US IT jobs going overseas creating 'IT Rust Belt'.

[jeff]

I found this in the article:

"It's easy to blame greedy CEOs for this mess, but employers aren't just 
being greedy when they shift these jobs to foreign workers. If they 
don't and their competitors do, they have to charge more for the same 
products and services. Not exactly a formula for success. And when 
business shifts to the competitors, the jobs do too -- overseas."

CEO's share hugely in the blame.  The problem is simple when you look at 
it from the right perspective.  This is a class war, rich against poor.  
In case you didn't know it this war has been going on since civilization 
has existed.  America is moving towards becoming a thirld world 
country.  The rich want slaves; they don't like the middle class and 
they want to eliminate it.  The ultra-rich, who run this country, will 
not say this, maybe they don't even think about this much consciously, 
but all you have to do is look at their actions.

There is one really easy way to measure the result of their actions 
called the Gini ratio.  With this metric (I'm pretty sure this is an 
international metric) you can assess the damage caused in a society by 
the rich.  Be sure to take a look at the graph on this web page to get 
an idea of the damage done by reagonomics.

http://arts.bev.net/roperldavid/politics/inequality.htm
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There is a measure of income inequality called the Gini index or Gini 
ratio. "The Gini ratio (or index of income concentration) is a 
statistical measure of income equality ranging from 0 to 1. A measure of 
1 indicates perfect inequality; i.e., one person has all the income and 
the rest have none. A measure of 0 indicates perfect equality; i.e. all 
people having equal shares of income."-from 
http://blue.census.gov/hhes/income/defs/alldef.html. (Also, see 
http://www.iadb.org/exr/IDB/stories/1998/eng/e1198i.htm.) The Gini 
ratios for the U.S. are available at: 
http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/histinc/f04.html (See table at bottom.)
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Guess what? When the Gini ratio becomes high enough you have a third 
world country, almost no middle class, just rich and poor.  If America's 
population explodes to the projected 500 billion some time around 2050 
we will probably be third world country.  If people in this country stop 
being cowards we can change this.

Earlier I saw a post on this list about not posting political things.  
This list needs a political post once a week.  The reason we're in this 
shit is because the American public is too depoliticized.  Everything is 
political and if you don't participate prepare to become roadkill.  All 
of you without jobs right now are roadkill.  Things will get much, much 
worse if the Republicans take the next presidency.

One more interesting fact:  The Great Depression was preceded by four 
republican presidents who exercised similar economic policies.  A 
democratic president brought us out.  Now both parties are more similar, 
but still different enough that we would be far far better off if Gore 
was president.

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