11 Articles Worth Reading
11 Articles Worth Reading
Date: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 9:53 AM
JOB DESTRUCTION NEWSLETTER
by Rob Sanchez
July 05, 2005 No. 1284
COMMENT FROM ROB: The American Job Bank will be used if the McCain/Kennedy amnesty bill is passed. President Bush has also suggested using the job bank in his proposed guest-worker bill. Employers will post job ads there for 30 days and if an American doesn't get hired the employer will be able to get a visa to import a foreign worker. Judging by the first article there are plenty of jobs Americans won't do, such as coding for $15 an hour.
You can see the job bank at:
http://www.ajb.dni.us/
Article 1:
http://news.com.com/2061-10788_3-5770608.html?tag=yt
30, 2005 3:26 PM PDT
Coding for $15 an hour?
Could a computer coding job paying just $15 per hour signal something's wrong with the tech world? That relatively measly amount is what's promised in an ad for a "ASP.NET Programmer" on the America's Job Bank site. The job, which calls for "at least 1 year's experience either in school, at work, or a combination of the two," is being offered by employment services company AppleOne, according to the ad.
Article 2:
http://mobile.thenewamerican.com/eu.html
Voters Reject EU Constitution
When the European Common Market was launched nearly 50 years ago, the peoples of Europe were told that it was principally a "free trade" pact. They were unaware that the architects of the scheme really intended for the Common Market to steadily evolve, gradually acquiring powers until it would become a supranational government. The European Union's governing elite are stunned by French and Dutch voters' rejection of the EU Constitution, but refuse to give up their globalist schemes. First, the French voters shouted a defiant "NON!" Then the Dutch yelled "NEE!" And now the Brits are lined up to roar a resounding "NO!"
Article 3:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/03/business/yourmoney/03advi.html
Cutting the Losses From Outsourcing
OUTSOURCING will inevitably eliminate many more American jobs, says Ron Hira, assistant professor of public policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. It's time for the federal government to take action to limit the damage, says Professor Hira, co-author with Anil Hira of "Outsourcing America: What's Behind Our National Crisis and How We Can Reclaim American Jobs"
Article 4:
http://www.northernexpress.com/editorial/opinions.asp?id=1295
The Jobs Americans Won't Do
Mexican President Vicente Fox has been scolded for declaring that Mexicans do jobs that "even blacks wont do." Curiously, nary a whimper is heard when President Bush insults all citizens by referring to "Jobs Americans Wont Do." Before the Civil War, John C. Calhouns views on the equality of human beings were nurtured with a mint julep on the veranda of a southern plantation. This leading North Carolina senator, and presidential hopeful, had a splendid panoramic view of the jobs that Americans wouldnt do. In spirited debates, Senator Calhoun became a voice for the South in perpetuating the institution
of slavery.
Article 5:
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB112052870627477026-IVjfINglad4oZuqaYCGaqqGm4,00.html
Need Help With Calculus?
Tutors Coach U.S. Students Online -- From India
Enter the next phase of outsourcing: online math education. Not only does the U.S. increasingly lag behind other countries on international math scores, it's also short of qualified math teachers.
Article 6:
http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=4466
US lawmakers discuss problems of Indians in US
Washington: A group of US lawmakers have promised to address the issues faced by the Indian community in the US and improve their lives while bettering bilateral relations between the two countries. Congresswoman Ilena Ros-Lehtinen, the Co-Chair of the Congressional Caucus on India and Indian Americans said she would work towards advancing relations with India and help improve the lives of Indians in the US. Another Congressman Howard Berman, a Democrat, the ranking member of the House Judiciary committee and an expert on immigration laws indicated that his committee had raised the quota of H-1B visas granted to individuals.
Article 7:
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/privacy/story/0,10801,102798,00.html?source=NLT_AM&nid=102798
I'm innocent, says Indian in U.K. bank data scandal
Karan Bahree denied wrongdoing in a statement to his employer
An Indian computer worker accused of selling the bank details of more than 1,000 people to a British newspaper said a friend asked him to give a CD to a Briton to earn extra money but he had no idea of its contents.
Article 8:
http://www.indiapost.com/members/story.php?story_id=4913
Dr Shivangi appointed Advisor to Secretary of Health
Indian physician Dr Sampat Shivangi has been appointed Advisor to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, according to a Bush Administration announcement. He has lobbied President George W. Bush personally using every opportunity whenever he met with him, to push the issues of tort reform, and the H1 B and J1 visa issue for physicians from India training in the US.
Article 9:
http://www.edn.com/article/CA529820.html?ref=nbcs&
No shortage of 'engineering shortage' talk
You can't pick up a magazine or paper, or look at a news and commentary Web site, without seeing knowledgeable people bemoaning the "engineering shortage." No doubt there is a shortage of engineers -- if you define an engineer as someone who has two to five years of experience in the latest technologies, boasts finely honed skills, and is willing to work long hours and solve complex problems for moderate pay and limited recognition. There is also a shortage of gold at $30 per ounce, but far less of a shortage at $500 per ounce.
Article 10:
http://money.cnn.com/2005/06/24/news/fortune500/ibm_india/index.htm?cnn=yes
As IBM cuts in U.S., it hires in India
Report: Big Blue plans to bring on 14,000 Indian workers as it proceeds with U.S., European layoffs.
IBM is planning to hire more than 14,000 new workers in India this year, even as the company proceeds with layoffs of up to 13,000 workers in Europe and the United States, the New York Times reported Friday, citing an internal company document. IBM (Research) Senior Vice President Robert Moffat, in an interview with the newspaper, said the move is not entirely about cost saving. "People who say this is simply labor arbitrage don't get it. It's mostly about skills," Moffat was quoted as saying.
Article 11:
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/cgi-bin/showarticle.pl?articleID=1313&terms
Career Destruction Sites Is What U.S. Colleges Have Become
In summary, many institutions of higher education have been transformed into supply nodes for "fresh (inexpensive) young blood," so that more experienced American citizens may be permanently displaced from their technology-based positions.
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June 30, 2005 3:26 PM PDT
Coding for $15 an hour?
