Post by RPankn on Jan 14, 2006 2:53:00 GMT -5
Unfortunately, it's taken White suburban liberals getting sent to the back of the bus for them to start waking up. I hope they see what all their union bashing and cults of personality for DLC candidates has gotten them.
U.S. Senator Supports Outsourcing to India
Leading U.S. Senator Says He Supports Outsourcing of White-Collar Jobs to India
By S. SRINIVASAN Associated Press Writer
The Associated Press
BANGALORE, India Jan 13, 2006 — U.S. Senator Max Baucas, the top Democrat on the powerful Senate Finance Committee, said Friday he supports the outsourcing of white-collar jobs to low-wage countries such as India a position at odds with his party's traditional stance on the issue.
Baucas insisted a majority of fellow Senate Democrats agreed with him, despite the party's longtime opposition to American companies moving jobs overseas.
"Everybody is concerned about job losses and so am I," he told The Associated Press in an interview in Bangalore, his first stop on an five-day tour of India.
"But the world is flat and we must work harder to better retrain our people," rather than resist outsourcing, he said. "Offshoring is a fact of globalization. Opportunities for U.S. companies come from everywhere including India." [He must have been reading Friedman.]
Contracts from foreign firms for everything from software engineering to customer service call centers has helped turn India's economy into one of the world's fastest growing. It's expected to expand by more than 7 percent in the year through March.
Such outsourcing is expected to bring in US$22 billion (euro18.19 billion) in revenues this fiscal year, keeping India in its perch as the global leader in the business.
But critics in the West say outsourcing puts skilled people out of work just so big companies can save money.
Supporters argue that it actually creates jobs by helping companies grow faster.
Support for outsourcing in the United States has traditionally come from Republicans and much of the opposition from Democrats, and Baucus' statement was a rare endorsement of the practice from a Democrat. [Where the hell has the AP been?]
During the 2004 presidential campaign, Democratic contender Sen. John Kerry said U.S. companies that shifted white-collar jobs overseas were "Benedict Arnolds" a reference to the most famous turncoat of the American Revolution but later softened his stand on the issue.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1501595&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
U.S. Senator Supports Outsourcing to India
Leading U.S. Senator Says He Supports Outsourcing of White-Collar Jobs to India
By S. SRINIVASAN Associated Press Writer
The Associated Press
BANGALORE, India Jan 13, 2006 — U.S. Senator Max Baucas, the top Democrat on the powerful Senate Finance Committee, said Friday he supports the outsourcing of white-collar jobs to low-wage countries such as India a position at odds with his party's traditional stance on the issue.
Baucas insisted a majority of fellow Senate Democrats agreed with him, despite the party's longtime opposition to American companies moving jobs overseas.
"Everybody is concerned about job losses and so am I," he told The Associated Press in an interview in Bangalore, his first stop on an five-day tour of India.
"But the world is flat and we must work harder to better retrain our people," rather than resist outsourcing, he said. "Offshoring is a fact of globalization. Opportunities for U.S. companies come from everywhere including India." [He must have been reading Friedman.]
Contracts from foreign firms for everything from software engineering to customer service call centers has helped turn India's economy into one of the world's fastest growing. It's expected to expand by more than 7 percent in the year through March.
Such outsourcing is expected to bring in US$22 billion (euro18.19 billion) in revenues this fiscal year, keeping India in its perch as the global leader in the business.
But critics in the West say outsourcing puts skilled people out of work just so big companies can save money.
Supporters argue that it actually creates jobs by helping companies grow faster.
Support for outsourcing in the United States has traditionally come from Republicans and much of the opposition from Democrats, and Baucus' statement was a rare endorsement of the practice from a Democrat. [Where the hell has the AP been?]
During the 2004 presidential campaign, Democratic contender Sen. John Kerry said U.S. companies that shifted white-collar jobs overseas were "Benedict Arnolds" a reference to the most famous turncoat of the American Revolution but later softened his stand on the issue.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1501595&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
