This got posted on another group, thought I'd share. In addition to cheap labor, the article points out how much our jobs have become bargaining chips in the poker game of international trade. So, you and I get to grow old in poverty because some rich guy wanted access to a third world market. I think we can expect to see this aspect of the jobs equation grow quickly.

http://www.federalobserver.com/archive.php?aid=11186

Quote: "Their attempts to flood the US with "cheap labor" workers to take American jobs failed in the face of pressure on Congress by outraged Americans. Both last-minute, "dark-of-the-night" attempts by Texas senators John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchinson to increase H1-B "high-tech" visas were defeated in the final hours of the 109th Congress. House Majority Leader John Boehner (OH) joined the high-tech whores with his end-run attempt to hang the measure on a US-India trade bill, and was slapped in the face.

Both Gates et.al and Congress have learned that the days when Americans didn't know or care about H1-B visas are gone. Grass-roots activists can be proud of having achieved a defeat of H1-B increases during a lame-duck Congress when most of America is occupied with Christmas shopping.

But it's no time for resting on laurels; it's time to "strike while the iron is hot." E-mail or fax your 3 members of Congress warning them against trying to pull such a sneaky trick again. I'll include congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle: Senator Bill Frist, Senator Harry Reid, Senator Mitch McConnell, Speaker Dennis Hastert, Congressman John Boehner, Congressman Roy Blunt, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi and Congressman Steney Hoyer."

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