Re: Lest ye get too complacent

So 'Bill' is opening the door for me, and 'Joe' wants it to stay closed.
  Would I like the Chicago wether??
  Or better to reside under my personal palm tree and do the same work??
  Ok, Ok, I'm not that cheap that 'Bill' want to hire me (Or just not that 
good). 
   
  Kind Regards,
  Eduard Sluis.

Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  A little Christmas cheer:

Just in case you think your jobs are safe, and that the moguls of the world
aren't trying to squeeze every last penny out of you, please take note of
the latest close call in which Arlen Specter and his cohorts tried to tack
an amendment to the Budget Bill that would award green cards to 350,000
temporary workers and also add 30,000 additional H-1B visas for high-tech
workers onto the cap, along with some seriously terrible wording allowing
H-1B visa holders to bring their families with them (why would a temporary
worker bring their family?).

Luckily, the folks at ZaZona and NumbersUSA and some other immigration
watchdog groups were on their toes and mobilized thousands and thousands of
people to send faxes and make phone calls; because of this, the amendments
were defeated.

Who was the real champion of this bill?

Quoting Bill Sanchez at zazona.com:

'Today I talked to Roy Beck of NumbersUSA to get some inside information
about why the Senate Judiciary approved more H-1B and green card visas. He
said the word is out in Washington DC that this was the result of intense
lobbying by Microsoft. Last week lobbyists from Microsoft went to every
Congressional office to lobby for more visas. Some people on Capitol Hill
are actually referring to the Senate proposal as the "Bill Gates" bill.'

You might think the quote above is sort of second-hand, but if you think
Bill Gates cares about American workers, feel free to Google on '"Bill
Gates" immigration' (remove the apostrophes, leave the quotes). You'll see
that he's quite interested in abolishing the H-1B cap because according to
him there aren't enough smart people in America. So, rather than use his
billions of dollars to, say, build up the American public school
infrastructure, he'd rather give that money to building up the library
systems around the world and then hire foreign workers for next to nothing
via an H-1B program.

Is such a plan philanthropy or just an investment in reduced labor costs?
You have to decide. I'm just reporting the facts.

Joe