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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (177358)	4/2/2004 9:23:11 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

But I guess Bill Mann would rather play the class warfare card than stick to his otherwise valid points, Silicon Valley executives put themselves in the position of comparing labor, and pay for labor, globally. They used these arguments to defend their offshoring plans. Well, these same comparisons need to be applied to executives and it is clear that US executives are not globally competitive wrt compensation. We need to get these executive costs in line and expensing options is one way to achieve it. There is an ample supply of executives willing to work for far less now vs. the 90s. Also there are executives in India who are qualified to take some senior management positions at 1/5 the cost of US executives. The tech lobby's agenda is getting tiresome. I suspect Calpers and some other pension funds take up this issue soon. We need to globalize senior management, its long overdue. When you can get great talent at 20 percent of the costs, it isn't about waving the American flag. It's about doing what's right to have a good company. (so why is the tech lobby trying to wave a flag wrt those pesky "Chinese communists"? Sheesh.) sfgate.com