The Open-Door Bailout

Here goes Mr. F. with the H1-B visa stuff again ( The Open-Door Bailout ) and his quasi-racist caricature of 'smart, hard working Indians'. They are actually mostly just young and willing to work for much less money than Americans. Really, is this guy being paid by the electronics industry to lobby to help further drive down wages in this industry? And all this as unemployment is spiking in the US with IBM and others laying off thousands. I don't oppose immigration, especially of skilled and educated wokers, but this is about as dumb as it gets. Unless you are indeed a shill for the American electronics industry.

500,000 Strong

I guess I should have done a Google before starting this blog. Googling "Thomas Friedman idiot" yields at least a half a million hits. To be fair, maybe all the 'idiots' don't refer to Mr. Friedman. Must all of them on the first page do ...

Abandon all hope

In today's column TF searches Davos (perhaps lamp in hand like Diogenes) looking for The Man with The Plan (Elvis Has Left the Mountain). He concludes that we must all suffer for our sins. Sorry, not me bub. I neither bought nor sold a subprime mortgage nor a derivative thereof. I agree that someone needs to suffer some pain here, but it shouldn't be me or most of the people I know.

In a further testament to poor judgement, TF mentions his association with Indian outsourcer and fraudster B. Raju. He only speculates on how Mr. Raju helped start India's first 911 system. How could such a good man steal $1B (or more) of other people's money? Hint: it's not jus teasy, its smart to spend a few bucks on P.R. like this of you are a crook. Ask Mike Milken and Mother Theresa.