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Jul 10, 2007

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A journalist trying to present a well-reasoned argument to inform his fellow citizens is an admirable task but unfortunately, most of the times, Dobbs arguments are replete with jingoism. The outsourcing and immigration related issues are few of the easiest methods to get votes and high TRPs. In this media-supported political drama, rationality and reasoned arguments are clearly not the flavors of the season.

A journalist trying to present a well-reasoned argument to inform his fellow citizens is an admirable task but unfortunately, most of the times, Dobbs arguments are replete with jingoism. The outsourcing and immigration related issues are few of the easiest methods to get votes and high TRPs. In this media-supported political drama, rationality and reasoned arguments are clearly not the flavors of the season.

Edward,

I am going to respond to the H1B Visa issue shortly - as you do raise an interesting point here. In the meantime, I suggest you also take some time to read through the debate on Peter Allen's blog on this issue:

http://considerthesourceblog.typepad.com/consider_the_source/2007/01/a_contrarian_vi.html

Vinnie Mirchandani's (http://dealarchitect.typepad.com/) comments are most intersting:

"In response to Lou Dobbs, I did some analysis last year which showed the very companies which "exported the most jobs" as he called it, were also our biggest exporters of goods and services. Well, duh these are global companies like GE, Pepsi, Amex etc and should be entitled to use global resources from wherever. In 10 years we will wonder what the fuss was about. Manufacturing has been global for a while and the US lost some jobs and gained others but our economy did not sink. IT and white collar are laggards. We just think we are so smart and invent everything and cannot learn from the blue collar world. Of course, we need to ensure that like Japan eventually learned. we have to keep reminding China and India trade is not a one way street..."

Regards,
PF

The three Indian Companies that you mentioned, Infosys, Wipro and Tata are the largest users of the H-1B Visas. They are in the 10 ten for year 2006, with Infosys taking the #1 spot.

As to the L-1 Visa, Tata is # 1 with over 4800 L-1 Visas issues in 2006. Wipro was the 5th largest user of L-1 Visa. When you combine Tata's H-1Bs with the L-1 Visas in year 2006, they hired approx. 8000 Foreign workers.

In your post, you made mention of the 1000 that Tata plans to recruit, I bet you dollar to donuts, those that Tata has recruited are H-1Bs or L-1s from other companies. Americans are too expensive to work for these companies!!! Please don't throw smoke over the truth....the 1000 hire they mentioned are not going to be Americans.

Why so many H1-B and L-1s? You know the answer, "Cheap Labor", it's about Body shopping....dude!!

Using H-1B and L-1s for Body shopping goes directly against the spirit and intent of the Law. H-1B an L-1 programs are riddle with corruption.

As to Innovation, Outsourcing is offering throwing the masses to attack software development. That's not innovation, that's going backwards my friend. Before this massive use of manpower to code software came into play via Outsourcing, Coders in the US learned to code efficiently and also created new tools that generated code, as well as, new platforms to efficiently code on. Who needs innovation, when 3 heads are cheaper than one!!

Lou Dobbs is one of the few who's willing to report on this issue and stand up for the Americans. It seem that the mass media silence on this issue has been bought, or may I say, Outsourced Offshore!


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This is an excellent post - proof that outsourcing work on a global scale to optimize costs and focus on value is what drives innovation. While people like Lou Dobbs mean well, you are right by saying "you can't fight innovation". At the end of the day, we just get better and more efficent at providing services, and offshore outsourcing is simply a part of that process.

DT

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