In addition, the criticism has been primarily directed at the companies who hire unqualified people.

I’d bet you’ll see dual booting macs sooner than you expect. The cost may be more, but if you have 2 machines in one, what’s the problem? And who knows, you might LIKE the Mac BETTER.

I bet you do.

As far as I can tell, all of the major PC manufacturers use the cheapest motherbaords they can find. My solution is to just build my own machines.

Laurie: I’m sure Macs are fine machines… if Apple hadn’t tried to gouge people on hardware years ago I might’ve bought one before accumulating several thousand dollars worth of software. Switching now is not really an option.

First, let’s get one thing understood:

THERE IS NO JOB AN AMERICAN WON’T DO FOR THE RIGHT PRICE!

That’s why there are still garbage men even though nobody “wants” to be a garbage man. In a free market system a garbage man will get paid exactly as much as needed to have garbage men.

The main issue with the outsourcing of jobs to India is the US Government…yes, I said it. If the Government wasn’t so gargantuan requiring such high taxes to fund, the price of having an American worker would not be so cost prohibitive.

If you think about it, that is saying a lot. It costs less for a company to pay workers and operate an entire networking backbone in another country to communicate back into the US than it does just to hire people in the US. That is mind boggling if you know anything about the costs of operating that type of infrastructure.

The problem is Government. The only answer to these problems is to begin a process of severely reducing the size and reach of the government, therefore reducing the money needed to fund the government, therefore reducing taxes. Allowing people to keep more of the fruits of their labor, allowing companies to pay workers less for the same net income, which will make American labor more competitive.

Democrats are liberals, there is no way they introduce initiatives to begin to take power away from the government (and themselves). Also, I have said it before on this blog, regardless of the spin they use, the currently elected Republican majority ARE LIBERALS AS WELL! Being less liberal than Democrats does not make you a conservative.
Other than Congressmen Ron Paul (R-TX), and Tom Tancredo (R-CO) can anyone name for me just one other Republican that would actually stand for significantly reducing the size and power of government?

If you can’t name at least 261 Representatives AND 60 Senators AND the President than you have a socialist/liberal/left-wing government…PERIOD.

Wake up people…there is an election coming up in 2006, if your Representative or Senator has voted for increasing government size and power…VOTE THEM OUT! Hopefully, you will vote for a libertarian or constitutionalist (note the lover case letters, these are mindsets, not necessarily political parties), but voting the incumbant out (Red or Blue) is a good start.

About three months ago I talked to a young man who told me the group he worked for was transferred to Texas and after a year they transferred all those jobs to India. Here you have a group that was so willing to work to the extent that they moved from one state to another, yet they still lost their jobs to workers in India.

I know that many India workers are college educated but I still have a very difficult time understanding them and have yet to get decent help.

Every morning, a lion wakes up knowing it must run faster than the
slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.”

Here in the US, we had better start learning how to run faster…This is the nature of the free market. What can be outsourced, will be outsourced. What can be manufactured more cheaply abroad, will be. Hopefully, this will help to reduce the prices for services and goods in this country and increase the standard of living in other countries. The difficulty is that it will take more to keep our lead and not everyone is going to make it. What we can do is try to gear our education system towards producing people who can compete on a global level.

In terms of accent, I think that many people just don’t make an effort to understand people who sound different from what they grew up with. I grew up in a university town and can understand most accents. It just takes a bit of patience. If it is completely unbearable and the company starts losing enough money, then the company will eventually notice and switch its service.