Could a computer coding job paying just $15 per hour signal something's wrong with the tech world?
That relatively measly amount is what's promised in an ad for a "ASP.NET Programmer" on the America's Job Bank site. The job, which calls for "at least 1 year's experience either in school, at work, or a combination of the two," is being offered by employment services company AppleOne, according to the ad.
$15 per hour for a computer programmer makes the position fall below the 10th percentile for the programming occupation both nationally and in California, where the job is said to be located. It's less than what some security guards make.
And it has Kim Berry, president of the Programmers Guild advocacy group, steamed about the way domestic techies have to compete with a greater number of foreign workers. A $15-per-hour coding gig doesn't jibe with the recent expansion of the H-1B guest worker visa program, Berry argued in an email Thursday.
"(Department of Labor) and Congress--under the law of supply and demand, aren't wages supposed to go up when there is a shortage?" Berry wrote. "And if there is not a shortage, why did you recently increase the H-1B quota by another 20,000 foreign workers per year?"
To be fair, one defense of H-1B visas is not linked directly to a shortage of workers. Harris Miller, president of the Information Technology Association of America, has argued that the visas give U.S. companies important access to international talent as they compete globally.
Even so, the ad's wage does make one wonder if guest worker visas and the rise of offshoring are undermining U.S. tech careers--and by extension threatening the country's tech leadership.
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Vol. 21, No. 13
June 27, 2005
Voters Reject EU Constitution
by William F. Jasper
The European Union's governing elite are stunned by French and Dutch voters' rejection of the EU Constitution, but refuse to give up their globalist schemes.
First, the French voters shouted a defiant "NON!" Then the Dutch yelled "NEE!" And now the Brits are lined up to roar a resounding "NO!" The ruling classes of the European Union - the politicians, the media commentators and editors, the academicians, the corporate globalists - are astonished and dazed at their defeat on the proposed constitution for the EU. A year ago the conventional wisdom was that of the 25 EU member nations only the stubborn British might fail to ratify the document.
But on May 29, French voters sent a thunderbolt crashing into the Eurocrats' unification schemes, with 55 percent voting thumbs down on the new constitution. Three days later, on June 1, voters in Holland sent an even more thunderous message. With a 63 percent turnout that exceeded all projections, the Dutch rejected the constitution by a margin of 62 percent to 38 percent.
The French and Dutch votes are all the more remarkable for two very important reasons: Even though the leading politicians, major parties, and principal media organs in both countries solidly backed a "Yes" vote, the people defiantly and adamantly said "No!" And France and the Netherlands, as two of the six original members that launched the Common Market (which became the EU), have been considered to be among the most "Eurocentric" of the EU member states.
Every one of the 25 countries of the EU must ratify the constitution before it can go into effect. So, it would appear that the EU constitution is dead, right? Indeed, many already have written its obituary. "The French people have given a huge smack in the face to an entire system that has the nerve to tell us what to think," said France's leading "No" campaigner Philippe de Villiers. "The constitution is no more."
After the Dutch vote, Liam Fox, Britain's shadow foreign secretary from the opposition Tory Party was even more emphatic, declaring: "The French voters gave the constitution its death sentence. The Dutch voters have now dealt a fatal blow. The constitution is dead."
"Yes" Means Yes, "No" Means Revote
Others are more cautious about declaring final victory. Jeffrey Titford of the United Kingdom Independence Party and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) warns that the constitution "certainly isn't dead yet." "[The French rejection] is a step in the right direction for those of us who believe that Europe's nations should be independent and self-governing," Titford said. "However," he also noted, "it is highly doubtful whether the architects of the European empire will respect the wishes of the French voters. Sadly, history has shown us that in referendums on EU issues, 'no' does not necessarily mean no. This particular battle has been won but the war itself goes on. The Constitution certainly isn't dead yet...."
Like the vampire in a B-grade horror movie that keeps returning because it hasn't yet had a stake driven through its heart, the EU Constitution will return again. Jean-Claude Juncker, prime minister of Luxembourg and holder of the rotating EU presidency, suggested that the French could be asked to vote again. "We would have to wait for the end of the ratification process," he told the Belgian daily Le Soir on May 25. "If at the end of it, we don't manage to solve the problems, the countries that have said 'no' should ask themselves the question again."
Shortly before the French vote, with opinion polls showing his pet project headed for defeat, Valery Giscard d'Estaing, the former French president and the principal architect of the constitution, addressed the issue about what happens if France or another EU country rejects the constitution. "Those who did not vote for the Constitution, we will ask them to revote," Giscard d'Estaing told France's LCI television.
This revote proposal was echoed by Peter Mandelson, Britain's member of the European Commission, the EU's executive body. Concerning the prospect of a revote, Mandelson said: "I don't think that would be absurd because we would be asking the French people to reflect, to hear the argument or the debate in the rest of Europe and then to have a second opportunity to give their verdict again."
As Michael Settle, chief political correspondent for The Herald, notes, these statements exemplify the "imperious" and hypocritical attitude of the "Brussels elite" that has fueled much of the current hostility toward the EU and the proposed constitution. "Of course, if the French had voted 'Yes' last night, then a revote would have been unthinkable," Mr. Settle wrote, "because, according to the Brussels elite, they would have made the correct decision. It's democracy but not as we know it."
A revote on the constitution would not be the first experience Europeans have had with Brussels-style democracy. In 1992, for instance, Danish voters turned thumbs down on the Maastricht Treaty, one of the most important agreements for transforming the Common Market into the European Union. Among other things, Maastricht gave Brussels vast new powers over foreign, defense, and economic policies, including the creation of a single currency (the euro) and a European central bank. The next year, however, the Danes were confronted with a revote and, caving to an onslaught of threats, promises, and propaganda, adopted Maastricht.
The Brussels elite pulled off a similar coup with the Irish over the Nice Treaty, a primary feature of which expanded the EU from 15 to 25 members. After rejecting the treaty in 2001, the Irish ratified the treaty in a 2002 revote. Supporters of the EU constitution have cited the Danish and Irish precedents as justification for a revote in France and Holland. However, this only seems to be helping the EU opponents, who also have been citing the Danish and Irish experiences to remind voters of the arrogance and hypocrisy of the pro-EU politicians and the EU bureaucrats, as well as to underscore the point that "democracy," in the EU lexicon, means voting and revoting until the voters give the only verdict acceptable to Brussels.
