Levi,
If I'm unemployed (or working in the fields) even the $5000 car
will be out of reach.
Jon
At 09:52 AM 7/23/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Despite the near-certainty of making myself vastly unpopular, I'm going to
>voice my opinion.
>
>I think that this needs to happen, and is inevitably going to happen.
>With hardware steadily becoming cheaper and more powerful, and
>high-quality free software becoming increasingly more available,
>developing and newly-developed nations are getting the tools they need to
>compete effectively with the rest of the "first world" in IT.
>
>Sure, jobs that were previously held in America will now be performed by
>people in India, the Phillippines, and other such countries, and I
>sympathize with those who will be losing theirs (I've lost at least two
>jobs to overseas outsourcing). In all fairness, though, we really don't
>deserve to keep them. Would you buy a car from your neighbor for $80,000
>when you can get the same car from someone else for $5000? Of course not!
>
>It's about time that the worldwide economy got some balance, and IT
>expansion like this will definitely help.
>
>Levi
Jon Maguire
w1mnk@tampabay.rr.com
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