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A Squeak about Trade? 2007-09-11 14:49:19 What a surprise, when the nation is about to go over a cliff a little squeak comes from The Federal Reserve chairman. Ben S. Bernanke, said today that a global “savings glut” has helped keep interest rates low, but he warned that
major trade imbalances between emerging and industrial nations may prove “counterproductive” to the [...] Read more:Trade
, Squeak
Mexican Trucks, Burning Issue… 2007-09-10 15:42:10 A Mexican
Truck Blew Up, killing 34 people.
It was loaded with dynamite.
This happened on the very day the Teamsters are trying to gain support for an amendment introduced by Byron Dorgan to stop this pilot program.
In May, the House of Representatives passed Peter DeFazio’s H.R. 1773, the Safe American Roads Act [...] Read more:Trucks
, Burning
Presidential Candidates and H-1B 2007-09-05 21:29:13 Lou Dobbs today ran a story on Presidential
candidates selling out working America to Benedict Arnold Silicon valley CEOs and their checkbooks.
The Edwards campaign did respond to CNN and claimed that now, they only want the increases if there is no qualified American. Frankly from watching his visits to Corporate lobbyists as well as [...] Read more:Candidates
John Edwards is a Hypocrite 2007-09-04 16:17:59 John Edwards
Makes Me Mad. I’m sorry, I’m a Democrat but I have to say that. The reason I say that is he claims to be for working America yet clearly is out to labor arbitrage American Professional workers through the expansion of the H-1b Visa program.
From September 03, 2007 San Jose [...] Read more:John Edwards
Workers Being Thrown Under a Bus 2007-09-03 02:31:55 This is a major alert to Congress, through the STRIVE bill and the SKIL bill, are once again trying to push for more guest workers Visas. Immigration Voice, a notorious front group for yet more H-1B Visas and for the interests of India especially is also pushing their agenda. Gotta [...] Read more:Workers
, Thrown
As Ohio Goes, So Goes the Nation….as in Offshored to India 2007-08-18 16:54:05 All hail! All sing praises of glory, raise ye voices in jubilation!
Some of those millions of jobs offshore outsourced to India
are returning!!!!
From Fortune, India Conglomerate TATA is bringing jobs to Ohio
.
Reno, Ohio, as the type of place that would be hit hardest by outsourcing - a small American town losing out to the [...]
Bad Bosses & Pie 2007-08-06 13:47:20 A new study from Bond University says almost two-thirds of the 240 participants in an online survey said the local workplace tyrant was either never censured or was promoted for domineering ways. From Bad Bosses Get Promoted.
Even the BBC is asking what is going on with America’s economic policy by the article question The [...]
The Patriot Employer Act of 2007 2007-08-05 23:24:04 Introduced by Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) Barack Obama (D-IL) Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) The PatriotEmployer
Act of 2007 would provide a tax credit to companies that make a commitment to American workers.
Durbin:
When companies make headlines today it is often for all the wrong reasons: fraud, tax avoidance and profiteering. [...]
Bernie Sanders tries to stop Wal-Mart 2007-08-03 13:17:51 Below is a must see video clip of Senator BernieSanders
on the true economic state of working America.
Reported by David Sirota, Senator Bernie Sanders is trying to block the confirmation of White House budget director nominee Jim Nussle.
A little background on Jim Nussle.
The Huffington Post has more.
Way to go Bernie! Read more:tries
Blow Your Own Horn - Open Thread 2007-09-22 20:06:37 Come On, Pipe Up!
It’s time to blow your own horn. This is the place to post latest articles, comments, personal stories that you want some attention to but are possibly too short to write a complete blog story. Your comment will show up on the front page under latest comments to bring some attention to your voice. [...] Read more:Thread
Bankruptcy 2015 - Part II 2007-09-17 13:59:27 cross posted at DailyKos by New Deal Democrat
In Part I of this series, I examined the 1992 best seller entitled “Bankruptcy 1995″, which had predicted that the US would become unable to service its national debt as early as 1995 due to soaring budget deficits. So dire and well-documented was the warning that it affected [...]
Ron Paul is NOT the Answer! 2007-09-16 18:47:04 People are desperate for someone to represent their views and many are turning to Ron Paul
. He sounds good, but you have an awful feeling underneath, something is wrong with this picture. But, wait, is he really representing positions you want? I don’t think so! Look at this voting record and position on [...]
Bankruptcy 2015 - Part I 2007-09-15 12:52:14 cross posted at DailyKos by New Deal Democrat
Is the US going bankrupt? With an intractable trade deficit and a national debt in excess of $9 trillion dollars, it may seem so.
The signs of a looming US sovereign bankruptcy and how it would happen were the subject of the 1991-2 bestseller entitled “Bankruptcy 1995,” written [...]
Action Alert! More H-1B Visas in Senate Bill 2007-09-14 02:35:34 Next week, the Defense Appropriations bill is going to be attacked with multiple amendments to try to increase H-1B guest worker Visas
.
These amendments are basically the SKIL act and or the Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill. Corporate lobbyist written, we are constantly bombarded with this special interest labor arbitrage agenda in every bill that is [...] Read more:Action
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Hillary Clinton, India’s Best Representative 2007-09-14 01:08:11 The Washington Post did an expose about HillaryClinton
(D- Punjab)’s Personal Financial and Political Ties
At a recent event in Los Angeles, host Nadadur Vardhan told those gathered that they should support Clinton because “she may shift more jobs to India
,”, according to an Indian news account
Yes indeed. Let’s follow the money, shall we?
