8 Articles Worth Reading
8 Articles Worth Reading
Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 11:58 PM
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JOB DESTRUCTION NEWSLETTER
by Rob Sanchez
February 22, 2005 No. 1202
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Article 1:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4268689.stm
Electrolux to export Europe jobs
"It looks pretty grim," said Swedish trades union official Ulf
Carlsson. "What are we going to end up producing in Sweden?"
Article 2:
http://www.daytondailynews.com/business/content/business/daily/0213indiaside.html
India's Revolution
Nation grows with onset of outsourced jobs
India has fast become the global center for outsourced industries, with
companies throughout America " and increasingly in medium"sized cities
like Dayton " turning to India's burgeoning population of highly
educated, English"speaking urban youths to perform work at a fraction
of what it would cost in the United States.
While Dayton slept, its work was being done. For about a third of the
price.
Article 3:
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBL3XCX65E.html
U.S. Eases Security Procedures for Some Student, Worker Visas
The U.S. government is changing visa procedures to make it easier for
some foreign students wishing to study science or other technical
fields in the United States. Asa Hutchinson, the department of Homeland
Security's under secretary for border and transportation security,
said, "This change sends a clear message that the U.S. highly
encourages those with great scientific minds to explore studying and
working in our country," he said in a statement.
Article 4:
http://www.businessstandard.com/iceworld/storypage.php?chklogin=&autono=181008&leftnm=lmnu9&leftindx=9&lselect=2
Unisys plans rapid ramp up
Unisys Global Services - India, the captive centre of the global IT
services and solutions company, has faced some hiccups ever since its
launch was announced in April 2004. But, with the move to new premises
just two weeks ago, Mukul Agrawal, managing director of the
organisation says everything is on track and that they will be 1,000
strong by the end of 2005. "Software development will make up around
40 per cent of the work and call centre will account for 30 per cent.
Our infrastructure management services will occupy around 10 per cent
and work for insurance companies and payment processing will involve
the rest," said Agrawal. He said that BPO work for the healthcare
vertical will begin in late 2005.
Article 5:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1053404/posts
Jobs Americans Won't Do: Voodoo Economics from the White House.
I want to look at the basic assumption underlying the whole Bush plan:
that there are jobs Americans simply won't do, so that the importation
of foreigners is essential. Whether these foreign workers are illegal
aliens, guestworkers, or permanent legal immigrants is a detail to be
worked out by us, the argument goes, but our need for them is
unchanged.
Article 6:
http://www.nojobleftbehind.org/
President Bush Signs Historic 'No Job Left Behind Act'
Bold New Federal Law to Speed Destruction of US Jobs
U.S. Secretary of Job Destruction Frida Marquette today joined
President Bush for the signing of the No Job Left Behind Act of 2005 --
an historic new law that will promote the offshore outsourcing of every
job possible, decimate the U.S. middle class, and run the country into
the ground via half-baked "free trade" economic theories.
'Unemployment is good for the soul. Shipping millions of US jobs
overseas will free up more time for unemployed Americans to pursue
salvation.'
-- President Bush
Article 7:
http://www.rense.com/general63/momen.htm
Bush's Guest Worker Atrocity = Third World Momentum
Bush's guest worker plan spells 'disaster' for this country with an
emphasis on the word 'Third World Terror'. Forget the Orange and Red
Alerts when Muslim terrorists have amnesty offered on a silver platter.
Bush's guest worker plan, driven by 'how stupid can he be' Karl Rove,
will contribute to the beginning of the end of our country. It is a
Carte Blanc--no-limit-credit card for anyone invading the United States
without penalty or fear of the law. It is a loss of the rule-of-law. It
is the genesis of the United States becoming more like Mexico,
Columbia, Saudi Arabia, Libya or any country where laws exist to favor
those in power.
Article 8:
http://www.federalobserver.com/archive.php?aid=9380
Part 9 - The US economy will collapse without illegal alien labor
We've heard this excuse before, long before the anyone heard of "global
economy" or the WTO. American southerners claimed their economic
survival depended on slave labor, even with tariffs applied to imported
cotton, rice, indigo, and tobacco. Notice the same industry leads the
insistence on today's illegal immigration: agriculture. "Cheap labor,"
indeed. They might at least call slavery by its rightful name. Does
anyone notice the irony that the liberals who opposed slavery in the
1850s are today advocating illegal immigration to deliver "slaves" to
big business?
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4268689.stm
Electrolux to export Europe jobs
Electrolux saw its shares rise 14% on Tuesday after it said it would be
shifting more of its manufacturing to low"cost countries.
The Swedish firm, the world's largest maker of home appliances, said it
is to relocate about 10 of its 27 plants in western Europe and North
America.
It did not say which facilities would be affected, but intends moving
them to Asia, eastern Europe and Mexico.
The company has two manufacturing sites in County Durham.
It makes lawn and garden products in Newton Aycliffe, and cookers and
ovens in Spennymoor.
The Newton Aycliffe plant could also be affected by Electrolux's
separate announcement that it is to spin"off its outdoor products unit
into a new separate company.
Unions anger
Electrolux's subsidiary brands include AEG, Zanussi and Frigidaire.
The company said it was speeding up its restructuring programme, which
aims to save between #190m and #265m annually from 2009.
"We see that about half the plants in high"cost countries " that is
around 10 " are at risk," said Electrolux chief executive Hans
Straberg.
"It looks pretty grim," said Swedish trades union official Ulf
Carlsson.
"What are we going to end up producing in Sweden?"
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http://www.daytondailynews.com/business/content/business/daily/0213indiaside.html
India's Revolution
Nation grows with onset of outsourced jobs
By Mehul Srivastava msrivastava@DaytonDailyNews.com
Dayton Daily News, February, 13, 2005
How India went from one of the world's poorest countries to its seventh
largest economy.
BANGALORE, INDIA | The caller, in a slow, Southern drawl, describes a
problem he is having with his video game. A Dayton area code flashes on
the computer screen and, 12,000 miles away in India, Abhinav Majumdar
puts on his fake American accent.
"Hi. This is Antonio. How may I help you?" Majumdar says, switching
into the role of "Antonio," video game problem solver.
After a few minutes, Majumdar punches the mute button, and calls his
supervisor over to his computer and says in Bengali, "This man has had
this problem for quite some time." The supervisor, using his own
manufactured American accent, takes over the call and helps the
customer to a solution.
It is 9 p.m. in India, and Majumdar's workday at the B2K call center
near Bangalore has just begun.
