It's Unstoppable: High Tech Jobs Ditching US

Associated Press/ The Straits Times ^ | 08-03-03

[KevinDavis]

Reduce the tax burden and regulation, this will stop the problem real fast.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Did IBM just open a $2.5B facility in NY?

[sarcasm]

ping

[oceanview]

yeah sure, a US worker can be competitive with someone from Vietnam, if we just reduce taxes and regulation. LOL!

[rochester]

Why would a Fortune 500's Board of Directors hire an American CEO for tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars per year, if an executive from India could be hired for a mere couple of hundred thousand?

[Wonder Warthog]

"The beneficiaries will be countries such as India, China, Vietnam and Singapore, which are seen as being able to deliver cheaper and faster software development, manufacturing and tech support."

Excuse me, folks, but, CHEEZ!, there ARE other areas of "high technology" besides the computer business.

[Sonny M]

yeah sure, a US worker can be competitive with someone from Vietnam, if we just reduce taxes and regulation. LOL!

When you cut taxes and deregulate, you help small businesses more, and those small businesses don't move, or "out source" overseas. Alot of manufacturing also is done overseas, because there aren't the same crazy enviornmental and labor regulations.

[oceanview]

because once you become part of the tight inner circle, you are protected from any of this stuff. that's what it means to be one of the "elites". You're fine, your kids get into the top schools and get top jobs because of "connections". This is the very definition of privilege. The rest of us are left to compete against the Vietnamese earning $1 per day, or perhaps working at gunpoint for nothing.

[VadeRetro]

EVEN though the United States' ailing technology sector looks poised to recover, the bad news for job-seekers in the world's largest economy is that they won't benefit.

No one's demagoguing on this one quite yet, but it's going to be the story of the next election.

[oceanview]

next time you go for an XRAY or an MRI, ask where it is being read. that will answer your question. Its not just IT by any means that is getting hit by this.

[JRandomFreeper]

'No one knows what will replace these jobs.

But something will. There is not much call for buggy-whip makers these days either. I was a high-five figure/low-six-figure *nix sys-admin/business process design geek. Laid off last November, and un-employed full-time student ever since (with no help from the state).

I can't be much of anything but positive about the future. Cycles happen. Good savings, good survival skills and willingness to move forward are as useful today as they were in the 1890's or the 1930's or the 1970's.

/john

[John Jorsett]

Emergency action is required. Let's start shipping those countries some of our lawyers. That'll fix 'em.

[Princeliberty]

No, no, there is not high-tech job problem
remember when GATT and NAFTA got passed it
was ok manufacturing jobs when overseas
because those were backward primitive jobs
that a civilized nation did not want
and they would replaced by great high tech.
jobs we just needed to get everyone trained
to program computers.
So we just need spend more money on the
Department of Education to fund computer
programing classes and everything will be
fine.

[JRandomFreeper]

Let's start shipping those countries some of our lawyers. That'll fix 'em.

That has to be against the Geneva Convention. Kinder to nuke them.

/john

[Cold Heat]

Instead, US companies and citizens must innovate and come up with technologies that create new companies and ultimately new jobs.

The head of the nail. Or if it makes you feel better to bitch about it, then those who need to, carry on.

[oceanview]

and his job of course, and the corporate officers, the lawyers, the pilot of his jet, the people who work at his Mercedes dealer, etc.

[maestro]

The USA is being 'Economically Nuked' into a 3rd world (4th?) nation by 'pro' 3rd world internationalist traitors?

The USA needs to start craft sweatshops hand-weaving union classes.

/sarcasm

[oceanview]

any new company would have the offshore jobs component built in from the start.