What Is Wrong With These Headlines?? This Really Sucks

[Jon8503]

Wal-Mart to Hire Up to 150,000 in China By MARCUS KABEL, AP Business Writer

BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to hire up to 150,000 employees in China over the next five years, five times its current work force there, as it expands its number of stores, the company said Monday.


Wal-Mart has targeted China, which has long been a major supplier of its products, as a key region for its international store growth. It now has 56 stores in China with about 30,000 employees and plans to open 20 more stores this year.

Wal-Mart spokeswoman Amy Wyatt declined to say how many stores the Bentonville, Ark.-based retailer will add longer term. Wal-Mart generally only makes public projections one year at a time for its new store plans in the U.S. and internationally.

"We could hire as many as 150,000 (new employees) in the next five years," Wyatt said.

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Dell to Double Staff in India in 3 Years Mon Mar 20, 12:49 PM ET

NEW DELHI - Dell Inc. plans to double the number of its employees in India to 20,000 in three years, Chairman Michael Dell said Monday, in what appeared to be moves by the world's largest personal computer maker to beef up its presence in one of the world's fastest growing markets.

Although most of the new hiring will be made at the company's call centers, there will also be substantial recruitment at its product testing center and a possible manufacturing plant.

The Round Rock, Texas-based company currently operates four call centers in India, a product testing center for corporate customers and a global software development center. Some 10,000 people are employed at these facilities.

"We will double our staff from the current level over the next three years," Dell told reporters during a visit to Bangalore, India's technology hub.

"There is a fantastic opportunity to attract talent (here)," he said. "We will ensure a major recruitment push in engineering talents."

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[DJ MEW]

1. kind of makes you mad doesn't it

where are all the made in america things at.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

2. Well, look at it this way.

Mall-Wart has destroyed the fabric of rural American business. Maybe the assholes can derail the runaway train that is China's economy. :sarcasm:

[Jon8503]

3. I like that, yeah, good way to look at it maybe. N/T

[DJ MEW]

14. maybe but I wish wal-mart on no one

[Glimmer of Hope]

4. Ha Ha Ha America!

[sandnsea]

5. Chinese deserve to shop too

I don't have a particular problem with any company opening stores somewhere else, although I'd rather it were Chinese owned companies making income off their own products and stores. Opening stores in China isn't the same as offshoring. The real problem is lack of environmental and labor laws in China.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

6. You're right of course . . .

. . . slave labor and virtually no environmental protection are the real issues.

And its why, of course, the Republicans love any business venture with them. Sigh.

[Poppyseedman]

7. In a round about way, this is good news.

Long term growth in China and India will help drive our economic engine in the future.

As China and especially India standard of living increases they will need to buy manufacturing items we produce in the states.

Just because Dell builds a call center in India doesn't mean we loss jobs here in the long term. Keeping low cost service centers in India helps free up Dell resources to be innovative and develop products we will make here in the states to sell to India. Many high tech products simply cannot be produced cost effectively in overseas markets.

Bottom line it is not a sum zero game.

We may give up a call center to India to build a high paying manufacturing plant in the States.

Eventually, Wal-Mart will help move China to be more willing to import goods from the USA because Wal-Mart will have the buying power to force them to. Our trade imbalance with China was influenced by the Chinese tying their monetary system to the dollar, which they have finally stopped doing. It should help make it easier for us to trade with them on a more level playing field, which in turn help create jobs here

[sandnsea]

8. What products?

Your premise is good, but if we don't start investing in education and R&D, we're not going to have anything to sell. We aren't going to be the innovators of the future.

[LSdemocrat]

10. If we don't get our act together we won't be a wealthy nation

It's not just a matter of not having anything to sell, if we don't have a half way decent education system, companies won't have any reason to hire Americans in the first place.

[Poppyseedman]

11. Education is probably our Achilles heel.

our education system has evolved to the point where achievement is no longer valued. It can be fixed, but few educators have the guts to do what is right to fix it.

R&D is simply a government problem. Tax breaks for R&D does wonders to make CEO's put money back into their companies.

The energy situation is a prefect example: Our democratic leaders have stalled a compromise energy bill simply because they wanted to beat up bush over Kyoto Treaty, which is about as useless as teats on a bull. Instead of playing grab ass with bush they should have forced real reform though the house. These rethugs in Congress don't like to fight, Compromise on real issues and they will fold.

Tax breaks for the right research might do more for our environment long tern than Kyoto will do in 50 years.

[sandnsea]

13. What???

An energy bill has been passed and nobody ever stalled one because of Kyoto. I don't know what you are talking about.

[Jon8503]

9. The manufacturing jobs are going elsewhere as well. They are

moving everything out of here. Understand your idea if it was really working that way but the fact is it is'nt.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

12. The tariff-free, imaginary "level playing field" . . .

. . . is why most of the manufacturing concerns have shut down here in Kansas City, and elsewhere where there used to be a large maunfacturing base. We don't have a chance, because firms in India and China pay workers next to nothing.

Your argument is the very one that the Republicans are using!