Re: IT Labor Shortage is Bogus

["Michael Ryan" <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

I doubt if he would want to lose power...much less a severe drop in salary.

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 9:49 AM,  <fbocch2595@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>  What's the next thing for bill...right to the presidency??
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>  From: SJL <sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>  To: midrange-nontech@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>  Sent: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:47 am
>  Subject: Re: IT Labor Shortage is Bogus
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>  Mike -
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>  Bill Gates has rarely had an original thought, but he is one of the worlds
>  greatest marketers.  He got rich from copying and exploiting other people's
>  ideas.
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>  Now that he is one of the worlds richest men our members of Congress
>  fawn all over his company's accomplishments, the work of his
>  foundation, and the hope that he'll dole out some of that foundation cash
>  to schools and enterprises in their districts.
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>  What Congress is about to do because of his pleadings (doubling or tripling
>  the H-1B cap) is going to result in one of the largest transfers of wealth
>  you have ever seen.
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>  Look up the "Innovation Employment Act" (HR 5630) and
>  "The Strengthening United States Technology And Innovation Now" (or
>  Sustain) Act.  If either of these bills become law, it will put hundreds
>  of thousands of middle-class American programmers out of jobs,
>  and you can thank MY congressman, Lamar Smith of Texas, for
>  sponsoring the latter bill.
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>  In reality, Bill could almost single-handedly fix the so-called shortage of
>  computer scientists by setting up a program of endowments, grants, and
>  scholarships at various unversities to increase the enrollment of American
>  students in STEM programs.
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>  However, that's NOT what he really wants - he wants to eliminate our
>  immigration quotas and open our borders wide.  The immigration increases and
>  amnesties that various groups are proposing could increase the population of
>  this country to 500 million by the year 2050.  And, we have just seen the
>  tip of the iceberg when it comes to guest workers, outsourcing and
>  offshoring:  there are currently over 600 million people in India that are
>  age 25 or below.
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>  But what do I know?  I'm not one of those young "best and brightest" workers
>  he keeps pleading for - I'm a 56-year-old American worker with bachelors and
>  masters degrees that makes too much money (for now...)
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>  I am in the process of creating some videos to expose his and our
>  legislators' hypocrisy...
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>  "Bill Gates and the H-1B, Chapter 1" will be posted on YouTube later today.
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>  - sjl
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