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Intel Chief: Don't Call Us Benedict Arnold CEOs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the highwayman-ceos-no-good-either dept.

theodp writes "In a USA Today interview, Intel CEO Craig Barrett pooh-poohs arguments against outsourcing, explaining 'We do not send our basketball teams to compete against the rest of the world, saying the other teams have to play slower because our folks aren't fit enough to run as fast.' He is also fed up with being called a Benedict Arnold CEO (perhaps he'd prefer Unemployed Computer Scientist). Barrett pegs K-12 math and science education as the biggest threat to U.S. employment, but when pressed about U.S. kids who do well in both, attend excellent universities, but have no guarantees of good jobs when they graduate, Barrett remarks 'I don't have a solution to that one.'"

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  1. And for those who don't know by krets · · Score: 5, Informative
    What's it trying to say?

    Benedict Arnold

    I still don't get it.

    1. Re:And for those who don't know by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Benedict Arnold was a traitor - he betrayed his country and his people for money.

      These CEOs are traitors - they are betrying their country and their people for money.

      Understand now?

  2. and the Indian educational system is good? by deadmongrel · · Score: 5, Informative

    Honestly I don't how the US educational system is but blaming it for moving jobs oversees is ridiculous. Are they saying the Indian(which i can speak for) educational system is better? India has a poor educational system. And they are finding fault with US education system? Before the flames start let me tell you something I am Indian and have survived the Indian Educational system. We have really few "good teachers" and a lot of good-for-nothing ones. The text books are outdated and so are the teaching tools. The education system is more about memorizing stuff than understanding it. Most of the exams results are like gambling. Nothing but luck.

  3. Re:It's not about quality, it's about cheap labor by ashayh · · Score: 5, Informative

    Informative ??? What crap ..
    I dont know what you are smoking .. I'm from India and let me tell you a US$ 30K salray in India is equivalent to a US $500K salary in the US.
    The average programmer makes 20 000 Rs a month .. thats 5500 US$ a year. Many people make less than that.
    If people could make 30K a year there, why do you think thousands like me want to come to the US ?
    As for being able to afford maids etc .. its not that rosy. The difference is a maid in the US can do something to make her children go in good schools and have a better life. The maid who works for my landlord in the US comes to work in a toyota Highlander SUV... a car that only the super rich in India can afford. Hyundai sells a "high end" SUV in India which sold a grand total of 35 units in Feb 2004.