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Subject: A Letter to Hillary
I am writing today about a grave and serious concern
about your stance on job outsourcing.
Though I do not claim to know all the details
about your stance on this issue or the details of
your relationship with the Indian government,
I must admit that I am very concerned about any
politician that does not recognize the outsourcing
crisis that is gripping our country.
As a member of the IT community I hear and see
first hand the effects of valuable American
tech jobs being done away with in favor of cheap
and substandard labor in countries like China,
Mexico and India. While I do realize that a healthy
international trade relationship is essential for
our economic survival, if let unbalanced, unregulated,
and unmitigated it will continue destroying
the future of America's quality job pool and
national self reliance.
I would like to give you the benefit of the doubt
and believe that any modern age Democrat will
have no problem seeing this problem and seek
to protect the middle class from this plague, but that
demands that you make your position clear as
soon as humanly possible before your opponents on
both sides of the aisle use the current accusations
to their advantage.
Your recent spat with Barack Obama's campaign
over this issue will only be the tip of the iceberg
you leave this unaddressed. I'd like to see you
win the Presidency, but you must convince the voters
that you are on our side and will not let unchecked
corporate greed rob America of the bright future
it deserves.
Fair trade, not free trade, should now and forever be the motto of the United States.
Thank you, and good luck
Chris Luk
Who has an opinion on what to do about job outsourcing?
Make it short
Don't say, "Job
outsourcing is bad and here's why..."
Tell us how you'd fix it - and
I don't think you can do it with a law.
If you mandate, "You have
to built X and you have sell it for Y
and you have to pay the
qworkers X," that company or industry
will probably go out of business and that's the
worst of all outcomes.