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To: epicure who wrote (7551)	3/5/2004 11:55:50 AM
From: tsigprofit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

I think people will get angry, and vote Bush out. We also need real discussion, and real plans, on how to address the outsourcing issue. I was always basically free trade. But in the IT industry, we are seeing more and more jobs going to India. I saw on the news last night - this outsourcing all started simply enough: * first call center jobs were shifted * then some programming * medical transcription * review of tax forms * now higher level skills like financial analysis, X-Ray analysis We need to slow this down. If not - how are middle-class people going to pay for expensive US homes, taxes, medical care, and college educations for children - if their jobs evaporate and move to India? Also - how can the US be a major world power if most of it's highest level jobs are outsourced? We will lose the entire technical and professional class. And what happens if one day 10 years from now - Pakistan nukes India - and most of the US capacity in computers, financial analysis, even legal and medical skills - goes up in a billow of mushroom clouds?

To: epicure who wrote (7551)	3/8/2004 9:00:13 PM
From: tsigprofit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

This was a good discussion between us all - thanks X and Dale. I am a little too close on this issue probably. I saw 12 people at my office, all in IT or engineering, out of a job just at the end of January. I also have a good friend that was let go from Ford (also in IT) - from last June. For him, this is not academic. His unemployment has run out, and there are no IT jobs. He has looked, and I have helped him. New jobs will be created, that is for sure, but if we have massive dislocations - we are going to need new answers, and new social policies to handle this. Take care all, and good night. t