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A lot of criticism of how bad it will be with the outsourcing company, but clearly the real worry is local people losing their jobs to foreigners. Why blame the university? It's not a charity. If anyone really cares about the workers who lost their jobs, they can look up their address and mail them a check.

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Seems like you may have missed the whole, "Give a man a fish..." thing growing up.

Not GP, but there is a sliver of sound logic in the call to put your money where your mouth is.

Why not start a charity/non-profit that assists such victims of outsourcing? I'd think unemployment benefits were supposed to do that. And that is not too far from you, me and all other taxpayers writing a check to such folks. Is it?

Not the GP, but because starting a charity/non-profit that's worth a damn takes a ridiculous amount of work, and in areas I'm not terribly proficient in, and I have a plethora of other things that I would like to do with my limited time on earth.

I already have about 100+ things I'd love to create, contribute to, or accomplish, if only I had the time and money to do so. I do what I can, but that list just keeps growing, not shrinking.

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