RE: The Journal News: Flow of jobs overseas has human toll

[Jim Damato <jdamato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Give a man a lift in your SUV, he can ride for a day.  Sell him an SUV and
he can ride for a lifetime. Take his SUV away, and he'll have to call
someone on his cell phone for a ride.

-----Original Message-----
From: John Brandt Sr. [mailto:pgmr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 6:24 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: The Journal News: Flow of jobs overseas has human toll 


Pete,
        It isn't Capitalism that is biting us, it's simple greed and lack of
control. Dumping is illegal in every country, and taking jobs from qualified
Americans with H-1B and L-1 visas is as well. We have had no enforcement of
these provisions of US law. Even when the changes to the H-1B visa were
enacted in 2000, the passing of that legislation's legality is in question. 
        I don't mind competing with someone on a fair field. I can win in a
head to head competition, and if they win, I can accept it. I just take
exception when they come late at night, slip in the back door and take my
things and have the guts to face me the next day and say "prove it". I think
we have the right to get the finger prints from the back door and from the
knife in my back and find out who is to blame for the hole in the back of my
shirt. 
        I do take exception to having spent thousands of dollars to send my
children to college to train for a job that should be here, but isn't. At
this moment, all of my financial information and complete medical history is
on computers in Bangalor and Bombay being supervised and accessed by people
who are not US citizens, do business with Laos, Libya and North Korea, and
are not under either the scrutiny of Americans, nor subject to the US law
that was created to protect me. 
        As far as Stop and Go is concerned, I can't speak directly. I can
tell you that EDS, who has the contract with 7-11 uses illegal H-1B's and
L-1's and outsourcing extensively. That little "Grand Prairie, Texas"
company is no longer a US company and most of it's corporate IT operations
is either currently being done in India, or soon will be.

        "Give a man a fish, he can eat for a day. Teach him to fish and he
can eat for a lifetime." Take his fish away, and what do you get?

You tell me,
John Brandt
iStudio400.com