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In reply to the discussion: I stand by what I wrote by the way, the Indian IT industry is taking jobs, period [View all]Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)110. I'm not arguing with what you wrote, but that makes Bill Clinton and a host of Democrats
"scumbag right wingers".
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I stand by what I wrote by the way, the Indian IT industry is taking jobs, period [View all]
DainBramaged
Aug 2012
OP
of course it's not the workers taking the jobs; it's the system, and us politicians/business/manage-
HiPointDem
Aug 2012
#6
Ask any one of them if you can buy a business there, preferably a gas station
DainBramaged
Aug 2012
#7
Ask any one of them if you can buy a business there, preferably a gas station
American Made
Aug 2012
#171
Who said anything about that? I was responding to a post about gas stations.
American Made
Aug 2012
#174
Our anger should be directed at the American Billionaires who are outsourcing jobs in the.....
LongTomH
Aug 2012
#30
Absolutely right! Before retiring I was a VP/GM with one of the world's largest outplacement firms.
ohiosmith
Aug 2012
#5
More than taking jobs, demolishing professional standards of competence.
Egalitarian Thug
Aug 2012
#8
It may be too rich on the words but it has a mechanism to find work and mitigates a lack thereof.
Anansi1171
Aug 2012
#73
I was one of the two Leave It Alone jury votes on the alert on your now hidden post
LonePirate
Aug 2012
#11
Both India and China's economies were created by American corporations back in the 70's.
Egalitarian Thug
Aug 2012
#19
How? China and India are both good examples. Collective bargaining is impossible in both
Egalitarian Thug
Aug 2012
#34
So are you saying that we must continue to fall further and further until those
Egalitarian Thug
Aug 2012
#81
But doesn't it make sense to decide on, develop, and implement a solution
Egalitarian Thug
Aug 2012
#109
IOW giving up on them was such a bad idea that virtually everybody that didn't stand to profit from
Egalitarian Thug
Aug 2012
#142
I'm not arguing with what you wrote, but that makes Bill Clinton and a host of Democrats
Egalitarian Thug
Aug 2012
#110
+1,000. And they are desperate to survive, so they don't follow rules. Could happen anywhere.
freshwest
Aug 2012
#169
I have stopped responding to immigration posts simply because even on DU
WilmywoodNCparalegal
Aug 2012
#99
Put this up as its own thread and we'll have the discussion this deserves.
Egalitarian Thug
Aug 2012
#113
And since I am quite literate I was able to read what you wrote and since I also did
Egalitarian Thug
Aug 2012
#160
I think US workers and Indian workers should form labor unions and unite together to demand more
limpyhobbler
Aug 2012
#25
That,and we MUST remove our aggregate consumption as disruptively as possible from their equation.
Anansi1171
Aug 2012
#62
I can attest to it because I know someone doing it. Hired the guy, brought him over,
Lionessa
Aug 2012
#49
also companies are "in-sourcing" again realizing it ain't all sunrise sending jobs to India
snooper2
Aug 2012
#52
I posted a long response on exactly this point in the earlier OP on outsourcing to India / China.
JoePhilly
Aug 2012
#101
is there anyone here who disagrees with that? if so, they obviously don't work in IT...
dionysus
Aug 2012
#55
Why are the citizens of one country more deserving of jobs than citizens other countries? nt
ZombieHorde
Aug 2012
#68
Americans deserve jobs in America if they are competent to perform those jobs
DainBramaged
Aug 2012
#83
Don't Indians deserve jobs in India if they are competent to perform those jobs? nt
ZombieHorde
Aug 2012
#86
Why do they deserve our jobs? Why can't they create their own jobs form their economy?
DainBramaged
Aug 2012
#87
If you are for jobs going to non-US citizens you might as well go work for Robme.
L0oniX
Aug 2012
#121
Sounds like you are taking the Indian's side. If you like them so much why not move there?
American Made
Aug 2012
#166
First of all, am I an not the one complaining. I am the content one in this debate.
ZombieHorde
Aug 2012
#177
I vote because that is one aspect of the system we have in place for creating desired changes.
ZombieHorde
Aug 2012
#133
Foreign IT workers "with questionable resumes"? Just wait until we discover how many doctors
AnotherMcIntosh
Aug 2012
#76
That's adequate? No one has ever practiced medicine without a license in the recent past?
AnotherMcIntosh
Aug 2012
#108
You're wrong. Those who create fraudulent credentials from foreign countries are not going to
AnotherMcIntosh
Aug 2012
#146
there's a longer video of this meeting I saw a few months ago but can't find it.
juxtaposed
Aug 2012
#80
I think the multinational CFO's are giving the jobs to the lowest paid employees they can find
LanternWaste
Aug 2012
#95
The Indians didn't steal our jobs. The 1% stole our jobs and gave them to Indians.
backscatter712
Aug 2012
#97
The real problem is that the corporations are GLOBAL, and the workers are "country bound".
JoePhilly
Aug 2012
#102
So you believe that workers have the ability and the strength to "take" jobs?
LanternWaste
Aug 2012
#156
Asia will not let you work there. They fail to HATE THEIR WORKERS apropriately!!!!
upi402
Aug 2012
#124
It's a cold, hard world out there. I make no apologies for wanting Americans to have jobs
RZM
Aug 2012
#135
Wait are you saying you tried to buy a gas station in India but got denied?
limpyhobbler
Aug 2012
#185
"But I think you go right up to the line of being racist and would go over the line"
DainBramaged
Aug 2012
#197
I'm more interested in why your ranting has expanded to include Indian-American hotel owners.
limpyhobbler
Aug 2012
#203
Well, personal insult aside, the difference between your Grandparents (and mine too)
DainBramaged
Aug 2012
#204
No explanation? What do you have against Indian-Americans who own local shops?
limpyhobbler
Aug 2012
#205
As I wrote earlier, we had 20 living in an apartment in the building across from me
DainBramaged
Aug 2012
#207
So it's OK to lower the wage standard here, turning the US into a third world country?
DainBramaged
Aug 2012
#200
indians are not to blame...blame the greedy US corps looking to keep costs low
HipChick
Aug 2012
#190
A lot of the firms are global, Indian companies have been buying out US companies
HipChick
Aug 2012
#194