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An Independent Study on Offshoring IT?
vsprintf writes "What are the real effects of offshoring on the U.S. technology sector? Pick your economist on the subject. The Bush administration's Gregory Mankiw says it's all good, and exporting jobs is just a new way to do trade. In Congressional testimony, Ralph Gomory says a little bit is okay, but too much is bad, while Herman Daly says it's just plain bad. The ITAA's paid mouthpiece, Harris Miller, says it must be good because IT workers in India wear Nike tennis shoes. At last, it appears the IEEE-USA has persuaded Congress to pay for an independent study to determine how offshoring really affects U.S. IT."
Michael seems to think that only Americans should do programming... it's all he ever posts about.
But the have nots will always outnumber the haves by a huge margin right?
/flame off
When too few people have too much, it is time for a riovolution!
Jesus H. Christ on a pogo stick, what the hell do you want, a Communist regime? "To every one according to their need, from everyone according to their ability"? Grow up and learn that if you apply yourself, you too can eventually make a decent income, and then bitch about how much the big bad government takes from your paycheck.
Oh, and since I'm being a complete ass this morning, it's "revolution".
EveryDNS. Use it. It works.
AC's need not reply
The best thing america can do is make this the best place in the world to do business.
That means competitive and attractive tax rates, unobtrusive and easy to understand regulations, along with highly educated and productive employees.
Throw in things like having some of the best capital markets and banking in the world, along with unmatched goods distrubtion no matter sea,air,or land and things look good.
The answer does not lie in government intervention to protect one type of worker.
If the govt had stepped in to save 10,000 typewriter mfg jobs in the 1960's and put taxes or other restrictions to slow down the computer takeover....sure those 10,000 jobs might have been saved but it might have caused hundreds of thousands of new jobs to be lost by some other coutry(japan?) getting a head start on that market.
While govt intervention sounds good to those people affected, more often than not, anytime the govt interfears with the free market there are unseen disasterous results.
-- Given enough time and money, Microsoft will eventualy invent UNIX.