I find this to be really outrageous. Senator Schumer is out peddling his book, Positively American: Winning Back the Middle-Class Majority One Family at a Time. In it, he describes a mythical middle class family, the Baileys.
Guess what, while Senator Schumer talks about helping this great American middle class family, he is busy behind the scenes, commissioning and endorsing policy recommendations written by a corporate special interest lobbyist firm. These policy recommendations are geared to economically wipe out the Baileys!
Senator Chuck Schumer hired a notorious, private global consulting firm to write a report peddling offshore outsourcing and insourcing and then presented the results as “objective”.
It’s the same principle as having the oil companies write our energy policy.
Senator Schumer, along with Mayor Michael Bloomberg, commissioned this report (PDF), written by the notorious and infamous McKinsey Institute that basically recommends offshore outsourcing and displacing you with cheaper labor via guest worker Visas (H-1B) as a “solution” to “economic competitiveness”.
This isn’t the solution, it’s the problem!
H-1B Visas are well documented as a labor arbitrage vehicle. Here are statistics, studies and materials which prove the H-1B Visa is being used to lower wages, offshore outsource jobs and displace Americans. The amount…
