Hiring off shore

[Steve Litt]

On Fri, 11 Nov 2016 10:36:00 -0700
Keith Smith <techlists at phpcoderusa.com> wrote:

> Eric you use the word entitled.  I do not feel entitled, however I do 
> think there is an implied contract between our Gov and the American 
> citizen.
> 
> Let me explain.
> 
> 1) Our country gives money to almost every other country in the world.
> 
> 2) Our men and women die while being the world police.
> 
> 3) We have some of the best universities in the world and we export
> our knowledge by allowing foreigners to come to our country to study.
> 
> 4) 17 years ago I learned that the University of Arizona was charging 
> foreign students 95% of the cost of their education.  The tax payers 
> paid the other 5%.
> 
> 5) Tax payer money was used to create the Internet.
> 
> 6) The assembly line was created by Ford, who also paid his workers
> very high wages because he said they should be able to buy cars.
> 
> And I'm sure I can list more if I take another 5 minutes.
> 
> H1B Visa is a concept that hurts American works and the American 
> economy.  A H1B will live like a refugee while sending money back to 
> their home country.  H1B displaces American workers.  Look at the 
> example I gave about McDonald's firing their accountants and hiring
> H1B workers.  McDonald's says they will save $500,000 a year by doing
> so. This only hurts America.

[snip several more excellent anti-offshoring points]

Keith, I'm confused.

In the several paragraphs above, you've given a razor sharp, point by
point repudiation of offshoring. But you were the Original Poster (OP)
who wanted to start hiring offshore programmers to grab the
differential in the American and Indian cost of living.

Which Keith are you?

By the way, to answer the question you asked in your original post, in
order to continue serving America, I'd hire American workers. They
don't need to be college grads, they just have to prove they have the
chops to do the job, and from your previous emails, I think you're
quite capable of that. I'm pretty sure you could hire out-of-work but
vastly talented Milenneals or Boomers or seriously disabled people for
$15/hr for admins, $20/hr for developers, and they'd forever sing your
praises for giving them a chance, and you'd still have quite a
differential to pocket.

 
SteveT

Steve Litt 
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