Re: Bill Gates and the H-1B Visa, Chapters 1 and 2

[MichaelQuigley@xxxxxxxxxx]

> ----- Message from "SJL" <sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx> on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 
> 18:57:14 -0500 -----
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> All told, when Congress passed the H-1B visa legislation in 1990, they 
sold 
> out U.S. technical and professional workers just like they sold out 
> manufacturing plant workers in 1992 with NAFTA...
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> - sjl


Don't get me wrong.  I'm all for keeping American jobs, etc.  But NAFTA 
hasn't really displaced American jobs that much.  I'm not going to cover 
the argument about how much of certain products we freely export to Canada 
because of it.  Rather the point I'm going to make is how many products do 
you see with "Made in Canada" or "Made in Mexico" or "Made in North 
America" on them?  I know part of NAFTA is they don't have to state where 
something is made.  But here's the real killer to that argument.  How many 
things can you pick up and look at a tag/label/marking/etc. which says 
"Made in China" or "Made in Korea"?  China/Korea doesn't benefit from 
NAFTA.  China benefits from the administrations and supporters of the most 
favored nation trade status.  Things like this have done far more damage 
to American manufacturing than NAFTA.