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Technology Stocks : Oracle Corporation (ORCL) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (18273)	8/12/2003 12:19:02 PM
From: ge	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 19079

Lizzie, it seems that given a choice (a choice you do not have, thank God) you would protect US computer jobs even at the cost of lost competition and corporate failure. I am not suggesting that ORCL move their corporation off shore, but that when they are looking for computer professionals and can not find adequately trained candidates in the US, they should be able to find them where they can. And please don't tell me about all the computer "professionals” that are unemployed. They were car mechanics and checkout clerks before they graduated from DeVry and a host of other "universities" and they are car mechanics now, not unemployed computer professionals. I'm sure you have had the experience of going to a new restaurant and wondering how in God's name they stay in business. And as is a credit to your good taste, they fold and are no more. Now consider what would happen if the government kept that restaurant in business. All other restaurants would then aspire to the same poor standards and soon, you would have no choice, for your dining pleasure, unless you were lucky enough to live near one of our boarders. The steel and textile boys tried “saving American jobs” and now we subsidize steel and buy cheap clothing without looking for the union label. Farming is another subsidy pig that has cost us reputation in South and Central America and has continued to cost taxpayers and consumers billions. Why are we asked to send money to some poor child in Brazil? Is it because they are genetically inferior and can not take care of their own? No. It is because we have protected our markets from our neighbors.