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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dan Spillane who wrote (54590)	12/20/2000 1:33:34 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Doesn't Microsoft do some development overseas? It seems to me if they want cheap foreign workers, that's one way to get them! Not everybody has to be in Seattle. (Or hasn't Microsoft discovered the Internet yet? <g>) JMHO. Charles Tutt (TM)

To: Dan Spillane who wrote (54590)	12/20/2000 2:23:50 PM
From: Dave	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

My point is that the US congress represents US workers, not foreign workers. That's a little naive. Members of the U.S. Congress represent their contributors, and the nice lobbyists who support their families. They didn't call Gorton the Senator from Microsoft from nothing. If a deep-pockets contributor like Microsoft wants to hire a few foreign workers and pay them unfairly low wages, you can bet that the government officials that Microsoft owns will not make a stink about it. All they ask from Microsoft is for some excuse, even a lame one, and the "worker shortage" fits the bill just fine. The only branch of government that can stop abuses like this is the Judiciary. Unfortunately, there are people right here on this thread who think that the Judiciary should do only whatever is best for the Corporate shareholders who paid for the president who appointed the judges. Dave "Ordinary right-thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary right-thinking people in this country are sick and tired. I'm certainly not. And I'm sick and tired of being told that I am." -- Monty Python