RE: FWD [forteana] Health Care: USA, Iraq & Canada

From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Sat Aug 09 2003 - 16:23:27 MDT

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    Mitch quotes from http://www.reason.com/links/links073003.shtml

       Take this howler from IBM spokeswoman, Kendra R. Collins,
       "It's not about one shore or another shore. It's about
       investing around the world, including the United States,
       to build capability and deliver value as defined by our
       customers."

       No, it's about working the cost side of balance sheet in
       search of profits; revenues have been flat for two years
       and show little sign of improving. This is what good
       managers do, and there is no reason to be ashamed of
       it if you truly think you are going to make the company
       stronger.

    Well, that's what I would say too.

       But the catch is that out-sourcing is being embraced without
       much sign that it will actually make high-tech firms,
       particularly software companies, more effective. Highly
       collaborative, imaginative work might suffer in the hands
       of technically adept but inexperienced programmers.

    Okay, the market place is smarter, MUCH smarter than all of
    us. Let it sort it out. If this is true, then the companies
    that send the work to India will on average not do so well---
    so the capitalists and entrepreneurs should be encouraged to
    follow their own profit seeking instincts.

    > Ron h & Mitch-- two pro-capitalists, who know that corporate
    > ass-licking has worked for centuries as the easiest means to
    > achieve; but that ass-licking doesn't bake bread or micro-chips! :-D

    But it hasn't worked in the West for centuries! What
    has worked has been thousands of small time entrepreneurs
    (like my boss) or the genius Rockefellers, Morgans, and
    Fords. That has been what has worked.

    Your mission, should you choose to undertake, is to explain
    what is different now. Government regulation? Failing
    character values among socialized pampered Americans?
    As usual, the secretary will disavow any knowledge of
    your mission. Good luck Mitch.

    Lee



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