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>
> IMMIGRATION'S DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA'S MIDDLE CLASS
>
> By Frosty Wooldridge
> December 14, 2004
> NewsWithViews.com
>
> Economist Paul Roberts wrote on January 21, 2003, "Will America
become
> a Third World country in 20 years?" In the Christian Science Monitor,
> December 11, 2003, "But as the US economy shifted toward service
jobs,
> factory jobs have steadily lost-in fact in just the past 39 months,
> some 2.8 million jobs vanished."
>
> Where are they going? China. India. Mexico. Deep into the Third
World.
> "You Americans have lived an artificially high standard of living for
> a long time," a man working one our jobs outsourced to India wrote
me.
> "It's time you Americans drop to the poverty levels of the rest of
the
> Third World."
>
> American jobs are offshored, insourced and outsourced at such
blinding
> speed that millions of American citizens stand in unemployment lines
> every morning while the rest of us go to work, that is, if we still
> have jobs.
>
> America's middle class is being dismantled by jobs exported to
> cheap-labor Third World countries. CEOs and corporations that enjoy
> the luxuries of America's hard won freedom care not a tinker's
dam
> whether you have a job or not-or a living wage. But the American
man
> and woman on the street--the ones with two kids, a mortgage and bills
> coming out of their ears--stand powerless as their jobs vanish.
>
> Worse, our Congress upped the H-1B visas by another 20,000 again this
> year. That quota rise spits in the face of thousands of American IT
> workers standing in unemployment lines. Our Congress gave out nearly
> one million H-1B visas in the past decade. Congress facilitates
> outsourcing, insourcing and offshoring! Why complain? You just
> re-elected most of them back into Congress. Cannon, Kennedy, McCain,
> Udall, Degette, Pelosi, Allard, Dillon, Kyle, Kolbe, Flake and the
> list continues.
>
> Paul Hamilton write his story, "You have to work in the Silicone
> Valley for a while to really understand what it is like to be a white
> male in the IT business now days. I've worked for the Chinese,
> Iranians and Indians. I could tell you some horror stories ...HORROR
> stories! My career went to China, India and the WWW a long time ago
> though.
>
> "Today, I am a plumber. I started a new career and things are that
> tough here in California. I was lucky enough to get on with Marina
> Plumbing which is a huge Corporation that does the plumbing on new
> construction...think BIG housing subdivisions.
>
> "I look around on the job site and I am the only white male in a sea
> of Mexicans. Few of these Mexicans speak English. There are usually
> several boom boxes blaring Maruichi music all day long. The Mexicans
> OWN ALL THE TRADES! The concrete workers, the framers, the heavy
> equipment operators, the roofers and even the truck drivers
delivering
> building materials--ALL are Mexicans.
>
> "President Bush is 100 percent off the mark, or he is crazy... or?"
"I
> was the leading channel rep in the Silicone Valley for high end CISCO
> switches. For a year and a half I have been in IBM's Presidents club
> before. I wonder what the Germans thought circa 37, 38, 39 when the
SS
> was taking over and doing the dirty work for Hitler? Were the Germans
> just sitting around wondering what was going on? Were they just
> sitting there in disbelief? I hear our esteemed President talking
> about Mexican Amnesty and think about how they have already brought
> misery to an already dead-broke state and wonder what the hell?"
>
> But there is another ominous skullduggery afoot across this country.
> It's the importation of illegal aliens by major US companies who
> thwart Federal Laws in order to 'lose' American workers and then,
> wholesale, break OSHA standards at will. How? Because illegal aliens
> will not make a whimper for fear of losing their jobs.
>
> The displacement of American workers proceeds methodically. American
> corporations sacrifice American workers in the name of profit. Over
> 200,000 illegal aliens swarm the Colorado job market. They displace
> Denver pavers, roofers, landscapers, beef processing plants, framers,
> dry wallers and virtually have taken over all fast food restaurants.
