- "Orwell explains, "Once again the animals were
conscious of a vague uneasiness. Never to have any dealings with human
beings, never to engage in trade, never to make use of money-had not these
been among the earliest resolutions passed at the first triumphant Meeting
when Jones was expelled?"..G. Orwell - Animal Farm
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- The Telegraph of Nashua and Southern New Hampshire had
a most alarming story in it's Feb.23-2003 issue. The H-1B controversy by
Brad Leighton-Telegraph Staff.
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- "Glenn Connell of New Ipswich has an advanced degrees
in both computer science and physics and has several years of experience
in computer programming. Now he's working as a carpenter."
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- "I'm one of the lucky ones. At least I have carpentry
skills. There are many other programmers that are unemployed and don't
have any other way to make a decent living," Connell said. In Amherst,
Dmitry Kolomyitsev, in the United States on an H-1B visa, pounds away at
a keyboard writing software code for Auriga Inc.
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- "With hundreds of programmers out of work, the H-1b
visa debate has taken on an even more emotional tone. Dwayne Jeffrey, the
president of Sardus Software Inc. and a longtime critic of the H-1B program,
said that no one should blame the H-1B recipients themselves. Ninety-five
percent of the people with H-1B visas are honest, hardworking people who
just want an opportunity to support their families so they can go home
to a better life," Jeffrey said. "These are people that are willing
to SLAVE at the computer screen for 16 hours a day for six years. The fault
lies with the POLITICIANS for allowing this thing to get out of hand. The
problems with the system are numerous, well-documented and amount to an
INDENTURED servitude program for foreign software engineers, and the program
costs highly skilled domestic high-technology workers both wages and jobs",
he added.
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- "The H-1B recipients are often put in an exploitable
position because if they lose their job, they are then deported back to
their country of origin. The same employers who are importing temporary
workers are cutting back on their training programs for domestic workers,"
Jeffrey said.
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- There could be as many as 5000 H-1B visa holders working
in New Hampshire but officials with the State Department of Employment
Security (an oxymoron jm) say that is just an educated guess! Alexis Sukharev,
the president of Auriga states, "U.S. firms must be allowed to compete
for resources, including inexpensive labor. His company specializes in
outsourcing the writing of software code to software engineers in Russia."
James McKim, a member of the Software Association NH's H-1B Task Force
states; "Employers find it difficult to find people with the skills
they want for a PRICE they are willing to pay, so they look for H-1B visa
applicants." "Employers will list skills typical of a seasoned
software engineer, but advertise the job as junior level," said Caroline
Bogart of Litchfield, a software consultant."They then use the fact
that they can't fill the job as an excuse to bring in an H-1B visa holder.
"People brought in under H-1B visa are treated like slaves",
Bogart said, "They make half of what I make and they aren't allowed
to quit their job or they are deported. Companies should be investing in
their domestic workers, not bringing in cheaper workers, training them
and then sending them back overseas where they can compete against us.
Right now we have THOUSANDS of very smart people that are unemployed"
Bogart said. Source-see http://www.n
ashuatelegraph.com/Main.asp?SectionID=27&SubSect
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- So what is the H-1B program all about? The bottom line
has politicians in bed with the pigs at the trough of industry. If they're
not shipping their companies overseas, or arranging for off-shore (non-taxed)
banking, they are now importing cheap labor. No, the workers themselves
are not at fault...but industry taking advantage of workers vulnerabilities.
A foreign worker on a visa is hardly going to strike or insist on safety
or livable wages! Don't like it, they're deported. Worse, it pits the peoples,
the foreign worker against the unemployed American, which, per usual, has
the politicians/industry in the shadows, out of the fray!
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- Living in Connecticut a few years back, the local radio
station ran a program detailing the story of 300 American workers, in New
Jersey, who had been replaced with programmers from India. One day they
were working and the next thing they knew they were required to train these
replacements for their jobs, or lose any severance pay.
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- Several years ago, U.S. Congressman Pete Session (R-Dallas)
Chairman of the Congressional Results Caucus and member of the Congressional
Cyber Security Caucus toured the high-tech corridor of Boston, Massachusetts
to learn about high-tech issues such as information security, e-signature
legislation and Internet taxation. Sessions was joined by Rules Committee
Chairman David Dreier (R-Ca), Congressman Tom Davis (R-VA_, Congressman
Pete Hoekstra (R-MI), Congresswoman Nancy Johnson (R-CT), CONGRESSMAN (NOW
SENATOR) JOHN SUNUNU (R-NH), Congressman Jack Quinn (R-NY), Congressman
John Sweeny (R-NY), and other prominent BUSINESS, Community and FINANCIAL
leaders. Members attended a meeting at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
with AREA CEOs and high-tech leaders. The discussion was hosted by TechNet
Massachusetts to discuss creating digital opportunities, H_1B VISAS, etc.
see: http://www.house.gov/sessions/press/106releases/00-10-03-hightech
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- TIPS FOR INTERNATIONAL TECHIES...There are now more H-1B
visas available. New LAWS have also made these visas more "portable".