Fluent in several languages " including Americanized and British
English " highly educated and well"paid by Indian standards, the
Antonios of Bangalore are the biggest reason why India has gone from
one of the world's poorest countries to its seventh largest economy.
India has fast become the global center for outsourced industries, with
companies throughout America " and increasingly in medium"sized cities
like Dayton " turning to India's burgeoning population of highly
educated, English"speaking urban youths to perform work at a fraction
of what it would cost in the United States. Along the way, the
companies that do the work here have learned a few tricks, like using
names more familiar to Americans.
No one seems to know exactly how many jobs for U.S. companies are being
done by Indians " the most frequent estimates are anywhere from 2
percent to 4 percent of computer jobs and 5 percent of call center jobs
" but few doubt Corporate America's love affair with low"cost Indian
labor will end anytime soon.
That love affair is transforming cities like Bangalore from sleepy
little backwaters into the New York Cities of Asia, providing India's
elite with a standard of living unimaginable 10 years ago, when travel
abroad was difficult, foreign exchange was jealously hoarded by the
government to prevent currency fluctuations and engineering graduates
languished in low"paying jobs.
In Bangalore, hotel rooms are packed with foreigners paying rates
higher than in Tokyo or London, the bars play Van Morrison back"to"back
with punjabi bhangra tunes, and the cars on the streets are almost all
imports. Even rickshaw pullers, India's most photographed poor, can be
seen speaking into mobile phones.
"It is almost unbelievable, this kind of progress," said Lathika Pai,
an Indian"born, American"educated entrepreneur who left Denver to start
B2K in Bangalore. "Last year I had 100 employees; this year I have 600,
and I am still hiring."
While the trappings of this new prosperity are most visible in
outsourcing hot spots like Bangalore and Chennai, the ripple effect is
felt throughout India. In Calcutta, newspaper advertisements promise
call center employees nearly $300 a month, a princely sum in a country
where the average yearly income hovers around $440. The area around New
Delhi is now the outsourcing capital of the north, thanks to cheap real
estate and literally dozens of engineering colleges to chose from.
"What folks in America don't understand is that this isn't just a
question of jobs leaving the U.S.," Pai said. "When Indians do better,
Coca"Cola sells more Coke, Nike sells more shoes, everybody does well."
Well, not everybody. In his new book Exporting America: Why Corporate
Greed is Shipping American Jobs Overseas, CNN's Lou Dobbs calls
outsourcing and the motives behind it "simply destructive to our way of
life."
But here in India, those words don't carry much weight.
"Whether Lou Dobbs gets it or not, outsourcing is how medium to large
firms will survive in the next 20 to 30 years," said Rajiv Bakshi, an
analyst with an Indian firm that arranges outsourcing for companies in
the Midwest.
A painful transition
Quite literally, when the lights go out in Dayton, they come on in
India. The time difference is nearly half a day, so when a manager in
Dayton leaves work about 6 p.m., just in time to hit rush"hour traffic
on Interstate 75, his colleague in India is just getting to work. The
manager can leave behind a series of instructions " "do an inventory,"
"add up all the claims from last year," "e"mail our clients in China" "
that his Indian colleague can work on until the Dayton manager opens
his office the next morning.
While Dayton slept, its work was being done. For about a third of the
price.
The combination of time and cost savings is so attractive, few firms
can turn it down.
Fifth Third Bank has a significant amount of its Web site built by a
firm in Bangalore, according to the Indian firm. GM has hired 35
researchers in India and is aiming to hire nearly 100. Companies like
General Electric, Delphi, DaimlerChrysler and Procter & Gamble all have
made a sizable investment in offshoring, according to a Dayton Daily
News survey conducted last year.
But there are no clear numbers of how many jobs have been lost to India
and other countries through outsourcing.
When the Department of Labor releases its statistics annually, it
counts meticulously how many jobs were created or lost that year, but
it won't hazard a guess on exactly how many have gone abroad as a
result of outsourcing.
When companies in India are asked how many of their employees work on
projects directly related to the Miami Valley, the managers often cite
non"disclosure agreements and refuse to cite exact numbers.
A CIA report released last week, however, makes clear that the
reshuffling of jobs to places like India and China will continue at
least through 2020, and may go on well beyond that.
"China and India are well"positioned to become technology leaders, and
even the poorest countries will be able to leverage prolific, cheap
technologies to fuel " although at a slower rate " their own
development," the report says.
The semi"annual survey, written by the CIA's National Intelligence
Council, also contains an ominous warning: "The transition will not be
painless and will hit the middle classes of the developed world in
particular, bringing more rapid job turnover and requiring professional
retooling," the report says. "Outsourcing on a large scale would
strengthen the anti"globalization movement. Where these pressures lead
will depend on how political leaders respond, how flexible labor
markets become and whether overall economic growth is sufficiently
robust to absorb a growing number of displaced workers."
At SLK Software, Indian workers whose jobs depend on their interaction
with customers in the United States are taught to do more than talk
like Americans. They must also act like them.
In their training, they learn to eat with a fork and knife. They learn
to look people in the eye when they speak to them.
They learn how to read menus and order in restaurants.
"You have to teach them everything," said Partha Amin, who heads SLK's
offices in Bangalore.
Amin's firm handles contracts with companies he won't name, but a small
team of engineers does the Web site for Fifth Third Bank, and another
group works with Emerson Electric. The cultural sensitivity training
that SLK's engineers go through also includes one rigorous task that
almost all Indians working for American firms must master "
neutralizing the MTI, or the Mother Tongue Influence.
That's how "Antonio" at the B2K call center near Bangalore learned to
speak like an American, and it's how SLK's employees are able to
communicate with their American colleagues while losing nothing in the
translation.
"We are trying out a different model," Amin said. "Where all the work
can be done here, with a few visits to the United States."
SLK's engineers are paid about the same, and sometimes more, than the
industry average here. In Bangalore, call center employees earn about
$3,000 to $4,000 a year, engineers a little under $10,000, and
consultants and language trainers considerably more " one said his
salary averaged nearly $15,000 a year.
Some engineers learn how to work with Americans while on the job. R.
Senthi Kumar, who works out of Delphi's research and development labs
in Bangalore, said he loved the Indian food in Dayton, a fond memory
from his visit to Delphi's plant in Vandalia.
Kumar and his colleagues fit into a global research team that works on
safer seat belts for cars. And with partners in Korea, India, Germany
and the United States, Kumar's work literally goes on 24 hours a day.
