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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (2325)	2/14/2004 2:52:21 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

It has come to the point where if a US company says they will hire a few thousand local employees we are all supposed to jump up and down and act like they are doing us a huge favor. Microsoft is being rejected by the international community in favor of Linux en masse. Paris is now looking at going open source along with Munich, Israel and parts of China. Microsoft exists only because their monopoly status allows them to charge hundreds for winXP (a product that should cost about $30) in a captive market, the USA. If microsoft wants to move offshore I say go ahead, there is rampant software piracy and no protections for offshore companies. Same with these various drug companies- they don't like the deal here? Just move. With the economic instability abroad, US companies have an edge in the sales cycle. The US market is a huge advantage to any company that wants to set up shop here. Executive salaries are the highest in the world, and our stock market means huge wealth you can't get elsewhere. All this should come with a price. Right now we have low corporate taxes so not much "trickles down" in the system. This was fine when it was assumed all hiring would be local. Now, it is NOT FINE. If these companies don't want to add any value to the society as a whole I say we should kick them out. BTW I am not impressed with a few thousand hires from IBM or MSFT.