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John Edwards Makes Me Mad.  I’m sorry, I’m a Democrat but I have to say that.  The reason I say that is he claims to be for working America yet clearly is out to labor arbitrage American Professional workers through the expansion of the H-1b Visa program.

From September 03, 2007 San Jose Mercury News:

EDWARDS: Regarding the H-1B visa question: I think it is important for us to have available, for the work that’s being done here in this valley, plus all over the country, the talent and the mental capacity we need.

So the H-1B visa program is important; it should be expanded, based on the needs that exist.

Also important is that America needs to be doing a much better, more-effective job in producing, from our own young people, the talent pool that can perform these jobs, and my view is that we are not concentrating on science and math the way that we need to. We’re not concentrating on graduate education in those areas the way we need to.

But immigration is a very hot topic out there in America, and a very divisive topic. You can be in front of a group of progressive Democrats, and there will be a lot of people in the room who want to know what you’re going to do about the illegal immigrants, and they’re not thinking about a path to citizenship. Secondly, I do think we should be tougher on employers who are knowingly violating the law, and in many cases, abusing workers. But the third piece, and this is the more controversial one, I do think that there should be a path to citizenship, and it needs to be a meaningful path to citizenship.

I think the path that was in the bill that was last considered by the Senate was completely unrealistic. I mean most undocumented workers in America would never meet that standard, which means they would never become American citizens. And I don’t want to live in a country that’s made up of first-class citizens and second-class laborers. That’s not America

Oh really John? What is YOUR America? One where the best jobs in the country are labor arbitraged through massive increases in guest worker Programs? Look at the hypocrisy of this paragraph! He claims that he doesn’t want a two tier society but the first thing he wants is to expand a program to send highly skilled and educated American professionals to the poor house!

It’s well known there is NO WORKER SHORTAGE and it is also well known that the H-1B Visa program is being used to labor arbitrage American workers.

Yet there he is promising to throw more U.S. citizens under a bus, completely ignoring the overwhelming evidence that the H-1B guest worker Visa is harming American professional workers.

And his great help to protect United States Professional workers in the Senate? Well, to cosponsor one of the largest H-1B guest worker Visas in history.

Is that why you promised Silicon valley executives more labor arbitraging guest worker Visas?

Look, here he is at a India PAC organization. I just wrote a story on how this organization is representing India’s, not America’s interests.

Here’s the ILW pointing this out.

So, as Silicon valley demands Democrats throw U.S. workers to the dogs, what kind of financial haul did Edwards get?
at least $3.1 million.

And one must ask themselves if Google, Microsoft and Oracle actually paid US workers that money instead of trying to buy off Presidential Candidates and congress representatives would there be an overall financial savings? That’s a lot of dough being spread in the great desire to screw over U.S. workers.

Or is it that the AILA is busy making individual campaign contributions so you really want to make sure you butter their bread through enabling their industry of processing guest worker Visas?

Now if ya all think I’m being harsh on Edwards, well, the reality is many activists have tried to not only point out this horrific position to the campaign, they have also presented Edwards with study after study on how there is no worker shortage and how this program is a glorified offshore outsourcing and labor arbitrage system. Does he care? Obviously NOT!

Here is his voting record on guest worker Visas:

Cosponsored legislation to import more low-skill foreign workers in 2004
Sen. Edwards cosponsored S. 2252, the Save Summer Act of 2004. Introduced by Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA), S. 2252 would have raised the annual cap on H-2B visas for 2004 by 40,000, for a total of 106,000 H-2B visas. This would have allowed thousands of low skill foreign workers to enter the U.S. and compete with American workers.

Voted for a foreign worker bill with no anti-fraud measures in 2000.
Sen.Edwards voted for S.2045, the Abraham foreign worker bill to nearly triple the number of foreign high-tech workers. On the heels of the release of a GAO report finding no proof of a high-tech worker shortage and evidence of abuse in the H-1B program, Sen. Edwards voted for this foreign worker bill that contained no worker protections or anti-fraud measures. The bill passed the Senate 96-1

I’m sorry but to claim to be for working America is despicable, it’s disgusting!  At least Hillary makes no bones about the fact she’s in the pocket of NASSCOM!

This pretense of a populist position is an old wolves in sheep’s clothing tale.  I find it much worse for one pretends to be in favor of working America…like the fox who proclaims to be a chicken simply to gain access to the hen house!

For anyone reading this, there is one Democrat standing tall for Professional workers and that is Dennis Kucinich.

We’re not alone in this outrage. Here’s another blogger calling Edwards Marie Antoinette.

One of the best quotes I’ve seen on the blogs is:

John Edwards knows a lot about poverty, after all, he’s helped throw a lot of people into it

UPDATE: Edwards has recent statements which show he may be actually listening to professional workers on guest worker Visas, click here to read about it.  Also, if you are looking for Obama to not sell out US workers, think again, he has promised corporate lobbyists whatever they want to labor arbitrage Americans as bad as Hillary has.