Exportation of high tech jobs to India worries Bingaman

New Mexico Business Weekly ^ | February 4, 2005 | Dennis Domrzalski

[Willie Green]

So our power plants can be shut down by some low-wage geek in INDIA???

Good Lord Almighty, what the heck kind of national security is THAT????

[Willie Green]

ping

[Betaille]

What mercantalists and socialists always neglect to point out, is that when labor is done cheaper, more capital is available for new US enterprises, creating jobs. Hence the fact that we have a 5.2% unemployment rate despite 25 years of screaming that "they took our jobs!"

[joesnuffy]

One world government & a new world order a'comin' down the track....

Clicky clack Clicky clack...

[RogueIsland]

Bingaman wasn't concerned that the technicians would type incorrect orders into the computer. He knew that wouldn't happen. What concerned him was that the plant the engineers in Bangalore were operating via computer was in the state of Indiana, and that such high-tech jobs that the U.S. once thought it owned were being outsourced to India.

Considering that the most common phrase heard around my place regarding the work we are getting from offshore is "We finally got the code from India to compile", he probably should be a little worried.

[Disambiguator]

What concerns me is that Jeff Bingaman is a senator from my state.

[snowsislander]

what the heck kind of national security is THAT????

It's clearly unacceptably risky.

As is all of the financial information going to India.

Outsourcing is going to happen, and operating costs are going to be a significant factor; however, whoever is doing the cost/benefit equations is, to my eye, leaving out risk factors that need to be fully explicated and accounted for. For financial records, this includes significant legal responsibility for all consumer customer records under Gramm-Leach-Bliley.

[TiaS]

Wake Up America!!! Good job, Senator.

[CedarDave]

Bingaman can be right on this but he's still a RAT who voted against Gonzales last week and is up for re-election next year. His words ring hollow since he's in the pocket of the teachers and government workers unions, supports the envirowackos and opposes any new natural resource extraction including oil and gas on Otero Mesa in NM and ANWR in Alaska. He and his ilk are largely responsible for the job flight overseas when they support policies that make it unprofitable for businesses to operate.

[Sam the Sham]

This has nothing to do with ANWR or teachers unions or much of anything you mentioned. It is about labor costs. Labor costs and nothing else. They are a whole lot cheaper in India because it is poorer.

[Willie Green]

What mercantalists and socialists always neglect to point out, is that when labor is done cheaper, more capital is available for new US enterprises, creating jobs.

Same lame mantra that is always regurgitated by apologists for global corporatism. Such philosophical babbling is irrelevant when national security is jeopardized.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Bingaman supported all tax increases and regulatory burdens which these companies have to comply with. He must have wanted these results.

[Willie Green]

Bingaman can be right on this but he's still a RAT who voted against Gonzales last week and is up for re-election next year.

Well at least Bingaman isn't groveling for the illegal immigrant vote, either.

[balrog666]

They took our jobs!

Alright, everybody back in the pile!

[Arjun]

That may just mean one or more of the following..

1. Your company does not have right processes in place to manage outsourcing and the communication for that.
2. you have chosen the wrong partner for outsourcing
3. Neither side had much experience in this before going into it.

I have been in this business for 5 years now. The company we outsource to have done a great job. No point in berating them. Can they do as well as we do.. you bet!
We have great communication and we never have compilation problems inspite of large teams there and here working on the same code. Its a question of putting right processes in place.

[CedarDave]

See post #12

[Sam the Sham]

If you abolished every tax and every regulation the American wage scale would still be higher because we have a higher standard of living. And that and that alone is the issue.

[sanchez810]

No where in the article does it say this guy can turn off our power plants.

[Willie Green]

No where in the article does it say this guy can turn off our power plants.

So what is it that you don't understand when the article states that they control the operation of the plant?

[sanchez810]

They are just technicians, it does not state the possession of that power.