Revolt Against the Power Elite
The French and Dutch votes against the EU Constitution may have a snowball effect. It could fuel "No" votes in Denmark and the Czech Republic, and already has sparked calls in Sweden that the issue be submitted to a referendum, rather than being voted on by the parliament, as has been done in most EU countries. Prior to the French vote, only Spain had submitted the constitution to a popular vote. The pro-EU camp portrayed the Spanish "Yes" vote in February as a massive victory for the further "integration" of Europe. However, the Spanish vote was far from a massive victory, and it revealed much of the dark side of EU-style "democracy."
The "Yes" vote materialized in Spain, but not in France and the Netherlands, because of bribery - a crucial policy tool of the EU Power Elite. Spain has received the equivalent of more than 93 billion euros in EU aid since joining the Common Market in 1986. These massive transfers have financed Spain's "economic miracle," transforming it into one of the continent's fastest growing economies. Spaniards, of course, have benefited materially from these transfers - at the expense of their northern neighbors who have footed the bill. In addition, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero spent vast sums of political and economic capital in a mammoth propaganda campaign that employed movie stars, rock stars, sports stars, as well as a non-stop barrage of daily chatterings by the political and media elite.
President Chirac was expecting and hoping for a comfortable "Yes" vote when he scheduled the French referendum. He was not required to hold one, but he apparently thought that this would enhance his political stature. He could not have been more wrong. The stunning "No" vote has been seen by virtually all analysts (and rightly so) as a resounding repudiation of the Chirac government, which has pushed relentlessly for unbridled EU centralization and full political and economic integration. Although Chirac refused to resign, as called for by voices across the political spectrum, he did feel compelled to sack his prime minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, who had helped lead the "Yes" campaign.
When it became apparent that the referendum was going to go badly against him, Chirac took a page from the Zapatero playbook: the celebrity card. Team Chirac brought in actors Girard Depardieu and Jeanne Moreau, along with pop singers Johnny Hallyday and Frangoise Hardy, as well as other entertainment and sports celebrities to prod their fellow French citizens into embracing the EU Constitution. Realizing he needed even more help, he brought German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, Polish President Alexander Kwasniewski, and Spanish Prime Minister Zapatero to join the campaign.
With opinion polls showing the constitution still going down to defeat, the "Yes" campaign became even more desperate and strident, saturating the print and broadcast media with editorials and "news" reports on the dire consequences of a "No" vote. French voters were bombarded with messages suggesting that a "No" vote would be a vote for racism, fascism, and xenophobia.
But the heavy-handed bludgeoning and the obvious unfairness (and probable criminality) involved in using EU personnel and funds to foist this program on French voters ultimately backfired. It served to emphatically underscore the fact that despite all the talk from Brussels about "transparency" and "reform," the Eurocrats were as determined as ever to force their will upon "the people" they claim to serve.
Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, came to New York on May 13 to deliver a talk to America's ruling elite at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). "We are doing everything we can to get that ratification in France," Barroso told his fellow one-worlders. This was a stark admission that merely confirmed what was apparent to most voters. The Eurocrats, who are not supposed to have any say in national elections and referendums, were "doing everything" they could to pass a constitution that would grant themselves vast new powers. And they were using money provided by French taxpayers to convince those same taxpayers that more and more of their spending and tax policies should be dictated from Brussels.
This imperious attitude, as expressed by Barroso, Chirac, Giscard d'Estaing, and other EU power brokers only served to reopen the charges of elitism, corruption, deception, and power grabbing that had surrounded the Constitutional Convention that drafted the proposed new EU constitution. That convocation was a closed, secret affair, in which the "Presidium," headed by Giscard d'Estaing, constructed the new governing system that they intend to foist on Europeans - whether they want it or not. The convocation disregarded completely the wishes of member states, refusing to discuss or consider the amendments they proposed.
Not a single Euroskeptic or Eurorealist (as opponents of EU integration and expansion are often called) including elected members of parliaments, was allowed to observe or participate in the work of creating the constitution. The monstrosity that came out of this process is a hopelessly complex and dangerous document that would put the final nail in the coffin for independence and national sovereignty in Europe and sweep away all remaining restraints against the assumption of total power by the EU institutions.
What the Fuss Is About
Numerous reports note that many French "No" votes came from socialists, Communists, and other leftists who opposed the EU Constitution out of fear that it would allow Brussels to impose "free trade and free market" policies and dismantle France's generous welfare state programs. Likewise, leftists in Holland voiced their fears that the EU would change their liberal policies on government social spending, legalized drugs, and strong environmental restrictions.
A leading concern on the right and in the middle is the growing influx of immigrants - both legal and illegal - from Eastern Europe, and even more especially, from Muslim countries. The migration invasion, which has already reached the crisis point under the present EU setup, would be made far worse - and set in stone - under the EU constitution. It will be next to impossible for the nation states to take back control of their borders if that function is formally transferred to Brussels.
EU countries already harbor an estimated 20 million Muslims, and their numbers are growing rapidly. Mosques have sprouted up in almost every city, and burgeoning Muslim populations are creating serious social, political, and security concerns. The brutal murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh by a Moroccan Muslim in November 2004 was still very fresh on the minds of many Dutch voters. Van Gogh was very publicly stabbed, slashed, and shot to death in broad daylight on an Amsterdam street in retaliation for producing a movie criticizing the treatment of women in Islamic society.
The Muslim problem will only get worse if Turkey is admitted into the Union, a major agenda item of the EU elite. Talks on moving Turkey's accession forward are scheduled for this October. With a population of 80 million Muslims, most of whom are very poor by European standards, Turkey's membership in the EU would allow it to send millions, if not tens of millions, of new emigrants into Western Europe. As new citizens of an integrated EU, Turks would be free to move, live, and work wherever they please. Even many European liberals and socialists recognize that this would be not only insane, but suicidal.
