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To: epicure who wrote (8612)	3/17/2004 2:52:53 PM
From: tsigprofit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

It is the same with India and IT jobs. As we talked about yesterday - from a business viewpoint, it is better to dump the toxic waste from your factory into the nearby river. Your costs - near zero. The cost is borne downstream by the residents who now get cancer, and die younger. Same with this outsourcing. Most politicians - and that includes both Repubs and Dems - are not impacted by this - so they don't care. Corps here can: 1. Pay US workers 50-70K per year to do an IT job here - plus benefits 2. Outsource it to India - and pay 3-10K or so for the same job. No health benefits. No social security. No labor laws to contend with, etc, etc. From a business viewpoint - what would you do? But - who bears the costs of this? The US Taxpayer - as unemployed highly skilled people now no longer pay US taxes - they require money now! Corps and people like Bush and Powell don't care. It is none of their concern. I think this issue has the potential to be much more destructive to the average American middle-class ambitious person than terrorism.