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Saturday, April 3rd, 2004Response to my article on outsourcing:
It is all well and good for techno-sycophants, such as you, to wax philosophically about the tech job sinks. You will still be overpaid and under-employed wherever the technical hub of the world resides.That which was built in the U.S.A., by the sweat blood and lives of its citizens belongs to its citizens, not to the cow and rat worshippers nor to the devotees of Mao Tse Tung nor to anyone else that has not paid the price.
What is “the price”? The price is a willingness to trade life for freedom. The price is sending our troops and our dollars to vermin infested hell holes around the world to deliver those less fortunate from themselves. The price is drawing a line in the sand and backing up that line with the full force of U.S. might. The price is offering the olive branch of peace repeatedly and tirelessly until that branch is ripped from our grasp and hurled back in our faces.
Until the populations of these lesser states ascend to the greatness and goodness of the American people, they can remain in their dark age morass.
The tech jobs can and should stay here where the price HAS been paid. Tell the multi-millionaire corporate executives that “you have enough already, leave the rest for the “REAL” Americans, the American work force.
–Mark S. Kincaid
Techno-sycophant. I like it!
I’ve several times considered getting a T-shit made that says “FAKE AMERICAN” on the front.
Invariably, whenver people start talking about the “REAL” America, I never seem to be part of it.
I’ve found it interesting, in the last couple of years, as the “off-shore” buzz-issue has risen to national prominence, that there has been a decided increase in barely, if at all, concealed racism. Perhaps nationalism is a better term, but it doesn’t convey the egregious prejudice that I’m talking about. It seems as if racism is anathema and unspeakable as long as foreigners are just quaint little news items, but as soon as reality rings the doorbell, all non-Americans are despicable, dirty, apple pie-hating savages, bent on self-destruction.
People who get their goat up about “off-shoring” simply don’t have a leg to stand on, so the timeless resort of imagined superiority is the only way they can justify their fear and insecurity. I’m so tired of victim-speak.
PS Tell that half-wit Kincaid that until he has “paid the price” himself, he should lump himself in with all of those “cow and rat worshippers” he hates so much.
Jesus, who gave the caveman a typewriter?
Mr. Kincaid — if you value “real” Americans so much, why do you seek to limit their options to get the most for their hard-earned money — and/or to choose the best employer?
Your message reeks of wealthism — you ignore the CONTINUING responsibility of the American work force to think like the businessmen they are, and legitimately earn the opportunity to work by making sure they are more productive than the competition.
Instead, you place all the responsibility on the “multi-millionaire corporate executives” for the health of this economy — when in reality we ALL are responsibile for its health, by the choices EACH OF US make.
I pay another kind of price, every day — I’m one of those “overpaid” technical professionals whose job could be outsourced — except I can do what I do as well or better than the foreign competition, and my employers recognize that.
While I consider one component of that as aid from the Divine, the fact that I didn’t just let a supervisor tell me what to do — but instead chose my education and employers wisely, and kept some degree of flexibility in my career and personal life — played a huge part in maintaining my ability to compete.
I expect ALL Americans — from the burger-flippers to the CEOs — to do the same, for that keeps our economy both efficient and growing.
If you can’t take the heat of open competition with the world, Mr. Kincaid, move to some workers’ paradise like Cuba — for even the socialists in Scandinavia are willing to compete.
I like this letter. When I next see someone eyeing my girlfriend I think I’m going to tell him that he doesn’t deserve her because he and his kind haven’t paid ‘the price’.
Four legs good! Two legs baaaad!
Stalin: A REAL American.
How can one praise the trading of life for freedom and yet advocate the trading of freedom for a more comfortable life?
Mr. Kincaid — if you value “real” Americans so much, why do you seek to limit their options to get the most for their hard-earned money — and/or to choose the best employer?
Do you value them? I ask because it’s obvious you would limit their choice of law and defence services.
- Josh
Stormy, I’d like to have that t-shirt, too. Our wonderful president has already told me that I am morally bereft and shouldn’t be counted among the American citizenry because I do not believe in god.
Golly gee, that’ll win my vote!
I think I should be able to turn in my social security card, toss out my 1040, and proudly wear the “Fake American” t-shirt.
M. Peck–
Racism always comes to the surface when groups of people with different ethnicities competing for the same resources live in close proximity.
Chechs have no problem with blacks, there aren’t any around, but gypsies…”scum and a scourge to society.” Most Chechs would say they are a huge drain on their economy and they contribute nothing.
There are certainly other reasons for rascism, but that’s a biggie.
Josh — how does anything I advocate limit their choices?
If you mean my advocacy of a GOP supermajority, (1) they have to choose to put that in place, and (2) I believe that it will open up the political process, by allowing the voters to reasonably consider alternatives to the Elephant and the Donkey in the future.
Right now, our choices are QUITE limited, if we are considering choices that actually will be implemented. That will not change as long as the political Cold War we have here goes on.
One party … or the other … must go down before we can make progress. The question is — which party will do the least damage, if they are given a supermajority for a short time?
Bronwyn–
This isn’t something I attribute to one party or the other. I’ve had people of all political stripes imply I’m not a “real” American.
I now have a new favorite euphamism for killing. “Deliver them from themselves.”
That is fricking awesome. Awesome enough to replace my former favorite “regime change.”
bow down, world, and kiss the american ring. Mark Kincaid told you to.