The loss of control over their own borders and immigration policy is being acutely felt throughout the EU as more and more Czechs, Poles, Hungarians, and Slovenians move west in search of work and welfare and medical benefits. Many commentators attributed much of the French "No" vote to fear by French workers of the "Polish plumber," a term referring to the flood of cheap immigrant labor from the former Soviet bloc that is displacing French workers. Another flood of immigrant labor will be unleashed when Bulgaria and Romania are admitted to the EU in 2007. And Ukraine may not be far behind them.
How much of the "No" vote in France and Holland came from the left and how much from the right is uncertain, but underlying all of the disparate concerns of the various opposing groups is the core issue of national sovereignty. Whether the issue is immigration, environment, farm policy, welfare, labor policy, or dozens of other issues, a growing number of Europeans from across the political spectrum are opposing efforts to transfer authority over these matters to the arrogant elites in Brussels.
The strongest opposition to this centralizing movement has come from Britain, where Prime Minister Tony Blair has been presented with a conundrum. The French and Dutch votes only served to further energize the British Eurosceptic forces. Blair has signed onto the constitution and for the past year has been trying to sell it to voters with the claim that he has won many concessions to make it more Anglo-Saxon friendly. Blair and the pro-EU camp in England had been arguing that British rejection of the EU Constitution would isolate England and ultimately hurt it economically. But Britain, which has refused to adopt the euro and has opted out of other EU provisions, has prospered, while France, Germany, and other EU countries have stagnated economically. And now, with France and Holland opting out of the EU Constitution, Blair can't use the argument that England will be an isolated spoiler if it rejects the pact. According to British press reports, Blair has worked out a secret deal with members of Parliament to vote against the constitution so that he can renege on his earlier promises to hold a referendum. A referendum would almost certainly end with a very strong "No" vote, and in Blair's view a strong public rejection of the EU would be harder to override at a future date than a rejection by Parliament.
Piecemeal Strategy
Europe's power elite have invested decades in building the European Union and are not about to back away from their plans, despite public opposition. They will employ a strategy to get around the road block caused by the French and Dutch votes. Their course of action may be decided at the meeting of the European Council in Brussels on June 16 and 17.
Most likely, they will emerge with a plan to proceed with attempts to enact and implement much of the EU Constitution piecemeal, while perhaps simultaneously proceeding with ratification efforts in the remaining member states. In the meantime the EU will continue to be governed under the complicated hodgepodge of treaties that have been ratified over the decades. That includes 97,000 pages of EU legislation, regulation, and court decisions known as the acquis communautaire.
The piecemeal approach has been suggested by a number of the EU elite. Charles Grant, director of the Center for European Reform in London, told the International Herald Tribune that one way to get around obstruction by the voters "would be for leaders to select key points of the document and adopt them without a referendum." Mr. Grant, who wrote an article for the CFR journal Foreign Affairs outlining various strategies to overcome the "No" vote, does not seem to have any aversion to doing things "on the sly," as he puts it. "Politically it would be a hard sell to make changes like this on the sly after losing a referendum," Grant told the Tribune. "But it would be one quick and temporary fix."
President Barroso, in his speech to the CFR, gave a hint as to a secret trap door that Giscard d'Estaing's crew had conveniently placed into the proposed constitution, apparently to handle this very type of contingency. Seeking to assure his fellow globalists that all would not be lost if one or more countries reject the constitution, Barroso said: "What I can tell you, not to leave you unhappy, is that there is a declaration annexed to the treaty ... that says that in case ... not all member states ratify the constitution, the matter is referred to the European Council, to the summit of the European Union, that will address the issue. But I cannot say more than that at this stage."
What Mr. Barroso was referring to is Declaration 30 of the constitution on ratification, which provides that "if, two years after the signature of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe, four-fifths of the Member States have ratified it and one or more Member States have encountered difficulties in proceeding with ratification, the matter will be referred to the European Council."
Having now "encountered difficulties," the European Council is free to come up with inventive solutions, such as changing whatever rules may be hindering progress toward further integration and what the elite determine is "good for Europe." One of their problems will be that every step to change the rules to enact the constitution "on the sly" will certainly alienate even more constituents and increase the numbers of Euroskeptics who realize that the EU is unreformable. The only hope that EU member states can have for salvaging any semblance of self-rule and independence is to withdraw from the EU entirely. The French and Dutch votes were a step in the right direction, but pro-independence forces have a long, uphill road before them.
CAFTA/FTAA and the EU
By WIllian F. Jasper
When the European Common Market was launched nearly 50 years ago, the peoples of Europe were told that it was principally a "free trade" pact. They were unaware that the architects of the scheme really intended for the Common Market to steadily evolve, gradually acquiring powers until it would become a supranational government.
As the Common Market evolved into the European Union, the EU's institutions and bureaucrats in Brussels usurped more and more powers. Adoption of the EU constitution would codify a vast transfer of remaining legislative, executive, and judicial powers from the nation states to the EU. Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos happily admits that the EU constitution amounts to a death warrant for the 25 member states. He stated: "We are witnessing the last remnants of national politics. The member states have already relinquished control of justice, liberty and security. The concept of traditional citizenship has been bypassed in the 21st Century."
Many Europeans who are now desperately trying to disentangle their countries from this morass wish they had acted sooner, before they had gone so far into the trap. The architects of NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), CAFTA (Central American Free Trade Agreement), and FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas) intend to follow the same path as the EU, pushing for full "integration" of the 34 countries of the Western Hemisphere, but on an accelerated timetable. EU leaders are very much involved in this process, providing massive funding to the CAFTA/FTAA process, supplying expertise at FTAA and Latin American conferences, and establishing formal ties and offices with Latin American countries and the central institutions of the FTAA: the Organization of American States, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the United Nations Economic Commission on Latin America.
The EU is becoming increasingly oppressive and socialistic, and is fast on its way to becoming what Mikhail Gorbachev has approvingly called "the new European Soviet." If America is to retain its freedom and independence and not follow the EU Soviet example, we must make sure that Congress rejects both CAFTA and FTAA.
