Subj : Re: Industry Calls for More Foreign Programmers
To   : comp.programming
From : Phlip
Date : Sun Aug 14 2005 04:33 am

Brock Candid wrote in message news:TO47WYU638578.3674652778@reece.net.au...

> All this is an interesting phenom.  I watched a recent C-SPAN show -

Hey! Why are people in AU allowed to watch our secret government 
broadcasts?? How come I can't watch the government of AU in action? (Besides 
we leave half our cable broke to prevent our impressionable daughter from 
watching Disney...)

> some mucky muck meeting of what appeared to be IT corporate leaders,
> and think tankers.  It was about 'the state of US workforce,' or
> something like that - perhaps someone else saw it, and can remember
> more exactly.  The grand poo-pah, the one for whom they were all
> waiting was the US Secretary of Labor, I think, who came on and
> basically talked a bunch of rehearsed mucky muck crap, so boring, I
> couldn't watch - which was probably the desired affect.

Under a pro-business administration, we must carefully rehearse the newspeak 
required to diss labor without tipping them off to what we really say.

Allow me to translate: "We need to find ways to pay the USA's incredibly 
skilled and talented labor force less money than the value they produce. 
Then we bosses who did nothing but cook the books can give ourselves 
humongous bonuses. Those clever programmers are essentially the only threat 
to our schemes."

> Before that,
> there was also some book writer - a law school flunk out - who had
> written about how the US job market was turing toward "right brained"

I turn off when people use brain hemisphere research as a kind of in-vogue 
pseudo-science. (Is that right-brained because I turn off? or left-brained 
because I demand better pseudo-science??)

> Of course, there's a hidden agenda.  I'm just confused on just what it
> is.

It's to lower the wages, and to bully the technocrats who are the biggest 
threat to all the loopholes around the Sarbanes Oxley Act.

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  Phlip
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