"I feel that with my colleagues we do things more efficiently and
faster " and that's important when you make things like seat belts," he
said.
Delphi's rules don't allow Kumar to disclose how much he makes, but he
recently got married and plans to buy a new car soon.
"Compared to four years ago, (India) has a totally different culture,"
he said. "My social status, for instance, has really increased with my
job at Delphi."
The R&D lab where he works has experienced a growth that mirrors
India's.
It started in 2000 with two employees; today, there are more than 400,
and by 2008, the work force is expected to double again, said Joseph
Zacariah, the director of the lab.
"It's wrong to assume that this is all about cost"saving or taking away
American jobs," Zacariah said. "Essentially this is how a global
company like Delphi has to do its business."
Infrastructure, competition
to slow growth
For those watching from a distance, India's growth is spectacular and
almost limitless.
In the late 1990s, Indian computer workers had earned a derogatory
nickname: "techno"coolies." Indian firms had just completed the
mind"numbing repetitive task of inserting two zeros in every data line
of surviving computer source code from the 1980s, helping avoid
computer system failures in the famous Y2K problem. That job required
few skills, but the techno"coolies who worked on those projects are
quite often the same ones who now run wildly successful Indian firms
that employ tens of thousands of engineers who write complex software
applications for companies across the world.
In Bangalore alone, nearly 50 engineering colleges produce about 200
students each, and nearly all of them speak English. The government is
going all out to attract investment by building roads, giving tax
breaks and increasing investment in colleges.
But the bottlenecks are obvious " Indian roads are terrible, phone
lines undependable and electricity is always short of demand.
Indian experts say that the current growth has strained India's
resources to the maximum, and more development will have to wait until
the infrastructure improves.
"You can't have the information superhighway meet the pot"holed roads
of Bangalore and not expect a slowdown," said Vigyan Jain, a professor
of business who retired to Bangalore after five years of working in
California's Silicon Valley.
One business magazine predicted that India would have to double its
investment in infrastructure to keep up with the demands. But while
Indian infrastructure plays catch"up, other Asian markets provide some
of the benefits that India does. The Philippines and Malaysia also
attract call centers, and Singapore does a lot of the high"tech
research that Indian firms specialize in.
The danger to India: Other countries will offer essentially the same
service at a cheaper price. The global center for outsourced industries
will move from India to the next place.
"Essentially, the last five years will be nothing like the next," Jain
said. "Some companies have come here and failed, but so many more have
come here and prospered.
"What will their competition do if it doesn't follow them?"
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http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBL3XCX65E.html
Feb 14, 2005
U.S. Eases Security Procedures for Some Student, Worker Visas
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) " The U.S. government is changing visa procedures to
make it easier for some foreign students wishing to study science or
other technical fields in the United States.
The changes are intended to speed up the process of approving security
clearances and allowing those clearances to remain in effect longer.
U.S. officials have struggled to balance competing goals of inviting
foreign scholars, who provide an intellectual and financial boon to
many American universities, while preventing sensitive technology from
being illegally transferred out of the country.
Asa Hutchinson, the department of Homeland Security's under secretary
for border and transportation security, said U.S. officials "are now
better able to accommodate researchers and students who lawfully enter
our country."
"This change sends a clear message that the U.S. highly encourages
those with great scientific minds to explore studying and working in
our country," he said in a statement.
The changes affect the security clearance known as Visa Mantis,
established in 1998. These clearances are separate from the visa
procedures and sometimes have expired while students were in the middle
of their studies, requiring them to submit new applications.
Under procedures outlined by Homeland Security and the State
Department, international students will be able to keep their
clearances for the duration of their academic programs, up to four
years. New clearances would be needed for students who change their
field of studies.
Clearances will be approved for up to two years for temporary workers
and exchange visitors and for one year for business visitors and
visitors for pleasure.
The State Department said it has reduced the average time for receiving
security clearances to under 14 days. A study by Congress' Government
Accountability Office found that the average time for approval was 67
days between April and June 2003.
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http://www.business"standard.com/iceworld/storypage.php?chklogin=&autono=181008&leftnm=lmnu9&leftindx=9&lselect=2
Unisys plans rapid ramp up
Sathya Mithra Ashok / Bangalore February 17, 2005
Unisys Global Services - India, the captive centre of the global IT
services and solutions company, has faced some hiccups ever since its
launch was announced in April 2004.
But, with the move to new premises just two weeks ago, Mukul Agrawal,
managing director of the organisation says everything is on track and
that they will be 1,000 strong by the end of 2005.
During its launch, Unisys India had announced that they planned to be
2,000 strong in two years time. Agrawal said that they should grow
to 4,000 strong in four years time, stating that the expansion need not
necessarily take place in Bangalore.
The Bangalore centre will do both software development and BPO work for
its parent. Though internal requirements will make up 10 per cent of
the work done here, the majority will be for Unisys clients.
"Software development will make up around 40 per cent of the work and
call centre will account for 30 per cent. Our infrastructure management
services will occupy around 10 per cent and work for insurance
companies and payment processing will involve the rest," said Agrawal.
He said that BPO work for the healthcare vertical will begin in late
2005.
The software portion, across the categories of system software and
application architecture, will cover most verticals the company
operates in, including financial services, transportation and telecom.
Agrawal expects the Bangalore centre to start filing patents in the
next two years.
Speaking about the reasons for the centre, Agrawal said, "Though there
will be some migration of existing work, the centre is mostly for
enticing new businesses. Most customers today want us to have an
offshore component that is preferably captive. Therefore, it is not
only a profit centre but one that helps us be in the game and ensure
more new business." The centre also gives savings of 50 per cent when
compared to US costs.
Though Unisys will continue to have outsourcing partners in India,
Agrawal did say that there will be fewer new projects handed to them.
Unisys saw a revenue dip from $5.9 billion in fiscal 2003 to $5.8
billion in 2004. Their profitability took a bigger dip from $258
million in 2003 to $38 million for 2004.
The company had promised an investment of $180 million in India spread
across five years during the launch of the global services centre.
Around $10 million in FDI has already been brought in for the centre by
the company which has sales offices in both Mumbai and Delhi.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1053404/posts
Jobs Americans Won't Do: Voodoo Economics from the White House.
National Review Online ^ | January 07, 2004 | Mark Krikorian
Posted on 01/07/2004 10:51:13 AM PST by xsysmgr
Today the president announces his plan for a vast new guestworker
system, which would grant amnesty to millions of illegals currently in
the United States, as well as import millions of new workers from
abroad. (The president will also call for an increase in permanent
legal immigration beyond the current rate of one million a year.)