US companies are starving for experienced technology workers, and they're
willing and eager to hire techies from ABROAD. But how do you find a job
in Boston or Seattle (or New Hampshire-jm) when you're from Bangalore,
India, or Sydney, Australia? Here are some key points you should know.
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- Techies are welcomed in the U.S. The evidence? How about
an increase from 115,00 to `95,000, in H1-B visas! This is the type of
visa typically granted to programmers, network engineers and other professional
who find jobs in the U.S. TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES ACTIVELY LOBBIED FOR AN
INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF H-1Bs, WHICH 'PROMPTED' CONGRESS TO PASS THE
AMERICAN COMPETITIVENESS IN THE 21st CENTURY ACT. This increased the number
of H-1B visas granted each year through the year 2003. Some say that the
number of H1-B visas issued by the US could INCREASE even further.
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- An employer, not an employee applies for an H-1B visa.
That means you cannot simply apply for an H-1B, receive authorization to
work in the US, and start approaching employers. Instead, you must find
a position and then allow your employer to apply for the H-1B visa. Until
recently, an individual in the US on an H-1B had to wait for government
approval before switching from one employer to another. The NEW LAW includes
provisions to increase the "portability" of H-1Bs. Now, an individual
is able to start working for a new employer BEFORE the government APPROVES
the change in status from one employer to another. {Note: so much for Homeland
security jm}
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- People find tech jobs in the US through a number of methods.
"A lot of it is when they come here as students," says Karoline
Hough, assistant branch manager at the St.Louis office of IT staffing firm,
Bradford & Galt. International students often secure jobs on an F-1
student visa after graduating. When that visa runs out, after a year of
employment, the student may be able to have the company petition for an
H-1B visa.
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- Orwell states, "Somehow IT seemed as though the
farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer...except
of course, for the PIGS and the dogs" Animal Farm
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- PITFALLS.....Don't think working in the US, even if your
wage will be exponentially higher, will be nirvana. In India, Sanjib Mahapatra
held positions as a lead analyst and project manager, but in the US, he
found things were not QUITE as he expected. The company that brought him
to the States SUBCONTRACTED him to other companies and couldn't always
find work for him. Moreover, CONSULTING companies may ask H-1B holders
to MOVE from job to job with STARTLING frequency. "It takes a certain
type (like slave jm) of person to do that", says HOUGH. "It takes
SO MUCH flexibility on the part of the consultant. They have to go (to
any part of the plantation..jm) in the country on NO NOTICE! Their project
in LA may end on a Friday, and on Monday they need to be in New York. See;
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- http://technology.monster.com/articles/us/
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- IMPORTING FOREIGN HIGH TECH WORKERS: H-1B...PAY'EM LESS,
AND THE HECK WITH OLDER U.S. WORKERS!
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- The alliance between CONTRIBUTION-hungry Politicians
and profit-hungry Silicon Valley patrons has resulted in HUGE increases
in issuance of "temporary work visas" to skilled foreign workers
who REPLACE U.S. Citizens in our high tech industries. Industry hype is
that the U.S. can't supply enough skilled workers, but what Silicon Valley
(industry jm) means is that they don't want to PAY decent salaries to U.S.
workers.
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- To lure workers, Congress struck a special bargain: The
time limit was left in place (6yrs), but made to seem irrelevant. Applicants
no longer had to prove they intended to return home and the visa was dubbed
"transitional", implying: next stop, green card. But so many
immigrants streamed in so quickly that the gears jammed, at every stage.
Employers couldn't get certifications from the DEPARTMENT OF LABOR fast
enough. The INS couldn't keep up with applications for permanent residency.
Meanwhile LOBBYING groups are spending millions of dollars to PURCHASE
VOTES in the U.S. Congress to modify H-1B visas so that persons can stay
for an indefinite period.
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- High tech firms who use imported non citizens under H-1B
are, paying their H-1B immigrant workers $10,000 less (no benefits) per
year than comparable U.S. college graduates with similar qualifications.
