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To: LindyBill who wrote (18070)	11/29/2003 10:33:00 AM
From: quehubo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793672

I dont work in the IT industry, but I have worked in and with multinational companies enough to know and I have read enough as well to conclude that you have bought the corporate line. <<The Corporations are being forced to it more by available skills than money, IMO. With our growth, we just aren't producing enough high skill people to satisfy the demand. >> You say growth, I see an article talking about unemployed workers who lost their jobs because in IT and other back office jobs that can be completed for 1/10 of the cost in India or Philippines. Both countries with educated people who speak English. I am not just talking about highly skilled jobs either, I am talking about accounting, finance, customer service, etc. It is about money, the corporations will survive in foreign countries. I dont know about a large part of the middle class if this continues unchecked. I know personally of companies using the technical visas to import cheap labor to do work a legal person in the US can do. These technical visas are exploited by many companies to bring cheap labor to the USA. I suspect people in the IT industry know first hand of similar experiences.

To: LindyBill who wrote (18070)	11/29/2003 2:24:05 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793672

It's not just "overpaid computer types". Anyone who makes more than $50,000 and less than $10,000,000, and doesn't earn it with their two hands is feeling the pinch - or the kick in the ass out the door. With our growth, we just aren't producing enough high skill people to satisfy the demand. That is simply not true. It's all about cutting expense.

To: LindyBill who wrote (18070)	11/30/2003 3:37:17 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793672

I see an article talking about unemployed workers who lost their jobs because in IT and other back office jobs that can be completed for 1/10 of the cost in India or Philippines. Both countries with educated people who speak English… It is about money, the corporations will survive in foreign countries. I dont know about a large part of the middle class if this continues unchecked. The middle class will have to compete, just like everybody else. Do you expect the rest of us to subsidize them? Do you have some fundamental objection to economic freedom?