Bush requests increased spending on scientific research
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This can actually a very good thing IF the money are not diverted to greedy large corporations.
The gov. must finance their own research centers, and once a discovery is made be involved into technology transfer toward small businesses signing an non-offshoring agreement for a couple of years.
If large companies are allowed to receive these funds, this will be just another giveaway to the lazy rich and provide them funding to offshore more research jobs.
By CP TORONTO -- Canadian call-centre jobs, especially those in the Atlantic provinces, could be in jeopardy of being shifted overseas if burgeoning Asian and Middle Eastern outsourcing firms continue to ride...
That is. Globalization change everything we know about how economy works. If in old times, research funding provided to a large company were used to hire US engineers and scientists, now these funds are going to be pumped directly into the rich shareholders pockets while in order to fulfill the required staff with the remaining money they will fire US personal and hire for cheap in China and India.
Melbourne, July 7. (UNI): In spite of stiff union and public resistance to send back-office and calling centre operations to low-wage countries...
It is pathological greed of large corporations that makes them antisocial. They must not receive anymore any government funding since they will used them to hurt US worst than the persons do. The only alternative are gov. research centers and small businesses bounded by tech. transfer agreement not to offshore for a couple of years.
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