>>>This was someones response:
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>>>

>>>I'll also make one more point and then leave it alone. To say that our search for
>>>talent must go beyond the international borders, and basing this on our historic
>>>expansion within the US, sounds good, but what I gleaned from the original memo
>>>was that the workforce was going to be comprised of data entry jobs, IT
>>>coding/application development jobs and IT quality assurance jobs. That talent
>>>is widely available in the US; they just cost more.
>>>

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>>If your best position is that you are in the middle of the bell curve you're toast :)
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>Not sure I'm with you, Jos. I don't think the person cared personally about a job, just that calling a thing something else, and putting a spin on it it, doesn't change what it really is.

Oh I agree fully Jay. The whole piece is spin control. But the problem / reality of it is that those jobs that were once thought to be "secure", ie; coding and app development, are no longer secure and will be outsourced as a matter of profit raking.

This relates to an earlier post where I was saying that for many developers the choice of which dev tool to start learning will, imo, become academic as more and more of these white collar jobs are being moved "offshore".