United States leaving first world (resend)

Date: Friday, January 24, 2003 6:12 PM

H-1B and JOB DESTRUCTION NEWSLETTER

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Paul Roberts did a superb job of demonstrating that illegal immigrant
labor, H-1B, and outsourcing are manifestations of the same thing -
lack of loyalty our government has for it's own citizens.

His article is right on target except for a couple of things.

1 - He said that school teachers are protected from H-1B because their
union, the NEA protects them. Wrong! The NEA is doing nothing to
protect teachers. H-1B is being used to import teachers from K-12 all
the way up to the university level. In theory teachers are worse off
than techies because all teaching jobs are exempted from the yearly cap
quota of visas. In other words, there is no limit on the number of H-1B
teachers that can come into the USA. I will forward my newsletter about
teachers to Roberts and I invite him to use the LCA database at
http://www.ZaZona.com/LCA-Data

2 - He said that lawyers are protected because of the obstacles of
state bar exams. That doesn't seem to be stopping them. Go to this
webpage as an example: http://www.shakirlaw.com/

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/paulcraigroberts/pcr20030122.shtml

Paul Craig Roberts (back to story)

January 22, 2003

United States leaving first world

America has turned its back on Americans. Even illegal aliens count
higher with the American government than native-born, taxpaying, loyal
U.S. citizens, who are regarded by their government as nothing but
resources to be exploited.

American taxpayers now are expected to shoulder the burden of paying
for university educations for illegal aliens. When Rep. Tom Tancredo,
R-Colo., said recently that illegal aliens should be deported, not
given in-state tuition, Karl Rove, the Power Behind the Bush, told
Tancredo never again to darken the steps of the White House.

The U.S. government is replete with hatred of everyone who sticks up

for the rights of citizenship. The government steadfastly refuses to
defend our borders. It is more important, says the government, to have
cheap household help for elites, and an abundance of fast food workers
to keep down the minimum wage, than it is to defend our country's
borders.

The INS refuses to deport alien criminals and issues visas to
terrorists who wish to blow us up. Columnist and author Michele Malkin
and the website vdare.com have documented the complete failure of
government to protect the meaning of citizenship.

Politicians, including President Bush, pander to illegals even more
shamelessly than they pander to monied special interest groups.
Campaign finance reform is a joke when illegal aliens vote and money
from abroad affects election outcomes.

The government's lack of loyalty to citizens has been noticed not only
by illegal immigrants who pour over our borders with rising
expectations and demands, but also by U.S. employers.

If it is permissible for illegal aliens to take fast-food jobs away
from U.S. teen-agers and construction jobs away from U.S. construction
workers, it is all right for H-1B visas to be issued to foreigners to
take jobs away from American professionals.

Do you remember the "shortage" of computer software engineers, cooked
up by corporations who wanted to replace American engineers by
importing Indian and Chinese engineers at a fraction of the salary?
This practice has been good for the bonuses of corporate CEOs, but
today the young American software engineers who followed Warren
Buffet's advice to "invest in yourselves" are unemployed.

Now comes the "shortage" of nurses. Hospitals are under financial
pressure from the requirement to provide medical care to immigrants and
need to cut costs. Bringing in foreign nurses, who will accept low
wages in exchange for U.S. residency, is one way to cut costs.

One can sympathize with the hospitals, which are forced to pay the cost
of government's failure to protect our borders. But let's make sure we
understand what those declaring a nursing "shortage" mean. They mean
that there is a shortage of American-trained nurses willing to work at
a "world wage," which is an average of U.S. and Third World wages.

This is a clever way of creating a shortage. There definitely was a
shortage of American software engineers at below American wage levels.
That's why the supply of computer engineers was expanded to include
India and China.

Will your occupation be destroyed next? If software engineers can be
imported, so can electrical, chemical, mechanical and civil engineers.
If nurses can be imported, so can doctors.

The list of occupations that can be destroyed by "internationalizing"
the U.S. job market is long. Let's focus instead on the occupations
that will be most difficult for the government to destroy. Only two
come readily to mind: school teachers and lawyers.

School teachers are protected because their union, the NEA, is the
backbone of the Democratic Party. The teachers will not stand for their
wages to be driven down with the argument that there is a teacher
shortage that needs to be filled by importing teachers from abroad.

Lawyers are protected because of the obstacles of state bar exams.
Moreover, the abundance of lawyers is such that no one would believe in
a shortage.

Between the importation of foreign labor and the export of U.S. jobs,
the future is not bright for young Americans. U.S. manufacturers, both
labor-intensive and high-tech, are rapidly relocating offshore. The
offshore flight takes with it design, engineering, and research and
development jobs. Back-office and clerical jobs are also being moved
offshore.

If Wal-Mart has its way, nothing will be produced in America. The
retailing giant wraps itself in the American flag, but it gives its
suppliers price targets. Suppliers find that in order to meet the
targets, they must move production offshore.

Wall Street and lenders, such as GE Commercial Finance, pressure U.S.
companies to outsource production to China in order to improve their
margins.

Outsourcing to lower wage countries can be a solution for individual
companies. But when all U.S. companies outsource, the implication is a
population working for Wal-Mart selling foreign-made goods.

Will America be a Third World country in 20 years?

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