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Entries from February 2007

Who Corrupted the GAO?

February 21st, 2007 · No Comments

I have praised and blessed the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is the non-partisan audit, evaluation, and investigative arm of Congress, and an agency in the Legislative Branch of the United States Government. Their reports have always been of highest objective standards, using statistical analysis and deep research to reach the truth.

Yet, gall of all galls, we have this:
Highlights of a GAO Forum: Global Competitiveness: Implications for the Nation’s Higher Education System. GAO-07-135SP, January 23.

The GAO is known as the The Watchdog of Congress and for good reason, we need true statistics and analysis, not ulterior motive and political agenda in accountability.

So how could they release a “report” based on special interests and lobbyists opinions???? Where is the evidence GAO? How could you do this???

Participants stated is one of the key comments throughout the report. Since when does the GAO report opinion? The GAO supposedly uses actuarial science and statistics, it reports based on knowable verified facts. Since when does someone’s opinion without actual evidence make it to a GAO report?

Take this statement:

Job opportunities: Participants said international students are often drawn to the United States because of possible job opportunities in the country…

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Tags: Outsourcing · Labor · Globalization · H-1B

Trading People: How H-1B, Outsourcing and Trade are Connected

February 12th, 2007 · No Comments

Business Week published a front page article, Work Visas May Work Against the U.S. Indian outsourcers file the most applications for temporary H-1B visas. Are they using them to train staff for jobs abroad?.

In Peter Elstrom’s article, the connection between technology transfer out of the United States, trade, offshore sourcing and guest worker Visas are correlated. Quote:

Outsourcing Conduit
But a review of new information from the federal government suggests that the companies benefiting most from the temporary worker program aren’t U.S. companies at all. Rather, they appear to be Indian outsourcing firms, which often hire workers from India to train in the U.S. before returning home to work. Data for the fiscal year 2006, which ended last September, show that 7 of the top 10 applicants for H-1B visas are Indian companies.

That brings us to some most disturbing questions: are foreign offshore outsourcing companies manipulating the US Visa system for a comparative advantage in trade? Are they using the H-1B to facilitate technology transfer and know how out of the United States? Are offshore outsourcing companies using the H-1B to simply train workers, on US technology, in the United States, then sending the workers back home, along with the jobs, in order…

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Tags: Outsourcing · Labor · Trade · Globalization · H-1B

Bill Gates Busted - Microsoft Lies to Press/Congress

February 7th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Bill Gates has been busted in a big fat lie and we’ve got the statistics to prove it.

Last year, Microsoft founder Bill Gates told Washington Post columnist David Broder that the types of people they were bringing in on H-1B Visas, are:

Highly paid, highly qualified individuals. Salaries for these jobs at Microsoft start at about $100,000 a year.
Their counterparts can be hired more cheaply in China or India, he said, but Microsoft does 85 percent of its research and development work in the United States because it wants its computer scientists interacting directly with its program managers and its marketing people on its own campus.

Gates was pounding the halls of Congress at time of this interview, demanding more H-1B Visas along with the ITAA.
Unfortunately for Bill Gates, when a Corporation sponsors a green card, they must publish the actual salary along with the application.

Microsoft Green Card Application Salaries

From the graph above and the table below, only 3.3%, or 40 employees, of the 1202 total green card applications submitted by Microsoft had wages above $100k.

In fact, more applications, 8.3%, or 92 employees, were paid salaries below $60k. Most of the jobs titles of the 1202 applications were Software Engineer, an entry…

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Tags: Outsourcing · Labor · H-1B