Wall Street Still finds Ways to Hire Foreigners
It was just a decade back when foreigners were rushing to America in search of better opportunities, better jobs and higher standards of living. Today, there is a shift in this trend and people are leaving America for a better opportunity elsewhere. One can debate on this topic - is it right to leave your country, your mother-land in search of better life. Similarly, one can debate on the related topic - is it right for businesses to employ people from other countries, give them better opportunity and more money to make their own business a successful one.
The government is giving money to companies; stimulus packages for businesses to recover from the downturn. In return the government is expecting the companies to seek out Americans for the open job positions. It seems reasonable when it is put in this way. But if you go back in time, a decade back, it was a time when companies lured highly qualified people from all over the world to run their business, make their company grow and expand. The foreigners were behind the growth and prosperity of the business, the economy and the country. Now, the same foreigners are looked upon as people who are taking away the jobs from Americans.
I think it is time for us to see beyond borders. We have to view this in global sense. People choose to live in a particular place for a number of reasons. People may choose a place because of better career opportunity or for a particular lifestyle or to live with their family and friends or just because of great weather. It could be a personal choice or could be due to immigration laws. It could be something that they can control or something that is just the way the life is for them.
What bothers me is the ethical discussion and debates around this subject and the way it influences the thinking of people and the laws of the place. It is basic human characteristic to seek out better opportunity for himself. There is nothing right or wrong about it. It is just human. A decade back, this country was viewed as the happening place for technology and so people moved here. Today, if the happening place shifts from America to China, there will be movement to that part of the world. People will go where there is opportunity. Companies will give jobs to the best people who make their business prosper. Period.
The people living at a particular time make up the country; a sum total of people from different regions of the world. The country should try to provide the best opportunity to the people who live there; the people living in a place have to give their best to the society they are living in. This is my view of globalization!
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Santa Clara killer opened fire on family during housewarming
This was a terrible terrible thing that happened. I have close friends who live in that community. It is a place that I visit almost every week. I would have driven through those roads so many times. The fact that it is in a familiar territory and people from the same background were involved makes it a shocking news.
It is no doubt an act of a madman. What could have prompted a reasonable software engineer working in yahoo take such an action - anger? hatred? jealousy? Maybe a combination of all. How can one differentiate a normal person from a person who is capable of doing such gruesome act? He is just one of us but still far from being one of us.
Would he have done such a thing had he been in India? Yes, but maybe not in this scale. Maybe it would have been worse and more gruesome. Maybe he would have used a conventional weapon like a knife, maybe it would have been more bloody. But definitely he would have found it more difficult to kill people with so much ease. It would have taken him more time and more efforts compared to what he did in minutes. Yes, homicides and killing are common in India too but it is still not easy for a common man to carry out such an episode with so much ease. Guns are not legal. They are not easily accessible to common man. Yes, of course one can still buy it in black market.
In my opinion the fact that any one can posses a gun makes these violence a sad reality. The gun laws in this country allows any one above the age of 18 to posses a guns. The private firearm ownership is 49% or higher. The availability of the weapons in the house not only makes it easy to conceive and plan such activity but also makes it easy for children to get hold of these weapons and carry out shooting incidents in schools. I strongly believe that banning the firearms will bring down the homicide rates drastically and will make our schools safer. But unfortunately there are lot of people who do not believe in this philosophy. They stand by the second amendment. In the Bill of Rights, the second amendment to the Constitution reads:
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed."
Gun control proponents argue that the use of the word "people" in this Amendment, refers not to the civilian population of the United States, but to the State National Guard Units. Gun rights proponents have argued that the use of the word "Militia" in this Amendment, refers not to the State National Guard Units, but to the citizens of the United States.
The gun proponents argue that the gun control will only prevent the righteous people from buying the weapons. It is not going to prevent the criminals or the gangsters or the mobsters from getting the guns. It is not going to bring down the homicide. In fact they argue that it will increase. According to them, if only the school teachers had guns to defend themselves, the school shooting could have been stopped by the teacher effectively with fewer or no casualty.
It is true that gun control will not make the crime disappear from the streets, but definitely it will make it difficult and fewer in number. Only seasoned criminal will be possesing firearms. And yes, it would definitely have made it a lot difficult for a software engineer to go to a shop, buy a gun and murder 6 members of his family!
This was a terrible terrible thing that happened. I have close friends who live in that community. It is a place that I visit almost every week. I would have driven through those roads so many times. The fact that it is in a familiar territory and people from the same background were involved makes it a shocking news.
It is no doubt an act of a madman. What could have prompted a reasonable software engineer working in yahoo take such an action - anger? hatred? jealousy? Maybe a combination of all. How can one differentiate a normal person from a person who is capable of doing such gruesome act? He is just one of us but still far from being one of us.
Would he have done such a thing had he been in India? Yes, but maybe not in this scale. Maybe it would have been worse and more gruesome. Maybe he would have used a conventional weapon like a knife, maybe it would have been more bloody. But definitely he would have found it more difficult to kill people with so much ease. It would have taken him more time and more efforts compared to what he did in minutes. Yes, homicides and killing are common in India too but it is still not easy for a common man to carry out such an episode with so much ease. Guns are not legal. They are not easily accessible to common man. Yes, of course one can still buy it in black market.
In my opinion the fact that any one can posses a gun makes these violence a sad reality. The gun laws in this country allows any one above the age of 18 to posses a guns. The private firearm ownership is 49% or higher. The availability of the weapons in the house not only makes it easy to conceive and plan such activity but also makes it easy for children to get hold of these weapons and carry out shooting incidents in schools. I strongly believe that banning the firearms will bring down the homicide rates drastically and will make our schools safer. But unfortunately there are lot of people who do not believe in this philosophy. They stand by the second amendment. In the Bill of Rights, the second amendment to the Constitution reads:
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed."
Gun control proponents argue that the use of the word "people" in this Amendment, refers not to the civilian population of the United States, but to the State National Guard Units. Gun rights proponents have argued that the use of the word "Militia" in this Amendment, refers not to the State National Guard Units, but to the citizens of the United States.
The gun proponents argue that the gun control will only prevent the righteous people from buying the weapons. It is not going to prevent the criminals or the gangsters or the mobsters from getting the guns. It is not going to bring down the homicide. In fact they argue that it will increase. According to them, if only the school teachers had guns to defend themselves, the school shooting could have been stopped by the teacher effectively with fewer or no casualty.
It is true that gun control will not make the crime disappear from the streets, but definitely it will make it difficult and fewer in number. Only seasoned criminal will be possesing firearms. And yes, it would definitely have made it a lot difficult for a software engineer to go to a shop, buy a gun and murder 6 members of his family!
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