While there is a LAW requiring that foreign workers imported under H-1B
be paid the "prevailing wage" in the U.S., the LAW is full
of LOOPHOLES that allow high tech companies to realize enormous labor savings
by hiring foreign non-citizens instead of U.S. citizens for high tech jobs.
According to immigrant attorney Joel Stewart, "Employers who favor
aliens have an arsenal of legal means to REJECT all U.S. workers who apply."
In spite of the fact that U.S. university computer science enrollment has
doubled in the past few years, fewer than half of the computer science
graduated are being offered programming positions. Employers are IMPORTING
H-1Bs at LOW salaries to do the programming. Surveys of high-tech hiring
managers have revealed that only 2% of them seek workers having more than
10 years of experience, and only 13 % of managers under 30 had hired anyone
over age 40!!Employers freely admit that they are INUNDATED with RESUMES.
These supposedly "DESPERATE: employers reject the vast majority of
their applicants without even interviewing them. Cisco receives 20,000
application per MONTH but hires only 5% of the applicants. Inktomi hires
only 1%, Microsoft 2%, Qualcomm 5%, Red Hat Linux 1%. Studies have found
no confirmation of industry's claim of a labor shortage. see:
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- http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52767-2000Sep11.htm also: http://www.adversity.net/s
pecial/immig_hlb.htm
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- H-1B Visa--S.2045, the American Competitiveness in the
21st Century Act...a Section by Section Analysis....as passed by Congress.
http://www.usavisanow.com/hlbs2045sum.html . If SENATOR SUNUNU (R-NH0,
and cohorts in crimes against Americans were honest (ha), they would have
labeled this "Serving Our Corporate Masters in the 21st Century!!"
What a travesty and insult to label (language all important) the lose of
hundreds of thousands of American jobs, as COMPETITIVE!!! What a diabolical
GREEDY plot, promising foreign workers a happily ever after life in America,
only to have indentured slavery back in fashion, while the media distracts
the masses with issues over mascots, flag burning, or the confederate flag
nonsense!! Only difference today, is, that the plantation is global!
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- I can picture SENATOR SUNUNU and company, even now giving
some patronizing -sniffed-dismissal to the multitudes out of work,
with stolen pensions, and no health insurance. "Squealer consoles
the animals, saying, 'Do not imagine, comrades, that leadership is a pleasure.
On the contrary, (sniff) it is a deep and heavy responsibility. No one
believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal.
He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves.
BUT sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades and then where
should we be?'" Animal Farm-Orwell.
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- Directly related to this New Global Order- Plantation
mentality; of Overseers (politicians-every level), wheeling and dealing
in "human-resources", is the dumbing down to servitude of our
nation's school children. Mandates upon mandates--policies, regulations-special
education costs, social engineering and School to Work Career Programs
etc., is nothing less, in my opinion, than child abuse, hidden behind Ritalin-basket
weaving-zero tolerance and behavior modification! While industry laments
the fact (a lie) that they are unable to find competent help, we have youngsters
in 'School to Work Career' programs, pushing shopping carts, working in
nursing homes or local tourist enclaves!! NOT, being trained or apprenticed
in computer technology! Depending on what section of the country one lives
in, you can rest assured that a child in the seventh and eighth grades
are advised and counseled to choose a career in local industry, be it the
Wigget Factory, Garbage-Land or ski lift operator-boot licker!!
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- Parents were encouraged in the 70s-80s, to have their
children computer literate, so that they'd never be without a job! No more!
They are now, even if computer literate, in competition with imported workers,
thanks to their representatives!! Taxpayers, are now paying for their children
to be trained in dead-end nothing jobs. Parents in Fairfax Va., more enlightened
to the state of affairs, stated at a public hearing, that this
program; 'Schools-to-Career' "is the advent of a totalitarian training
system turning students into robotic workers." NH..encourages students
to enter the Service Industry-Construction or Manufacturing sectors.
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- Students in New York City, as shown in a recent documentary
were demonstrating for decent schools-and educations. Children across the
land in decaying, crumbling fire traps, are attending classes in
stairwells, hallways and bathrooms!! Computer labs!! Libraries!! Physical
fitness!! Sports!! The Arts!! Hell, some schools have ripped and tattered
books from the 60s!! with sports and the arts long gone! How are these
children to compete for any job? Where is industry? Importing labor so
that these children have NO jobs!
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- You won't see the likes of preferred-hirelings or their
Masters, sending their off-spring to such hovels of learning. Industry
and politicians, importing cheap slave labor, don't have their offspring
in ghetto bunkers--attending classes in hallways or on playgrounds saturated
with toxins from a local industry!! Their children aren't checking their
pockets for their inhalers!!
