Reply #4: Why????? [View All]

[ramapo]

Do you want to see what has happened to our manufacturing sector happen to the IT/Tech sector?

This is all about $$$$. A Java programmer here in the NY metro might go for $35-$40/hr. Maybe less even. Odds are it would be filled by a visa holder. Offshore costs for same are a fraction. I've heard everything from $5-$15/hr.

Programming is your start to an IT career. Guess how you get started with your position sent offshore? You don't. Maybe you can get yourself a landscaping truck.

Where will everyone work if this keeps up? Wal-Mart?? Doing what exactly?

These are American companies doing this to improve the bottom line. Sure globalization is wonderful until your job goes to India.

So we should do something to keep the jobs here other than knocking the going rate for a programmer down to India-competitive levels.