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Perrysburg Dodgeboy wrote:
JALLEN4 it is no surprise since most of our jobs have been sent over there. The Chinese market rose to 13.6 million total units (cars, buses and trucks) compared to 10.4 million here in the States. Again thanks to Corporate America's greed and their pursuit too put as much money in their grubby little (large really) pockets as they can.

Don

Agree and know from the inside of a $17/billion/year computer corporation

Back in the 90's argued at executive staff when the idea of outsourcing
came up

First it was only manufacturing of 'lesser' components and assemblies

Then higher in the foodchain assemblies

Then some software coding, but no source code (crown jewels)

The exec's were always pretty steamed at my comments, as they were
making tons of money via bonuses and options because of the higher
margins afforded. I made more money too

Then they wanted to send source code to India. What the @#$#?? and
'forced' to send one of my lawyers to negotiate that deal, as I was
caught up in some other deals

She called me around 2am to ask if it was okay to have our source
code reside on the same server as Microsoft's...she knew, but needed
wanted my approval

Sent it up the pole with recommendation of 'NO'...got over ruled
but insisted that we paid for a server of our own and in another building

That was repeated throughout the corporation for the next two decades

One of my main points was that 'we' were paying to build up 'their'
infrastructure and educate 'their' staff.

Kinda sorta okay if they would now, or could not become competitive
'peers' to us...that happened when source code and other design files
were transmitted to 'them'...along with all the 'safe guards' my peers
who did the deal installed...of course not enough

'We' have not paid them to become 'peers' to our engineers and worse
yet is that engineering schools have been seeing a decline in students
and the business schools an increase (MBA)...as that is where the money is

Not just my corporation, but most all corporations I personally dealt
with and every one read about

Bottom line is that the cat is out of the bag and get used to it.

Savor of sorts is that our population is more 'outside of the box'
types than 'over there', but our kids are becoming drones just like
them what with the video games, etc...