'Dan Rather Reports' this Tuesday: H-1Bs

http://www.hd.net/programs/danrather/

With the unemployment rate over nine percent, why are lawmakers, lobbyists and pundits across the political spectrum clamoring to increase the flow of high-skilled guest workers from overseas? Business advocates say U.S. companies need the world’s “best and the brightest” in order to out-innovate global competitors and to create new jobs. Critics claim the federal guest worker visa programs are rife with abusive practices and that there’s no shortage of the best and brightest talent right here – especially now with more than 20 million Americans jobless or underemployed.
“Dan Rather Reports: No Thanks for Everything,” Tuesday, June 14 at 8:00 p.m. ET.

Transcript of video at site:

On the next "Dan Rather Reports": "I never thought it would happen to me. I never in a million years thought it would happen to me."

The threat of corporate downsizing. "It got to be scary. I mean, you come in every day and wonder, 'Is today the day I'm going to find out my job's going to India?'"

Paying the price for experience: "It's hard to start all over again when you're that old. What they are doing is hurting this country."

A new "Dan Rather Reports," Tuesday at 8 (EDT) on HDNet.

The H1's that I have worked with aren't particularly that skilled but they work cheaply.

company who is doing it is in violation of law

It is because of that reason, at least where I work, over 50% of the jobs are being off=shored

...and they sprinted with it never looking back.



After seeing Waiting for Superman, I wrote this: Did I Get the Subtext to Waiting for Superman Right?

I (Bill Gates) want to hire cheap labor, so I'll get engineers from overseas whilst selling you the idea that our education system has left me with no alternative since, as I've been telling you for years now, we have a shortage of engineers and scientists.

...but it IS making the Ownership Class (top one percenters) even RICHER,
and THEY are in charge.



FDR said much the same thing in 1944 with his Economic Bill of Rights,
but you don't hear too much of that anymore.
FDR & LBJ have been pretty much airbrushed out of the Democratic Party Family Portrait.


Who will STAND UP and FIGHT for THIS American Majority?
"By their WORKS you will know them,"
And by their WORKS they should be held accountable.

They are lying about the talent. It is here...they just don't want to pay for it.

Truth.

I see them sending work to India that I KNOW Americans can and would do. In fact, I know people who would jump to do that work.

It's about cheap labor, nothing else.

Edited to add: I originally meant to mention all the H1-Bs at my place of work, but since the outsourcing and visas go hand-in-hand, I can't think of one without the other.