All this and and yet 65K H1-B visas will still be handed out ...65K Americans displaced regardless

I just stole the paragraph below from the DK front page.

Meteor Blades lists all these gloom stats and the only thing I can think is that even with all this
unemployment, 65K more H1-B will be given jobs ahead of Americans. Even better, will simply replace them.

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Economic Outrage du Jour

One striking thing about statistics in the Great Recession is the sheer number of times you can say the worst rise in 60 years or the steepest decline since records have been kept. A record number of people collecting unemployment benefits. A record number of people using food stamps. A record number of new foreclosures. The largest one-month increase in jobless Americans since 1949. A record number of Americans unemployed for more than six months. For the first time ever, more private-sector services jobs than goods-producing jobs lost. And on and on. That's just the beginning of a seemingly endless list.

come all the things they have signed for will haunt them

These corporatist assholes claim "but but but we can't find any Americans who can do these jobs"

Bullshit. And until every available American HAS a job, they shouldn't be allowed to outsource or "insource" any jobs to foreign nationals.

This country will continue to go down the crapper unless we force corporations and the wealthy to sign a goddamned Magna Carta of some kind. They should not have personhood and they damn sure should not have all the power they do.

My brother had a high tech computer job, making over $200,000 a year. That is, until they moved his job over to India.

Now he's pounding nails with another brother, doing home repairs and barely getting by.

Yeah, stay in college, it really pays. At least if you have a college education you will have the knowledge of how badly you're being screwed by Washington.

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

unless they are training you to be part of the problem.

The LAST thing anybody in Washington wants known is how badly we're being screwed by them.

Lynch em I say :eyes:

countries!

to happen. The H1-B visas are not a product of nature, but a product of our government. This has nothing to do with racism nor xenophobia. As proof, nobody cared about the practice before the displacement became obvious.

This is the fact, American (Euro, Latino, Asian, African IOW all of us) are being put on the streets.

It would not end the problem of unemployment, but the Congress could stop the H1 and L visas for a few years.

its all eastern block people coming into my area! They are working in restaurants, stores, housekeeping,gas stations...you name it ..and all are from eastern block nations. And most are college age.

If not, go lynch yourself.

So STFU. Please. Pretty-please with porcupines on top.

So some ARE out there...

While they are both capable and intelligent (albeit there is a bit of a language issue), there's no reason why it was necessary to 'import' talent. Those jobs could have been filled by American citizens.

The issue is using H1-B visas to force down wages and financially terrorize the working population ... and nothing else.

becasue there's an additional 20,000 'masters only' h-1b bringing to total up to 95k

plus, there unlimited educational, non-profit and research, even if deplyed from a for profit body shop

plus, some years they simply just go over the cap by 10-20 k

h-1b total estimated at 120,000 per year at least

then, there's about 23,000 F1 OPT training visas that are 29 month (Obama just defended this increase in court)

then there's the 3 year NAFTA TN status increased to 3 years in the last year or so, so no mexican or canadian needs an H-1b visa

and then there's the L1 visa, which is unlimied an at least 50 k per year

it's way over 200,000 per year, not 65k