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D.C. Awards Obamacare IT Work To Offshore Outsourcer
dcblogs writes "Infosys, an India-based offshore IT outsourcing firm, recently announced that it had won a $49.5 million contract to develop a health benefit exchange for the District of Columbia. The contract was awarded to a U.S.-based Infosys subsidiary, Infosys Public Services. That's one of the larger government contracts won by an offshore outsourcing firm, but it's unclear whether any of the work will be done overseas. The District isn't disclosing any contract details. An FOIA request for the contract has been submitted. Infosys is one of the largest users of H-1B visas, and has been under a grand jury investigation for its use of B1 visitor visas."
Why is this type of work not being done by an American company with American workers? This must be how Obama said we would "save money" on healthcare. By offshoring jobs critical to the program.
With everything that's been going on recently, can Obama do anything worse? We're finding out day after day that this guy is a colossal screw up.
False choice. In free market capitalism the top few percent become extremely wealthy by providing everybody below them with best value, best possible product at lowest possible price. Your idea is that wealth is 'taken' from majority and 'given' to the wealthiest has no basis in reality in the free market. When gov't interferes with the freedom of the people, that is when your thesis becomes a real possibility as it is today, be it inflation created by the federal reserve or taxes, rules and regulations that destroy competition.
You can't handle the truth.
Singapore, Switzerland, Hong Kong, China, USA in 19th century. Those are easy examples. You better think of an example where is the economy today NOT falling apart in the world of socialism, theft and redistribution, central banking, where people are actually living free as individuals and not as a herd to be slaughtered or used as voting chips on the political table.
You can't handle the truth.
Yes, corporations, businesses in general do want to minimize costs, that's how they can provide cheapest, most affordable products to the widest audience. Look at WalMart, the owners are billionaires, yet the store provides cheapest products to the masses of poorest in the society.
Obviously they do this by minimizing every cost that can be minimized and in the NON FREE society, like the USA is (non free because of government regulations, monopoly creation and support, money printing, bailouts for the friends of politicians, etc.etc.), this means that certain people will not find better jobs than working for WalMart, because they are not needed anywhere else at those salaries (the people working for WalMart).
They are not economically viable in the poor, non-free society outside of WalMart (well, they could do worse).
However in a free market society resources are used efficiently, this includes labor, but this also means that the free market sets price of everything, including price of labour. There shouldn't be any minimum wage laws, income taxes, money printing, most of what gov't does today (from pension handling and medical payments to student or house or any type of loan guarantees, meddling with businesses, regulating businesses, not the act of interstate commerce itself to maximize competition, but manipulating the market, preventing some businesses from working, giving others huge advantages via tax code, bailouts, fake insurance, etc.etc.)
Basically the system is broken, you are looking from inside a broken system and everything is confusing to you, so you can't understand what's white and what's black, what's up and what's down, and it's not without intent that you are so confused. There is huge amount of money that is made by politicians and politically connected as long as you stay confused and allow the government authority to go beyond the law, beyond what the Constitution allows it to do.
You can't handle the truth.