--- Jan Coffey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, but your numbers I believe are wrong. It is 1 > in 6 jobs that > are going to India, that's not 1 in 6 tech jobs, > it's 1 in 6 jobs.
Jan, think about what you're saying here. There are ~100 million jobs in the United States. 1 in 6 would mean more than _15 million_ jobs had left the United States. That would create unemployment rates equivalent to those suffered in the Great Depression. The current unemployment rate is under 6%. I'm not going to ask for for a source on 1 in 6, I'm just asking you to do a sanity check. Think about it. As for jobs created by offshoring, they happen, they're just harder to spot. Every time a company cuts its costs by doing that, it makes products cheaper. This frees up income that people are able to spend on other goods - and this creates jobs in the United States. Let me suggest an analogy. Someone invents a gadget - a new computer program, let's say - that allows us to replace computer programmers with this program. Would you argue that the government should stop us from using that program? If yes, why? If no, then, how is offshoring to India different _in its effects_ from that invention? ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you�re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
