RE: AS/400 Lobby

RANT(*ON)

This subject makes me sick to my stomach!  Who's running the country
anyway, communists?  Where have all the red blooded Americans gone
(over seas?)?

There are WAY too many special programs being given away to illegal
immigrants.  My grandparents were born in this country, which makes
me 3rd generation American, right?  Yet I have to pay through the nose
to send my kids to collage, and I've been hearing stories about all these
illegals flooding into our country (since 1992, I think) and they get special
treatment and don't even have to pay for collage.  Am I full of it?  Has
anyone else heard different?

What was the point of all those young American G.I.'s (who incidentally
also grew up during the depression of 1929) who stormed the beaches
of Normandy, being picked off by the German's?  So our generation of
'me, me, me, I want it now' can give everything away to all of these
foreign countries?  Makes me want to move to Canada.

RANT(*OFF)

>>> "Murphy, Guy" <murphy@uif.uillinois.edu> 06/15/00 08:44am >>>
        Since I hit 50 this year, legislation like this sounds appealing.
However, what I'm wondering is why haven't these companies exported
the jobs
off-shore instead of asking for H1B visas?  It seems to me that the same
Internet technology that's playing havoc with the copyright laws can also
play havoc with the traditional labor structure?
        A colleage of mine is currently on vacation in the Phillipines.
Although he cannot find a postcard where he is, he found a dinky little
place called "Perfect Byte", an Internet Cafe and sent us an e-mail. 
What's
to prevent a company from setting up an off-shore site with a couple of
servers and a vpn connection and having the work done there?


> Guy Murphy - murphyfa@uiuc.edu
> FACTS system - University of Illinois
> 217-333-8670
> http://www.heisercoaching.com
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