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BusinessWeek on Outsourcing
hotsauce writes "BusinessWeek has a couple of stories on the outsourcing of white collar jobs to India. One is a cover story on GE's fundamental research lab in Bangalore where scientists work on everything from the aerodynamics of turbines to plastics' molecular structure. The other is commentary on "America's worst-kept secret", and the effects of the upcoming elections on it."
"India has always had brilliant, educated people," says tech-trend forecaster Paul Saffo of the Institute for the Future in Menlo Park, Calif. "Now Indians are taking the lead in colonizing cyberspace."
And with Americans busy colonizing Iraq, I am sure the Indians have a cakewalk colonizing cyberspace ...
He he.. looks like Americans are losing their heads along with their jobs...
Great! Keep it coming guys, coz the world will understand that you guys are no more fit than to flip burgers!
Learn to write usable code you fucking moron. India is a fucked up place to be.
I came across a fatuous sig on a post the other day saying "Socialism is Evil", liking to a page explaining why a free market is the best, that price is the only true indicator of market performance, and that socialism is fundamentally flawed.
Okay, ignoring the socialism angle. The free market is one of the holy trinity of US religion, and above mentiones article really brings this home. The US has been ramming free market economy, and globalisation down the throats of the rest of the world for years. In enforcing free-trade the World Trade organisation has making small businesses bankrupt in favour of big corporate economies of scale. We're forces to accept US GM foods that we don't want, because to label them GM is anti-competative.
Yet now, the US is feeling the effects of this. Jobs are dissappearing for economic reasons (it's cheaper). And all of a sudden people don't like it. Well, my heart bleeds for you. Taste your own medicine, and see how you like it. Smarts a bit doesnt it.
So I suggest it's time for the US to change it's ways. Only this time try giving a damn about the people you're trampling all over. Becasue sooner or later you're bound to be on the receiving end.
But, for now all I have to say is "Haha".
Destructive Immigration
American Dissident Voices program of 13th November, 1993
A few days ago an extremely important article was published in the patriotic magazine, Liberty Bell, PO Box 21, Reedy WV 25270, $45 per year. The article was written by Dr. Richard C. Bentinck, MD. It is a warning to us, a warning which American patriots will ignore at their peril. It deals with the most pressing problem that our country faces today: destruction by the invasion of America which is now taking place, an invasion which is often referred to by soft euphemisms, but which is an invasion nonetheless. Today's program is based on that article, entitled Destructive Immigration. Listen carefully, for you are about to hear truths that no other radio program on the air today would dare to tell you, so strong is the censorship in our country today.
Polls show that the vast majority of Americans want legal immigration reduced and illegal immigration stopped. I wonder why our government has taken no action to stem the flow of third-world minorities, a flow that is now so great that it literally transforming our nation in a way that ordinary Americans find frightening and disturbing.
In fact, why does the U.S. Congress actually promote immigration, legal and illegal, against all reason? Our nation, already mired in debt, cannot productively employ our existing population and must create non-productive taxpayer-supported "service" jobs to absorb the surplus labor we now have.
With rare exception, the immigrant, legal or illegal, from a third world area is fleeing, not political persecution, but economic deprivation as a direct result of indiscriminate breeding and its consequence, over-population, in quasi-feudalistic societies steeped in ignorance and authoritarian religious dogma. Decades of experience has shown that many of these immigrants and their numerous offspring end up as drains on one or more of the myriad Liberal-sponsored county, state, and federal give-away programs. Not satisfied with our bounty, they have leisure to turn to violence and jam our law enforcement, judicial, and prison systems. All of this is paid for by confiscatory taxing of a diminishing number of mostly White, legitimate U.S. citizens productively employed in the private sector. Why do Congress and federal bureaucrats ignore, when considering the illegal immigrant, our statutes that require a legal immigrant to be conversant with our history and our institutions, guarantee that he will not require support from any federal or state program for a minimum of five years, be in good health, and have a working knowledge of English? Why this special status for the illegal - and now, even the legal immigrant as long as he is a member of a so-called minority? (This word "minority" is wildly inappropriate, you know, when you consider that persons of European descent constitute only about 12% of the world's population!)
And why, when a foreign woman gives birth in the U.S., is she not sent back to Mexico - or wherever she may belong - with her infant? Born in the U.S., the infant is by a quirk of the law a U.S. citizen. His mother is not. The courts have held that simply having received hospital delivery care in the United States at U.S. taxpayer expense, does not bestow upon the mother a right to U.S. citizenship. She must return to wherever she belongs and, since a minor child should not be separated from its mother, the court has held that the infant must go with her. When the child has reached his majority at the age of 21 years, only then may he return legally. But this deliberately hidden aspect of the law is not enforced.
By the way, the word "Hispanic" to designate these illegal immigrants from Mexico and Central America is really a misnomer. "Hispanic" literally means "from Spain," and only a very few of these illegal immigrants are of European Spanish descent. Most of them are mestizos, meaning part European and part Indian. Their special-interest organization is even called La Raza, which
Really. They call themselves PhD's, but they are not the same as someone who has a PhD from Purdue, MIT, etc... Schools in third world countries do NOT educate with the same intensity as modern countries (US, UK, EU). Give me a Swiss/German/US PhD to an Indian/Pakistani "PhD" any day. 'Nuff said.
Speak for yourself. I deserve to be rewarded based on where I was born (Texas, the best place in the world.) All the dinks and wogs can go to hell for all I care.
Leaders in US worker replacement haven't always fared especially well. The reason is that the MBA's and attorneys that are the figureheads of corporate America frequently don't properly figure in the real security risks involved here. For example, at least $3 Billion of the 12 Billion stolen from Enron's shareholders involved losses in India-which "coincidentally" was the source of the lion's share of the Enron IT staff.