Re: Lest ye get too complacent -- MIDRANGE-L

Time "man of the year".



On 12/20/05, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A little Christmas cheer:
>
> Just in case you think your jobs are safe, and that the moguls of the world
> aren't trying to squeeze every last penny out of you, please take note of
> the latest close call in which Arlen Specter and his cohorts tried to tack
> an amendment to the Budget Bill that would award green cards to 350,000
> temporary workers and also add 30,000 additional H-1B visas for high-tech
> workers onto the cap, along with some seriously terrible wording allowing
> H-1B visa holders to bring their families with them (why would a temporary
> worker bring their family?).
>
> Luckily, the folks at ZaZona and NumbersUSA and some other immigration
> watchdog groups were on their toes and mobilized thousands and thousands of
> people to send faxes and make phone calls; because of this, the amendments
> were defeated.
>
> Who was the real champion of this bill?
>
> Quoting Bill Sanchez at zazona.com:
>
> 'Today I talked to Roy Beck of NumbersUSA to get some inside information
> about why the Senate Judiciary approved more H-1B and green card visas. He
> said the word is out in Washington DC that this was the result of intense
> lobbying by Microsoft. Last week lobbyists from Microsoft went to every
> Congressional office to lobby for more visas. Some people on Capitol Hill
> are actually referring to the Senate proposal as the "Bill Gates" bill.'
>
> You might think the quote above is sort of second-hand, but if you think
> Bill Gates cares about American workers, feel free to Google on '"Bill
> Gates" immigration' (remove the apostrophes, leave the quotes).  You'll see
> that he's quite interested in abolishing the H-1B cap because according to
> him there aren't enough smart people in America.  So, rather than use his
> billions of dollars to, say, build up the American public school
> infrastructure, he'd rather give that money to building up the library
> systems around the world and then hire foreign workers for next to nothing
> via an H-1B program.
>
> Is such a plan philanthropy or just an investment in reduced labor costs?
> You have to decide.  I'm just reporting the facts.
>
> Joe
>
>
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