Intel Chief: Don't Call Us Benedict Arnold CEOs

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.'"

Comments

Re:"good for the economy" my ass.

[bwy]

Not to mention, the "average Joes" who aren't shareholders are probably consumers. Consumers vote with their wallets. Therefore, if things aren't good for them (the consumer) they will likely vote against you (i.e. not buy your product) which is bad for the corporation and the shareholder alike.

It is more complex than he made it out to be, but in some regards it is still amazing simple. In this country the exchange between producers and consumers is mututal and a matter of free choice. Nobody has ever made me buy anything. There has always been a choice involved at some level or another. This producer-consumer relationship is what drives literally everything.

Re:It's much, much worse than you are saying.

[kir]

I actually read your entire post and have concluded that you are not only off topic, but a nasty troll as well.

Please don't say anything inconvenient?

[Futurepower(R)]

What is trolling? Is trolling saying something that is demonstrably true, but inconvenient?

What part of the arrest records of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney don't you believe? Do you think that someone who gets a DUI is someone who is having no problems with inner conflict?

According to Laura Bush and George W. Bush, he had such a bad drug problem that she threatened to leave him. Are you saying Mr. Bush had no such problems?

A DUI is a conviction for a very, very serious crime, a crime that endangers everyone on the road, a crime that often kills people.

Noelle Bush was arrested and charged with fraud, not for trying to buy marijuana, but for trying to by an anti-anxiety drug. Are you arguing that she thought she had anxiety, but she didn't really, everything was fine in her life?

Are all these books just trolls?

• Perfectly Legal: The covert campaign to rig our tax system to benefit the super rich -- and cheat everybody else by David Cay Johnston, 2003.
• House of Bush, house of Saud: The secret relationship between the world's two most powerful dynasties by Craig Unger, 2004. Available as a book and as excerpts on CD.
• Worse than Watergate: The secret presidency of George W. Bush by John W. Dean, 2004.
• The book on Bush: How George W. (mis)leads America by Eric Alterman and Mark Green, 2004. Available as a book and excerpts on CD.
• Fraud: The strategy behind the Bush lies and why the media didn't tell you by Paul Waldman, 2004, Sourcebooks, Inc. Paul Waldman is the past associate director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center and holds a Ph.D. in communications.
• American dynasty: Aristocracy, fortune, and the politics of deceit in the house of Bush by Kevin Phillips, 2004.
• The price of loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the education of Paul O'Neill by Ron Suskind. Available as a book and excerpts on CD.
• Against all enemies: Inside America's war on terror by Richard A. Clarke, 2004. Available as a book and excerpts on cassette and CD.
• Boy genius: Karl Rove, The brains behind the remarkable political triumph of George W. Bush by Lou Dubose, Jan Reid, and Carl M. Cannon, 2003. George W. Bush has a habit of giving disrespectful nicknames to those with whom he works. "Boy Genius" is one of Mr. Bush's nicknames for Karl Rove. Mr. Bush also calls Karl Rove, "Turd Blossom".
• Supreme injustice: How the high court hijacked election 2000 by Alan M. Dershowitz, 2001.
• The president of good & evil: The ethics of George W. Bush by Peter Singer, 2004, Dutton. The cover of the book says, "Paul Singer reveals the gigantic gap that exists between Bush's noble rhetoric and the down and dirty realities of this president."
• Bush's war for reelection: Iraq, the White House, and the people by James Moore, 2004.
• Thieves in high places: They've stolen our country -- and its time to take it back by Jim Hightower, 2003.
• Lies (and the lying liars who tell them): A fair and balanced look at the right by Al Franken, 2003, Dutton.
• The buying of the President, 2004: Who's really bankrolling Bush and his Democratic challengers -- and what they expect in return by Charles Lewis and the Center for Public Integrity, 2004, Perennial.
• The lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the politics of deception by David Corn, 2003.
• Had enough? A handbook for fighting back by James Carville with Jeff Nussbaum, 2003.
• Bushwomen: Tales of a cynical species by Laura Flanders, 2004.
• Global village idiot: Dubya, dumb jokes, and one last word before you vote by John O'Farrell.
• The secret history of the CIA by Joseph J. Trento, 2001.