>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/31/03 12:19PM >>> >>what is interesting (at least to me, because i am "in the space") is >>that the high-paying privileged jobs in IT (the ones that ivy league >>educated "liberal" white men filled) are being outsourced to india or >>elsewhere, and some of the whining from these "liberals" sounds quite >>inconsistent. that perception (of mine) might be correct and >>uninteresting, yet insignificant. but perhaps not... being higher up in >>the food chain, the influence [of those now affected] must be >>exponentially larger than that of the blue collar workers. further, >>would it be true that this segment is a swing voter group (that cannot >>be swayed using some other means such as appeals to racism or nationalism)?
>Gartner says 1 in 10 IT jobs may be outsourced overseas. According to >the BLS, there are about 3 million workers in the information sector >(and that includes old-line stuff like book publishing). So I wonder >how big an electoral factor they'll be. >Doug Not to mention, a hell of a lot of them are libertarians, not liberals, so mostly they'll just whine. Anders
