Except as it pertains to IBM, this is now way off-topic for this list, but I just have to say this... The problem with U.S. Corporations is *the stock market*. Want to stop the outsourcing of jobs to overseas? Abolish the stock market! Make management responsive to and responsible to customers, not stockholders. (In support of this idea I'll offer that Innovation Data Processing is privately held and is one of the most responsive software companies around. I also worked for a small ISV which frequently added features for a single customer.)
The whole H1B argument is so obviously a lie -- there isn't a shortage of IT professionals in the U.S.; there is just a shortage in the U.S. of the ones who will work for what in the U.S. is chump change. So they import them and train them here so they can go back to their home countries and suck even more jobs out of the U.S. /Leonard On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 12:32:19PM -0400, Bill Fairchild ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > In a message dated 5/29/2005 6:39:57 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Unfortunate, but why should people get into a career path where corporate > america is continuing to send their jobs overseas. > > Ah, my favorite mainframe subject finally pitches up: political ranting. > > Corporations, by law, MUST be soulless and answer only to the bottom line, > maximizing shareholders' value to the exclusion of ALL human values. > > > We need a president that says no more H1B visa's or the like, no more > sending american jobs offshore, and all jobs sent overseas during the last > 24 years will immediately be brought back home, and corporate america will > start paying its employees a decent wage. > > Will never happen until we change corporate law. Also, all presidents are > bought, paid for, and loyal only to big corporations. The same goes for > U.S. > Senators, and at least 433 of our 435 Congressbipeds. > > > Something's wrong in Denmark when the ceo of a company makes more money than > the president of the United States. > > You have NO idea how much the U.S. President really makes in total. You are > looking at only his "salary" as determined by Congress. There are trillions > of dollars sloshing around the world looking for corrupt megalomaniac > powerlusters, also soulless, to reach out and grab as much as they can. The > land > of the free is not immune. > > > "Bank of America Corp. paid its chief executive, Kenneth D. Lewis, $20 > million last year as the bank struck a high-profile deal to acquire New > England's biggest bank. > > And, last year, Edward Lampert received $1.02 billion in compensation for > managing the ESL Investments hedge fund. Among his other achievements, he > engineered the merger of Sears Roebuck and K-Mart. > > Trillions of dollars are sloshing around. Do you think trillions of dollars > care about concepts like fairness, liberty, freedom, human values? > > Bill Fairchild > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
