On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:39:01 -0800, Tim Smith
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>Some people are a bit suspicious of this. Most of the above (all except
>Sony and maybe AMD) are doing well financially. The worst you can say
>about them is that growth has slowed, and for some of them, growth,
>revenue, profits are up. Hence, some suspect, the real purpose of the
>layoffs is to get rid of the bottom 5% or so, and replace them with
>cheaper foreign workers. Normally, companies that do that get a lot of
>bad publicity--but with the recession, they can use that as a cover.
That is preciously what is happening. Obama should make it a top
priority to end financial incentives provided to companies for
off shoring their workforce and instead provide incentives to
companies that develop their workforce here in USA.
BTW this is no different in concept than all the freedoms that
have slowly been eroding under the guise of "home land security".
George Barca
georgebarca1981@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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