Denise wrote:
Umesh, if it's so biased, then why has iIdia taken away about 20% of the tech jobs over here? I can send the articles hat are coming out of Sulekha on this. Microsoft, Dell and Capital one now have huge call centers over there, instead of here..because the workforce gets about 20% of what they would get here..over there, they get good wages and perks to go along with it, since they are having to take calls in the middle of the night. Some people here are so angry they are turniong in credit cards vfrom any compnay who does it..they are taking away American jobs..GATS isn't working for us either..NOw if yo get a jdegree in programing, all yo can use it for for the most part is selling computers! What a waste. We're losing our tech base and farming it out to India and china.
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My reply:
(India has lost all local soft drinks market to Coca Colaa and Pepsi who had to sell out when these MNCs offered to pay up cash more than their annual sales.
What is an MNC? Multi-national Corp? Well, are you saying the Coke and pepsi people don't give jobs to the locals in India? or just large portions of the profits go back to stockholders--who can be anywhere in the world, Umesh...Yo could buy stock in Coke, too , i f yo wish, and become a shareholder...Anyone ccan, I think. And I wish you would come up with another example. Coke and Pepsi do well because people prefer the taste of them. that's it, right there. I do not see how India could have lost all local soft drink markets, unless the product was crap in the first place...here, you go in a store and we see all kinds of soft drinks coming in from mMxico--the Mexicans here enjoy their own products from homw as well...
There's no Dr. Pepper over there?
Do you have icees?
In Phillipines and Malaysia cement industry is foriegn 100% owned -as is 40% in Indonesia and elsewhere in Asia --how do these figures compare to the pittance u speak of in USA --this is globalsiation --some areas u gain some areas u losee --(called the theory of comparitive advantage -in international economics)
For us this is no pittance.
But why only technical people or large firms be allowed to benefit from USA's (read developed countries) VISA restrictions -why should only those professionals be allowed to work for whom there is no substitute in USA - why not any Indian be allowed to try his luck in this global melting pot ?
I said it before. We ALREADY have an untrained labor pool here, who happen come in illegally--the Mexicans. We need professionals--like the tech people (and even now, lots of techies arfe out of work and their jobs are going back to india, Umesh,) and doctors, that's why we open up to them. We have our own pool of poor, and unskilled here, thanks so much. About 1 in 4 to 1 5 of us is living below our poverty lines...an that's American citizens. We have enough trouble now as it is finding work for everyone, Umesh.( we can also wellll do without non professional stuff like--soft drinks from USA or blue jeans from Wranglers and Levis and sneakers from Nike and Reebok or for that matter Mac D's burrgers and KFC' chicken -or beauty soaps from UniLever or its Indian Avataar -Hindustan Lever or British American Tobacco's ciggarettes under its ITC logo.
It is not a question of what we need in India --as a part of globalisation effort we are supposed to be open to other countries' people to set up shop here -( so say the Woorld Bank and IMF-supposed to be big know alls for us in India -who keep saying India isn't liberal or open enough-)it is for them to decide whether they can win or lose --Umesh)
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PS --so why not let Indian teachers , Indian acrobats and Indian cobblers and Indian handicraftsmen set up shop in US --why create unnecessary hurdles like a $1 million deposit --maybe India also has a law like this --but this too would be anti -globalisation--and I don't think any US guy would like to set up his or her barber shop here.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3070199.stm
In India we too have had many such demostrations from various labour Unions --from Govt insurance companies to banks to steel mills --protesting entry of foreign companies in their sectors since they tooo could lose jobs --but to no avail -they all had to bow to the "sad" truth of globalisation as imposed on us by the USA and UK --so why not the other way round.
Umesh
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