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Originally posted by curt_gendron@Oct 12 2004, 11:36 AM
Wow, politics is a hot topic around here. I'm really not much into politics, but I do want to touch on the shipping of jobs overseas issue.

I know a few years ago there were a many DSM owners in the IT business that are not in the IT business today. The economy soured and jobs were lost. Big companies in the Twin Cities like American Express and Target have shipped thousands of jobs, mostly IT jobs over to India in the past five years. These companies are certainly free to do this, but the government actually gives them tax breaks for it.

This issue affects everyone currently holding any kind of programming, networking, or other computer job. Because these jobs are gone from the Twin Cities market, we actually get paid less, because of the less demand. And for those of you that were once in the IT industry and are now doing something else, this should bother you to.

Granted, the economy did go down the crapper in 2001, and I'm not saying that is a Democrat or Repuplican issue, because its not. But the Bush run government in place now certainly is doing nothing but encourgaging big businesses to ship IT jobs overseas today.

Thankfully I work for a fortune 500 company that sends no IT jobs to India.

later,
Curt

I don't know about you, but I attribute the economic plunge to 9/11.