'Outsourcing not eating US jobs' (BS Alert)

[OhioChick]

PTI< WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2008 02:41:22 PM>

CHICAGO: India Inc, which is facing the heat from US Presidential candidates who blamed 'shipping jobs' to China and India for rising US unemployment, has launched a counter-offensive telling Americans that the BPO industry is creating new work opportunities for them.

A full-page advertisement in the Chicago Tribune yesterday, by industry body FICCI and the Commerce Ministry, gives an elaborate account of how the legendary Tata Group, along with several others like Ranbaxy, Mahindra USA, Bharat Forge, ITC Kitchens of India and HCL America have created thousands of jobs in America by investing in different sectors of the US economy.

The FICCI ad insertion in the leading US paper coincided with Barack Obama, who is engaged in a tight race with Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Presidential nomination, making a strong pitch to Ohio's blue-collar workers with a plan to reward American firms that do not ship jobs overseas.

“This is a six-month roll out before the Presidential elections. We will be talking to the US Congressmen and other opinion-makers about the positive impact of the increasing Indian investment in the US,” Secretary General of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) Amit Mitra said.

The Tata Group that operates 16 companies in the US -- from luxury hotels and beverage business to manufacturing, telecom and IT consulting -- employs over 5,000 Americans.

Likewise, Ranbaxy is creating jobs and stimulating the economy in North Carolina, New Jersey and Florida, FICCI said.

"Where is the job loss? We are creating jobs for them," Washington-based Ranjan V Khanna, who heads the chamber in the US said.

http://infotech.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2798079.cms

"We are creating jobs for them??"
Thanks Tata, for those 5,000 jobs. :sarcasm:

[DainBramaged]

1. "We are creating jobs for them" what, cleaning bathrooms?

Lying sack of shit. How come when I had a problem with a subscription renewal on my Symantec product, the help desk is in India?? And they are CLUELESS to English dialect, anger, and will not budge off the script.


Return OUR jobs back to us.

[OhioChick]

2. Here are the 10 Jobs They Gave Us....

Here are 10 jobs created:

"But in Buffalo, the fruits of the Tata deal have been hard to find. The company, which called the arrangement Clinton's "brainchild," says "about 10" employees work here. Tata says most of the new employees were hired from around Buffalo. It declines to say whether any of the new jobs are held by foreigners, who make up 90% of Tata's 10,000-employee workforce in the United States."

http://almosteverafter.blogspot.com/2007/09/clinton-woos-outsourcers-feared-by-us.html

[DainBramaged]

5. I thought Tata's were female mammary glands?

[OhioChick]

6. .....

:rofl:

[islandmkl]

3. 5,000 jobs 'created' in America....as compared to what?

Nice math for the intelligence-impaired. How many f****** jobs have been shipped overseas since even 2004?

[OhioChick]

4. Good Question....

US Corporations WON'T release those numbers.

[electprogdems]

7. yeah right, and the price of gas has nothing to do

with current inflation, and the war is not one of the causes of the coming recession.

They certainly are deluded, aren't they?

[Nay]

8. Oh, please. Tell that BS to the poor slobs who had to train their foreign

replacements or forfeit their pitiful severance packages.

[DainBramaged]

9. Like Dell did to their help desk employees