{"id":6343,"date":"2010-10-04T14:42:35","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T19:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=6343"},"modified":"2010-10-04T16:44:53","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T21:44:53","slug":"bangalore_inste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/04\/bangalore_inste\/","title":{"rendered":"“Bangalore instead of Burbank”"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s an election year and it appears yet again that few things trigger the emotional tripwire faster than outsourcing<\/a>. Out here in Cali, it’s apparently the ticket Barbara Boxer is banking on<\/a> to preserve her Senate seat in the face of her challenger, former HP CEO, Carly Fiorina – <\/p>\n\n

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“I know precisely why those jobs go…Because Fiorina shipped them there….Bangalore instead of Burbank.”<\/strong><\/em><\/blockquote>\n\n

Unfortunately, unlike Boxer, Fiorina has actually engaged in the difficult and often unpopular tradeoffs necessary to run a viable company and meet payroll. Boxer ought to instead put more effort into understanding why Fiorina and thousands of CEO’s like her consistently rate California the worst state in the country<\/a> to do business. As a direct consequence, California jobs are far more at risk of being “outsourced” to other states<\/a> than the comparatively few that are sent out of the country.<\/p>\n\n

Of course, when you’re dealing with politics rather than economics, where a job was sent to matters far more than the sheer number lost<\/a> – a fact Boxer’s ad exploits to the fullest.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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