Re: Good book "Great Careers in 2 Years".....


"Kamal R. Prasad" <kamalp@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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rrc wrote:
Kamal R. Prasad wrote:

Every to-be-laid-off american ought to put a counter-offer to continue
for $20-25K. That will
save them the jobs from being offshored and also the anxieties of
training for a new job. It
will also make it cheaper to hire US citizens than H1bs.

Yes, in addition, we need to be placed in section 8 (subsidized/rent
ctrl) housing so that the land/RE speculators can't drive the newly

The key is to understand that jobs don't belong to the country/public.
One has to bring value to the table in terms of being competitively
priced to get/retain jobs. If citizenship entitles one to jobs, then
there won't be any thing such as an office commute.
They actually DO belong to the country/public. The businesses doing the
hiring are getting hefty tax breaks and other incentives, so there should be
a law requiring corporations to give something in return. Moreover,
globalization was never meant to be of labor, but of trade and goods.
Besides, the chief reason for hiring foreigners (myself included) has noting
to do with competence but with lower labor costs and benefits paid. IT is
the way the stock market operates that has cause this mess, resulting in the
impoverishment of many and the enrichment of few.

poor onto the streets. Ultimately, that'll lead to a bifurcation of
housing with the owners and financial types living in McMansions and
the rest of the population in low rent tenements which will avoid civil

..and you could vote to raise taxes/rollback taxcuts for the super-rich
to lower disparity of wealth.

unrest. Nonetheless, I think it's the best way to maintain order and
civility in a newly evolving third world nation.

If you know something of macro-economics, you will realize that wealth
does not originate in the US, or that your country has fallen off a
cliff (in terms of losing its purchasing power) quite some time back
and but for manipulations that wasn't evident till date. It isn't that
but for W or job-stealing Indians -you would have been living in the
first world.
So where does wealth originate? If you subscribe to the view that it comes
from labor then you are a commie. And who cares about cheap
electronic/clothing imports if they are junk, not to mention how they
accelerate the decay of the environment.

regards
-kamal
no regards



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