Posted on 10/12/2001 9:19:58 PM PDT by Ron C.
"We are doing everything possible to protect the security of Americans." How many times have you heard that? Don't believe a word of it. Here you'll see and learn why.
From what I can tell, potential terrorists can be flying commercial planes legally, and could easily be working within most of the aviation industry of the US with the blessing of our government - and nothing is being done to halt that possibility from my perspective.
But as bad as that possibility is, equally deadly is the policy of government to allow greedy corporate employers to decimate the economy of the US through the destruction of the job market for Americans. Jobs are being given to aliens that take less money, send it out of the country and potentially support anti-American nations, if not terrorism itself. Meanwhile, those companies expose our industry secrets, practices and technological expertise to a host of known and potential enemies.
To get a taste of how corporate greed and government complicity in undermining your personal security - and that of the nation - take this little tour. You will have follow directions here carefully.
Click on THIS LINK, at which point you must do the following:
For a little more of an eye-opener, close the search results window and go back to the beginning and do the same search - and select ‘Search all States' for the pilots and navigators. You'll see more than enough to question whether ‘everything possible is being done' to protect us from terrorists gaining potentially dangerous knowledge and expertise from within the aviation industry.
Last I want to share with you the email that has pointed to this information - and its impact on the lives of Americans attempting to compete in the job market with aliens given preference over them. Note that the main page of zazona has quite a bit of information about the H-1B policy, and the ramifications it has to national security, and your safety, as well as information about those aviation industries that figured in the WTC attack The website states:
In the year 2001 over 195,000 more of these workers will be allowed into The United States. More than 671,000 H-1B workers will be employed in the U.S. by the end of 2001.
I would highly recommend you do more than contact Congress and sign the petition. Three people need to hear from us in no uncertain terms. The President, the Vice President and the National Security Advisor CONDOLEEZZA RICE. Now here's that email, and I'm sure ‘John' would not mind hearing some support from you (link enhancement and emphasis are mine):
From: "John" <unemployed_engineer@nettaxi.com>
Subject: Where Did All The Jobs Go? - The H-1B Situation
Date: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 11:01 PM
Where Did All The Jobs Go? - The H-1B Situation
I am a software engineer living in Silicon Valley. Since February, I have been looking for work. My job skills are current and I have experience working at software, biotech and semiconductor firms. During this time, I have submitted hundreds of resumes for various positions. I have only had a few job interviews. However, those interviews were quite informative. For example, on a recent interview, I immediately noticed that the software managers and engineers were from other countries since English was not their first language. This appears to be the situation at all the companies I have recently interviewed with.
I was aware that Congress had recently doubled the number of H-1B visas for skilled foreign workers. "The H-1B nonimmigrant program is a voluntary program that allows employers to temporarily import and employ nonimmigrants admitted under H-1B visas to fill specialized jobs not filled by U.S. workers."
US Dept. of Labor - H-1B final rule
Each company hiring an H-1B employee is required to file a Labor Condition Application (LCA). An LCA is an application filed by a company that wants to hire a foreign national to fill a position within the United States. With this in mind, I wanted to determine how many engineering positions were filled by H-1B engineers at a given company. Since this should be public information, I went to my trusty search engine looking for a LCA database. For some reason, it does not appear that the INS (http://www.ins.gov) or other government web sites provide a LCA database. However, I finally found a web site which has a LCA database at: http://www.zazona.com/ShameH1B
The database link is at (http://www.zazona.com/LCA-Data). Their advanced database search is very helpful. For example in the advanced search, select the state as California, enter a city as Santa Clara, enter the employer name as Hewlett Packard and enter number of records as 100 then press the submit query button. You can see the positions and salaries of the H-1B employees. Looking at the data, we are not talking about a few dozen positions. We are talking about literally hundreds of positions. This is only for the HP offices in Santa Clara. Go back and do the above search but leave the enter a city blank. You will see that Hewlett Packard employs hundreds and hundreds of H-1B workers. Moreover, we are not only losing engineering jobs but H-1B visas are being granted for almost any conceivable position. Just look at the LCA database to see what types of jobs are being denied to U.S. citizens.
This appears to be the only site with a LCA database so I was wondering who created the site. There is an interesting article about its creator at http://www.thestandard.com
Following the recent tragic events, many large firms have instigated massive layoffs. Many engineers have been unable to find work for months. As mentioned above, the H-1B program allows employers to temporarily import and employ non U.S. citizens to fill specialized jobs not filled by U.S. workers. Go back and look at the list of jobs filled at Hewlett Packard by H-1B employees. I personally know of many individuals who are qualified for those positions but are unable to find work. Something is seriously wrong.