I make the argument against amnesty in the cover story for the upcoming
print version of NR, but here I want to look at the basic assumption
underlying the whole Bush plan: that there are jobs Americans simply
won't do, so that the importation of foreigners is essential. Whether
these foreign workers are illegal aliens, guestworkers, or permanent
legal immigrants is a detail to be worked out by us, the argument goes,
but our need for them is unchanged.
Even many opponents of the proposed Bush Amnesty assume this to be
true, leading them to propose new and improved guestworker programs,
with provisions for stricter controls against permanent settlement,
greater incentives to return, tighter enforcement against unscrupulous
employers, etc.
As well-meaning as such efforts may be, the basic assumption is false
-- there is simply no economic reason to import foreign workers.
If the supply of foreign workers were to dry up (say, through actually
enforcing the immigration law, for starters), employers would respond
to this new, tighter, labor market in two ways. One, they would offer
higher wages, increased benefits, and improved working conditions, so
as to recruit and retain people from the remaining pool of workers. At
the same time, the same employers would look for ways to eliminate some
of the jobs they now are having trouble filling. The result would be a
new equilibrium, with blue-collar workers making somewhat better money,
but each one of those workers being more productive.
Many people fear the first part of such a response, claiming that
prices for fruits and vegetables would skyrocket, fueling inflation.
But since all unskilled labor -- from Americans and foreigners, in all
industries -- accounts for such a small part of our economy, perhaps
four percent of GDP, we can tighten the labor market without any fear
of sparking meaningful inflation. Agricultural economist Philip Martin
has pointed out that labor accounts for only about ten percent of the
retail price of a head of lettuce, for instance, so even doubling the
wages of pickers would have little noticeable effect on consumers.
But it's the second part of the response to a tighter labor market that
people just don't get. By holding down natural wage growth in
labor-intensive industries, immigration serves as a subsidy for
low-wage, low-productivity ways of doing business, retarding
technological progress and productivity growth.
That this is so should not be a surprise. Julian Simon, in his 1981
classic, The Ultimate Resource, wrote about how scarcity leads to
innovation:
It is important to recognize that discoveries of improved methods and
of substitute products are not just luck. They happen in response to
"scarcity" -- an increase in cost. Even after a discovery is made,
there is a good chance that it will not be put into operation until
there is need for it due to rising cost. This point is important:
Scarcity and technological advance are not two unrelated competitors in
a race; rather, each influences the other.
As it is for copper or oil, this fact is true also for labor; as wages
have risen over time, innovators have devised ways of substituting
capital for labor, increasing productivity to the benefit of all. The
converse, of course, is also true; the artificial superabundance of a
resource will tend to remove much of the incentive for innovation.
Stagnating innovation caused by excessive immigration is perhaps most
apparent in the most immigrant-dependent activity -- the harvest of
fresh fruit and vegetables. The period from 1960 to 1975 (roughly from
the end of the "Bracero" program, which imported Mexican farmworkers,
to the beginning of the mass illegal immigration we are still
experiencing today) was a period of considerable agricultural
mechanization. But a continuing increase in the acreage and number of
crops harvested mechanically did not materialize as expected, in large
part because the supply of workers remained artificially large due to
the growing illegal immigration we were politically unwilling to stop.
An example of a productivity improvement that "will not be put into
operation until there is need for it due to rising cost," as Simon
said, is in raisin grapes]. The production of raisins in California's
Central Valley is one of the most labor-intensive activities in North
America. Conventional methods require bunches of grapes to be cut by
hand, manually placed in a tray for drying, manually turned, manually
collected.
But starting in the 1950s in Australia (where there was no large supply
of foreign farm labor), farmers were compelled by circumstances to
develop a laborsaving method called "dried-on-the-vine" (DOV)
production. This involves growing the grapevines on trellises, then,
when the grapes are ready, cutting the base of the vine instead of
cutting each bunch of grapes individually. This new method radically
reduces labor demand at harvest time and increases yield per acre by up
to 200 percent. But this high-productivity, innovative method of
production has spread very slowly in the United States because the mass
availability of foreign workers has served as a disincentive to farmers
to make the necessary capital investment.
But perhaps immigration's role in retarding economic modernization is
confined to agriculture, which, after all, is very different from the
rest of the economy. Nope. Manufacturing sees the same phenomenon of a
scarcity of low-skilled labor yielding innovation while a surfeit
yields stagnation. An example of the latter: A 1995 report on southern
California's apparel industry, prepared by Southern California Edison,
warned of the danger to the industry of reliance on low-cost foreign
labor:
In southern California, apparel productivity gains have been made
through slow-growth in wages. While a large, low-cost labor pool has
been a boon to apparel production in the past, overreliance on
relatively low-cost sources of labor may now cost the industry dearly.
The fact is, southern California has fallen behind both domestic and
international competitors, even some of its lowest-labor-cost
competitors, in applying the array of production and communications
technologies available to the industry (such as computer aided design
and electronic data interchange)." (Emphasis in original)
Conversely, home builders, who are still less reliant on foreign
workers than some other industries, have begun to modernize
construction techniques. The higher cost of labor means that "In the
long run, we'll see a move toward homes built in factories," as Gopal
Ahluwalia, director of research at the National Association of Home
Builders, told the Washington Post several years ago. But as immigrants
increasingly move into this industry, we can expect such innovation to
spread much more slowly than it would otherwise.
But surely immigration is needed fill jobs in the service industry?
After all, without immigrants, who will pump our gas? Oh, wait -- we
never imported immigrants for that and so now we pump our own gas,
aided by technology that lets us pay at the pump -- thus we have fewer
attendants but more gas stations and get in and out faster than we used
to when we trusted our car to the man who wore the Texaco star.
Other innovations suggest how, despite the protestations of employers,
a tight low-skilled labor market can spur modernization even in the
service sector: Automated switches have replaced most telephone
operators, continuous-batch washing machines reduce labor demand for
hotels, buffet-style restaurants need much less staff that full-service
ones. As unlikely as it might seem, many VA hospitals are now using
mobile robots to ferry medicines from their pharmacies to various
nurse's stations, eliminating the need for a worker to perform that
task. And devices like automatic vacuum cleaners, lawn mowers, and pool
cleaners are increasingly available to consumers. Keeping down
low-skilled labor costs through the president's vast new guestworker
plan would stifle this ongoing modernization process.
