I am astonished at the comments by those educated persons that US is doing a great favour to India by 123 agreement. You can see from the past, whenever US has done something, it has done it only for its selfish motive. Just because India happened to be a place of cheap international coolies for IT professional, US preferred them. I am at a loss to understand how people react to it. As if they have done a great favour. If they get cheaper coolies elsewhere, they will ditch all Indians... All those people, who work in US on behalf of IT industry, do you know what is the standard billing rate? What is billing your company charges? What is the portion you are getting? Just you live in a poor country, those money means a lot for you. But for US, they are not able to find such cheap coolies elsewhere. Once they find it, you will be ditched.
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by baskar baburaj on Aug 21, 2007 09:37 AM Permalink
Hi Derel,
U R A COOLIE. THERE IS NO DOUBT ABT THAT. U R A SLAVE TO WHITES. WE INDIANS NEED TO ACCEPT IT. DO NOT FEEL TOO MUCH PROUD BEING IN US. U R A PAID COOLIE>
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by Shadow on Aug 21, 2007 08:59 AM Permalink
udayakumar
cut the cra.p!. What are you cribbing about? Do you know any economics to understand how businesses works? All people work for money for some form of payment and that doesn't make them coolie or cheap!. The rate is determined by demand vs. supply cycle!. IT people are called Knowledge Workers!. Millions and Millions of people are employed by so many companies to get their systems automated so that they can get more productive!. IT is THE THING!. So you get into the IT too, or did you get fired for being a bad programmer and you are talking out of spite!. :)
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by ashish sinha on Aug 21, 2007 09:01 AM Permalink
dear udayakumar,
america means business. if it gets a cheaper coolie somewhere else why should it not ditch us ? Emotions dont work in business. Would not you change your job if someone else pays you higher ? So stop talking about this ditching.
agreed that we work as cheap coolies, but we are cheap only when you compare to american salaries. we indians do not set american salary levels, and anyways we are getting much better salary if we compare ourselves with indians of older generations. So do not fret.
If america has its interests, we should also pursue our own interest. We are paying in dollars for all the equioment we shall get from america, and there are provisions in the agreement for cancellation of the deal.
We need to use each other. No body is anybody's friend. Its only interests that matter. If america is using us, we must also use america to our interests.
Right now a lot of indian interest can be served by this treaty. plenty of electricity and lots of jobs would be created as a result of this.
We as a country would be foolish to reject this deal.
