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We've got some pretty flawed math here. If a company saves $200 by having a
U.S. $1000 job done offshore for $800, it has $200 to re-invest in the
economy and $800 is lost. If it pays $1000 to a U.S. writer, $1000 goes back
into the economy--assuming the writer pays food, rent, clothes and taxes
rather than burying it in the backyard.
We've seen the same arguments used to excuse buying non-North American
automobiles, electronics and clothes; now the economies of Asia are booming
and North American companies are failing. Look in the parking lots of Ford,
GM and Chrysler and you'll see our fate as technical writers.
Bruce
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Bruce Evans, M.D.
Family Physician and Technical Writer
"Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration."
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From: bounce-techwr-l-10309 -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com
[mailto:bounce-techwr-l-10309 -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com]On Behalf Of Ned
Bedinger
Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 12:58 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: FUNNY OFFSHORE STORY
> The offshoring advocates (and others) seem to
think that down the line
> and fairly soon, the savings that companies have
made through
> offshoring will be reinvested and mean new jobs
here. We shall see.
> There's also no reason to believe that a
forecast is necessarily going
> to be accurate. It's entirely possible that TW
jobs will return in
> full force. There's just no way to tell for
sure.
The other side of the coin is that the $$$ are
piling up but companies are sitting on it in the
form of huge cash reserves. Not investing it in
job creation, just sitting on it like a nest egg.
All those groups like ITAA who buy in and toe the
line on job creation are ignoring this lacuna.
All that's needed to make the myth of job creation
an complete mass distraction is for that money to
go untaxed and move offshore. Yikes, they wouldn't
do that, would they?
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