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Tech Firms Defend Moving Jobs Overseas

Posted by michael on from the for-minimum-wage-or-lower dept.

bobcows writes "Yahoo is reporting about leading technology companies urging Congress and the Bush administration Wednesday not to impose new trade restrictions aimed at keeping U.S. jobs from moving overseas, where labor costs are lower. 'There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore,' Carly Fiorina, chief executive for Hewlett-Packard Co., said Wednesday. 'The problem is not a lack of highly educated workers,' said Scott Kirwin, founder of the Information Technology Professionals Association of America. 'The problem is a lack of highly educated workers willing to work for the minimum wage or lower in the U.S. Costs are driving outsourcing, not the quality of American schools.'"

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  1. Re:Isn't HP making money hand over fist? by siskbc · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No. And they're not a charity, nor a soup kitchen. If they can get quality labor for cheaper elsewhere, why should they support a bloated, overpriced labor market?

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    -Looking for a job as a materials chemist or multivariat

  2. Re:Whose minimum wage? by myg · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    You know, painful as it is to those who pay the price, one can make the argument that this trend will, in the long run, help to minimize the economic disparities between the "developed" countries and the "third world." And that can't be bad for international security.

    Excuse me, but you are a retard. The security problems of late have nothing to do with economics and everything to do with religious zealotry.

    All this means is that we are moving to a global economy that models Communist Russia. That didn't work so good, did it?

    What is my incentive to become an Engineer and build things if I can earn the same amount of money being a fry cook.

    In fact, the only thing this will increase is crime. Why should I work an honest living for $5.25/hr when I can steal, kill, etc. and have a wonderful life. The cops won't bother to stop me, not for $5.25/hr.

    This reasoning is pure and utter mindless drivel with no thought to the actual consequences. Why should the CEO's then not work for $5.25/hr?

    Thats communism. We are all equal. We all are exactly the same. Its a very boring world, isn't it?

    Sheesh people, at least try to rub two neurons together before posting.