The idea that a modern society like ours requires the ministrations of
foreign workers, because there is no other way to do get these jobs
done, smacks of the apocryphal quote from a 19th-century patent
commissioner: "Everything that can be invented has been invented."
-- NRO Contributor Mark Krikorian is executive director of the Center
for Immigration Studies and a visiting fellow at the Nixon Center.
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http://www.nojobleftbehind.org/
February 21, 2005
President Bush Signs Historic 'No Job Left Behind Act'
Bold New Federal Law to Speed Destruction of US Jobs
U.S. Secretary of Job Destruction Frida Marquette today joined
President Bush for the signing of the No Job Left Behind Act of 2005 --
an historic new law that will promote the offshore outsourcing of every
job possible, decimate the U.S. middle class, and run the country into
the ground via half-baked "free trade" economic theories.
'Unemployment is good for the soul. Shipping millions of US jobs
overseas will free up more time for unemployed Americans to pursue
salvation.'
-- President Bush
After exchanging high-fives, back-slaps and knowing winks with tech
industry executives, President Bush signed the legislation at the
offices of the Information Technology Association Of America (ITAA) in
Arlington, VA -- his last US stop before embarking upon a week-long
tour of burnt bridges in Europe.
"Four years ago, President Bush set out to destroy every decent job in
this country -- to ensure that workers of all races, all abilities and
all ages live in constant fear of losing their jobs," Marquette said.
"Today, with the stroke of his pen, President Bush has changed the
culture of employment in America and kept his promise to leave no job
behind."
The No Job Left Behind Act of 2005 passed both houses of Congress by
overwhelming bipartisan majorities in December, fulfilling President
Bush's election promise to boost corporate profit margins by helping to
offshore as many US jobs as possible.
"Unemployment is good for the soul," said President Bush at the signing
ceremony. "Shipping millions of US jobs overseas will free up more time
for unemployed Americans to pursue salvation."
Under the new law, corporations will develop strong systems of
accountability based upon offshoring performance. The new law also
gives those companies more tax breaks, removes federal red tape and
bureaucracy and consolidates job-destroying resources into one
integrated federal agency. U.S. companies will now have access to a
massive new federal database that will help them as they scour the
globe for the lowest wages, most lax environmental regulations, and
highest returns on capital.
"Offshoring our best-paying US jobs is now a national priority, and for
the first time federal policies will focus squarely on speeding up that
process," Marquette said. "For too long, many US companies did a good
job of offshoring some positions. With this new law, we'll make sure
we're providing ALL of our corporations with access to the best
job-destroying resources and tax incentives."
'Offshoring our best-paying US jobs is now a national priority, and for
the first time federal policies will focus squarely on speeding up that
process.'
-- U.S. Secretary of Job Destruction Frida Marquette
Marquette also said that she looks forward to working with corporate
leaders and others to develop partnerships with chambers of commerce
and faith-based organizations to make sure that the provisions
contained in the bill will adversely affect all American workers.
"The U.S. Department of Job Destruction is committed to being a full
partner with corporate executives and local chambers of commerce to
help put this new law into action," Marquette said. "We'll be building
strong relationships with the people who are on the front lines of job
destruction - CEOs, CFOs, stock analysts, investment bankers, Wall St.
executives, and, of course, most of the US Congress. We'll be engaging
the entire country in a conversation about how we will work together to
boost profit margins for US corporations by shipping more American jobs
overseas."
Among other provisions, the No Job Left Behind Act will:
Waive all corporate income taxes for companies that meet or exceed
federal offshore outsourcing goals;
Enhance accountability for offshoring results by requiring corporations
to issue annual report cards on their job destroying performance. Top
executives of corporations that fail to meet federal offshoring
benchmarks for more than three consecutive quarters will be rounded up
and shipped to Guantanamo Bay;
Create a new "one-stop" federal database that will help corporations to
search by country, industry and pay rates when seeking the lowest-cost
overseas locations to which they can move jobs and manufacturing
facilities;
Establish new faith-based standards for qualifying for unemployment
benefits;
Set up a new federal program that helps religious organizations and
corporate HR departments to identify evil-doing and sin-loving
employees whose jobs should be prioritized for shipping offshore; and
Provide federal funds to faith-based organizations that provide
spiritual counseling and other soul-saving services to guilt-twinged
corporate executives;
"This historic law offers all of us the promise of stronger
accountability for results, more corporate control of our government
and lives, expanded options for corporations, and an emphasis on
job-destroying methods that have been proven to work," Marquette said.
"I'm looking forward to the important work ahead so that together we
will make sure that no job in America is left behind."
7. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
http://www.rense.com/general63/momen.htm
Bush's Guest Worker
Atrocity = Third
World Momentum
By Frosty Wooldridge
NewsWithViews.com
2-17-5
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the rights of
the people by the gradual and silent encroachments of those in power
than by violent and sudden usurpations." -- James Madison
Bush's guest worker plan spells 'disaster' for this country with an
emphasis on the word 'Third World Terror'. Forget the Orange and Red
Alerts when Muslim terrorists have amnesty offered on a silver platter.
Instead of piloting airplanes into skyscrapers, they will legally be
able to drive bomb-laden trucks over the Hoover Dam. They can legally
gain driver's licenses to progress to pilot's licenses to fly a single
engine airplane loaded with C-4 plastic explosives into an NFL football
stadium-any time they desire. Believe me, they are patient. Notice the
1993 WTC bombing interval to 9/11.
Bush's guest worker plan, driven by 'how stupid can he be' Karl Rove,
will contribute to the beginning of the end of our country. It is a
Carte Blanc--no-limit-credit card for anyone invading the United States
without penalty or fear of the law. It is a loss of the rule-of-law. It
is the genesis of the United States becoming more like Mexico,
Columbia, Saudi Arabia, Libya or any country where laws exist to favor
those in power.
Representative from Colorado, Tom Tancredo said, "Without secure
borders, any guest program simply puts employers' craving for cheap
labor ahead of national securitythe president's proposals add new
incentives for illegal immigration, which means increased risks of
terrorist securing a foothold in the United States."
While Bush touts national security, nowhere in his amnesty plans did
Bush speak about securing our borders from further illegal alien
migration.
We've got 15-20 million non-English speaking, mostly poor, uneducated,
unscreened for diseases or intent, illegal aliens-now operating in our
country. They cost us more in welfare, anchor babies, overloading our
hospitals, drug gangs and loss of education in our schools than any
savings elite corporations make on their cheap labor. CEO's become
wealthy and the American middle class suffers devastation.
