Women and Children Hit Hardest!
Posted on 04/29/2009 6:49:17 AM PDT by seatrout
Large corporations prefer to use H-1B visas to hire foreign engineers and computer technicians. H-1B workers increased threefold during the Clinton administration, and CEOs are constantly demanding that the number be raised or even unlimited.
Large corporations prefer H-1B foreigners because they work for lower wages with fewer rights. A recent study by researchers at top business schools reported that H-1B visas depress wages for software engineers and programmers by as much as 6 percent.
The cumulative effect, as described by another study, depresses wages even more. Many U.S. engineers even lost their jobs just after they were required to train their foreign replacements.
The Americans hardest hit by H-1B visas, according to these researchers, are recent college graduates and those who want to change jobs. One of the reasons why big corporations prefer to hire H-1Bers is that foreign workers are restrained, almost like indentured servants, from changing jobs and competing with their original employer.
Americans used indentured services in the 1600s when plantation workers were brought to Virginia to work for seven years in exchange for a free voyage to the New World. Later, this practice was supplanted by African slavery.
That's certainly not a model to imitate today. H-1B visas disrupt the free enterprise system that has yielded tremendous wealth to America and the world.
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
But they make the bottom line look better in the short term, because all of the associated costs of hiring foreigners -- [...] -- don't show up as a single line item, but are amortized throughout the project where they cannot be attributed to a single cause.
...in another way, as Corporate IT is cutting back on resources to science groups, lowering the IT budget--while making the technical teams far less efficient (yet without a corresponding metric to demonstrate it).
These same large companies have teams of lawyers and lobbyists on "retainer".
It's another form of the trusts which Teddy Roosevelt broke up.
Cheers!
(Prayers up! Have you prepped for the Flu yet?)
As a matter of fact, I have my 3M Model 7800S Full-facepiece respirator within arms' reach. ;-)
Here is a list I made on avainflutalk.com a few years back.
The list has changed somewhat, but it should be a decent start. (Warning: total cost > $1000):
Here is a rundown of what we now have (total cost over $1000) (*):
Liquids:
24 individual 1 gallon jugs of drinking water (ozonated / charcoal filter / reverse osmosis)
24 24-packs of 20 oz water (on sale at a local store for $2.50 for each 24-pack)
5 bottles hard liquor for trading (Jack Daniels, Smirnoff Vodka, Bushmill's Irish Whiskey, Jim Beam, Captain Morgan Spiced Rum)
7 6-packs beer (on sale $4.00 each)
24-pack V-8 juice
8 bottles iced tea
Foods:
20 -lb bag pinto beans
25 1-lb bags green split peas
25 1-lb bags lentils
24 lb brown rice
50 lb whole wheat flour
2 1-lb DAK canned hams
2 12-oz cans spam
4 1-lb cans corned beef
6 12-oz cans canned chicken
4 12-oz cans roast beef
110 6-oz cans tuna fish
4.4 liters olive oil
96 oz canola oil
30 12-15oz cans assorted vegetables (sauerkraut, collard greens, carrots, etc. Checked for nutritional content of Vitamins A anc C).
1 lb oregano
8 1-lb containers salt
1 lb cinnamon
1 lb dried garlic
1 lb onion flakes
1 lb pepper
8 16-oz cans soup (campbell's chunky or similar)
80 qts. powdered milk
2.5 lb cashews
2.5 lb almonds
2.5 lb pistachios
18 - 18oz peanut butter
32oz Nestle's quick (to flavor powdered milk)
Hand cranked radio/TV reciever/flashlight
2 non-battery flashlights (shaking them charges a capacitor)
20 small propane tanks for the Coleman stove
500 paper cups
500 paper plates
500 each plastic spoons, knives, forks
150 rolls toilet paper
24 rolls paper towels
8 gallons bleach
15 oz chlorine "pills" such are used to disinfect swimming pools
144 feminine napkins
1 tube neosporin
2 -15 oz hydrogen peroxide
1 - 15oz tincture of iodine
25 large gauze bandages
200 regular bandages
aceteminophen
aspirin
ibuprofen
dental floss
toothpaste
5-gallon empty "gatorade" cooler
2.5 gallon collapsible water jug
2 12-hour lightsticks
2 roadside flares
25 lb cat food
2000 matches
water filter guaranteed to filter out viruses, 2 replacement filters
each with 125 gallon capacity
200 N95 masks
8 AAA batteries
4 AAA NiMH rechargable batteries
4 AA batteries
4 AA NiMH rechargeable batteries
That is all I can remember and have time for at the moment.
Cheers!
Prescription meds are going to be the downfall of many survivalists, I fear.
“It” is still alive.
Ooooohhhh... that's a swear!
Wow! Two banned and the recent one is still alive. Resorting to name calling I see. Let's see if you get another ZOT today.
TKDietz since 2003-10-06 – ZOTTED
smallgovrepub since 2008 – 11 – 04 ZOTTED
merican Since 2009 - 03 - 26 (Not ZOTTED - YET)
IT folks spent more than a decade job hopping and driving up the wages. They created a bubble and it started to burst a couple of years ago.
Oh, good, you’re still alive (except for your brain which wasn’t functioning anyway...). I got here B4TZ!
Jeez, if a fella wants to leave, who’s stopping you? Just go, idiot. But no, you have to make a fool of yourself...
There was a bubble during the dot com boom, when Americans with low computer aptitude were attracted to the high wages and plentiful jobs, however the software and engineering students today are mostly foreign born. That's because the bubble burst 8 years ago, and now Americans don't see technical fields as having job security or being worth the effort. If someone has natural ability, it's still possible to make a good living without long hours, but the supply of talent is less than the demand. A higher wage is how free enterprise does its thing. Not only is there no bubble now, wages have been depressed by cheap imports too far to attract enough Americans into the field. Strategically this is foolish because a war with China would throw the demand curve through the roof overnight. There will be another painful bubble in the future, caused by short sighted decisions by business, and envy driven politics.
LOL, you’re funny.
Tell me, you’re a 4channer, right?
*horrified*
Moderator wrestling match!
Aiiiiieee!
“....and we are left with c******kers...”
I’m certain you’d know more about that activity than anyone.
Large corporations prefer to use H-1B visas to hire foreign engineers and computer technicians. H-1B workers increased threefold during the Clinton administration, and CEOs are constantly demanding that the number be raised or even unlimited. Large corporations prefer H-1B foreigners because they work for lower wages with fewer rights. A recent study by researchers at top business schools reported that H-1B visas depress wages for software engineers and programmers by as much as 6 percent... foreign workers are restrained, almost like indentured servants, from changing jobs and competing with their original employer. Americans used indentured services in the 1600s when plantation workers... [blah blah blah indentures were used by the white folks to pay their passage to the New World, and also children were indentured to pay off debts] ...H-1B visas disrupt the free enterprise system that has yielded tremendous wealth to America and the world.Sounds like free enterprise at work, cutting a path around stupid gov't interference -- it may have something to do with the total lack of affirmative action and race-norming in foreign nations' educational systems; also, kids go to school longer during the year.
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