Posted on 10/29/2005 7:25:40 AM PDT by vrwc0915
I think you are right. I don't want national healthcare. However, if employees will not offer benefits in order to be competetive with thirds world countries, what choice is there? Our system is built on a business model for benefits. My Dad never thought that was a good idea, he was right as he often was.
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> This program was intended to help employers out with shortages, not allow them to pay below market rates!
Contract openings are up in the last year, but they are trying to hold the rates to 2002 levels. This is how they establish the phony shortage! It is so obvious now.
> Mark my words. US will start to get the national health care system in 2008.
Somehow Hitlery will be able to push both this and work the immigration / jobs angle against the republican elitists.
> As an actual citizen of the US, I should enjoy some benefits over non-citizens
Damn right. You should enjoy the benefits of the spilled blood of our forefathers and the brave soldiers protecting us now. H1s have NO STAKE in the country. Damned free traitors don't get this. They are so narrow minded.
> employer must attest that absolutely NO qualified US citizens applied for the job
at the offered rate. The natural economics of the situation are being distorted by selective violation of our immigration laws.
So the law in question is predicated on the notion that H1-B visas will only be used to fill labor shortages.
Instead, companies are using it to get cheap labor below the going market rate.
I agree 100 percent.
It is impossible to prove that a company did not try to hire an American citizen. All the company needs to do is place an add in a paper - interview a couple of applicants and say they were not qualified. It is done every day and it satisfies the requirements.
> Iterated Systems (if I remember the name correctly), a company using fractal analysis to compress images.
I remember them. It was a cool idea. I tried out their stuff. At the time (1995 or so) we went with JPEG for several reasons.
> they had to play this game to "prove" no Americans were available who could do this job.
The surprising thing about the oh-so-intelligent free traitors is that they are not smart enough to understand this inevitable consequence to a market-distorting law such as all special work visa laws. Our immigration policy should be orthogonal to the free market - it should stand on its own to promote AMERICAN values, which extend far beyond pure dollars. Free traitors are fools.
> shear stupidity
Learn to spell, free-traitor.
> I've had the "privilege" of working with H1-B and offshore "programmers" and I can tell you they have been woefully under skilled and lack the independent drive of their US counterparts.
Half of them are bloodthirsty upper-caste types, or islamist; the other half are subservient lower-caste types. NExt to none of them have any roots or loyalty to the US. The real problem is the damage to our society. The dumba$$ free traitors can't see this as they are blinded by either $$ or their simpleminded ideology.
> You are a complete socialist, inside and out, seething with anger and ready for a revolt.
You know, TQ, you don't have to be a socialist to be ready to revolt. Some of us are tired of "conservative" politicians who carry water for one-world globalists.
> I don't wrestle with pigs and children.
Hi TQ. What are your problems, respectively, with pigs, and with children?
Couple of questions. Are you in the US? Are you a US citizen?
It is a key point. Why someone should risk his life to protect a section of the global market place, unless the pay for doing it were high enough? Are the free traders willing to die for their ideology?
> Are the free traders willing to die for their ideology?
They are too simpleminded to think about this.
Well, Bush is allowing a flood of illegals in to do the work at the bottom of the labor chain, driving down wages for the unskilled Americans, I see no reason to favor any group.
Absolutely, until everyone gets hit with unfair wage competition nothing will change..lets get more lawyers and doctors in here and accountants and see them scream when their wages drop 50% due to competition...not just a flood of unskilled workers...this country and Presidente Bush are a disgrace..
"In what looks to be a first in the United States, California is allowing 30 physicians and 30 dentists from Mexico to bypass its medical licensure system and practice in the state. The Mexican doctors will work under a three-year, nonrenewable license at designated nonprofit clinics as soon as July 1, if money can be secured for the program. The pilot is being touted as a short-term measure to address the need of the state's 950,000 Mexican agricultural workers, few of whom have access to any physician, let alone one who speaks Spanish. The California Medical Assn., while acknowledging this need, said bringing in Mexican doctors to treat Mexican citizens in the United States undermines California's licensing system. "We should have a level playing field, with one criterion for licensing professionals, so that California residents know that their doctor is qualified," said Anmol S. Mahal, MD, vice chair of the CMA board of trustees and a leader of the organization's opposition to the bill."
My brother will suffer in a layoff soon, but not before he can train his H-1B replacement.
The current crop of management in this country will destroy this Nation. I'm kind of looking forward to anarchy.
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