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The Deadhead

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Tuesday, March 20, 2007 02:28 PM

The problem is Bill Gates and his fellow CEO's not Schools

After 25 years as an engineer I quit, went to law school and am going to graduate this May. Corporate greed has ruined what once was a good career choice, by overworking, outsourcing and otherwise suppressing engineering labor costs to chase unrealistic profit margins. Know Bill wants help from the government to help him with the problem he helped create. Worse, his solution, importing talent, will only further the problem by further diluting the bargaining power of homegrown talent.

Corporations must be forced to stop externalizing their labor costs on the taxpayer. They must spend their own money to redevelop engineering staffs, thereby using market forces to attract both new and experienced technical personal. Until they resist the MBA influenced, short sighted, goals of reduced labor costs our country can not maintain its technical supremcy.

Friday, September 15, 2006 02:19 PM
Original article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily

Still Chuckling

Great line on the Lions!

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