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The New York TimesJuly 3, 2005
Cutting the Losses From Outsourcing
By WILLIAM J. HOLSTEIN
OUTSOURCING will inevitably eliminate many more American jobs, says Ron Hira, assistant professor of public policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
It's time for the federal government to take action to limit the damage, says Professor Hira, co-author with Anil Hira of "Outsourcing America: What's Behind Our National Crisis and How We Can Reclaim American Jobs" (American Management Association, $22). Here are excerpts from a conversation.
Q. Will more jobs be lost offshore?
A. We're just at the beginning of this trend, particularly in the services area. The manufacturing sector is much more mature, but in the services area we're just scratching the surface.
Q. What jobs are likely to move next?
A. Information technology jobs and call-centers jobs were the first movers. Now it's snowballing in industries that are information intensive. Companies in insurance and financial services, in particular, have seen that I.T. operations can be successfully offshored. Because of that, they're beginning to think about types of other jobs like claims processing or financial analysis. We're also seeing it in engineering and design.
Q. How can this trend be stopped?
A. There's nothing that can be done to stop it. The question is, how do we adapt to it and deal with the negative effects? Nobody has done anything on the policy front. We've more or less ignored it. We need to take some steps to deal with this new reality.
Some steps are pretty much no-brainers, like extending trade-adjustment assistance to service workers. If you lose your job in manufacturing because of trade, you get extended unemployment insurance. You get training and health benefits so that you can "adjust," as economists put it - so that you can find a new job in a different occupation. We do that for manufacturing workers, although the plan is underfunded, but we don't do it for service workers. Congress decided to kill that bill last year, and the reason was that we couldn't afford it, which is
surprising.
Q. How well do retraining efforts work?
A. Most people think retraining doesn't work very well. We need to start experimenting with free training programs right away because there is a new class of workers who are being displaced. They are no longer blue-collar workers. These workers have degrees, sometimes advanced degrees, in computer science or engineering.
Over the longer term, we need basic things like gathering some data. The Department of Commerce spent $335,000 to do one outsourcing study, and that hasn't been released yet. When the government spends almost $1 trillion a year, it's pretty surprising they can't come up with more money to study this problem.
Q. Should companies face penalties for eliminating jobs?
A. There's a reasonable case to be made to extend the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act to these situations. The idea is to give some advance notification to workers that they're going to be laid off. That gives those workers enough time to begin the adjustment process. Companies don't like this. It's in their self-interest to keep it secret until the end. Companies would look at extending the WARN Act as a penalty. I would look at that as smart economics.
Q. You suggest that in some ways the government actually encourages the outsourcing of jobs. How?
A. One policy that was part of the presidential campaign last year was about tax deferrals that companies got for expanding offshore operations. Companies are able to defer their taxes on profits that are earned offshore as long as they don't repatriate those profits. What Senator John Kerry was proposing, and companies have been lobbying for, was to get a moratorium, or a holiday, for one year to bring those profits back in. Kerry wanted that as a quid pro quo for eliminating the policy. There was $600 billion involved, according to J. P. Morgan. Companies not only got the moratorium but they also got the deferral back in. So the perverse incentive is already back in place. In a few years, they'll say: "We have another $500 billion overseas. Why don't you give us a tax break for a year?" This game will go on.
Q. How else does the government encourage outsourcing?
A. You've got programs like the H-1B visa. The intent of the program is, when you can't find American workers, you bring in highly skilled foreign workers who work on temporary visas. They can stay up to six years. The way it's been used traditionally is as a bridge to immigration. You capture the best and the brightest, and they become
permanent residents.
Unfortunately, some businesses have started using this in a different way. They're using it as a purely temporary means to bring in rank-and-file employees who will work for less money. They're not even bothering looking for American workers. This is pretty rampant in the I.T. sector in particular. Those workers then gain experience in the U.S. on the latest technologies, interfacing with customers, and then they are able to take that back to their home country.
Q. How can this situation be corrected?
A. The main thing is to ensure that American companies are looking for American workers first. That's the way Congress believes the program works, but more and more it doesn't.
William J. Holstein is editor in chief of Chief Executive magazine.
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The Jobs Americans Won't Do
John F. Rohe
Mexican President Vicente Fox has been scolded for declaring that Mexicans do jobs that "even blacks wont do." Curiously, nary a whimper is heard when President Bush insults all citizens by referring to "Jobs Americans Wont Do."
Before the Civil War, John C. Calhouns views on the equality of human beings were nurtured with a mint julep on the veranda of a southern plantation. This leading North Carolina senator, and presidential hopeful, had a splendid panoramic view of the jobs that Americans wouldnt do. In spirited debates, Senator Calhoun became a voice for the South in perpetuating the institution
of slavery.
By 1860, however, Hinton Helpers best selling book, "The Impending Crisis," demonstrated that slavery benefitted neither whites nor blacks. By spurning jobs that Americans wont do, Southern whites became detrimentally dependent upon others. In the South, Hinton Helper observed: "We want Bibles, brooms, buckets and books, and we go to the North; ... we want toys, primers, school books, fashionable apparel, machinery, medicines, tombstones, and a thousand other things, and we go to the North for them all."
When cotton was king, the South believed it could comfortably rise above the "jobs Americans wont do." The pretentious image was supported by an illusion. Hinton Helpers book sold well in the North, but pervasive illiteracy among blacks and working class whites stifled book sales in slave trading states.
The slogan, "Jobs Americans wont do," has now emerged as the presidential mantra for importing more foreign labor. The leader of the free world offers an assurance that Americans have graduated to a better life. There is a curious appeal to self-referential pride in the slogan, but it comes with all the trappings of Calhouns mint juleped view from the veranda.
Who, actually, is unwilling to do "the jobs Americans wont do"? Has picking up after ourselves fallen beneath our dignity? Has caring for others lost appeal? Are we no longer interested in cooking? Are our sons and daughters no longer willing to work their way through college? How do these jobs get done in areas with low-immigrant populations? Harry Truman once professed that no one should have to wash anyone elses socks and underwear. Truman washed his own.
