...and yet the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was going to put American citizens back to work?


http://www.examiner.com/business-commen ... -contracts

H1B visa workers should not be allowed on government contracts

Although this is a very heated topic, any foreign workers who are on H1B Visas in the United States should not be allowed on government facilities working for government contractors.

One huge reason the technology sector got obliterated over the last 9 years is due to the proliferation of lower waged technical workers shipped over here from India. This shift has caused the average American technical worker to dip into bankrupty, lose their life savings, and be reduced to minimum age workers with a master's degree.

It is difficult enough for American workers to find Atlanta jobs online. The commercial corporate world hires H1B visa cheaper technical workers before they hire Americans because of economies of scale. It's cheaper. Government contractors are required to hire United States citizens as a requirement of winning a contract with Federal, State, Local, or County government agencies. If H1B visa workers were allowed to work on government contracts, America would literally take a nose dive as this would destroy the last remaining hope for jobs for Americans.

I am glad that the Government stepped in and did not allow these contractors to hire even cheaper labor for the contracts awarded to them. America needs to rebuild from this recession and the first thing that helped during the first Great Depression in America is government jobs during the World War. Hiring Americans first should be a priority of the American Recovery Act. If you hire Americans and put them to work, you stop all the attempted suicides, all the bankruptcy proceedings, all the past due debt calls, etc.

Let's for once stop helping everyone else and instead help Americans survive, get relief, and have a job to pay their bills. No one wants to not pay the car payment, not pay their insurance, not pay their house note, and sit around looking silly being broke.