Two leading Silicon Valley chief executives, reacting Wednesday to criticism they've shipped too many high-tech jobs overseas, defended hiring workers in India and China and warned that the United States and particularly California were in danger of losing their competitive edge to the Far East.Well, that is exactly what one would expect a CEO who was shipping high-tech (and high-paying) jobs overseas. We simply must get more competitive. So just how much more competitive?"There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore," said Carly Fiorina, chairman of Palo Alto information technology giant Hewlett Packard.
| Country | Average Programmer Salary |
| United States | $60,000 - $80,000 |
| Canada | $28,174 |
| China | $8,952 |
| India | $5,880 - $11,000 |
And mind you, China and India pay no benefits.
It is time to address this for exactly what it is. We are letting these corporations effectively import grossly cheap labor into this country. No, they don't actually come here, but the products of their brains do, and that is effectively the same thing if you are an American software developer.
These corporations spout their "free trade" arguments, saying that as American workers are displaced by cheaper foreign workers, they will move to higher paying jobs. Higher paying than a software developer? Hell, there are doctors in India interpreting our X-rays! For what? To free up our doctors for higher paying jobs?
This is garbage, and we need to start voting for people who understand this.
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