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Politics : HOWARD DEAN -THE NEXT PRESIDENT? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nikole Wollerstein who wrote (2135)	1/19/2004 3:56:38 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3079

Well I am of the view that companies like Oracle who are really US sales operations with completely offshore workforces should move offshore. Oracle provides no value to the USA as a whole. If Oracle left, US based companies like Red Hat would very quickly fill the void with a US based workforce. Oracle customers would drop Oracle in a minute if they were not a US company. These asian firms masquerading as US firms should be exposed and offered a choice, either staff up locally (US) with the same % as their sales demographic, or move. We have another situation in PCs, eMachines gaining on Dell, but eMachines is really a chinese company with only 150 US employees. Dell can't compete, despite moving thousands of jobs to india already. Of course nobody would buy eMachines if they were purely chinese (well the cheapie consumer mkt would but not enterprise which is the business they are after). We can't lose every large employer in this country and replace them with offshore labor and a few hundred salespeople in the US, sorry it just won't work for the US economy and I am quite certain the job loss picture is going to get worse in the next few mos vs. better as the white house hopes/expects, which will cause a sea change in policy on these matters.