To: Victor Lazlo who wrote (532461 ) 1/29/2004 11:54:09 PM From: Lizzie Tudor Read Replies (1) | Respond to the Dems are not so in bed with corporate interests and supply side economic ideals (THAT DON'T WORK)- that they would try to stem all this offshoring. I'm not saying they would stop it but they will control it, and the republicans can't do anything because these big multinationals are Bush's only campaign donors! HP is liquidating its entire labor force, you tell me how this makes life better for us in the USA? No other country allows totally offshore production and dumping on their markets... asia certainly doesn't allow it... china changes standards so that US companies *can't* sell there. Foreign governments are not allowing microsoft to sell in their countries because they want to build up their own software industry with Linux. Otoh, Microsoft, a US company is allowed to transfer its entire R&D over to india and dump products on our markets, no problem! This republican nightmare of supply side free trade has to end and soon.At the same time, the issue is drawing attention in the presidential race. For instance, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), who's seeking the Democratic nomination, introduced legislation last month requiring call center employees to disclose their location at the commencement of each call. When introducing the legislation, Kerry cited a Gartner Inc. estimate that one in 20 IT jobs at user companies will move In a Capitol Hill forum on offshore outsourcing Thursday, Rolf Lundberg, a senior vice president at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said legislation that seeks to impede offshore outsourcing "will undermine efforts to open new markets overseas" and invite "some form of response and retaliation" by foreign nations.
