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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (182990)	2/18/2004 6:24:23 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1577020

The difference this time is it's not simply manufacturing jobs but skilled technical jobs and co-workers from India are actually thinking of moving "home" at times. In addition, the new home land defense business has put a crimp on the H1B visa process, so we can't bring over talent as easily as we had in the past. So I guess my service industry skills may need updating and I could open a restaurant. <g> Please don't take what I am saying as being cavalier. The movement of jobs to India definitely is a problem. However, I think its as significant as it is because we are in recession. When companies are faced with falling profits, they look for ways to cost cut even when they don't like the ways in question. Moving jobs to India is one of those ways. However, there are problems with this form of decentralization.........another continent resulting in distance decay with communications; technological lapses with the Indian work force.......I don't care what anyone says, they are not as up-to-date as Americans; and the language barrier........Americans can barely understand the Brits, let alone Indians. One of the companies I worked for in LA had to let their Indian receptionist go because people complained they did not understand what she was saying when she answered the phones. That's why I think this is a blip.....a fad that will disappear once the economy is doing better. re:Its as illogical as Columbus saying 600 years ago that one could encircle the globe by ship. The question is not if world gov't is coming but when. When the PLO accepts the war with Israel is over and that they lost and form a coalition government with the Israelis I will accept your theory. Its Israel that would object, not the PLO. Its the demographics, stupid! The PLO is birthing babies faster than the Israelis. If there were a coalition gov't, there would no longer be a Jewish state. Its those demographics that ultimately will get Palestine its independence.