January 31, 2004


Welcome to the Chimp Century

Where saying one thing and meaning another is just, well, National Policy (in that we have any at all). Seems that India is more than a little upset about pending legislation concerning outsourcing certain types of Federal work there (OK, help me here, what FEDERAL jobs need to be outsourced anywhere outside the government? Tax Return processing, Visa request filing? What? I'm puzzled here.). But that's not the funny part. The humor here (such as it is) is in the reaction of an Indian Minister to the 1600 Crew.

Arun Jaitley, India's minister for trade and commerce, said he would raise the issue with Robert Zoellick, the US trade representative, who had last year assured him he would oppose similar measures that had been tabled in some US state legislatures.
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India believes that the largely symbolic measure could pave the way for more substantial protectionist moves unless it is vigorously contested. "This measure sends a far from insignificant signal," Mr Jaitley told the Financial Times.

"Here you have a country whose main mantra [at the World Trade Organisation] is 'market access' and whose argument is that opening markets to competition is the solution to poverty in countries like India. And then they enact something like this".

This guy is serious? Doesn't he know that if Unka Karl decides to never allow the word "market access" into one of Fearless Leader's speeches again, it will never be a topic of discussion. Aw gee, how nice to live in a place where one can still be so naive, and unencumbered of the realities of ChimpCo and CheneyBurton. It's sort of the simple life, sans Paris Hilton.

posted by Jo Fish on 01.31.04 at 12:00 AM





Comments:

Can George W outsource Unka Karl's job?

posted by: Shag from Brookline on 01.31.04 at 07:05 AM [permalink]



My understanding is that the Congress doesn't want government contracts to be awarded to companies that outsource major portions of the contract.

For example, Congress doesn't want the computer work associated with CAPPII to be awarded to a company that intends to do the work with Asian programmers.

This is just a variation of the domestic content requirement for many/most government contracts.

posted by: Bryan on 01.31.04 at 09:11 PM [permalink]






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