Michael Cash wrote:
> On 1 Oct 2004 13:56:47 -0700, "John W." <worthj1970@yahoo.com> brought
> down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
>>>John W. wrote:
<snip>

>>I personally find it somewhat ironic that we Sepponians are outsourcing
>>jobs like mad yet when we go to Iraq to build infrastructure we don't
>>bother to use local skilled labor but insource (?) US workers.
> 
> It's the old "sending American jobs overseas" stuff everybody bitches
> about, with a twist....the workers go with the jobs.

Look on the bright side, life in Iraq is considered cheap.

> Did you hear that the White House is going to outsource the White
> House switchboard to a firm in New Delhi?

Surely it has already been outsourced to a contractor, and its just a 
matter of moving from an overpriced sepponian contractor to a more 
affordable Indian one. On a similar note, Philip Greenspun had a thought 
provoking entry in his Sunday, September 19, 2004 entry
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/

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various areas inclusive of studying Japanese" - Masuda Nobuya, Director 
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