H. Ross Perot's Giant Sucking

Once again, a break from tech to do some politics.

Remember H. Ross Perot, founder of Perot Systems and EDS? When he ran for President, he played the American people like a fiddle. Said that NAFTA would send jobs away, which it turned out, it did, in a big way, and hurt a lot of workers.

Well, in 2006, his company set up shop in Mexico, to help American companies outsource tech support.

Giant Sucking Sound: Perot Systems Outsources To Mexico

Ron Hira, in an article about the bogus tech worker shortage also listed Perot's old EDS as another major outsourcer, with "body shops" in America that outsource to the world.

I guess the Perot management theory is if you can't beat them (at beating up America's workers) then join them (in beating up America's workers). That's America's CEO for ya!

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