Indian businessman [...] Read more:Representative
, Hillary Clinton
Governors Get into the Cheap Labor Game 2007-09-13 00:29:23 This is real quick because you need to take action fast. We now have 13 Governors
lobbying for more H-1B guest worker Visas.
Here are our Benedict Arnold Governors selling out their constituents Please note that a major corporate lobbying firm is where this letter is posted. Nice huh, to have United States Governors speak from [...] Read more:Cheap
Alan Greenspan Recommends Wiping Out the Middle Class 2007-10-02 18:27:44 Alan Greenspan
’s solution to economic inequality in the United States is to turn all Americans into 3rd world serfs. He also thinks Americans really do not need middle class incomes, nope, we all just greedy little chickens pecking out power for power’s sake.
We pay the highest skilled labor wages in the world.
We need to supress the [...] Read more:Alan Greenspan
Extra, Extra! We need H-1B guest worker Visa reform! 2007-09-29 01:32:39 We need H-1B guest worker Visa reform and no, we do not need what Corporate lobbyists want.
Dr. Norm Matloff, probably the most definitive expert on H-1B guest worker Visas, has written a new paper, Fixing Our Badly Broken H-1B Visa and Employer-Sponsored Green Card Programs. This is a must read.
what the industry lobbyists say [...] Read more:Extra
Traitors in our Midst: The IEEE-USA Teams with Corporate Lobbyists 2007-10-13 23:27:01 With friends like these who needs enemies? The IEEE-USA issued a statement supporting turning our University system into a glorified green card machine. They also have literally teamed up with a corporate lobbyist organization, the SIA, to issue their policy position. The IEEE-USA claims to be concerned about career and labor issues for it’s United [...] Read more:Traitors
Bullying a Nation into Giving Up its Sovereignty 2007-10-06 23:02:58 It appears that Costa Rica, the lone hold out in not ratifying the CAFTA-DR trade agreement, is now under enormous pressure and strong arm tactics.
We are on the eve of discovering
whether the bullying, propaganda, and threats worked or not. The ratification vote is tomorrow.
From Eyes On Trade
Just when you thought the Bush administration was at its [...] Read more:Giving
A Glimmer of Hope; fees increase on H-1B guest worker Visas 2007-10-29 13:53:19 Senator Bernie Sanders(I-VT) and Senator Chuck Grassley(R-IA) managed to get a increase in H-1B guest worker Visa fees attached to H.R. 3043: Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008.
The Senate adopted by voice vote a Grassley-Sanders amendment, S.AMDT.3325 to the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations bill. [...] Read more:Visas
Congress & Corporations Don’t Want to Invest in Super Smart Americans 2007-11-08 14:11:06 Yesterday, a very popular amendment that would have funded programs for super smart kids and created college scholarships for Americans
was gutted by the Conferees, yes that’s our House representatives and Senators, to the H.R. 3043: Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008. The amendment would increase fees on [...] Read more:Congress
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, Smart
Speaking Truth to Power, a House Committee Hearing 2007-11-14 19:49:05 The House
Science Committee
held a hearing on November 6, 2007 completing their series on Globalization of R&D and Innovation.
Before you go to sleep, some fairly shocking testimony proving there is no worker shortage and some additional shocking facts on how the US debt is affecting job creation as well as how current research grant awards [...] Read more:Speaking
, Truth
, Hearing
How to Serve Up a Special Interest Agenda 2007-11-19 22:14:46
You might have noticed on the left blogs right now, we have front page posts on immigration, illegal immigration that is.
All it takes to write one of these stories is this easy to follow recipe:
Start with the word xenophobic and then sprinkle around racism accusations, name call a few people bigots, finally add a [...] Read more:Special
, Interest
Gee, Thanks For Nothing Governor Gregoire! 2007-11-18 16:48:49 (Either JavaScript is not active or you are using an old version of Adobe Flash Player. Please install the newest Flash Player.)
Watch a Washington State Governor
utter blatant falsehoods on the current state of the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics labor market as well as pretty much dismiss out of hand someone speaking up who clearly has [...] Read more:Thanks
, Nothing
Outsourcing National Security 2007-11-22 22:41:00 Most engineers know there are many ways to hide malicious code and design within architecture. Yet, most subscribe to an engineering code of ethics, the thought of such a betrayal analgous to a Medical Doctor using their skills to commit murder.
Yet in terms of policy is our Government undervaluing the national loyalty of most US citizen engineers? [...] Read more:Outsourcing
, National
Is John Edwards Getting it on H-1B guest worker Visas? Chris Dodd too? 2007-12-06 23:59:57 Earlier I wrote a piece exposing Edwards
history for promoting more labor arbitraging guest worker Visas
, yet in a recent NPR debate he sounds like he might be realizing Americans are being displaced, or at least is feeling the heat.
This is a good thing, certainly most of Edwards positions are more in line with [...] Read more:Chris
, John Edwards
The Mitt Romney Immigration Double Speak 2007-12-18 03:28:57 Mitt Romney
wants to send your job to China and if he can’t do that, he wants to bring in cheaper foreign labor to displace you anyway.
While Mitt Romney trudges across Iowa blasting his opponents on illegal immigration, look at how willing he is to labor arbitrage other Americans and increase guest worker Visas! While [...]
Is Obama for Change or Just More of the Same? 2007-12-14 21:59:44 We hear much about change these days with Oprah buzzing around Barak Obama
casting the magic star power spell.  But my question is do you really want star power Oprah Winfrey endorsed with slick campaign ads or do you want policy that is truly going to change America and finally stand up for our real interests?
Could [...] Read more:Change
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