Who is claiming that we wont do these jobs? Do they have contempt for calloused hands? Is the unemployed American refusing to do these jobs? Or is this appeal to our sense of dignity and pride actually a disguised corporate quest for cheap labor?
The illiterate slave drivers disdainful view of inferior beings became a sad disillusion. Yet, this view is inherent in the Presidents proclamation that the "jobs
Americans wont do" will be
offered to the lowest bidder in a global job fair.
What is the Presidents mental image of "jobs Americans wont do"? Hes not claiming the jobs are unnecessary. Rather, he is pointing out that we need not perform them. Then who will? People looking different than us? Has the President been sipping mint juleps with Sen. Calhoun?
What are the jobs that
Americans wont do? Doing laundry? Making beds? Milking cows? Picking up the garbage? If this is a job that only immigrants will do, then Los Angeles should be spotless, and trash should be gathering on the streets in low-immigrant northern communities.
In fact, Americans do these jobs. Americans do these jobs with pride. Americans have thrived on these jobs over the centuries. The Americans doing these jobs dont look any different. They wear the face of America. They do not shrink from work. Americans just resist enslaved wages and indecent working
conditions. The soul of America is still found in our commitment to a work ethic. A presidential slogan to the contrary offends the soul of America.
If we hope to restore dignity to labor, then we need to honor it with a living wage. Flooding the job market with cheap labor forces a debate over the minimum wage. Congress has not repealed the law of supply and demand.
The "jobs Americans wont do" adage seems innocuous on its face, but it carries a hefty price tag. Wordsworth reminds us that by "Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers." By laying waste our powers, we become the enslaved, much like the disillusioned illiterate white Southerner of 1850.
The Presidents slogan is an invitation to join him on Sen. Calhouns veranda. Mint julep anyone?
Petoskey attorney John F. Rohe is a member of the board of directors of the Federation for American Immigration Reform.
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Need Help With Calculus?
Tutors Coach U.S. Students
Online -- From India
By CRIS PRYSTAY
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
July 5, 2005; Page A11
NEW DELHI -- Tanu Basu lives in Boston, but when she wants extra coaching in math, the 16-year-old American gets online and spends an hour reviewing calculus with an Indian teacher who is based in a suburb of this teeming metropolis.
"It's great. I can log in on my free time, whenever I want," says Ms. Basu. "Sometimes my tutor has to explain something four times, and I just feel I'm this dumb person on the other side of the world, and he's all 'No, that's OK.' "
Enter the next phase of outsourcing: online math education. Not only does the U.S. increasingly lag behind other countries on international math scores, it's also short of qualified math teachers. This could make it tough for America to improve its grade and retain the competitive edge that keeps good jobs at home.
Into the breach step a handful of Indian companies like Career Launcher India Ltd., which provide math tutoring through two U.S. online tutoring companies and directly to students like Ms. Basu.
These tutoring services have found a business opportunity: American 15-year-olds ranked 24th among 29 industrialized countries in a study of math skills released last year by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Plus, as school enrollment surges and baby boomers retire, the U.S. faces a teacher shortage, particularly in math and sciences. Nearly 40% of U.S. high schools reported difficulty filling math openings this year with qualified instructors, according to the American Association of Employment in Education.
Career Launcher's software allows teachers and students to talk to each other during the live session. Teachers also use a tablet PC to draw diagrams and formulas to help explain the lesson or answer questions. They can see each other through a live feed using a Web camera.
The company started in 1995 as a tutoring service and now helps more than 30,000 Indian students. Most are teenagers who turn to Career Launcher to help cram for entrance exams for the country's prestigious engineering schools. In 2000, Intel Capital, a venture-capital arm of Intel Corp. took a stake in Career Launcher valued at just under $1 million. Around the same time, Career Launcher started marketing its services in the Middle East, targeting the children of expatriate Indian professionals who flock to the region for work. The company tutors close to 20,000 students there -- with a large portion of its business in the United Arab Emirates.
In 2003, Career Launcher founder Satya Narayanan struck a deal with a U.S.-based online tutoring company, and eight months ago, signed up with a second one. (Both require Career Launcher to keep their names private under terms of the contract.) Teachers now coach students throughout New Delhi's day and night.
Career Launcher has taught about 800 U.S. students online in the past 10 months. About 50 of those signed up directly after finding Career Launcher in an Internet search; the rest are outsourced by the two companies it works with. Career Launcher now plans to market itself more aggressively in the U.S., in part by revamping its Web site. It's oriented toward students in India, and it will be redesigned to show students that the company is able to teach to U.S. curricula and help them prep for college entrance exams.
Career Launcher charges between $20 and $30 an hour, with rates rising for more complex material, on par with U.S. companies like tutor.com and E-Sylvan.com. Career Launcher says it doesn't see itself as a cut-rate competitor to U.S. tutoring companies. "We want to be seen as a higher-quality product, not a cheaper, outsourced option," says Anirudh Phadke, Career Launcher's business-development director.
Another big Indian tutoring company, Educomp Datamatics, plans to roll out similar services in the U.S. this year with a site called Mentoraide.com. Educomp also creates educational software for classrooms and recently completed a pilot program with a California science class.
Tutor.com says it's not worried about competition from India. "Online tutoring, as a fairly nascent industry, has so much potential to reach many more students than it does now," says Chief Executive George Cigale. The company tutors about 3,000 students each night, about half of them in math.
Most of Mr. Satya's 300 tutors don't have education degrees, but they all have a bachelor's degree, mainly in math or physics from Indian universities. Many also have graduate degrees. He pays $8 to $10 an hour -- a fortune in India. The pay has created demand among younger graduates for the jobs -- the staff is mostly in their 20s and 30s.
Career Launcher recently began offering online tutoring to U.S. college students for $35 an hour -- which is more costly than many U.S. online services. "You find very few companies offering college-level tutoring because of the lack of teachers," says Mr. Phadke. "But here in India, we have so many Ph.D.s and people doing doctorates, so we think we can actually charge a premium."
