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Your Special Friend wrote:
> 
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64696-2004Jan30.html
> 
> Anxious About Outsourcing
> States Try to Stop U.S. Firms From Sending High-Tech Work Overseas
> 
> By Greg Schneider
> Washington Post Staff Writer
> Saturday, January 31, 2004; Page E01
> 
> State and federal lawmakers are finding little success in efforts to
> stop technology companies from sending jobs overseas. But a paragraph
> buried in the giant federal spending bill the president signed Jan. 23
> could pave the way for state laws around the country aimed at
> preventing the export of white-collar jobs to cheaper foreign markets.
> 
> The paragraph prohibits the federal government from awarding certain
> contracts to companies that will perform the work overseas. The
> measure expires at the end of September, and industry officials say
> few contracts are likely to be affected.
> 
> But the provision sets a precedent that information technology
> companies say could stoke a national backlash against them. Such
> companies are at the forefront of a trend of moving service jobs
> offshore -- jobs such as computer technical support and software
> programming -- and giving them to English speakers in India, the
> Philippines, Russia and other countries with lower wages for such
> work.
> 
>
>  ~snip~
>
> If the United States starts throwing up protectionist barriers, he
> said, other countries might do the same, "and the big losers are U.S.
> workers and U.S. industry."

The this group should be posied and ready to take action for 'US
Companies'.
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