To: Oeconomicus who wrote (159836 ) 1/15/2004 4:56:06 PM From: Lazarus_Long Read Replies (2) | Respond to And what is it you think this "new" congress is going to do about "offshoring"? The study concluded that "offshoring brings substantial benefits to the global economy, and the lion's share will likely go to the U.S. economy." At a House hearing last October, Natasha Humphries of Santa Clara, Calif., testified that no matter how much she boosted her education, she still could not survive offshoring. As a 1996 graduate of Stanford University in California, she became a senior software quality assurance engineer at Palm Inc., which makes hand-held computing devices. In August, she was fired. The reason "was pretty much the bottom line" on her paycheck, not her lack of skills, she said. "It's part of the messy process of capitalism," he said.