At a small office building in Okla, about an hour outside New Delhi, six tutors chat into microphones to students in the Middle East at 10 p.m. A pair of cows hunker down for the night on a dusty curb outside. Swati Chopra, 23 years old, wraps up a session with a student in Dubai, then waits to see whether another student logs on for a session. Ms. Chopra, who has a master's degree in commerce, taught accounting at a local college for 18 months before joining Career Launcher last year. She works later into the evening than at her previous job, but the pay is better and the technology makes it exciting, she says. "I really enjoyed learning to teach over the Internet," she says.
Ms. Basu, who is Indian but was born in the U.S., says she was initially hesitant about using a tutor in India. "Would they know my curriculum? Would they understand my accent? Would they even speak my language?" says Ms. Basu, a straight-A student who joined group tutoring sessions during the summer for advanced coaching. Now she uses just online tutors. "It's been a great experience," she says. "I've really had a lot of fun with my teachers in India."
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http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=4466
Posted on 02 July, 2005
US lawmakers discuss problems of Indians in US
Washington: A group of US lawmakers have promised to address the issues faced by the Indian community in the US and improve their lives while bettering bilateral relations between the two countries.
At a reception organised by national organisations of Indians in Capitol Hill recently, the lawmakers said they would help resolve problems faced by Indians in immigration and visa, health insurance for employees of small business owners, health care reforms, franchising laws and civil rights.
Congresswoman Ilena Ros-Lehtinen, the Co-Chair of the Congressional Caucus on India and Indian Americans said she would work towards advancing relations with India and help improve the lives of Indians in the US.
Another Congressman Howard Berman, a Democrat, the ranking member of the House Judiciary committee and an expert on immigration laws indicated that his committee had raised the quota of H-1B visas granted to individuals. He said he would continue to fight for fair and equitable immigration policies. He also indicated that as a member of the India Caucus, he has and will continue to work with the community.
Berman's colleague Frank Pallone, the founder of the India Caucus, reiterated his criticism of the Bush administration's decision to sell F-16 planes to Pakistan.
Other lawmakers who attended the event included, Congressmen Christopher Shays, Steny Hoyer, Darrell Issa, Rush Holt, Bob Filner, Brad Sherman, Joe Wilson, Thadeous McCotter, and Jim Moran apart from Indian American Congressmen Bobby Jindal.
The Indian American Forum for Political Education, the National Federation of Indian American Associations, the Association of Indians in America, the Global Organisation of People of Indian Origin, the American Association of Physicians from India, and the Indian Diamond and Colorstone Association joined hands in sponsoring the event and pledged to continue to work together on an agenda of common interest.
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http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/privacy/story/0,10801,102798,00.html?source=NLT_AM&nid=102798
I'm innocent, says Indian in U.K. bank data scandal
Karan Bahree denied wrongdoing in a statement to his employer
JUNE 26, 2005 (REUTERS) - An Indian computer worker accused of selling the bank details of more than 1,000 people to a British newspaper said a friend asked him to give a CD to a Briton to earn extra money but he had no idea of its contents.
Twenty-four-year-old Karan Bahree, still on probation after starting his $230 a month job in April, denied any wrongdoing in a one-and-a-half-page handwritten explanation to his company, Infinity eSearch, local media reported yesterday.
Infinity's lawyer told the Indian Express it was likely that Bahree did not know how important the information on the CD was. "He has written that he was supposed to get [$5.50] per information," the Express quoted Depak Masih as saying. "Bahree ... thought he could earn some extra money this way by utilizing his free time."
In the second data-loss case since April to rock India's fast-growing call center and business-processing industry, Britain's Sun said on Thursday that one of its reporters had bought bank details of 1,000 British customers for $5.50 each (see Alleged U.K. bank scammer still at large). Bahree has gone underground and refuses to comment.
Infinity, which said it never had the kind of information The Sun said it bought, did not say what was on the CD but did say that it was checking out Bahree's explanation, according to the Express. Infinity helps Web sites increase their hits from search engines.
Call centers immediately said they would tighten security. Workers are already routinely frisked and banned from bringing everything from paper and pens to portable music players into their offices to prevent them copying data.
Industry officials played down The Sun's report, saying it was a rare case and no system was foolproof.
But shares in leading outsourcing firms, including MphasiS BFL Ltd., which was hit by April's scandal, as well as Hinduja TMT and Wipro Ltd., fell on Friday even as the broader market hit a high.
Helped by cheap telecoms and English speakers employed at a fifth of Western wages, India's $5.2 billion back-office exports are expected to jump 40% through March 2006.
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http://www.indiapost.com/members/story.php?story_id=4913
Published: 2005-06-29
Dr Shivangi appointed Advisor to Secretary of Health
N C SRIREKHA
India Post News Service
NEW YORK: Eminent Indian physician Dr Sampat Shivangi has been appointed Advisor to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, according to a Bush Administration announcement.
Dr Shivangi, who lives in Jackson, Mississippi and is a prominent member of the Indian community, assumed office on June 23, making him among the first from the Indian American community to be appointed to such a senior position.
Other prominent members on this Board are Dr Terry Daniel Dickinson, Dr Barabara Jean Doty, Bernard L. Osberg, Dawn Morton, Gwendolyn Spears, Robert J. Trenschel, and Laura Wylie.
In addition to the advisory position, Health Secretary Michael O. Levin has asked Dr. Shivangi to serve on the National Advisory Council for a term beginning immediately. Levin hoped that Dr Shivangi would give the benefit of his valued counsel in the coming years.
In a written response to Levin, Dr Shivangi said he would be pleased to accept the invitation to serve on the National Advisory Council of Health and Human Services of United States and National Health Service corps of the Health Resources and services Administration.
Dr. Shivangi told India Post that he would utilize this opportunity to work for the under-privileged and under-served, tackling the entire gamut of healthcare issues in the country. This includes his intent to promote projects in India and other developing nations on major issues like Aids, Tuberculosis, malnutrition, maternal and child health programs, and education, as well as addressing the physician shortages in rural America. "Being the fourth largest budgeted department in the government, the health and human services department is an important one," Dr Shivangi said.
Dr. Shivangi has been at the forefront of the powerful American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) and served as Secretary and Vice President of the association besides representing it at the American Medical Association (AMA).