This guest worker plan offers millions upon millions of would-be legal
immigrants who were waiting in line to jump the line. Our southern
borders will multiply shantytowns, called 'colonias' now numbering over
1.1 million and growing like a malignant cancer--where filth, disease,
drugs, trash and turmoil are the norm.
The new 'terror' will be how fast our cities, towns and communities
will be overwhelmed by aggressive and antagonistic groups that 'yearn
to breathe free, use welfare as a lifestyle, push drugs, foster female
genital mutilation, horse tripping, dog fights, cock fighting and
terrorize American citizens'.
Have you heard of the axiom, "If you give them an inch, they will take
a mile?" What happens when you give 15-20 million illegal aliens
amnesty? How many of their friends and family will they bring into our
country? What happens to us when another 15-20 million poor,
illiterate, uneducated and unskilled illegal aliens pour into our
country? It's called, 'THIRD WORLD MOMENTUM'. The more we bring the
Third World into our country, the more the Third World establishes its
own form and style of living-NOT America's.
What is that style of living? It's a slow-death breakdown in health
care systems. It's a debilitating malfunction of police protection
because bribery and corruption become the norm. It's a disruption of
the educational process that is necessary for a free society to
continue and for a republic to exist.
Everything you see happening in countries like Rwanda, Somalia,
Columbia and Mexico will be duplicated and multiplied in our country.
How would you like a Somalia-like situation in our country? Guess what?
Bush and Congress imported 24,000 Somalians in the past year. In
addition, Bush imported 25,000 Vietnamese, 13,000 Laotians, 7,600
Ethiopians, 7,000 Cambodians and 12,500 Russians. He imported another
15,000 Hmongs from Southeast Asia on top of the 60,000 already here.
But fear this for our country--these immigrants were injected into
Minnesota alone! Even more frightening, Hmongs possess a 6.4 fertility
rate for children while native citizens of Minnesta stand at 1.8. They
and all of us face displacement out of our own country. Every state
suffered this Third World injection from a line that never ends.
The elites don't have to deal with the consequences, but we do. For
instance, Chai Vang, a Hmong immigrant hunter gunned to death six
Americans in Wisconsin last fall and brutally injured two others. This
kind of nightmare grows across our country by the day!
The imminent historian Arnold Toynbee observed how nations fall: "An
autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit national
suicide."
On the terror side, in 2003, the Border Patrol apprehended 37,000
non-Mexican illegal aliens attempting to cross into the United States.
A terrifying 7,500 of them arrived from Middle Eastern countries that
harbor terrorists. You can bet another 9/11 will be just as easy to
execute as the last one with this kind of support by our US Government.
Another part of the terror is the media's national farce that "Illegals
do the job Americans won't do." The truth is, wages suffer depression
to that of slave labor so Americans can't live on them. Worse,
standards decline into corruption. It's another form of indentured
slavery fed upon by our corporations. Example: In 1983, beef packing
plants paid $17.10 per hour with benefits. Because of illegal aliens
today, meatpacking plants pay $9.00 per hour with no benefits and
illegal aliens have colonized the jobs. Paving jobs, construction, dry
wall, landscape and fast food endure colonization by illegals that do
not speak English.
Thus, America's poor, college kids and high school students don't stand
a chance. The terror is a downgrading and degrading of our workforce.
Tancredo said, "When you stop this flow of cheap labor, wages for most
of those jobs will rise and American citizens will fill those jobs." If
American citizens continue in apathy, 'THIRD WORLD MOMENTUM' will gain
dominance. Instead of reading about their problems around the world,
the Third World problems will be in your back yard. It's already
happening.
Is there hope? You betcha! Over 5,000 Americans already asked for the
28-point action letter. They passed it to ten of their friends who
passed it to ten of theirs. Tens of thousands have joined
www.numbersusa.com to become weekly faxers of pre-written letters that
speed to senators, Bush and representatives demanding immigration
change. The House last week, led by Tancredo and Sensenbrenner, passed
H.R. 418 to stop illegals from gaining driver's licenses. Just think
what will happen with five million of us join NumbersUSA.com and fax
each week? It's time we flood 100 senators with millions of faxes and
emails demanding H.R. 418 become law.
Next, we work toward a 10-year moratorium on all immigration along with
slow, methodical deportation. Let's get busy. Day by day, we work
relentlessly for our country to stop this president and Congress from
crushing us with this immigrant invasion.
Third World Momentum is like 'human tsunami' without end. Once it
crashes with more numbers on our shores as it is in California and
across our nation, we won't be able to escape its grasp. We'll see the
destruction of our school systems, medical care and culture as well as
law and order systems-by sheer numbers of these legal and illegal
people migrating into our country endlessly. Remember that 85 million
more people are added to the earth each year. That Third World Momentum
will affect you now or it will affect your children later. We either
deal with immigration by stopping it now, or like that natural tsunami
in Sumatra; we won't be able to save ourselves.
Write for that 28-point action letter to stop this nation-destroying
madness. For you West Coast night owls, every Thursday you can catch
yours truly in Las Vegas, Nevada on Mark Edwards' "Wake Up America"
talk show on 50,000watt KDWN-Am-720 10:00 PM to midnight PT, or on the
worldwide internet at www.wakeupamericafoundation.com On the home page,
click on www.americanvoiceradio.com heard around the world. Five nights
a week, Edwards engages patriots from across the nation to bring you
the latest on this nation-destroying invasion.
8. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
http://www.federalobserver.com/archive.php?aid=9380
Part 9 - The US economy will collapse without illegal alien labor
Don't be fooled by peddlers of Immigration Reform Scams
By S. J. Miller
{CLICK HERE for Series Overview}
Let's be clear about what this claim really means, if true: that the
nation's economy depends on "cut-rate labor," requiring that we
continue the outrage of illegal immigration despite all the widespread
harm it does to Americans and our society.
We've heard this excuse before, long before the anyone heard of "global
economy" or the WTO. American southerners claimed their economic
survival depended on slave labor, even with tariffs applied to imported
cotton, rice, indigo, and tobacco. Notice the same industry leads the
insistence on today's illegal immigration: agriculture.
"Cheap labor," indeed. They might at least call slavery by its rightful
name. Does anyone notice the irony that the liberals who opposed
slavery in the 1850s are today advocating illegal immigration to
deliver "slaves" to big business?
THE USUAL PROPAGANDA
"They pay taxes." The few pennies paid in sales tax on non-food
purchases don't change an illegal alien into an person deserving the
privileges of citizenship. The sales tax on his motel room and
restaurant meals paid by Mohammed Atta (leader of the 9/11 terrorists)
didn't make him a law-abiding, taxpaying American citizen. The same
applies to other illegal aliens.
