Thread: Open borders and H-1B promoters in new admin

From Rob Sanchez' newsletter:

<<<<< JOB DESTRUCTION NEWSLETTER No. 1973 -- 2/04/2009 >>>>>

President Obama continues to surround himself with champions of free trade
and open borders. Fortunately Tom Daschle was forced to withdraw -- and I
say fortunately because he is a pivotal figure in the H-1B fiasco. I
believe that's one of the reasons that Obama wanted him in the cabinet.
Obama's cabinet and other government appointments are transforming the
executive into a solid block of H-1B advocates who want to expand the
program.

Sen. Judd Gregg secretary of commerce is as bad as it gets. Obama might as
well have appointed Bill Gates. Gregg gets a failing grade of F on guest
worker visas from Americans for Better Immigration:

http://grades.betterimmigration.com/tes ... H&VIPID=51
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I wanted to punch him in the face as I watched a 5 minute video of Sen.
Gregg at the Cato website (link below). Among other things he wants to
raise the number of H-1B visas to 150,000.

Greg parrots the industry line on H-1B. One of his favorites is to repeat
the claim by Bill Gates that every H-1B creates 5 jobs for Americans. Ron
Hira asked the right question for Computerworld:

The five-jobs-per-H-1B-worker claim, said Hira, "is so absurd that
Mr. Gregg should be laughed out of the room. This is the kind of
thoughtful leadership that Mr. Obama is bringing us?"

Ron Hira wrote a stinging article for EE Times where he said:

"Obama Administration has been in office just a few weeks now, but
we already know how it will address the offshoring of engineering
jobs. It will promote it.

Be sure to read the last part of Hira's commentary because that's the most
important.

Unfortunately Gregg isn't the only bad appointee. Diana Farrell was
appointed by Obama for the National Economic Council and as deputy economic
adviser to the president. She has worked for the McKinsey Global Institute
for a long time. In 2004 Farrell said:

"People in the US are looking at it as a job issue. They are not
economists and therefore, they dont necessarily see the whole
picture. What's going to happen is that offshoring is actually
going to benefit US businesses even more than India."

Larry Summers and Ron Kirk are two other stinker appointments by Obama.
Summers will lead the president's National Economic Council and Kirk will
be the chairperson. So, Obama is stacking his entire administration with
pro H-1B, pro free trade, and anti-worker dregs from industry and the
Clinton and Bush administrations.

Last night Lou Dobbs had an excellent report on Gregg and it is available
at the CNN site. Ron Hira appeared on Dobbs so he has really been hitting
the road to get the word out.

DOBBS: Well this may be what we're going to see from the Obama
administration. That's a shame, because it's intellectual
dishonesty. It is absolute arrogance to continue to repeat the
policies of the past. Larry Summers, all of these folks very
capable people, that are absolutely part of the Rubin legacy.

It's devastating what's happening here. The millions of people,
working men and women who worked and supported and voted for
Barack Obama for change in the direction of trade policies have
to be extraordinarily disappointed, but fundamentally, if there
is no change on the part of our elected officials, on the top
policy choices, on free trade, on outsourcing, and focusing on
manufacturing, how to incentivize it and how to build our
middle class, rather than destroy it, this administration will
be remembered for something besides change and a disbelief in
the change they brought, but rather the legacy will be further
destruction of this economy, and that is intolerable to all of
us. Bill Tucker, thank you very much.

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http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/bestof ... commerce.c
nn
Video: Lou Dobbs and Bill Tucker, Gregg at Commerce

http://www.cato.org/weekly/index.php?vid_id=64
Video of Sen. Gregg

http://americaneconomicalert.org/blogge ... ID=37#3148
Secretary of Outsourcing

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10155763-38.html
What Judd Gregg bodes for high tech

http://www.computerworld.com/action/art ... leBasic&ar
ticleId=9127276
H-1B, offshoring supporters get key Obama Administration posts

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Management/ ... -Visa-Expa
nsion/
Commerce Nominee Favors H1-B Visa Expansion

http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/show ... DFOR1WWH1L
FYGQSNDLSCKHA?articleID=213001145
Opinion by Ron Hira: The Obama administration promotes outsourcing

A couple million ex-manufacturing workers marching on washington might at least give these eletist a hint that we are tired of their anti-american worker B.S.

Following up on Tom Daschle, it's indeed fortunate that he is out.
Just look at his abysmal voting record on open borders and H-1B.

See:

http://profiles.numbersusa.com/improfil ... &VIPID=739

It is clear beyond absurd that the work visas, off-shoring, outsourcing and illegal insourcing has destroyed our economy and the middle class lifestyle.

For every 5 jobs from an H1B visa, what type of jobs are created? Walmart?

It is crystal clear that wages have dropped significantly in the last 10 years, and the few jobs left that must be performed here are rapidly disappearing. College graduates this June will be having great difficulty in securing any position, and will not be able to pay back their loans.

Far too many older workers, who are at the top of the pay scale, and not old enough to retire and collect SS and Medicare, are out of work permanently. One illness and they are decimated. They are especially targeted by their employers because they are the most expensive.

So, we are not economists and cannot understand this global economy being good for business? Yes, I understand that for a CEO this is great. Those studied economists, Harvard and Yale graduates, were not able to predict the crash. I didn't hear a one of them stating to put your investments in secure money markets.

I got out of the stock market for our investments, because I realized that this situation would be unsustainable, and it looks that I am smarter than an economist. It was easy to figure out - my husband is an engineer and replaced by two German H1B visa holders when he got cancer. After a two year search, he is now working harder than ever before and making half of what he made before.