He has close ties with Governor of Mississippi Haley Barbour, with whom he has worked successfully on Tort Reform in his state, and also with US senators, particularly with Senator Thad Cochran of MS, who is the Appropriations Committee Chair, and Senator Trent Lott, past Senate majority leader.
Dr. Shivangi had actively worked in the past for arranging the funding of half a million dollars from the US Congress to AAPI, to study Diabetes Mellitus amongst Indian Americans. This study is already proving to be a valuable one for the Indian American community, which reports one of the highest incidences of diabetes.
In 2004 at the National Republican Convention in New York, Dr Shivangi was the first Asian American to be delegate from his home state since the reconstruction. He has lobbied President George W. Bush personally using every opportunity whenever he met with him, to push the issues of tort reform, and the H1 B and J1 visa issue for physicians from India training in the US.
Aside from his political influence, he has played an active role in various philanthropic ventures in the US and India. He has received several awards, including the Bharat Gaurav Award, Distinguished Alumni award, and AAPI President's Award for outstanding services.
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http://www.edn.com/article/CA529820.html?ref=nbcs&
No shortage of 'engineering shortage' talk
By Bill Schweber, Executive Editor -- 5/26/2005
You can't pick up a magazine or paper, or look at a news and commentary Web site, without seeing knowledgeable people bemoaning the "engineering shortage." The presumed causes usually fall into a few categories. Too few students are taking up math and science. Or engineering has a perception problem that discourages students from pursuing the profession.
While I agree with the statements about student skills and lack of professional image, I disagree with what it all means. The commentators are quick to point out the impact of the shortage. Engineering jobs are going overseas to countries such as India and China, where legions of trained, hard-working engineers can do the job for much less. America is losing a vital economic resource. And so on.
I'm skeptical about the entire "shortage" cry. I've been around this industry a long time (though I did not watch Shockley, Bardeen, and Brattain as they fired up that first transistor at Bell Labs in 1948) and I have been hearing about this shortage, with varying intensity, all that time. With few exceptions, such as when engineering unemployment reached double-digits and engineers were driving cabs (not that there's anything wrong with that), the shortage story has outlasted just about every other premise in this industry, including Moore's Law.
A lot of the reasoning surrounding the shortage story seems circular. We don't have enough engineers coming into the field, so companies are looking overseas to find the needed skills, which in turn diminishes the prospects for US-based engineers, and so on. But as with all circles, it's hard to say where the reasoning starts. Which is the cause, and which is the effect? Depending on your perspective, you could start your argument at any point on the circle's circumference.
Consider the following points when you hear talk of the presumed engineering shortage. First, the globalization of technology, design, and manufacturing makes worldwide design an inevitable and unavoidable fact. The number of engineers in the US has a limited effect on this global industry. Second, engineering productivity, like that in so many other industries, has increased tremendously in the past decades -- even more than the complexity of the projects themselves.
Finally, but most importantly, the people shouting "shortage" often have -- and I'm sure we're all shocked, just shocked, to hear this -- a vested self-interest in the situation. Schools are looking for students to fill seats, pay tuition, and serve as research assistants. Companies want more engineers to choose from as they staff their projects.
In reality, no one knows how many engineers our high-tech society needs. In addition to the impact of productivity gains, the nature of the design work that's going on also alters the demand for engineers. The industry is devoting itself to high-volume consumer products, which require tremendous manufacturing resources but call for roughly the same amount of engineers as low- to moderate-volume products. Thus, the ratio of engineers to product volume is going down.
Even the IEEE has mixed emotions on this subject. The Institute, which as a whole has heavy academic leanings, speaks of the shortage as a fact. However, IEEE-USA, the part of the IEEE that represents working, nonacademic engineers in the United States, speaks of diminished opportunities, unemployment, underemployment, and uncertainty.
No doubt there is a shortage of engineers -- if you define an engineer as someone who has two to five years of experience in the latest technologies, boasts finely honed skills, and is willing to work long hours and solve complex problems for moderate pay and limited recognition. There is also a shortage of gold at $30 per ounce, but far less of a shortage at $500 per ounce.
I think the "shortage" is a myth, perpetuated primarily by the diverging mismatch of interests between engineers in school or industry and those who need their services.
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http://money.cnn.com/2005/06/24/news/fortune500/ibm_india/index.htm?cnn=yes
As IBM cuts in U.S., it hires in India
Report: Big Blue plans to bring on 14,000 Indian workers as it proceeds with U.S., European layoffs.
June 24, 2005: 7:35 AM EDT
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - IBM is planning to hire more than 14,000 new workers in India this year, even as the company proceeds with layoffs of up to 13,000 workers in Europe and the United States, the New York Times reported Friday, citing an internal company document.
IBM (Research) Senior Vice President Robert Moffat, in an interview with the newspaper, said the move is not entirely about cost saving.
"People who say this is simply labor arbitrage don't get it. It's mostly about skills," Moffat was quoted as saying.
The buildup in IBM's labor force in India, Moffat told the Times, was attributable to surging demand for technology services in a thriving Indian economy and the opportunity to tap the many skilled Indian software engineers to work on projects around the world.
Lower trade barriers and cheaper telecommunications and computing ability help allow a distant labor force to work on technology projects, he said in the report.
"You are no longer competing just with the guy down the street, but also with people around the world," he told the Times.
Moffat told the newspaper that IBM is hiring people around the world, including many in the United States, in new businesses that the company has marked for growth, even as it trims elsewhere.
The company announced last month that it would cut 10,000 to 13,000 jobs, about a quarter of them in the United States and the bulk in Western Europe, the newspaper said.
Critics, however, contend that IBM is a leading example of the corporate strategy of shopping the globe for the cheapest labor in a single-minded pursuit of profits, to the detriment of wages, benefits and job security in the U.S. and in other developed countries, the report said.
Washington-based WashTech, a group that seeks to unionize such workers, gave the IBM document labeled "IBM Confidential" on Indian employment to the New York Times, the newspaper said.
According to the report, IBM's overall employment in the United States has held steady for the last few years, at about 130,000.
The newspaper said IBM declined to comment on the document or the numbers in it.
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