[ale] A nation of the immigrants, by the immigrants, for the immigrants

[Jim Popovitch]

Hi Jonathan,

Most of your comments don't consider that companies probably outsource their
overseas work rather than run it as their own business.  There are many
successful examples of this.

-Jim P.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Gardner [mailto:jgardn at alumni.washington.edu]
>
> That's the silliest thing I've ever heard. There are several reasons why
> comapnies really don't like to operate overseas:
>
> 0) The culture, the language, even the business culture, and the
> science culture, is going to be very different. This requires a
> team of foreign business consultants, who often times aren't much
> better off than you are.
> 1) Local laws are very different, requiring a brand new set of
> lawyers.
> 2) Local laws? What about the local bribes? You think politics is
> bad here,
> wait 'til you see the other countries.
> 3) Foreign countries like to tax the crud out of foreign companies,
> and they will never enjoy the popularity or stability of a local
> company. The citizenry loves to see America get what's coming to
> them, for being the leader in economics for more than 150 years,
> just like whiny liberal democrats like to see businessmen and
> hard-working intelligent people get taxed at half or more.
> 4) If they think America has a workforce problem, they will find
> it worse anywhere else.
>


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