Today the stock market rewarded a couple of computer corporations for sending American jobs over

[papau]

Today the stock market rewarded a couple of computer corporations for sending American jobs overseas.


Today was an interesting day in the "computer Techs" in the US stockmarket. Americans that understand that politicians lie and have no intention of protecting American jobs made a great deal of money today.

Hewlett-Packard Co., our "American reseller of computers and printers made elsewhere", rose $1.38, or 3.4 percent, to $41.88 for the biggest gain in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

And Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. climbed $4.56, or 17 percent, to $31.84 for the biggest gain in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index. This "computer-services provider" for Aetna Inc. and the MET forecast first-quarter earnings that beat estimates as clients outsource work to it and via Cognizant, to India. The major insurance companies that run those "feel good because we help you" ads then use Cognizant to destroy American computer programing jobs. But American companies do tell us about how hard it is to get American programmers. Indeed, the MET has started to totally avoid American computer workers as they set up a wholly owned Indian computer programing shop in India. This despite what is reported by many as a final product from Cognizant that is example of very poor programing quality control by Indian "programmers." Indeed those H1 visa that the GOP corporations are pushing are really just allowing Indians to spend "their junior in college year abroad" - a view based on their programing skill level being that of an American or EU computer major in the junior year of college (but without the English skills). Bill Gates lied to Congress on the need for all those H1 visas - and nowhere is it more obvious than in the hiring pattern of America's computer-services providers, and the corporations that use those "American" computer service providers to hide their two faced telling kids to be computer engineers while sending those kids' future jobs to India.

[navarth]

1. John Kerry called 'em Benedict Arnold companies

and I totally agree.

Maybe if we have John Edwards as Attorney General......

[papau]

2. From your lips to God's ear :-)

[nightrider767]

3. Fu$k HP

They ought to round up their corporate Exec's, wives and especially children and ship their asses off to India.

You want to be an "Indian" company, then fu$k you, let you and your family move to India.

[flashl]

4. We know that the shortage of U.S. programmers is not true

We know that the shortage of U.S. programmers is not true. Before the IT industry boomed there were no college courses for programmers, the training came from business schools or OJT and the industry did just fine. To suggest that a programmer needs a masters degree flies in the face of reality when compare to periods when there were no college requirements to become a programmer.

The purpose of all of this talk about needing H1 visas programmers is designed to deplete the IT knowledge base here in American. When a sizeable number of U.S. IT personnel are forced to choose another career path then the American public's ability to retain freedom on the Internet will be diminished or worse, lost.

Opensource is the last frontier of freedom on the Internet because it allows programmers to retain their knowledge and this stops the masters from controlling our ability to freely communicate.

[lligrd]

5. Exactly. And Now Nobody Wants To Take The Classes

because they know there are few jobs here and they don't pay well. We are dooming ourselves.