Offshoring for US and Filipino Workers' Migration Issues-Revisited

Dear Mouse, US corporations that offshore their jobs are accused of greed and are less concerned about the interest of their country-- USA. Like the Filipino OFWs, their loyalty to the flag that they wave is being questioned because of the same issue of movement from one country to another; one is the job and the other is the worker. For the Philippines, the failure of the government providing gainful employment to these Filipinos in order to prevent their exodus has been condemned by several armchair analysts, government critics and opposition mouthpieces. Isama pa dito ang mga iniwan ng boyfriend o grilfriend na sinisisi pa rin ang gobyerno sa kanilang decision para magsapalaran sa ibang bansa. The anti-offshoring sentiments have led to the filing of bills at state and federal levels to stop awarding contracts to corporations that use foreign labor an indirect way of stopping the corporate practices of offshoring jobs. The responses to of the CEOs on this issue are worth pondering on... 1. Carol Bartz-Pres.-CEO Autodesk- I have enough belief that in open markets to believe there will be other things for our people to do here. 2. John Thompson-CEO, Symantec-Our company derives half of its revenue from outside the United States so we have an equal obligation in places where customers provide an underpinning revenue and helps grow business. 3. Scott McNealy- CEO, Sun Microsystems. Global companies grow globally. Shouldn't India a little upset that we have most of their software programmers here? Who's making value judgements here? But the most interesting and thought provoking statements came from Carly Fiorina, Chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard. To quote: There is no job that is God-givenright anymore. It's interesting to me that so many people talk about China or India or Russia as being source of low-cost labor. Truthfully, over the long term, the greater threat is the source of well-educated labor. And if you look at the number of college educated students that China graduates every year, its close to 40 million. The law of large numbers is fairly compelling. For this CA T, this is a thought from a positivist who would see the half- full glass than the half- empty. For me, this is a view of the graduates as human resources that would make the businesses move forward, so unlike short- sighted people's view of workers as a piece of commodity being peddled in the labor market. This is a view of a visionary who warned about the US labor being left out academic and training wise by developing countries which human resources are one of its greatest strengths. The Philippines, despite its educated labor is far behind this global labor development because of too much emotional and pride baggage. Masyado tayong ma-pride--- pride chicken, pride egg, pride rice. The CA t