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The Mitt Romney Immigration Double Speak

December 18th, 2007 · 6 Comments

Mitt Romney wants to send your job to China and if he can’t do that, he wants to bring in cheaper foreign labor to displace you anyway.
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While Mitt Romney trudges across Iowa blasting his opponents on illegal immigration, look at how willing he is to labor arbitrage other Americans and increase guest worker Visas!  While wages and costs are some of the legitimate concerns on illegal immigration, magically, middle class professionals are perfectly acceptable for displacement!

In a TechCrunch interview Romney declared:

Romney: I like H-1B visas. I like the idea of the best and brightest in the world coming here. I’d rather have them come here permanently rather than come and go, but I believe our visa program is designed to help us solve gaps in our employment pool.

Romney is brazenly ignoring the overwhelming evidence that there is no worker shortage and in fact a glut of American best and the brightest are having their careers decimated by global labor arbitrage.

The interview went on to see if Romney would increase the number of H-1B guest worker Visas.

I would like to see us increase the number of people who receive an H-1B visa and can provide skills and experience that we may not…

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Tags: Election '08 · Outsourcing · Trade · Globalization · H-1B

Giuliani’s Plan to Destroy the American Middle Class

December 13th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Hot off the presses folks!
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Yes, that’s right, Mr. Patriotic 9-11 wants to make sure middle class workers are displaced and exposed to labor arbitrage! Aren’t you glad he’s such a loyal American?  Loyal to corporations operating in America that is. Look at Rudy Giuliani’s top priority:

Expand the number of H1B Visas for skilled foreign workers to meet market demand

Anyone based in reality would never say the program needs to expand since right now American graduates cannot get a job!

Dr. Harold Salzman, The Urban Institute -

The available data indicate that the United States’ education system produces a supply of qualified STEM graduates in much greater numbers than jobs available.

We just had world leading experts testify before congress proving there is no worker shortage and Americans are being shut out of high quality middle class careers.  So Giuliani of course wants to make that situation worse!

Giuliani claims he wants to aggressively push for more bad trade deals and this is his only solution for our trade deficit:

Reduce corporate tax rates and regulatory burden so that Americans can better compete in the global economy.

Oh yes, I’m sure that’s it, has nothing to do with the agreements themselves being written by and for…

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Tags: Outsourcing · Election '08 · Labor · Trade · Globalization · H-1B

Outsourcing National Security

November 22nd, 2007 · 1 Comment

Most engineers know there are many ways to hide malicious code and design within architecture. Yet, most subscribe to an engineering code of ethics, the thought of such a betrayal analgous  to a Medical Doctor using their skills to commit murder.
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Yet in terms of policy is our Government undervaluing the national loyalty of most US citizen engineers?  Are they enabling U.S. Scientists, Technologists, Engineers and Mathematicians to use their skills in support of infrastructure that is within the national interest?

 

An alarming report, Mission Impact of the Foreign Influence on DoD Software and it’s corollary on hardware was issued recently without much fanfare.

Software has become the central ingredient of the information age, increasing productivity, facilitating the storage and transfer of information, and enabling functionality in almost every realm of human endeavor. However, as it improves the Department of Defense’s (DoD) capability, it increases DoDs dependency. Each year the Department of Defense depends more on software for its administration and for the planning and execution of its missions. This growing dependency is a source of weakness exacerbated by the mounting size, complexity and interconnectedness of its software programs. It is only a matter of time before an adversary exploits this weakness at a critical moment in history.

The software industry…

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