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India Outsourcers Find Back Door in Canada
securitas writes "Metro International newspapers Toronto edition reports that more Indian companies are opening back doors into the United States by setting up shop in Canada. The issue of outsourcing, offshoring and nearshoring has become a hot issue, with the 2004 presidential election less than a week away. Candidate John Kerry has said he will close the tax loophole that makes it advantageous to outsource call centers."
He could of introduced plenty of bills supporting his current election platform as a senator, why didn't he? What makes you think he'll do it now if elected president? Just asking.
That's a good question. I've heard it said that there's practically nothing that made it out of the Senate with John Kerry's name attached to it. Nothing.
The President of the United States, by design, cannot initiate any bills. He can tell Congress what he would like to see, but that's no guarantee that he'll see it, or that he'll get it.
People running for the highest office of the land have often stumped, claiming that they would do such-n-such a thing, and people accept it as if it were a done deal. Why is that?
Senator Kerry has had twenty years to get bills out to the president, and he has not. It's not because he can't get his point across-- we've seen from the presidential debates that John Kerry is a very able speaker. I think the problem is that he doesn't care about anyone but himself, and he is therefore not motivated to do much, unless it will make himself look better.
If John Kerry will not do anything useful for anyone else while he's in a position to convince his peers to agree on bills to send to the president, why should we believe that he'll take an active roll for the American people as president? We can't, and history proves that we would be gravely mistaken if we did.
When politicians are involved, everyone loses.
The Loosers always blame the winners ,
Kerry's not against outsourcing when he makes money from it - just like he really enjoys the 15% tax rate he and Tereza paid last year. And just you wait who he defines as "rich" and therefore due for a tax increase if he's elected.
Nearshoring is not a problem.
Once Canada is destroyed, we ban Canada from the table of Western nations. Canada will serve as a warning to other Western nations. If companies from India ultimately destroy Canada and Canadians turn their back on Western values, then we simply shut down trade with Canada. There really is no problem here. Canadians have a right to determine their own destiny. If they want to admit hordes of non-assimilating Indians and Chinese, the Canadians are entitled to do so, destroying their own society.
We will not allow the rot in Canada to creep into the USA.
There is simply nothing to do. Both candidates know it. Kerry is simply making populist vote-buying statements. His promise is not going to change anything -- keeping the "call centers" in India makes great economic sense with or without the "tax loophole".
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Hehehe I'm guessing you are being sarcastic???
A save the dolfins bill?
Granting a visa bill?
A bill to name a federal building?
I'd say that is practicly NOTHING
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
I don't know if his wife would let him close the loopholes. Heinz has almost 100 factories and most of them are not in the US.
Yes, I know she doesn't control the company. Yes, I know she has no control over business decisions. But I also know that she rakes in a good amount of money from her 4% ownership.
Despite Snopes saying that my ketchup is made in America, my bottle says it came from Canada.
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And to think that some of your liberal buddies modded you "informative"!
If they would actually read Kerry's record of doing nothing instead of parroting phony rhetoric, maybe they'd see the truth about the man and vote for somebody with a little more substance and accomplishment.
Face it, Kerry is a Communist. Of course that probably makes him a hero here on slashdot. Read Worldnet Daily to see the documents tying him to the Communist Party's efforts against the U.S. in the Viet Nam war. Yep, that's YOUR John Kerry!!
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Twitter, you're a petulant cock-gobbling sycophant to Linux Torvaldyos! Quit taking DP from ESR and RMS's feculent cocks and why don't you try to stop sucking quite so much? Get out of your parents basement and see the real world - maybe then you'll see how pathetic you sound, with your neverending stream of bullshit about how Microsoft is stalking you. Wasn't it you who said that Microsoft believes your insane ranting is actually a threat to them, so they PAY PEOPLE to reply to you on Slashdot? No sir, I don't get any money. I do it for the love. Someone has to go up against your paranoid whining. So get back in your cage and shut the fuck up already.