>
> This story repeats millions of times. A recent television news
> broadcast by one of the big three showed a man who had just made the
> 'Wall of Unemployment Shame' in his workplace, which included
1,000
> fellow employees who had been laid off. Formerly making $22.00 an
> hour, he's now driving a delivery truck for $11.00 an hour. His
wife
> and children struggle with their new financial reality.
>
> Currently, 15 million illegal aliens commandeer jobs away from
> American citizens. If they don't steal those jobs, they depress the
> wages to the point of legalized slavery. We have an estimated one
> million illegal alien Chinese in this country (Source: March 2005
> Forbes Magazine). At the same time, we outsource jobs to China where
a
> billion people can't wait to make 50 cents an hour. Human smugglers
> bringing illegals into America make $7 billion annually according to
> the report.
>
> Do they work the jobs Americans won't do? False! If American
doctors
> were paid $5.00 an hour they wouldn't be working those hospital
jobs
> either.
>
> You have to ask yourself if you want illegal immigrant doctors
working
> at minimum wage to perform a by-pass heart surgery on you? Would you
> like an illegal immigrant lawyer defending you in court for $5.00 an
> hour? How about a $5.00 an hour illegal immigrant college professor
> teaching your kids calculus? How about an illegal alien truck driver
> driving down the road at 70 MPH with 80,000 pounds of steel, no
> ability to read English and a fifth grade education-from Mexico's
> educational system?
>
> Meanwhile, profits soar for corporations while the middle class of
> America plummets into worsening unemployment. Will America drop into
> Third World conditions as economist Paul Roberts predicts? At the
> current rate of 4.1 million legal and illegal newcomers imported into
> the United States annually, it's only a matter of time before, we
too,
> manifest conditions of the Third World. You can't drown the labor
> market with millions of people and expect to keep your wages high
when
> immigrants will undercut you.
>
> That's why the pay in China or India is less than $10.00 per day.
They
> have 2.4 billion people in those two countries. That's why they
live
> subsistence lives. In time, that reality will manifest itself in
> America as the middle class vanishes. It's already happening. You
need
> look no further than California as an example of the first Third
World
> State of America.
>
>
> Call your representative at 1-877-762-8762 and ask if he or she is on
> the Tom Tancredo Immigration Reform Caucus in the US House of
> Representatives? If your rep isn't--demand that he join because you
> are sick and tired of Americans jobs being given away to illegal
> aliens. You're sick of H-1B and L-1 visas as well as offshoring,
> insourcing and outsourcing. Make that call today!
>
> © 2004 Frosty Wooldridge - All Rights Reserved
>
>
>
>
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>
> Frosty Wooldridge possesses a unique view of the world, cultures and
> families in that he has bicycled around the globe 100,000 miles, on
> six continents in the past 26 years.
>
> He has written hundreds of articles (regularly) for 17 national and 2
> international magazines. He has had hundreds of editorials published
> in top national newspapers including the Rocky Mountain News, Denver
> Post, Albany Herald and Christian Science Monitor.
>
> His first book, "HANDBOOK FOR TOURING BICYCLISTS" by Falcon Press is
> available nationwide. His second book "STRIKE THREE! TAKE YOUR BASE"
> by the Brookfield Reader published in January 2002. His bicycle books
> include "BICYCLING AROUND THE WORLD."
>
> His latest book. 'IMMIGRATION'S UNARMED INVASION-DEADLY
CONSEQUENCES.'
>
> Frosty Wooldridge has guest lectured at Cornell University, teaching
> creative writing workshops, magazine writing at Michigan State
> University, and has presented environmental science lectures at the
> University of Colorado, University of Denver and Regis University. He
> also lectures on "Religion and Ethics" at Front Range College in
> Colorado.
>
> Website: www.FrostyWooldridge.com
>
>
> _____
>
> "Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the
death
> of a sparrow in the corner of a barn." -Anouk Aimee, French Actor
> _____
>
> "Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny", Aeschylus
(525BC-456BC),
> Agamemnon
> _____
>
> "I wear no Burka." - Mother Nature
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