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To: tejek who wrote (159035)	1/27/2003 10:58:29 PM
From: hmaly	Respond to of 1582349

Ted Re...You were suggesting that AA was dumbing down our colleges, resulting in a shortage of qualified people........and that explained why work was being shipped to other countries like the Phillipines or India. I suggested that the work was being shipped to those countries because wages are cheaper. D. Ray affirmed that conclusion with his post. LOL Well, aren't you getting tired of tripping yourself up? For the last two wks, you have maintained that companies hired whitey, not blacks because of racism, not economics. Now when presented with evidence that companies are hiring minorities, not whitey, you now claim that companies hire because of economics, not racism. That has been my point all along. Its all about economics, period. Yes, AA programs do dumb down entrants, so it will be tougher for grads at dumbed down schools to get accepted. But the main point is that it is economics which drive companies to hire who they hire, not racism.

To: tejek who wrote (159035)	1/27/2003 11:14:26 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1582349

I suggested that the work was being shipped to those countries because wages are cheaper. D. Ray affirmed that conclusion with his post. While it is a fact that wages are cheaper in these places, it is also a fact that Asians, for example, are known to make great engineers. Apparently, they are just better at engineering than whiteys are. Here is Microsoft's Rationale (at least, the public statement of their rationale) "Sometimes that means hiring foreign-born graduates of U.S. engineering programs and foreign professionals with unique skills in software development, or in adapting products to suit the more than 30 foreignlanguages and 100 different countries in which we do business. Considering that more than 50 percent of Microsoft’s nearly $20 billion in revenues last fiscal year came from export sales, foreign employees make invaluable contributions to our global success, and their earnings percolate through the U.S. economy, multiplying jobs for Americans. The situation is similar at literally hundreds of other American technology companies, which also hire foreign workers with essential skills." microsoft.com