I've been told by many hiring agencies that companies now prefer to hire H-1B workers and work them long hours at lower wages - knowing they won't say anything fearing they would lose their H-1B status. At my last firm, the engineering manager had his engineers working many weekends. When one of the H-1B engineers complained, he said that there were plenty of engineers in Taiwan that wanted his place. I have heard other engineers say that managers like to threaten H-1B engineers with losing their H-1B status unless they do exactly what they are told. I've also heard and personally noticed that many companies are hiring H-1B managers with the expressed purpose of having them fill engineering positions with H- 1B engineers from their respective country. Many companies are finding this an inexpensive way to lower costs.
I believe with the current economic conditions the H-1B issue will become a very important topic in the coming months. Frankly, the media and press have not discussed the seriousness of this subject. Why? I believe they did not have the tools and databases required to see the size of the problem. Fortunately, the LCA data is now available at (www.zazona.com/ShameH1B). You can now determine how many and what type of jobs are being denied to unemployed U.S. citizens at a given company and location. What needs to be done to correct this grievous situation.
Congress needs to immediately change the law such that companies must provide immediate employment to qualified unemployed U.S. citizens if an H-1B employee is filling a position a citizen is qualified for. When a company has layoffs, the law should force that company to discharge H-1B employees before U.S. citizens. Let me repeat that the H-1B law says "specialized jobs not filled by U.S. workers". The law was clearly not intended to deny U.S. citizens jobs but this is precisely what it is doing.
Many companies will cry that there are not qualified replacements. I offer them the following challenge. Let me look at each position taken by an H-1B employee. Then let me find an unemployed citizen with similar qualifications. I personally know many unemployed individuals who are qualified for these positions.
Frankly, the U.S. is one of the few countries which now offers unlimited access to its job market at the expense of its own citizens. While going to college, if I had any idea that most of the engineering positions would be taken by H-1B labor, I would never have become an engineer. I advise young people not to become involved in engineering since companies find it easier to hire less expensive foreign labor. The H-1B managers prefer to hire more foreign labor - it's only human nature - so you have a vicious cycle. The end result is that U.S. citizens need not apply.
The recent terrorist events have shown the importance of having U.S. technology handled by U.S. citizens. If the current H-1B situation is not immediately changed, U.S. citizens will abandon the engineering field and our entire technology industry will be controlled by non-citizens. Think about it. You just lost your job and go to the LCA database to learn that 25 H-1B employees are still working in your position. You will not be a happy camper. What can you do to help?
Email this article to all your friends.
Encourage them to look at the LCA database. http://www.zazona.com/LCA-Data/ The job they are losing may be on the list.
Your most powerful action is to write your U.S. Congressperson and Senators. Remember, H-1B employees cannot vote but as a U.S. citizen, your vote counts. Even though powerful companies have heavily contributed to your congressional leaders to keep the H-1B laws in place, companies cannot vote - only you can. Don't let your job be eliminated next.
You can find your congressional representative at these links. Your Congressperson
http://www.house.gov/writerep/ Your Senators
http://www.senate.gov/contacting/index_by_state.cfm
Sign the petition. You will find a petition to send to your congressional representatives at
http://www.zazona.com/H1BPetition/P/petition.html
And finally, don't forget to make a phone call to your local Congressperson and write your local newspaper.
Unemployed Engineer unemployed_engineer@nettaxi.com
Mamoud Salim and Ali Mohamed served and were trainers in our US Army and Special Forces. Yet Ali set up AlQaeda cells in the US and aroung the world for BIn Laden all while he worked for the FBI out of Sacramento. Salim tried to by a nuclear bomb for Bin Laden. Salim testified at the trial in April in NYork along with captured pilots who told of a plot to use airliners in the US as terror weapons. And both Ali and Salim were convicted of the Tanzanian and Kenyan embassy bombings.
The US authorities are now saying they were triple agents and the US got fooled. I think someone in the USG knew like a Robert Hanseen for example. How many more types like this are still in our military still loyal to AlQaeda or some other ME terror group??
They are not socialists, not one of them wants the Government to buy them out, or take them over. They are something which is never talked about, they are a form of internationalist fascism.
In the old days, fascists were nationalists, but not these people. They don't want to run the country, they want to run the world, and it's called globalism. Because fascism has a socialist aspect by which socialist policies are utilized to control the population as a whole, it is sometimes considered to be "socialist" - but, it is basically capitalist in nature.
One other difference between the new fascism and the old is that the capitalists work to control the Government, instead of the Government working to control industry. That's why we see both Clinton and Bush following the same economic policies - NAFTA, WTO, fast-track, "MFN" for China, Vietnam, Indonesia, etc, etc. It's all done for the people in control. That's why we have no standards.
No way has fascism been softened in the American psyche the way socialism has.
Here is the M-W definition of a fascist:
1 often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
2 : a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control
Take the first and slightly modify it and you get: a corporation that exalts the corporation above the individual and that stands for a centralized, autocratic system headed by dictatorial leaders, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.
I think it fits.
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