San Jose job fair this weekend ... for jobs in India

[Newsjock]

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9221756/Looking_for_work_Here_s_a_job_fair_touting_tech_openings_in_India

U.S. companies have been hiring workers from India for years, especially graduates of U.S. universities.

But Indian companies, as well as American firms operating in India, are now trying to convince some of them to return to India.

A job fair at the San Jose Convention Center this weekend is focused on helping companies recruit Indian workers who may in the U.S. on a visa by informing them about the professional and economic opportunities back home.

Organizers also stressed that the job fair is also open to anyone who is interested in working in India.

[TBF]

1. The capitalists will exploit the entire earth (and people on it) for as long as we allow

it or the resources run out. That is what they (we) do because capitalism rewards us for doing so. We really need a new economic model.

[pampango]

2. I imagine that most countries would like to have their nationals who are educated in the US or

have experience working professionally here return to their country.

Since some Americans don't want those foreign nationals staying here anyway, everyone is happy. (Canada looks at these foreign students and professionals as assets to their economy and wouldn't want the education and training they received in Canada to benefit another country's economy, but much of the US does not share that view.)

[RickFromMN]

3. I'm sure there are tariff laws against what I'm about to suggest, but

can't we somehow make it the law of the land that products sold in the United States
have to have over 50% United States labor involved in the creation of those products.

I haven't thought this through...there are many problems with my suggestion.

Do we measure the labor to make the product based on salary of the employees
or hours worked on the product by the employees or a combination of the two?

Why am I thinking along these lines?

There is an unwritten contract we had with big corporations and the rich...they
could makes lots of money as long as we could earn enough to live reasonably well too.
This meant we had a job and a home and health insurance and a vehicle to get to work.
This meant we had enough money to provide for our family, food, clothing, education, health.

Corporations broke this unwritten contract when they outsourced work to other countries.

I can't handle the philosophical arguments that are bound to follow...like my favorite
argument...as the consumers, we could and should only buy American.
While I might agree with this argument philosophically, there are problems.
For many products, I don't know where the product was made;
American companies manufacture overseas.
For a number of products, there is no American manufacturer.
And I hate to say it, I don't have that much money and have to look for bargains,
and American made products aren't always the cheapest.

I guess...what I am suggesting, is completely against tariff laws.
I am suggesting we set up tariffs to reduce the import of goods from foreign countries.
The punishment, if I understand the tariff laws and I admit I don't understand,
is our products sold to foreign countries would face tariffs.
My reaction...good. We should produce products here and sell these products here.
Any company selling products here has to be based here.
Any company wanting to sell products in a foreign country can have a subsidiary
or parent company in that foreign country. We will tax any flow of money to/from
this subsidiary/parent company when the money enters/leaves our borders.

Does this sound extreme? Doesn't China have some rules, I don't know if these
"rules" are written or just understood.
Isn't it true products sold to the Chinese people are best sold with the help of
Chinese companies in partnership with foreign companies?
Don't products sold to the Chinese people have to have a certain amount of
Chinese labor to provide jobs to the Chinese people?
I could be very wrong about China having these rules...and would welcome someone
correcting me.

If we can't make these rules, can we devalue the dollar like the Chinese keep their
currency low. Imports would be discouraged. Exports would be helped.

The argument against devaluing our currency revolves around us being the "world currency."
Why do we want to be the world currency? What are the advantages and disadvantages?
China is doing okay not being the world currency.

Edited to say, I think the argument against devaluing our currency revolves
around us being the "world currency." I realized I made this assumption and it might be false.
Could someone provide the real reasons we don't devalue our currency please?