"Jobs are a thing of the past here in America"

[Flying_Pig]

San Francisco Chronicle columnist, John Saracevic, writes an alarming, yet very funny take on the millions of jobs this nation is losing to countries overseas. Definitely worth the time to read. Here's a few excerpts, and then a link to the entire article, which appeared in Sunday's paper:

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Sure, a few thousand more jobs will be lost on our continent, but let's not lose sight of the larger picture. Corporate health is the key to this nation's economic recovery. And what's healthier than cheap labor? Remember people, a happy analyst makes for a happy CEO. A happy CEO makes lots of money. And fewer workers make for fewer headaches, like payrolls. What part don't you get?

Silicon Valley knows it. I believe they're digging a tunnel from Los Gatos to Bangalore as we speak. And none too soon. A couple more years of full employment in Santa Clara County and I think those analysts on Wall Street would've burned the place down. Why pay for the cow, right?

Mistakenly, I was missing this key point until I sat in on a conversation with Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy a coupla weeks back. He was extolling the virtues of globalization and it sounded great. And then I had my brain lock.

Stupidly, idiotically, I asked Scott what was going to happen to the American worker if all the jobs went overseas? He looked at me like I was wearing a Teamsters hat or something. It was the kind of look you'd give Arianna Huffington if she was blathering on about tax loopholes. I felt like the kid in chemistry class who asks if plutonium was named after Pluto ... the dog.
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More: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/09/28/BUGP11VLK81.DTL

[latebloomer]

1. Priceless!

And miserably true.

[lcordero]

2. Oh...plenty to do?

Ask him about how sun's stock went from $80+ to just under $4.
Ask him why sun is so unresponsive to the markets.

[uberotto]

5. That's easy...

All of those out of work software people are using their brains and spending all of their newly acquired free time writing Free Software, which is interfering with Sun's ability to charge high prices for the crap they are selling.

In other words, a bunch of lazy, hippy socialist are interfering with their right to unrestricted Capitalism. There should be laws against such things from happening.

[Brucey]

3. What a nice sarcastic piece!

Great writing! Wish I lived in San Francisco!

[Porcupine]

4. Kick,- Please read this!!!!

Yeah, there's lots to do. There's just no pay for doing it.

[will work 4 food]

6. Interesting articles of our competition for jobs

http://www.china.org.cn/english/China/79967.htm