US Republican Party outsources fund raising to India

I posted this in the other article yesterday....... It is not really Exported jobs......the Americans in the machine that OWN the offshore companies and made the deals for higher profit than they could make in the U.S with exploited workers tired of being ground up and spit out of the dying U.S. call centers.
Follow the trail, like I did of "HCL eServe... ... ... ... ..
Not a hard trail to follow, if you use good tools. Guess who rears his ugly little big-eared head? That should be enough of a hint. I won't keep you is suspense though. The first place I went was  http://www.hcltech.com/artdisplay.asp?cat_id=59
MY MY, look what immediately shows up! "HCL Perot Systems
HCL Perot Systems (HPS) was formed in May, 1996 as a joint venture of HCL Technologies and Perot Systems Corporation in which HCLT holds 50% equity.
Yes, I thought the same thing that most of you were thinking now... ... ... so I went to my favorite deep-search investigative tool,  http://beta.profusion.com/ and entered "HCL Perot Systems and Ross Perot" and let it search... ... ... ..
The third result of 34 hits was  http://www.perotsystems.com/newsroom/bios/ross_perot_jr.htm.
To make a long story short... ... .. Ross Perot Sr. and Jr.and Company have moved offshore with a lot of their IT companies, and one of their cheap-labor-with-highly-skilled-technician companies in India has gotten the contract to raise $ for Bushit's re-election campaign. Are they immune to the "no call" opt-out telemarketer shit? Amazing trail, is it not?

In the past 12 months there has been increasing movement of computer technology and customer service jobs out of the US and into India. In recent times, technology jobs helped rebuild a very small portion of the former US middle class. But this is all changing. Again. Still. Some more. Here are just a few examples for the growing wave of jobs being exported into lower cost markets:

1) Microsoft is projected to be moving thousands of jobs out of the US and into India over the next few years. Here is a link to a presentation that a Microsoft Exec has made:  http://www.washtech.org/docs/html_ppts/01.php Here is a link to an engineering union that is attempting to expose this:  http://www.washtech.org/wt/

2) IBM will be moving more jobs into India. See this link for a high level overview:  http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/national/stories/87870.html See this link for a few more details:  http://www.washtech.org/wt/news/industry/display.php?ID_Content=4591

3) Intel has been operating a facility in Bangalore, India with a staff of 800 people. The staffing level is being raise to over 2,000 in the next year or so. There is a very interesting "perk" being given to Indian nationals who are currently employed by Intel in the US: If an employee is willing to return to India and work for Intel, they will be given 50% of their current US salary to work back home in India. This equates to being a phenominal salary for anyone in Bangalore. Particularly when you understand that you can hire a private driver to take you to and from work on a daily basis for a mere $100/month.

4) CNF, who operates right here in town, has hired a consultant to help them move their IT operations offshore and into India. Vector, a subsidiary of CNF that works, amoung other things, a contract for GM, has moved a significant portion of it's IT infrastructure to India. Menlo Logistics has just started to consider how much of it's IT services will be migrated.

The impact of this on India is very real and very tangible. Two items will illustrate the point. First, two years ago when one traveled through Chennai (Madras) and went through the international terminal, it was incredibly difficult. The facility was everything one might expect from a 3rd world nation. But if you travel through Chennai now, you will be greeted with wall to floor to ceiling marble, beautiful facilities, friendly people, well organized operations, and timely air service. It's very easy to see where the investment is being made in the world! Second, BBC has been running a series of articles that illustrate what the new investment in India has done to the economy. Here is just one link that illustrates the point:  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3083817.stm

As with textiles, steel production, customer service, call center functions, automobile production, and appliance manufacturing, the trans-national corporate Fat Cats continue to export jobs when it is seemingly in their best interest to make vast amounts of money. Seldom do displaced workers ever raise up and agitate against such actions. It has been proven time and again that "Labor creates wealth. Wealth DOES NOT create labor." But it's far easier to sit and watch the TV or listen to Rush Limbaugh and the Holy Rollers and to get all excited about the latest Krispy Kreme grand opening than it is to do something to help ourselves in the real world.

That the Repugs are shipping portions of their electioneering operations offshore should be trumpted loudly and clearly. That Korporate Amerika Fat Kats are giving the shaft to the workers in the US should be challenged far and wide. That the top 1% of the nation owns outright 40% of everything here must be understood. Alright... I'll stop now... you get the point...

The new Krispy Kreme is all they can talk about here. I'm going to scream.

Wouldn't it be great if all the displaced workers combined their lobbying and voting power? It would probably swing ANY election.

It might not be that bad. We are becoming so poor and powerless that maybe we can learn from India and start wearing saris and cooking the good indian food. Maybe start some real protest like they do over there. Besides the cast system is already in place in this country.

... but I do work in the technology industry.

Several of us have been watching with increasing horror as corporate executives have moved software jobs to India. And so we're fairly fluent in the topic.

I hope this helps.