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The Full Outsourcing Discussion
GileadGreene writes "Thomas Friedman of the New York Times recently did an interesting Op-Ed piece about the "silver lining of overseas outsourcing": the growth that it generates in the US job market as Indian companies outsource work that US workers are better at. Apparently total exports from US companies to India have grown from $2.5 billion in 1990 to $4.1 billion in 2002 as well. So maybe this outsourcing thing isn't so bad after all." Ultimately, free trade works out well; I think one of the issues is that white collar jobs are just beginning to feel the pinch, and are acting like manufacturers did in the 1970s and 1980s.
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i read the piece and was bored. it just felt like a half-assed defence of bushs bad policies. vote nader.
Right, except that Joe Lunchbucket gains when the funds make money. And Joe Lunchbucket probably couldn't do as well for himself picking individual equities as he can just buying shares in an indexed, no-load mutual fund anyway. If Joe wants to beat the index or be directly involved in capitalism, that's all out there. Most of those multinationals you mentioned even have direct investment programs that make it easy to buy their shares. But it's work and takes time, education, and discipline. We're in a country where half the population won't even vote for a president and you expect me to show concern that they are being disenfranchised as investors?
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On Soviet Russia, the Party outsources YOU!
OMFG! HAHAHAH, GRABOULOUS!
I wouldn't say it was "fucking bad"; in fact, I thought it was farily good (the big battle scene especially, except for the elf riding the elephant like Fred Flintstone). But you hit the nail on the head with "gay". EVERY SINGLE FUCKING CHARACTER LOOKS LIKE A FUCKING HOMO. In fact, that sort of ruined the movie for me. Every 10 seconds I found myself thinking "Oh my God, these guys look so gay! When are they going to have a massive homosexual orgy?" Hell, even Liv Tyler looks gay! I mean how am I supposed to enjoy the film when it's full of homosexuals?! Also, as far as I can remember, Liv Tyler is the only female character in the entire film.
So, a quick recap:
1. Number of women in movie: ONE
2. Number of men in movie: ALL THE REST
3. Number of men who look gay: ALL OF THEM
In conclusion, the movie is most definately "gay". I'd go so far as to say that it is, in fact, gayer than any movie ever including all those gay porn vidoes by Falcon!
Yeah look at the census numbers, there what 26 million more americans??? Plus those numbers run off the census so, they do not take into account the hunderds of thousands of H1B visa workers (Also taking jobs from americans here.) The facts are that 2.3 mil jobs have been lost since bush took office something like that, and another few million that just gave up and are now working at Wal-mart or somewhere else, as far as spankings go, you need'nt worry about me, let's see what happens in November.
The reality alot of americans are in trouble, and Bush and boys don't care cause they can't afford to slap down $2500 a plate for one of those fundraising lunches. I'm not a liberal btw, but I can't really see that the republicans are any different than the other party. they both use fringe groups, and then give them nothing in return, they both have thier own agenda, and neither agenda does me a damn bit of good. They both talk about the middle class, but neither care about us. I plan to vote for the one that can do the most in terms of generating jobs and oppurtunity for us middle class folks (note this not necesarily the same as good for the ecomonmy, and the CEO's making millions a year).
So Long and Thanks for all the Fish.
from laid of tech workers? This is a retarded discussion with everyone's views tainted with obvious bias and fake-logic. No one here is a qualified economist, but each behaves like one. In short you people are no different from the illeterate masses in India or Africa or China - fake reasoning - demogaguery to support what supposedly brings you profit. I being an outsider think that one of the reasons US is so rich and powerful today is because of the adaptability of the people here. People who worked in constructing sky scrapers moved on to become coal miners when the construction was done and they went on to become soldiers at the next war. Farmers became clerks and teachers. Foreginers became laguage translaters and embassy staff. Insurance agents became base ball coaches and researchers and so on. I see those who apparently failed to move on among the homeless and panhandlers. Call me whatever, but the moment you refuse to change and evolve to your circumstance, you are doing yourself and your country bad. If you just give it a thought failing to change is the bottom reason for most of the world problems today. If at all you have anyone to blame for your sorry ass state, its only yourself.
just my 2 cents.
I am just as qualified ( probably more so ) than an Indian when...
If that Indian does the job better (same thing for less money) than he is actually more qualified and you are an overpriced prima-donna in comparison.
Just because India can do the job for less does not mean they do it better
If they are doing the same job for less, they are doing it better?