Neil Bush's "Ignite!" company outsources

[buycitgo]

looking for stuff on blackest(?) sheep Neil, I found this little tidbit, buried in a story referencing his recent divorce, among other things:

http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=14951

Neil has also divorced himself from 42 percent of Ignite's workforce. According to a late-October 2002 story in the Austin Business Journal, a $15 million deal with Grupo Carso Telecom SA allows Ignite, Inc. "to outsource software production" to the Mexican telecommunications giant, which will "help Ignite's bottom line as well as give it the resources to develop additional course software more quickly."

''outsource.....help the bottom line''??????
gee, too bad about that FORTY TWO percent of his company's workforce (which I'm certain never included him......he's too busy answering the door to strange women in Bangkok to soil himself with the quotididan chores of running a compnay into the ground, right?) had to be 'outsourced' in order to improve the company's bottom line

doesn't this epitomize the disconnect between the pug view of the world, and that of normal, non-sociopathic humans? this needs to be emphasized at all times, yes?

so, again, two questions:

where are the MEDIA?

where are the DEMS?

this outsourcing thing should be a centerpiece of dem strategy, one of those easy soundbites at which the pugs excel

[buycitgo]

1. gee what a surprise...nobody's interested in a HUGE story

Neil Bush's e-learning company has laid off 42 percent of its workforce as it prepares to sign a $15 million deal to outsource software production to a Mexican telecommunications giant.

Austin-based Ignite Inc. plans to seal the deal — expected to be at least a two-year partnership — with Mexico's Grupo Carso Telecom SA before the end of the year, says Ken Leonard, chief financial officer of Ignite.

Leonard says terms of the deal are being negotiated, but Grupo Carso would assume all nuts-and-bolts production of Ignite's educational software, take an ownership stake in Ignite and be licensed to sell the software in Mexico. Ignite would lay out the curriculum behind the software.

Ignite employs 29 people after laying off 21 designers and programmers Oct. 18, Leonard says.
http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2002/10/28/story3.html

this is a year and a half old

anybody hear word one about it?

why aren't the dems SEIZING on this golden opportunity?

want to bet they don't even know about it?

"outsourcing"

"jobloss recovery"

"race to the bottom"

"cheap labor republicans"

"feudalist party"

sound bites are what wins elections

wise up

[The Zanti Regent]

2. Is Neil outsourcing the work to teenage oriental hookers?

ha ha, brings a new dimension to screwing the workers, eh???????

[movonne]

3. Can anyone figure how to get this on the news....maybe in Florida

[movonne]

4. This really angers me the president's own family ...This is a story

[buycitgo]

5. that's the point of this thread.....this stuff is EASILY digestible

it SHOULD be front page news

no confusing offshore accounts, byzantine tentacles to wade though, like Enron

anybody can understand that this SKUNK laid of almost half his company to IMPROVE its BOTTOM line!

well, kiss my rosy white bottom, you thugs.

again, who can get this out to the Achordate Party, so they can put some professional pugspin on it, and start fanning the flames?

here's some more stuff on the skunk

Neil Bush, younger brother of President Bush, detailed lucrative business deals and admitted to engaging in sex romps with women in Asia in a deposition taken in March as part of his divorce from now ex-wife Sharon Bush.

According to legal documents disclosed on Tuesday, Sharon Bush's lawyers questioned Neil Bush closely about the deals, especially a contract with Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., a firm backed by Jiang Mianheng, the son of former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, that would pay him $2 million in stock over five years.

Marshall Davis Brown, lawyer for Sharon Bush, expressed bewilderment at why Grace would want Bush and at such a high price since he knew little about the semiconductor business.

"You have absolutely no educational background in semiconductors do you?" asked Brown in the March 4 deposition, which was seen by Reuters.

"That's correct," Bush, 48, responded.

"And you have absolutely over the last 10, 15, 20 years not a lot of demonstrable business experience that would bring about a company investing $2 million in you?"

"I personally would object to the assumption that they're investing $2 million in me," said Bush, who went on to explain that he knew a lot about business and had been working in Asia for years.

http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/phoenix/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=573478

"working in Asia?" hahahahahaha....insert your own punchline

I mean, how insulting IS all this? we never hear WORD ONE about Neil in the mainstream.....not ONE FRICKING WORD about this embarrassment to humanity

[buycitgo]

6. ever heard of Growth Strategies, Inc?

they love Ignite, as well as some scam Bill Bennett is running

and in the molto ironic conclusion of their paean to the privatization of public education comes this amusing snippet:

Educational reform has only been tried by changing the customer focus through school integration. Changing the outmoded supply chain is the only way to foster significant innovation, cost reduction, improved student performance and most importantly, guarantee every child in the United States a useful public education.

While the forces may be strong that will resist the creation of outsourcing the teaching of our youth to companies that specialize in this business, the relentless pursuit of markets will overwhelm the political forces that will oppose doing in the schools what every major company has done throughout the world – create a diversified and competing supply chain to meet its needs.

"the relentless pursuit of markets"

http://growth-strategies.com/subpages/articles/048.html

pretty much sums it up, doesn't it?

[salin]

12. I admit there is work to do with public schools and reform

but this group's plan is bizarre and dangerous.

Yikes. Thanks for pointing them out.

[justgamma]

7. Question?

I heard on the radio that Heinz has 57 plants overseas and only 3 in USA. If true won't this tactic backfire against Kerry?

[buycitgo]

8. and Kerry has what control over Heinz?

and what control does his wife have over the company?

or are you just trying to be "helpful?"

thanks for the red herring, though

[buycitgo]

9. I REALLY would like to see the pugs try to bring that one up

this is EXACTLY the territory upon which they most fear to tread

thanks again for the wonderful idea, though

I'm sure it'll work as well for them as the 911 ads

[Jane Austin]

11. Heinz plants

Could be that those plants are for products sold in the
countries they're in.  Heinz is a big company.

Also, if you're dealing with vegetable produce, I think it's
common to have the processing plants near, if not in, the farm
fields.

[newyawker99]

13. Hi janeaustin!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[alfredo]

10. I wonder how much of our tax money is going to Neil because of

No rich kid left behind?