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To: Siva Uppalapati who wrote (451626)	9/2/2003 9:39:50 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Siva, Re: US can use that manpower and become even stronger. We will agree to disagree. There was an outrageous example of how wrong-headed outsourcing can get in last weeks PBS NOW program: pbs.org The case involved the State of New Jersey outsourcing welfare case processing, which left New Jersey with the ridiculous situation of shipping jobs that could have been done by citizens of New Jersey being shipped to Mumbai, India. Thus exacerbating the welfare problem with the very solution designed. As far as the U.S. needing Indian manpower, I would again disagree with this characterization. In spite of adequate profits, there is a race among large U.S. corporations to ship as many jobs as possible off-shore. The idiocy of this strategy is that they are destroying their own markets, by hiring people at rates that appear economically speaking, to be nothing more than a "race to the bottom". As far as the U.S. becoming stronger by export its jobs, that is absurd on the face of it. The corporations are doing what they usually do, seek maximum profits. And I will agree that outsourcing can strengthen these corporations. However, corporations are not America. Currently it appears that corporations are actively engaged in the hollowing-out of the American economy to the detriment of the American public.