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Yes, the huge loss of jobs due to outsourcing to foreign countries where 
workers are paid far less than US citizens should be of great concern.

However, I doubt that granting visas or not actually matters as far as 
Americans losing skilled jobs.  Every time I call a company and hear an 
accent that doesn't sound "local," -- whether for tech support or more 
information -- I've asked the person where he/she is.  So far, all tech 
support people for MicroSoft in the last 2 years have said they're in India. 
What does that tell me?  Bill Gates can easily be the first at MS to take a 
cut in pay to keep jobs in the US.  But, like that will ever happen!  So 
your authors think we should blame Congress for the loss of jobs?  Sadly, 
"Where's the money?" ugly as it is, is what runs this country.

Suzy O
-- 
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do 
nothing."
-- Kurt Herbert Alder (1902-58), German chemist

"arminius" <richard norton@cybertrails.com> wrote in message 
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> "brit am" <brit_am@home.net> wrote in message
> news:Y5Vae.124941$vL3.5598@bignews4.bellsouth.net...
>> http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty52.htm
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>> H-1B VISA SCAM ON AMERICAN WORKERS
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>> By Frosty Wooldridge and Dr. Gene Nelson
>> April 23, 2005
>> NewsWithViews.com
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>> Our elected officials in Washington, DC take an oath of office to 'defend
>> and protect' American citizens. Senators and Representatives pledge their
>> honor to work for the benefit of their American constituents who voted
> them
>> into office. However, today, after one decade, 890,000 high tech American
>> citizens were forced to train foreign workers and then were fired via the
>> H-1B visa program. In 2000, not satisfied with 115,000 visas per year,
>> Congress increased the annual quota to more than 195,000 visas. That visa
> is
>> why you hear a foreign voice with broken English when you call for high
> tech
>> help.
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>> It's your clue that another American citizen is out of work.
>>
>> Millions of college�-trained American citizens have suffered unemployment
>> via Congressional actions. While employers raise the false claim that
>> positions are being "offshored," in reality, immigrants from nations such
> as
>> India, China, and Russia are displacing American citizens while eroding
>> American wage scales. Simultaneously, the economic elite, who capture 
>> most
>> of the value added by these professionals, are experiencing unprecedented
>> increases in their personal wealth - as working American's economic
>> stability teeters on the brink.
>>
>> Hundreds of thousands of American citizen recent college graduates are
>> unable to find work. Instead, they are being forced to take low-�skill
>> positions that make scant use of their training. Is this the America we
>> aspire to? Many still live, uninsured, with their parents. Employers 
>> covet
>> the "fresh cheap young blood" from Third World nations, instead.
>>
>> Government leaders trumpet "rising productivity" and continue to suggest
>> that job creation will eventually catch up with population growth. The
> grim
>> reality is that millions of jobs have been cut since 2000. Those visa
>> holders are "officially" working only eight hours per day. Thus, having
>> millions of these people working as indentured servants in exchange for
>> potential employer "green card" sponsorship results in tens of millions 
>> of
>> hours per year of uncompensated overtime � an employer windfall worth
>> billions.
>>
>> Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman described the H-1B visa program as
>> another government subsidy (to employers) in 2002. How many more 
>> subsidies
>> can we afford? Highly skilled and experienced professionals with PhDs and
>> two decades of "high tech" employment are told by employers they are
>> "overqualified." This thinly--disguised illegal employment discrimination
> on
>> the basis of age and national origin has meant that many Americans have
> been
>> seeking full � time employment since 2001. (One employer, Genuity, Inc.
>> retained its special visa holders while axing the jobs of hundreds of
>> American citizens.)
>>
>> It should be clear by now that these special visa programs, which are a
> form
>> of corporate welfare, often as a quid � pro � quo for generous campaign
>> contributions, are destroying America as a participatory democracy.
>> Plutocracy is becoming the power behind many government leaders.
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>> -- 
>> The Press will not be free to tell lies. That is not freedom for the
> people
>> but a tyranny over their minds and souls.  -- Sir Oswald Mosley
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