Indian Education: Actually Terrible !!! 1784

On Mon, 23 Jul 2006, Kamal R. Prasad

And, Kamal Prasad needs to open his eyes and see that the US actually is actually wealthy and the sum of the value of all the US$ and US buttets probably exceeds that of any other country.

and if only we could elect the right

eg. India

This sentence completely ignores several facts:

First, that offshoring does not always go to a cheaper location (eg. India & China can't make jet airliners, but Boeing and Airbus do).

Second, "cheaper" only means that the exchang rate favors an arrangement that presents a lower bill.

Third, there is significant evidence that the cheaper work is also of lower qualityh (see my BPO failure rate FAQ which keeps getting larger).

All of those high

And, I'm still waiting for Kamal to face in his own country the high caste priviledges that comes with Indian birthrights and the poo priviledges (non-existent) that the "untouchables" had to bear for the last 3,000 years.

have got to be

The US exports a significant amount of military goods just like Russia and China do.

Computers and the Internet, plus many other spinoffs, have proven that govt subs research did pay off.

You could say the US taxpayer has

Including India.

Thanks. But you still have a swelled head.

Oh, but you guys (including TwistyCreek) sure beating the table about how damed great you are (but never mentioned all the crap still in your country, but you don't hesitate to talk about US problems so, fine, I will talk about Indian problems and you have plenty).

MNCs have been in your country for years already. IBM, Sun, MS, Oracle, etc.

it isn't because

No, its because everything you get from us is a pure gift of the exchange rate.

It is because the govt was arm-twisted by the IMF to open up the

Actually, India is still not open to US selling in India.

Even after all that, the Indian economy is relatively

Insulated by not open Rupee, not open markets, and I see that you export more to Pakistan than you import, so you NEED to keep Pakistan healthy or you will lose that revenue stream. And, in primitive economies like yours, a dollar goes a lot farther than a Rupee, so you are NOT so insulated as you think.

Remember my post about our exports? Oh, i see you forgot that too.

So, here it is again: ---------------------- The Economist (I hope you know that periodical) publishes in the back pages of every issue lots of financial data. In the April 29, 2006 issue on page 101, is a bar graph showing (breastle of bar graph) "Trade in commercial services" with an asterisk which says "Transport, travel, commmunications, financial and other services" and under the breastle it says "Top exporters, 2005, $bn" and guess who is at the top? The USA, exported $350 billion in services. The next highest exporter is Britain with $180 bil. There were 13 more countries listed (Germany, France, Japan, Italy, Spain, China with $80 bil, Netherlands, India with $65 bil in services, and the rest with Canada ending at $50 bil). The source was given as the WTO.

Just in the Tuesday, May 16, issue of the WSJ, front page, is another bar graph on world wide farm exports. Guess what, US is at the top with $79.6 bil in exports. The whole EU exports $78.4 bil. Others in order down the list are Canada (40.1), Brazil (30.9), China (24.1), Oz (22.1), Argentina (17.1), and down through Russia (13.8), and Malaysia (13.1), and India not even on the list.

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How about you learn to focus on the difference between legal immigrants and illegal immigrants.

Yeah, we need a Berlin Wall accross our border.

After NAFTA

I think this is untrue. But, then, you Indians have your Indian lobby which is in league with our politicians, too, who actually work for your benefit, not ours.

Those starving Mexicans were coming up here for decades before NAFTA, so your explaination is false.

The illegals, yes. However, being that 90% of the people here were born here, the Mexicans really don't contribute that much. They even had a nationwide strike here which barely affected anyone.

I would add that

Like I said, they have been coming here since way before NAFTA. You don't know what you are talking about.