Comments on: Business leaders see election affecting offshoring

In Meta Group study, nearly half of managers surveyed predict offshore outsourcing will decline if Kerry elected.

At what price?

If offshoring declines, then we can look forward to our business paying higher costs to produce goods for export and our consumers left with less money every month.

These protectionist policies have never been proven to work in a global economy. Its nice to see that c|net is faithfully advancing its liberal agenda with stories like these. I thought it was "tech news first". I suppose ideology overides the mission statement.

If you are reading this, consider yourself lucky. The c|net police will be deleting this message and closing my account soon. Thanks for your time.

At what price?

If offshoring declines, then we can look forward to our business paying higher costs to produce goods for export and our consumers left with less money every month.

These protectionist policies have never been proven to work in a global economy. Its nice to see that c|net is faithfully advancing its liberal agenda with stories like these. I thought it was "tech news first". I suppose ideology overides the mission statement.

If you are reading this, consider yourself lucky. The c|net police will be deleting this message and closing my account soon. Thanks for your time.

Fear factor: geeks

I'm a programmer. I make some money. I have no doubt that my company would offshore my job *IF IT COULD*. I don't live my life in fear of this event, rather, I stay at the cutting edge to make sure that what I'm doing cannot be replicated in the third world for less money. Its called "competitiveness".

As far as I can tell, John Kerry is willing to let us lose our competitive advantage; and then cover up the loss through artificial means like these "protectionist" measures preventing outsourcing.

Why would he do this? You'll know why when you wake up and America is not number one, when we find ourselves beholden to the U.N., with no easy way back.

[lewissalem]

Not true..

..about Kerry. He is proposing to drop the tax breaks that companies get by outsourcing. You see, if they ship my job overseas, that programmer doesn't pay taxes here. Nor do they participate in our economy. We must invest more money in R&D.

Fear factor: geeks

I'm a programmer. I make some money. I have no doubt that my company would offshore my job *IF IT COULD*. I don't live my life in fear of this event, rather, I stay at the cutting edge to make sure that what I'm doing cannot be replicated in the third world for less money. Its called "competitiveness".

As far as I can tell, John Kerry is willing to let us lose our competitive advantage; and then cover up the loss through artificial means like these "protectionist" measures preventing outsourcing.

Why would he do this? You'll know why when you wake up and America is not number one, when we find ourselves beholden to the U.N., with no easy way back.

[lewissalem]

Not true..

..about Kerry. He is proposing to drop the tax breaks that companies get by outsourcing. You see, if they ship my job overseas, that programmer doesn't pay taxes here. Nor do they participate in our economy. We must invest more money in R&D.