Bangalored jobs will come home: Trump

Bangalored jobs will come home: Trump
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Donald Trump, the Republican presidential front-runner, has added India to the list of countries that he says are ripping off jobs from the US and has pledged to bring them back if elected president. Last month, Donald Trump had asserted that India is “doing well”, but now he proposes to detract from that wellness. 

Las Vegas: Donald Trump, the Republican presidential front-runner, has added India to the list of countries that he says are ripping off jobs from the US and has pledged to bring them back if elected president. Last month, Donald Trump had asserted that India is “doing well”, but now he proposes to detract from that wellness.

Harking back to a statement of last November, when he accused India and China of taking advantage of America, he has sworn to bring back jobs that rightfully belong to Americans but have irresponsibly wandered off to Bangalore. “What I did on June 16, we came out and we started talking about trade, how we’re being ripped off with China, ripped off with Japan, ripped off with Mexico at the border and then trade, ripped off by Vietnam, and by India, and by every country,”

Trump told his supporters at a massive rally in Las Vegas on Tuesday night. In reality, Silicon Valley and a few other industries sought out technical talent from India as a cut-throat business strategy in the 1990s. The media coined terms for the phenomenon — body-shopping and outsourcing — to present old colonial strategies as new. Two decades later, the tide had turned and President Barack Obama coined the counter-term: He complained of the cream of American jobs being “Bangalored”.

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