Friday, February 13, 2004

Do the Electric Vindaloo!

Last week the Bush administration celebrated the loss of computer jobs to
India, saying it would benefit America. The Indians are really good at
computers and they're willing to work for a few dollars a day. People who
studied computers in this country will be losing their jobs. This is good
because American companies will be able to make even bigger profits than
they already were. American companies save a lot of money when they don't
hire American.

This week Mr. Bush announced his plan to create American jobs. The plan
will be to retrain laid-off workers for other jobs. They probably won't be
computer jobs, since America won't have as many of those; but there are lots
of fast-food jobs available everywhere, and ample opportunity exists for any
programmer or systems analyst to work longer hours for less pay and no
benefits, with the right training.

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