Re: Beneath the valley of the revenge of the living dead green card lawyers.

Joel Garry wrote:

> Apologies in advance if this is flamebait.
>
> I read this proposal from Bush, and just couldn't help but imagine
> hordes of vertically-challenged ratio-tuners invading America and
> taking our jobs. I couldn't help but think that this will make H1-B
> seem like the good old days. I wish it were a joke. All I can do is
> take consolation in the hope that it will piss off everybody from
> conservative Republicans to bleeding-heart liberals to Juan in the
> lettuce fields and fade away as a political mis-step.
>
> Here it is: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/news/news_1n7immig.html
>
> Same newspaper, spin-doctored as to whether it would affect us
> technoweenies: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20040107-1215-bush-immigration.html
>
> We can't really know until it turns into legislation.
>
> jg
> --
> @home.com is bogus.
> "San Diego - America's Finest Tourist Plantation." - Bus bilboard art,
> showing maid, farmworker, busboy, etc., paid for by public funds;
> upset some people.

I agree. When I saw Bush's proposal the first thing I thought of was the following scenario:

Large corporation advertises for PL/SQL programmers and DBAs for $15/hr. Can't find any Americans willing to perform technical work for roughly the same salary as burger flippers? Bring them in from third-world countries.

First Bush presides over the biggest loss in domestic jobs since Herbert Hoover. Then he presides over the biggest offshoring of jobs in US history. And now this. I am not amused. I wonder how much pain American workers will tolerate before they finally vote for their own vested self-interest rather than for slogans and public relations stunts like a draft dodger on an aircraft carrier.

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