Subj : Re: Industry Calls for More Foreign Programmers
To   : comp.programming
From : Prafulla Harpanhalli
Date : Sun Aug 21 2005 01:26 am

topmind wrote:
> Agreed. Farmers get subsidies because they lobbied, NOT because they
> are globally competative. If you think about it, the reasons for our
> higher cost of living than Bangalore is due to direct or indirect
> protections from global competition of some kind.

Else thread and else newsroom i had made this point and i am repeating
myself. BANGALORE IS NO CHEAP DESTINATION. May be it is so for MNCs,
but for souls in this so called /high paying/ feild, its all the same.

>Thus, we have to
> compete on Indian wages, yet pay for US medical care.

We pay a awful lot more than that. Elsewhere, you pay more and you get
that kind of welfare from your government. Now that would be distant
reality in a dream coming true here. Tax payers money is swindled in
the most systematic manner.

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