Precisely what other taxes do they pay? Certainly not federal or state
income taxes; they claim enough dependents that their income tax
withholding is zero. Moreover, they file federal tax returns only to
claim the Earned Income Credit - given to taxpayers with children even
if they don't owe income taxes!
"They pay into Social Security even though they will never collect
benefits."
Q. How can that be since illegal aliens can't get a Social Security
number?
Answer #1 They're using forged Social Security cards, stealing someone
else's number. The increase in identity theft linked to illegal
immigration was recently reported by MSNBC. (1)
When I read that government officials have known of the problem for
years but refuse to notify affected citizens, I wondered if that's the
reason I receive an annual Earnings Statement (Form SSA 7705-SM-SI)
that asks me to verify its accuracy. and
Answer #2 They pay Social Security taxes only if they have a
"mainstream job" (defined as "a job Americans WILL do"). Here's another
example of illegal alien advocates contradicting their own propaganda.
When confronted with the much higher rates of public assistance for
immigrants vs. the native born, the return propaganda is:
"They may not contribute economically, but their contribution in
cultural diversity makes up for it" and "They are bringing their rich
culture."
Is this a cultural exchange or a "guest worker plan?" Why the attempt
to deceive the public by misrepresenting a "guest worker plan" (or an
amnesty) as a "cultural exchange program?"
"Our economy would be devastated without them" and "They make a
vital contribution to our economy"
"They add much more to the economy than they take away" and "They
contribute more than they get (in return)"
The High Cost of Cheap Labor: Illegal Immigration and the federal
budget by the Center for Immigration Studies buried this nonsense for
once and for all. (2) Even considering the Social Security "taxes"
illegals pay by stealing another American's Social Security number,
they still cost American taxpayers $10 billion every year in federal
expenses alone! That doesn't include state expenses: education, medical
care, welfare benefits (payments, housing, food stamps), jail costs,
and higher insurance premiums for law-abiding citizens!
For years, studies from pro-immigration groups "proved" this by lumping
legal immigrants and illegal aliens together. Because legal immigrants
tend to be better educated with better paying jobs, their numbers
concealed the negative economic "contribution" of the illegal aliens.
That myth died with the CIS study.
And don't forget two additional "costs"the CIS study didn't mention:
1) $311 billion in uncollected taxes cited by the Barron's Study (Part
4: Greedy Employers Need Amnesty, too!) (3)
2) $40 billion annually in remitted wages to home countries, according
to the best source imaginable - Western Union
WOULD THE US ECONOMY REALLY SUFFER WITHOUT THESE "INDUSTRIES?"
That illegal immigration and the presence of illegal aliens in the US
enables and sustains certain economic sectors is undeniable. That said,
what would be the loss should these two disappear entirely?
1) immigration lawyers' groups who support every proposed illegal alien
amnesty and
2) non-profit and "church" groups using government (i.e. taxpayers')
funds to provide "safety net assistance" for illegal aliens.
1) Immigration Lawyers. Immigration lawyers are almost as dependent on
illegal aliens as agriculture, although they won't admit it as openly.
When Congress passes an amnesty, immigration lawyers do a land-office
business. AILA (American Immigration Lawyers' Association) has
full-time Congressional lobby teams to influence immigration policy to
their benefit.
The AgJobs Amnesty program (S-1645, HR 3142) sponsored by Senator Larry
Craig & Congressman Chris Cannon gave preferential treatment to
applicants represented by attorneys. While pressure on 108th Congress
was heavy for passage, the Salt Lake Tribune revealed that, after
requiring applicants to use an attorney or designated entity for the
application process, the AgJOBS amnesty then allowed the illegal alien
access to public funds to pay the lawyers' fees. The reporter wrote
that Cannon allowed immigration lawyers access to the "AgJobs" drafting
process, as well as heavy contributions by non-Utah immigation lawyers
to Cannon's campaign. (4)(5)
But Congressman Cannon and Senator Craig weren't alone in writing
legislation to benefit immigration lawyers! The Jackpot Amnesty by
Senator Ted Kennedy and Congressman Gutierrez (S-2381, HR-4262) also
allowed illegal aliens to hire a lawyer to handle their amnesty at the
expense of American taxpayers.
So get rid of the lawyers. That idea didn't originate with me, by the
way; it's adapted it from Mr. Shakespeare's Henry VI (Part 2, Act 4,
Scene 2).
2) Non-profit "charities" receiving taxpayer funds. "Charities" long
ago stopped being agencies providing emergency help; they've now become
part of the socialistic agenda for redistributing income. In our naive
belief that US government agencies follow the "separation of church and
state" forced on us by the ACLU and similar allies, we never consider
that these "charities" are disguised government agencies. Yet talk to
"career" employees of non-profit/charities! You'll think you're dealing
with a government employee, and for good reason -both groups operate
with taxpayers' money. Like the immigration lawyers, they also use
taxpayers' money to pay for federal and state legislative lobbyists to
influence public lawmakers and policymakers.
The main difference is how their money is delivered. Government
agencies receive money directly from government budgets, while
"non-profits" receive their money largely from financial grants,
largely hidden from public accountability.
They range from the two local groups below to nationals like Catholic
Charities, USA, and even internationals. Most "government" money comes
from grants out of White House Cabinet Departments: Dept of Labor,
Health & Human Services, Education, Housing & Urban Development, and
even Justice Dept!
They'd like us to believe they operate on voluntary donations, but the
fact is that most depend heavily on government grants. Were they
limited to voluntary donations to fund their "outreach" programs to
illegal aliens (and others), I predict at least half would close.
Remaining charitable activities would be severely curtailed.
That there's no public debate justifying continued taxpayers' subsidies
to these groups is no surprise because the subsidies themselves are
carefully kept VERY "low profile." But unlike most so-called "economic
loss," elimination of these two parasitic groups would be a net gain to
every Ameican taxpayer.
Writing proposals for government grants is non-profit groups' bread and
butter. College students majoring in govenment will complete at least
one course in writing grant proposals from both government agencies and
private foundations.
Family values cross the Rio Grande'
A "caught red-handed" example was recently exposed by Terry Graham of
Colorado when she revealed that taxpayers' money and her state governor
aided and abetted illegal aliens (6). Two "non-profit" groups operating
with substantial government funding printed and distributed "Enterese!
(Inform Yourself), Survival Guide for Recent Arrivals to Colorado."
