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To: LindyBill who wrote (22255)	12/31/2003 11:00:25 AM
From: MSI	Respond to of 793649

LOL! Mr. Bartlett certainly never interviewed actual workers in the field. It's typical of the WashTimes to have careless standards, but this is even sillier than usual. Somehow they think "techie" words will confuse some non-tech people to disregard such idiocy as "we'd be better off having immigrants work here, because they spend money here!", as if that's what American tech workers would love to hear. Gee, maybe visiting tech workers will hire out-of-work American tech workers to mow their lawns. The "redeployment" is a loss for the American worker, at lower wages, where the gain of the $1.14 is for the company, not the worker. The Joglekar study refers to 20% job loss rate during the 1998-2000 explosion in demand, not the current low-growth. Puff pieces like this are dismissed by tech workers, who see what is happening in the real world first hand. To say because outsourcing happens overseas that we should rather bring cheap immigrant labor here is laughable. As an employer gaining cheap tech labor, and as an hourly consultant seeing the loss of jobs I see both sides.