At 08:24 AM 3/17/04 EST, Wirt Atmar wrote:
>Colin Powell reassures Indians that their outsourced jobs are safe. From
>today's NY Times:
>
>=======================================
>
>March 17, 2004
>Powell Reassures India on Technology Jobs
>By STEVEN R. WEISMAN
...
>Responding to a questioner in a session with students who asked if he
>supported or opposed outsourcing, Mr. Powell said: "Outsourcing is a
natural effect
>of the global economic system and the rise of the Internet and broadband
>communications. You're not going to eliminate outsourcing; but, at the
same time,
>when you outsource jobs it becomes a political issue in anybody's country."
>
>Mr. Powell told the students what he had said to reporters earlier in the day
>after a meeting with Foreign Minister Yaswant Sinha: an appropriate American
>response to outsourcing was to press India to open up to imports of American
>investments, goods and services.
>
>He said one purpose of his trip was to explain to India that because
>outsourcing had created a political problem in the United States, India
could help by
>lowering its trade barriers. He said he was making that request, not as a
>condition for the United States allowing outsourcing to continue, but
because it
>was in India's interest to be more open...

This is absolutely true and a good and fair response to another country
that is benefitting from us.  I don't understand the politicizing of it?

John Lee

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