Re: FUNNY OFFSHORE STORY

Subject: Re: FUNNY OFFSHORE STORY
From: "Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 20:12:43 -0400


Bruce Evans wrote:
> We've got some pretty flawed math here. If a company saves $200 by
> having a U.S. $1000 job done offshore for $800, it has $200 to
> re-invest in the economy and $800 is lost.

So, nobody from outside the US buys anything from the US?

If it pays $1000 to a U.S.
> writer, $1000 goes back into the economy--assuming the writer pays
> food, rent, clothes and taxes rather than burying it in the
backyard.
>

Do you think dollars that go overseas don't buy people overseas food
and other goods and services?

> We've seen the same arguments used to excuse buying non-North
American
> automobiles, electronics and clothes; now the economies of Asia are
> booming and North American companies are failing. Look in the
parking
> lots of Ford, GM and Chrysler and you'll see our fate as technical
> writers.

The way I understand it, those US cars that have improved their design
and so forth are enjoying greater sales. The free market forced them
to compete or die.


Bonnie Granat
www.granatedit.com





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