Labor Day Musings
Labor Day Musings
Date: Monday, September 05, 2005 1:34 PM
JOB DESTRUCTION NEWSLETTER
by Rob Sanchez
September 5, 2005 No. 1323
I wish to share a few thoughts from others today.
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Labor Day
The sad thing is.. today we watch as a town in America is flooded by waters released in the aftermath of a hurricane. Unfortunately, we are suffering the same effects as these victims from the flooding of foreign workers into our society. Our suffering goes unnoticed because it was done one person at a time, one displaced American by displaced American. No one can VISUALLY see the devastation these floods have caused, nor does anyone care, or to me, at least it seems that way. We are victims of a flood also.
Our livelihoods are gone forever.
Many have lost their possessions.
Some have lost their lives or committed suicide to relieve themselves of all the pressures we endure daily.
Some have lost everything.
Some are starving and homeless.
Yet, there is no help in sight to aid our victims, the victims of the Guest Worker programs which have devastated our lives and economy. We, although large in mass, far larger than the numbers affected by the hurricane, remain silenced, remain hidden, remain without. I am saddened for these people as I am saddened for my American peers. We know first hand just how incompetent and uncaring the US Government is when dealing with people lacking in wealth. They failed the victims of the hurricane in the same fashion they failed the American Tech Worker.
by Toni Chester, NJ
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A Numbers' Comparison
I offer for comparison two numbers:
484,674
403,300
The first number is the population of New Orleans, based on the 2000 census. The second number is the amount of jobs lost in the U.S. information technology job market from March 2001 to April 2004.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6002122
I am not, by any means, trying to trivialize and minimize the outright physical and psychological suffering of our fellow citizens from New Orleans. I do not want to even begin to compare, nor would I think it even appropriate to consider, my situation with our fellow citizens in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. None of us would want to be in the position these people have been in this past week.
I do find it compelling that while the media and, FINALLY, our public officials are paying attention to and implementing action to relieve the suffering and temporary extreme dislocation circumstances of these unfortunate people (The effects of long term dislocation for these people remains to be seen.), over 403,000 economically dislocated people have suffered largely in silence with hardly any notice from our government.
Yes, the press, and some authors are beginning to take note of what has been happening to American technology
workers. And I am encouraged by this. I do think these numbers provide a poignant comparison, and a basis by which to understand the manmade economic disasters to American citizens caused by our governments deliberate and excessively privatized policies.
anonymous by request
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