Take a look at this it might help

      You can see the phone numbers for your two Senators by clicking on: 
      www.NumbersUSA.com/myMembers<about:blank> 

      Our full phone directory is at: 
      http://www.numbersusa.com/congressinfo<about:blank> 

      If you have never done this, let me assure you that every month I hear 
from people calling their Members of Congress for the first time and ecstatic 
at how easy it is. Most offices are quite receptive, especially if you are 
polite to the staffer. Express your outrage at the impending Senate vote but 
don't take it out on the staffer who is answering. 

      WHAT TO SAY ON THE PHONE 

      1. Identify yourself by name and anything else that might give you 
credibility. Choose as little or much from the rest of these points to say as 
little or much as you want to say. 

      2. Say you are calling about the Budget Reconciliation bill on the floor 
of the Senate right now. (Deficit Reduction Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 2005 
-- S. 1932) 

      3. Tell them how distressed you are that the Budget bill contains 
provisions to triple the number of permanent jobs offered to foreign workers at 
a time when 14 million American workers cannot find full-time jobs. 

      I encourage you when you call to have your computer screen connected to 
our Hot Topics page on this issue. You will find plenty of arguments and facts 
from which to choose if you wish to visit a little more with the staffer. 

      That link is: 
      http://numbersusa.com/hottopic/H1B.html<about:blank> 

      4. Point out that many parts of the country are choking on congestion and 
sprawl -- largely caused by immigration-driven population growth. (Census data 
show that immigration causes about 87% of U.S. population growth.) Congress is 
already importing 1 million foreign workers and families each year. It makes no 
sense to increase that even more. 

      5. Tell them that you not only want to stop increases in immigration but 
that you want dramatic REDUCTIONS in the numbers. 

      CHOOSING FOREIGN WORKERS KEEPS BLACK AMERICAN TECH WORKERS AT THE BACK OF 
THE OCCUPATIONS BUS 

      Depending on the Senator, you may want to draw their attention elsewhere 
in the Capitol Building where civil rights icon Rosa Parks is being honored. 

      During a week of high public honors for Rosa Parks and the opportunities 
that she helped open for Black Americans, the U.S. Senate is poised to once 
again send Black American high-tech programmers and engineers to the back of 
the occupations bus. 

      A new study reveals that some 70,000 Black Americans with the skills to 
hold those jobs cannot find a job in the field. Part of the reason is that the 
field has been flooded by Congress with several hundred thousand foreign 
workers in recent years. 

      The U.S. Senate's response at the moment is to make it even harder for 
Black Americans to obtain those good jobs at the front of the occupations bus 
by filling the seats with even more foreign workers. 

      I cannot believe that the United States Senate truly intends to harm 
skilled Black American workers in this way. But its behavior shows a callous 
lack of sensitivity and awareness that allows the harm to occur regardless of 
motive. 

      The fact is that every corporation clamoring for this massive increase in 
skilled foreign workers is implicitly stating that it prefers skilled foreign 
workers to skilled Black Americans. With Rosa Parks lying in state in the 
Rotunda of the Capitol, will the Senate assist those corporations who seek ways 
to avoid hiring Black Americans? 

      The architects of this massive increase in immigration are Sen. Specter 
(R-PA) and Sen. Kennedy (D-MA). But the ideas came from Microsoft lobbyists who 
are calling the shots on immigration policy right now. At the same time that 
Bill Gates was getting media coverage for going to black schools and 
encouraging the students there to pursue careers in computer programming and 
other tech fields, Gates' lobbyists were hatching this idea to keep those jobs 
out of reach of not only Black American students but all American students. 

      I honestly don't think most Senators realize what they are doing to 
American workers and American students. But I also don't think they want to 
know. 

      Your phone calls today can go along way to wake them up. 

      THANKS, 

      -- ROY 
      . 
     
     
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Steve Landess<mailto:sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
  To: cpf0000@xxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:cpf0000@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ; 
midrange-jobs@xxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:midrange-jobs@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
  Cc: Norm Matloff<mailto:matloff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ; 
AdminZaZona<mailto:Admin@xxxxxxxxxx> 
  Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 2:57 PM
  Subject: Strong words from Gartner..."Stop Outsourcing Now"


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  I couldn't agree more - I see evidence of this EVERY day where I currently 
work.

  Steve
  -------------------------

  See:
  
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/article.php/3559661<http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/article.php/3559661>

  <Snip>

  ''What we're doing is compulsive outsourcing,'' says Linda Cohen, a vice 
president and chief of research at Gartner, an industry analyst giant. ''We're 
trying to solve a problem, and that's a very tactical approach to outsourcing. 
And it's resulted in too much outsourcing. We need to stop and consider the 
strategy, so we're enabling a business goal rather than fixing a problem.'' 

  </Snip>
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