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To: stockman_scott who wrote (2493)	2/15/2004 5:53:15 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 81568

"We tend to keep the high end of the value chain," said Janet Yellen, an economist at the University of California at Berkeley who was head of Mr. Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers. "We're outsourcing the more standardized part of high tech." This isn't true, that is the problem, and the only unmanageable problem with outsourcing at least in my view. Google, a brand new company is hiring a few people here to do payroll and hoardes of offshore programmers in india to do "real work". Juniper, the "cisco-killer", is moving all R&D to india and laying off here. Thats ALL R&D, not maintenance or support only. You can't really call this a result of the law of comparative advantage, because the executives are not offshored (where the real savings would be). Its hard to support this, it looks like a giveaway of a bunch of hugely expensive taxpayer funded research that produced these inventions like Routers and chips. If we were just offshoring call centers it might be ok, as long as there was enough entry level tech work for new graduates.