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ybf@ziplip.com (Your Special Friend) wrote in message news:<1214fb08.0401291826.28fd270c@posting.google.com>...
> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/453424.cms
> 

> Bill Gates 
>  
> "If we are not realistic about what we are good at then there is a
> chance of going backwards in the face of further competition...
> Innovative companies need to look at which things they should do
> offshore and what they should do at home," Gates said.

It is interesting that no one ever pin points what we are good at. 
A few years ago when the textile mills were closing everyone thought
high tech was the industry. Oooops! It's gone overseas. Maybe
he is talking about lawyering. 
>  
> Alan Greenspan 

A smart man that made an incredible blunder a few years ago. 
> 
> "Competition from abroad has risen to a point at which developed
> countries' lowest skilled workers are being priced out of the global
> labour market," Greenspan told the London meeting.

If he were speaking today he would replace "lowest skilled" with 
"highest skilled". He is stuck in the 90's
> 
> "The diminishing of opportunities for such workers is why retraining
> for new job skills that meet the evolving opportunities created by our
> economies has become so urgent a priority," he added.

Retraining in what? No point in wasting time on something that will
be outsourced in 3 years. 
> 
>  
> Bill Clinton 

> 
> The explosion of growth in hi-tech had given India the largest middle
> class in the world and if India resolved its internal problems, it
> would grow faster than China in the next 20 years, he said.
> 
> Meanwhile, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan told the European Union
> meeting to stop using migration as a scapegoat.

So what fuels the growth if the developed nations aren't losing?
> 

> While these heavyweights have used broad strokes to defend free trade,
> a range of commentaries, analysis and studies in the US suggest that
> the anti-free trade brigade is hopelessly mistaken about its effect on
> the American economy.

Right, it's the economy which american workers are not part of?
>  
>  
> Kofi Annan 
>  
> One study data as recent as December 2003 indicates a 14 per cent
> increase in business and financial occupations, a 6 per cent increase
> in computer and mathematical jobs, and only a 2 per cent drop in
> architecture and engineering jobs in the US.

Something dropped, but why? We must be more nationally secure as 
business leaders and not technology leaders. 
> 
> 
> "There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore," H-P chief
> Carly Fiorina said recently in a remarks that outraged some Americans.
> "We have to compete for jobs."
> 
> In so many words, that is also the message from Bill Clinton, Alan
> Greenspan, Bill Gates and Kofi Annan.

Freedom is not a god given right. When you consider those that give their 
lives or part of their life keeping the shipping lanes open, and all
those that came before defending the shores one has to get their priorities
in order. I am sure it will all work out down the road.