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To: LindyBill who wrote (18136)	11/30/2003 9:49:31 AM
From: quehubo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793688

<<That is going to give us the bottom line from them without the people being here.>> Becareful there Lindy, I guess the bottom line you are talking about is the corporate bottom line. Because the jobs are not being created, they are being moved. GE may have reduced its employment costs in the USA, but they were transferred to the US taxpayer. Yes our neighbor who worked for GE in customer service costing GE $11 an hour is now on welfare because she was replaced by an Indian for $1.50 hour. While the loss of these jobs cascades through the economy, GE and others will be thinking of how to move more tax exposure off shore so they can decrease US corporate income taxes as well. The more I think about it the more I think we should import more of the most qualified workers. Even if the typical immigrant is over qualified education wise for the position compared to an qualifed unemployed American, if the choice is between import the worker or export the job I prefer to keep the position here. I doubt there would be any objections by the potential immigrants.

To: LindyBill who wrote (18136)	12/1/2003 10:52:48 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793688

Someone will do a study on the interjection into our economy of the overseas productivity we are getting from say, workers in India, without the people being in our welfare/health/SS system. That is going to give us the bottom line from them without the people being here. Kind of an artificial population increase. We will benefit in a number of ways. The emergence of a productive middle class and a tech services industry in countries like India, China, Malaysia, the Philippines etc. will open up new markets for US goods – they have to buy their servers and their software somewhere – and will do a lot to build political stability. Of course we’ll have to compete if we want to stay at the top of the heap, but that’s a given. I’d rather see economic competition than military competition.