Good jobs are being outsourced to them not simply because they\'ll work for less, but because they are better educated in the math and science skills required for 21st-century work.
I dont agree with this. The grunt work is being outsourced from the US simply because labor is cheaper and there is some education parity in IT education. One apocrophyl story I heard was the testing for an electronics component was 55c in the US per part, in the Phillipines it is 22c. The part was to be sold at 40c each. That has nothing to do with entrepreneurship or math skills and everything to do with low cost of labor and land.
I agree that Indian and Chinese entrepreneurs will have success, humans are humans and excel in a competitive business environment. I dont doubt that Indian and Chinese entrepreneurs will rival the western entrepreneurs.
As to hating Howard, I am one that dislikes his foreign and cultural policies. Enough to despise his worldview. From my point of view, I thought Australia was coming to a powder keg of maturity in culture, society, political and economy. With that powder keg we may have been able to advance the modern liberl democracy and the dialog/discourse on individual freedom - but it was squashed, and squashed by one man.
He may have been successful politically, successful electorally, and generally ameniable on his economic policy - but I do not like his history wars which are a governmental imposition on modern history, I also do not like the reflexive return to 1950\'s foreign policy and his uncritical support of US policy. If there ever was a time to be critical of the US, 2003 was it.
My personal hope for Australia is that it becomes the beacon for the global dialog on freedom, the place that people talk about in going to in aspirational terms. At the moment we remain a reflexive subset of American and Britain. This is what I hate.
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