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[Michael Czeiszperger <michael AT czeiszperger.org>]

This was posted on the OTTW list, but I thought it was relevant to the 
IW list as well. I think he nicely sums up what a lot of us are 
thinking:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1579337,00.asp

"The sinister nature of offshoring jobs has corrupted the highest 
levels of our nation. Hillary Rodham Clinton, for example, is directly 
involved with one of the big body shops, Mumbai-based Tata Consultancy 
Services. Bush is actively promoting the replacement of American 
workers. Colin Powell recently promised India that the administration 
would continue to promote offshoring. Which country does he represent, 
anyway?"

"In an economic argument that is floating around, people cook numbers 
to show that every job lost to offshoring is a ridiculously large net 
benefit to the U.S. economy; we are making money on the deal. One math 
genius claimed that although we export around $10 billion in 
outsourcing fees, the economy somehow recovers over $300 billion in 
savings. It's a bonanza. Taking this logic to an extreme, if we 
offshored all American jobs and nobody here worked, we'd be filthy 
rich. Let's just do that! Where do I get my check?"

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michael at czeiszperger dot org
Chapel Hill, NC