Signed by Colorado governor Bill Owens, the booklet (paper and online)
outlined how illegal aliens might obtain jobs, get free health care and
seek low-cost attorneys.
"Following the money" (i.e. their tax documents) for Salud Family
Health Centers and Focus Points Family Resources Center makes it
undeniable: our government is providing money to "non-profit/charities"
who use that money to help illegal aliens obtain more "services and
benefits" paid with taxpayers' money:
Focus Points Family Health Centers:
Total revenue of $431,835 - 56% from government grants
Plan de Salud del Valle (DBA Salud Family Health Centers):
Total revenue of $8,798,851- 98.7% from government grants
These two are among many "non-profits/charities" who knowingly recycle
American taxpayers' money into assistance to illegal aliens.
Volunteers during Arizona's Prop 200 campaign discovered another
example when the Roman Catholic bishops publicly opposed Prop 200, even
printing a "Vote NO on Prop 200" block in their parish newspaper
Catholic Vision. (7)
Catholic Community Services, Southern AZ:
Government Grants & Match Donations $18, 219,543 (73.5% of annual
budget)
Additional fees from immigration/adoption clients 4,025,853
Catholic Charities, Central & Northern AZ:
Government Grants $19,334,196 (84.6% of annual budget)
Additional Govt Grants--Immigrattion & Refugee** $ 3,036,574
Additional fees from Immigration & Adoption clients $ 638,150
**The "Big 5" non-profit immigrant advocates consistently lobby for
increases in refugee and legal immigrant numbers, just as military
contractors lobby for increased defense spending.
We know that one of two things is happening:
(1) The feds aren't aware that citizens' money provides assistance to
illegal aliens and Congress will act promptly to investigate and stop
it, prosecuting the groups violating the law, or
(2) The feds are aware that citizens' money provides assistance to
illegal aliens and have done nothing to stop the outrage but refuse to
prosecute the violators.
If #2 is true, aren't federal officials are tolerating violations of
their own laws by "aiding and abetting illegal aliens" (Title 8, United
States Code, Chapter 12, subchapter II, Section 1324)? In the same way
they refuse to prosecute immigration law violations?
So in stopping illegal immigration, we get the added bonus of
eliminating both immigration lawyers as well as an entire "industry" of
taxpayer-funded non-profit groups who promote a cause that 80%+ of "we
the people" oppose. Doesn't that qualify as a "win-win?".
OF COURSE IT'S NOT A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD!
It's hard to obtain an "official government" rationale and
justification for taxpyers' funding of benefits and services to illegal
aliens, because no one in government wants to address the direct
question. Instead they evade the question with "we didn't know"
excuses. The "non-profit/charities" have a different answer: "we don't
want to alienate people who need help with the fear of deportation."
Some even openly admit knowingly "aiding and abetting," such as Tom
Ziemann, director of Catholic Charities in Glenwood Springs, CO. (8)
The "Western Slope" area of Colorado includes the ski resorts where
illegal aliens' "cheap labor" is in great demand. Eliminating the "side
assistance" with the high living costs of resort area, the "cheap
labor" illegals might leave the area.
I'm convinced it's all part of the US government's balancing act in
transitioning the US to a "global economy." Government officials'
policy provides publicly-financed "corporate welfare" to keep just
enough American businesses afloat despite their obvious inability to
compete with businesses in "cheap production" countries. They also
hinder enforcment of immigration laws for the same reason.
Who in his/her right mind would think American business will
successfully complete with global manufacturers considering the
imbedded expenses American prices and wages must support:
a. the US military to send anywhere in the world to protect global
business interests.
b. international "giveaway" programs, both from the US and indirectly
via the UN.
c. "non-profits" like the charities above and "one-world" groups like
UN, NATO, SEATO, and the rest.
d. "corporate welfare" that shifts corporate tax responsibility to
citizens.
e. government acquisition of private property to aid business agendas.
How long will the US government continue the balancing act? Until
global business says they're satisfied with its acquisition of wealth
at the expense of Americans. Considering that they likely agree with
the late Duchess of Windsor's adage that "You can never be too rich or
too thin," it won't happen so long as a single American citizen owns
property or has a dollar beyond survival expenses.
WHO MADE THE "GLOBAL ECONOMY" DECISION?
Certainly not Americans. Like "mass immigration" decisions of Congress
since 1965, the "global economy" decision was made in private meeting
rooms by people not elected by "we the people." In some cases,
Americans wouldn't even recognize names of those dictating the policies
that govern their lives. Once the decisions were made "in the dark of
night," it was easy to convince US government officials to end public
debate on important topics and exclude Americans' from knowledge of
their political world.
Today's illegal immigration fiasco is only one example proving
Americans have trusted their elected representatives far too long.
We're being confronted with other nasty surprises that resulted from
global business control of the political world; 9/11 was only one of
many to come, and the Bush "guest worker amnesty" was another surprise.
We'll soon be faced with resumption of the military draft, sending
troops for additional "regime change," and FTAA.
Were these issues presented by either of the 2004 Presidential
candidates? Were they included on election platforms of either
political party?
In saving our country from the "global" agenda (of which mass
immigration is only one part), Americans should consider our own form
of "regime change." By seeking political allies in new places rather
than the traditional "Republican/Democrat" arena, because these parties
no longer serve Americans' interests.
~ Resources ~
(1) Bob Sullivan, The Secret List of ID theft victims, MSNBC, January
26 2005.
(2) The High Cost of Cheap Labor: Illegal Immigration and the federal
budget, Center for Immigration Studies, August 2004.
(3) Illegals estimated to number 18-20 million, WorldNet Daily, January
3 2005.
(4) Cannon drums on immigration despite voters, Salt Lake Tribune,
September 14 2004.
(5) Comparison of Various Selected Guest Worker and Amnesty Bills in
the 108th Congress, NumbersUSA.
(6) Bill Owens' Guide for Illegal Aliens: Cash In on Colorado!, January
29, 2005, VDARE.com.
(7) Bishop asks Catholics to vote "no" against immigration initiative,
Catholic Vision, October 2004, Volume 9, Number 14, page 9.
(8) Catholic Charities Clarification, Glenwood Springs Post
Independent, January 5 2005.
Wednesday: Part 10 - The "Jobs Americans won't do" Scam
~ About the author ~
S. J. Miller is a former veteran of the IT industry who sought another
career rather than "follow the jobs" abroad, and a lifelong resident of
border states, California, Texas, Arizona, and Nevada.
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