OT: U.S. firms move IT overseas

[Randall Randall]

Jason Clinton wrote:
> Jeremy Fowler wrote:
> 
>> Yeah, I guess I did go off the handle with that one. I also
>> exaggerated the
>> unemployment rate, but it's still pretty bad. I have to say that I
>> don't blame
>> corporations for wanting to stay competitive with other international
>> corporations who use offshore labor. Gawd knows I love those Taiwanese
>> sweat
>> shop workers for making my PC components so cheep - kidding! ;-) I
>> just wish
>> that corporations would be a little more loyal to American workers and
>> invest a
>> little more in our country's future, not just their bottom line.
>>
> 
> <flame>From a purely human rights point of view, <sarcasm>it sure is
> terrible that Americans actually have to _compete_ with people in other
> contries. </sarcasm> The people getting our jobs are just as deserving
> of the right to work and survive as we are. If our country worked more
> on keeping other country's standards of living higher, they wouldn't be
> able to work for 'next to nothing'. Who makes those foreign policy
> decisions? The rich. Who's your real enemy? The rich. Place the blame in
> the right place and then go out and do something about it. Most
> importantly, keep doing what you just did: talk about it with everyone
> you can.</flame>

Wow.  So, if you managed to work hard and make a coupla million, you'd be
the real enemy?  You've got to be kidding.

I think it's clear that while the US Govt has certainly helped keep other
nations poor (with too much foreign aid, and stipulations attached to it
designed to make the country so blessed dependent on more aid), the
governments of those countries are mostly to blame.  The main way people
get less poor is entrepreneurship, and that's nearly impossible in most
poor countries.  They simply have too much government to have a thriving
private economy.

Governments grow in inverse proportion to economies.

-- 
Randall Randall <randall at randallsquared.com>
"[The] poetic justice of cause and effect compels
 respect, compassion." -- Faithless, God is a DJ.