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A just released animation video shows how US workers are displaced with guest worker Visas.  Consider it a tutorial, or a validation if you will.

From Vince Wade, Wade Multimedia

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One could say all they want for Christmas is their two front teeth.

But we want much more than that.  We want Congress to do the right thing and pass these bills:

• S.1035 : H-1B and L-1 Visa Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act of 2007 (Durbin-Grassley)
• H.R.2538 : To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide greater protections to domestic and foreign workers under the H-1B nonimmigrant worker program. (Pascrell)
• H.R.2504 : To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act with respect to the admission of L-1 intra-company transferee nonimmigrants. (DeLauro)
• H.R.548 : To establish a Congressional Trade Office (DeFazio)

Right now any meaningful reforms on H-1B guest worker Visas cannot get any traction in Congress because Corporate lobbyists simply do not want these reforms.  Why you might ask?  Because it will cut into their global labor arbitrage cost cutting agenda that’s why.  All of these bills are both Pro US worker and help protect a H-1B visa holder from exploitation as well.   They are all long overdue and much needed reforms.

Won’t you please help us bring in the New Year right and ask your Congress representative to co-sponsor these bills?

You can email this blog post directly below or you can copy this post and use these free fax services, also…

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While we are barraged with consumerism, warm family reunions, red and green displays of devotion, one might ponder how the holidays are for those most affected by our ever despairing economic conditions.

A tent city East of Los Angeles is springing up for those who have lost their homes in foreclosure and cannot afford to pay the rent.

Between railroad tracks and beneath the roar of departing planes sits “tent city,” a terminus for homeless people. It is not, as might be expected, in a blighted city center, but in the once-booming suburbia of Southern California.

The unraveling of the region known as the Inland Empire reads like a 21st century version of “The Grapes of Wrath,” John Steinbeck’s novel about families driven from their lands by the Great Depression.

Meanwhile, in New Orleans, a public housing demolition generates violent protests.

A recent major report tells us, Americans cannot pay their credit cards

Americans are falling behind on their credit card payments at an alarming rate, sending delinquencies and defaults surging by double-digit percentages in the last year and prompting warnings of worse to come…

Even after the recent spike in bad loans, the credit card business is still quite lucrative, thanks to interest rates…

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