Jan Coffey wrote: > Ritu, your mising the rest of the story.
No, Jan, I'm not. :) You and I have had a discussion on this issue before and I'll clarify bits of my position later in this mail but my sole point was that India and China are not responsible for these decisions to outsource and that they do not owe anything to the American taxpayers or the American govt. All they owe anybody in these circumstances is providing the service they are being paid to provide. > American companies get billions and billions of dollars a year in > tax reliefe (that's money that the US taxpayer has to make up). They > get this reliefe supposedly becouse it's supposed to help them > create jobs for americans. > > The American worker is starting to feel that they are getting taxed > so that jobs can be created in Indea etc. We have nothing against > the Indean worker, it's just that we pay our taxes an work in our > country for ~our~ country, not so we can subsidize job groth > elsewhere, and especialy when that job growth is at the expense of > jobs here at home. See, I can understand this reaction. And I have never thought that people fighting to keep jobs in America are doing so to spite India. I don't even expect people to keep quiet, or protest less stridently than they wish to, out of concern for some Indian worker [the fate of the Indian worker is, after all, the concern of the worker, the Indian companies and the Indian govt. and is certainly not the concern of the US govt. or citizens]. > We have had this discussion befor. This isn't about free markets. If > it was a free market, then it woud be about hiering the most > qualified worker, well, the most economicaly qualified worker. Every > worker woulod be free to apply for every job. But that is not the > case here. It's not like Indea will allow any joe shmoe to move to > Bangalore and start applying for the job he use to have in San Jose. > It's also not like the Indian worker is being aforded all the rights > the american would be acusdomed to, even if he could move and apply. Restrictions are certainly there but a lot of Europeans are moving to Bangalore and Gurgaon for the jobs they used to have, so I think there is no uniform restriction against foregin workers. But, as their interviews make it clear, the pay scale, work-culture, benefits etc. are all vastly different from what they are used to. And then there is the problem of climate and electricity and other stuff like that. > And you will have to pardon the american worker if he or she feels a > little like his financial well being is being stolen. What is more, > it's not just our economy, it's our very way of life. Indea may not > be to blame, but that is really hard to tell someone who has been > shoved out on the streets. And what is more, it may be out leaders > who are to blame, but I'm sorry, fixing that problem, is still going > to take it all back. Fix the problem any way you see fit, even if it means that no jobs are outsourced to India. I have no problems with the idea. The workers who feel the way you have outlined above have never offended me so pardoning them is out of question. 'Tis just that I can't see *how* India is supposed to be blamed for this and thus, I will ask when someone says that in front of me. Oh, btw, something you mentioned yesterday, the outsourcing of legal services to India. Well, rediff reported today that that has started too: http://in.rediff.com/money/2004/mar/04bpo.htm Ritu _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
