Originally posted by AWMac
And my reponse?
Ruin the Country?
2: 2. Total ellimination of Corporate outsourcing..If you depend upon 3rd World Countries to do American work then you move to that dam Country...yer not American.
*You have to be kidding me! You actually belive outsourcing is in the best means for Americans?
Mac
Mac,
The corporation I was just laid off from in kalifornia has a mandate to reduce fixed assets in its IT devision by 10% EVERY YEAR no exceptions to help meet it's projected QUARTERLY growth for the next 10 years...... Because it can no longer grow inside the U.S. by aquisitions due to Federal limitations, it has a global growth initiative. One of it's strategies was a cash purchase of 19% of a Chinese national corporation to leverage that market. You can guess other global markets it is attempting to and has expanded into. To not incure fixed asset costs in global locations, local out sourcing support vendors are being leveraged by contract. At the same time like Microsoft, Oracle and IBM tech centers are being put in place in India to leverage the "currently cheap and college educated labor force". In 10 years this labor force will evolve into an expensive asset and american corporations will be looking for the next emerging cheap vendor. Possibely that will be back here in the U.S. at the rate we are not graduating computer science engineers.
U.S. corporations now define the employee as a fixed asset. Fixed assets are looked upon as a liability, especially in todays global markets where fluid assets are the measure of a competitors health. Global competitivness is driving outsourceing to reduce labor costs. The real answer is to get american corporations to invest in finding long term answers to make hiring americans cost effective quarter to quarter. If you could use the power of the federal government to force all american companies to drop their foreign vendors and rehire amarican workers at this point, then the federal government would have to engage in true welfare bail outs like the airlines and railroads. It would damage our economy.
Federal Power is never the answer in a free market...government does not make money, it only knows how to take money from the productive segments of society.