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- I had a relative who worked at one of these private country
club schools for the; elite,well to do, and well connected. Many dignitaries
from foreign lands also sent their coddled, pampered young ones to this
$25,000 per year wonderland of learning. An on grounds heliport accommodated
their visits! The $25,000 did not include monies for all the extras, including
special trips-projects and charge cards.
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- The cafeteria, excuse me 'dining hall', here was
not filled with junk food, pizza, soda, greasy burgers and fries! An army
of dietitians drew up expanded menus of vegetarian and Vegan diets. Foods
were cooked to order, with a hot entree buffet, a full salad bar, fresh
fruit and stir-fry stations!! A fully staffed health center had a doctor
and nurses on hand, a registered dietitian, and consultants in orthopedic
and psychiatrist specialties.
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- Hundred of acres of spacious lawns, woodlands, and numerous
playing fields, saw these youngsters far from the stench of chemical factories,
busy highways, incinerators, or a mega-dump. The mental as well as the
physical well being of the youngsters, was well attended to, with
two indoor skating rinks, five basketball courts, twelve handball squash
courts, two swimming pools, a dance studio, twenty-one tennis courts, lacrosse
fields and boating.
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- Every student has a faculty advisor. The astounding library
was a wonder in opulence, with reading lounges, a reference section and
a collection of 145,000 volumes, not counting periodicals-magazines etc.
A separate Science building with an observatory, was as big as our local
high school! Academics were the only courses..with all aspects of modern
and ancient history..English, including all the classics-great writings,
poetry-Shakespeare-poetry etc. Languages included; Russian-Chinese-Japanese-Latin-Greek-French
and Spanish. All religions and their histories were taught. Art included
fine arts-ceramics, sculpture, architecture and photography. Same with
music; with private lessons on the instrument of choice, choirs-chamber
music-history etc. School to Work!!! Are you kidding?? No supermarket-nursing
home-or local factory career enhancing jobs for these chosen ones! No,
they could choose special projects, which included internships in Washington
or going abroad for a year. An entire wing was given over to the computer
lab, with the most up to date of computers and specialists for teachers.
After all, these youngsters who are all marked exclusive colleges,
will be the ones taking over from their multi-national global industry
parents saving a buck by hiring slave-indentured labor from abroad or in
their law practices writing the loopholed contracts'.
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- Meanwhile on the local level, parents are working
two or three jobs; unemployed, or displaced with their jobs shipped overseas,
or taken over by an imported worker! Industry and government have conspired
to keep their young servile and stupid! With no jobs, the military bus
pulling up, offers the only way out. "No Child Left Behind legislation",
assures that their children's names are listed as potential cannon-fodder.
With monies now needed for the billions upon untold billions for
war and defense, social programs and education funding are being cut; with
states and municipalities bearing the brunt of escalating costs and dumber
kids. Meantime the sheeple are kept distracted with inept legislators and
the Judicial system pitting communities against each other, demands for
vouchers, or cries of affirmative action. Doesn't matter what vouchers
they hand out...ain't nobody going to any country club school!
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- Foggy Bottom D.C., Congressman and Senators, are about
the business of serving not the people, but their Masters in Industry and
special interests abroad. HB-1..not reported in your local paper, during
the planning and vote, is just one small example.So too are bailouts, subsidies
and pork projects! Congress and the Senate can now relax away from the
theater of politicking, having to shake hands with the masses, in their
NEW private multi-million dollar health club, complete with saunas, hot
tubs, sleeping rooms and workout gym! Think they give a hoot of lost
jobs,lost homes, pension funds robbed, no monies for a child's college
education, the cost of fuel, crumbling schools, no medical coverage
etc? Not on your life. They don't call it Foggy Bottom for nothing. When
they need a raise they vote themselves one. Vacations? On us! Visits to
exotic lands are identified as 'fact finding missions'. Medical care? With
five different plans to choose from and taxpayers paying 72% of the costs,
what's the worry?
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- With the labeling and scapegoating going on, of just
WHO is anti-American or treasonous have a listen: "As Napoleon was
DECEIVING the neighboring farmers he was also TRICKING his own ANIMALS.
The scapegoat was again Snowball. Whenever anything went wrong it became
usual to attribute it to Snowball. In fact many of the claims begin to
sound ridiculous to the OBJECTIVE mind. Of course, Squealer's mission is
to keep everything SUBJECTIVE in the minds of the animals. The seven Commandments
are abridged for the LAST time, simply reading, "ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL
BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS".
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