[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

"This will be exploited by large firms offering the replacement of American workers -legally.. not having to deal with the H-1 visa program. There is no provision in Bush's proposal to prevent it."

Yikes! You have uncovered the real agenda! The new Elite Corporatism raises its snake head once again. It has been masquerading as 'free trade' and now it is masquerading as the new documented worker program.

And last Labor Day, the year hundreds of thousands of middle-class high-tech types became unemployed (but not until they trained all of their foreign replacements), Bush told America that they needed to become better trained.

A little more salt for that wound?

[Zipporah]

Yes a lot more salt. The labor statistics do not address those that are underemployed.