Mi Padrone!

Do you know that the great cigar icon Fidel Castro doesn’t smoke anymore? I read in a Time Magazine interview that he gave up smoking as a health measure. Anyway, I continue to enjoy tobacco products like Padron cigars and I think, the number of people who are smokers have not lessened. This is probably due to the increasing population of the entire planet.

Deporting Illegals

Back in the good old U.S. of A, I was told that the government has deported a lot of illegals. Some even told me that the number is more than a million. Whether it is accurate or not, it is that country’s sovereign right to expel illegals and the issue is between Americans alone. In relation to outsourcing, the country should have shaved off a lot of competition for the locals so a lot of them should have benefitted and are now employed. I hope that this will be better for outsourcing who had been under the cross hairs for so long as a huge competitor.

To outsource or not to outsource

Some people just can’t come into grips with the reality that in most instances, outsourcing brings more benefits than costs to all entities. A factory can’t become most efficient in everything that it does. It therefore needs to outsource non critical items to other firms. However, there are vital things that cannot be outsourced. National Defense, for instance, cannot be outsourced by a small and peaceful country to its larger neighbour.

Fresno's Trash Talk

In Fresno, people are about to go out and decide whether the city's trash collection will be outsourced or done in house. The arguments in this heated debate are all too familiar for watchers of the outsourcing industry. Those who are for outsourcing claims the same if not better service at much lower cost saving millions of dollars and the city's finances. Those on the other side, however, claims that the city will not go to dire straits without outsourcing. Well, let the people decide their future.