We're not the only ones

["William A.\(Tony\) Corbett" <corbett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The stuff we're offshoring is getting scary.  I spoke with a company the
other day in which ALL their AS400 development is done in India, just night
support and such in the states.  Then today I saw this article in money.cnn
about companies sending our income tax information to India.  This is stuff
I don't even share with my relatives (well, especially my relatives).

http://money.cnn.com/2003/12/30/pf/offshorejob/index.htm

This seems to me to be approaching a matter of national security.
Concidentally, I spoke to a credit card processing company a couple months
ago regarding a charge from India.  He told me that 99% of online credit
charges originating in India (to name one of a few countries) is fraudulent.

I don't know what, but something has to be done.  I'm normally a
smaller-government proponent, but Uncle Sam has got to put a tax or tariff
or something to make all this a little less attractive.

With so many un-employed techies in the US, I just don't think the argument
of "we couldn't find an American" will hold up.  Truth is, "we couldn't find
an American who can live like a king on $20,000 per year".

My step-son, a true geek-in-training, is a freshman at Tech.  He started out
a CS major, but decided to change after looking at the job potential and the
rising trend to get cheap IT labor offshore.  If a lot of our children make
similar decisions, we really will have a technology shortage in just a few
years.  No demand = no new graduates.  My advisor in college was the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution want ad section.

Okay, I'll hush.

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