Professionals Association of AMERICA could hold such a dim view of American technology workers.

I think that Scott Kirwin, founder of the Information Technology Professionals Association of America, is being a tad sarcastic in his quote. If you look at the ITPAA's web site (I couldn't access it at the moment, but I used Google's cache), they're opposed to outsourcing.

The Yahoo article states that the same tech firms defending moving jobs overseas are also pushing for better education in the U.S. Kirwin's quote is presented in the article as a counterpoint.