I am fed up with the labor dumping. Milton Friedman identified them as subsidies to big business.
http://www.computerworld.com/careertopi ... 48,00.html Joseph Stiglitz has come out against these programs as market perverting disincentives for employment in the field.
http://alum.mit.edu/ne/whatmatters/200408/index.html Your 'economic theories' are parochial at best. What is your incentive to destroy these professions? The senate is attempting regulate the price and conditions of employment in IT. This is the definition of fascism. I don't think you were paying attention in your economics class, or did you ever take one? There are more visas being issued under the bill than there are jobs in IT. Let the free market work without the cheap labor subsidies at my expense.
Sen. Cornyn trying to ram SKIL act for huge H-1B boost of foreign tech workers
NOT A MINUTE TO WASTE, FRIENDS,
High inside congressional sources have just informed our Capitol Hill Team that Sen. Cornyn (R-TX) appears to be on the edge of negotiating an agreement to allow him to slip a bill through the Senate (maybe tonight -- maybe tomorrow) that would entail a gigantic increase in 3-year H-1B visas for tech and other skilled foreign workers and more than a doubling of annual permanent employment-based green cards!
Capitol Switchboard
202-224-3121
I warned all of you about this last week. Thanks to all who have been faxing and calling abou this.
ONLY PHONE CALLS CAN MAKE THE DIFFERENCE AT THIS MOMENT.
I am sending this to only those of you who live in a state of a Senator whom we usually can count on as a friend of American workers, particularly Americans working in the tech and engineering fields.
HERE ARE THE SENATORS WHO NEED CALLS RIGHT NOW TO ASK THEM TO PROTECT US FROM THE CORNYN "SNEAK PASS" (notice that this is a bi-partisan groups of pro-worker stalwarts):
Bunning (R-KY)
Byrd (D-WV)
Coburn (R-OK)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Ensign (R-NV)
Grassley (R-IA)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Ben Nelson (D-NE)
Santorum (R-PA)
Sessions (R-AL)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
WHAT TO SAY
"Sen. XXXX has usually been one of the best friends of American workers against unfair foreign worker competition.
"I urge you to make sure that he/she knows about what Sen. Cornyn is trying to do.
"Can you promise me that Sen. XXXX will watch the floor proceedings and get to the floor in time to block any unanimous consent for any bill this week that would increase the importation of foreign workers?"
