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Tech Firms Defend Moving Jobs Overseas
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.'"
I think the point being made is that everyone bitches about how jobs are moving overseas because of American's extravagant lifestyles, etc. But when someone is willing to move to a place where you can live dirt-cheap, the government over there won't allow it.
And actually you can move right on in to California now, since the retarded state gov is basically trying abolish all immigration law. Come on over!
litigious bastards
suck it sco!
Since you save so much money from products that charge less because of cheaper labor, why not donate all of your extra money to those people who were slighted? Do you do that now?
It's easy to spend other people's money for them, isn't it? Do you put your money where your mouth is?
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$860 . . . That's almost exactly the monthly minimum wage in the U.S. Before taxes.