Re: Outsourcing to India and China

From: Gerald Kelly (gkelly_at_mminternet.com)
Date: 10/17/03 

Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 21:33:06 -0700

"Gary Labowitz" <glabowitz@comcast.net> wrote:

>My problem is this doesn't create more jobs for ME. It's a little late in my
>career to retrain to work in another field and I find it difficult enough to
>keep up with computer advances. What really frosts me is that persons from
>other countries come into the USA as "consultant" employees, work in groups
>of 4-6, share expenses, and undercut the market price. It's clever, true,
>but makes places like India a suburb of the USA. I'm also too old also to
>(re)join a coop and work for little pay.
The thing is: can you name an Indian or Chinese software application
? Something you can find on the shelves at a North American or
European retailer ? Something that you use on your computer often ?
Probably not, eh ? What does that tell you ?