[NTLUG:Discuss] OT: Fried

[Greg Edwards]

Ok, this may get me kicked off the list, if so, so be it!

I've really had enough of this H1-B visa crap!!!  Did anyone catch the 
Tech-Bits note in the Dallas Morning News about 43,500 of the authorized 
65,000 H1-B visas for this year already being used.  Again the reason 
given for hiring these people is that American workers can't be found to 
fill these jobs.

BULLSHIT!!!!

It's about GREED not about qualifications or lack of local workers. 
Those of you that want to defend this BS just stick a sock in it!!!!

With over 360,000 IT workers in this country collecting unemployment and 
an unknown number working as greeters at Walmart or asking if you want 
fries with that, this dog just don't hunt!!  And don't even try that 
argument about better trained or superior skills.  Tell those (and I 
know several) people that trained the cheaper worker who gave them the 
pleasure of collecting unemployment!@!!

The last 3 years have been about nothing more that greed.  Starting at 
the White House, the congress, the state houses, the corporate board 
rooms, and the executive suites.  And like good little lambs us little 
people have paraded ourselves right into the slaughter house.  Our 
entire economy, technical lead, and future have been sold to the lowest 
bidder.

People better wake up and smell the roses because it's already too late. 
  This so called recovery has created an economy that builds nothing and 
creates nothing.  Of the job loss 32% has been from the tech industry 
and over 20% from manufacturing.  We're beginning to look like Japan, an 
economic also-ran.  Microsoft, HP, Dell, GE, Alcatel, Honeywell, and a 
list as long as my arm no longer build or design it here, they just sell 
it here!!!

Alcatel just closed the doors on an entire department and moved the 
work, not the workers, to Canada.  Verizon will be cutting again. 
Companies that are expanding are not expanding in the US.  And when they 
do hire it's at 50%-60% of 1999 salaries.

-- 
Greg