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To: Dat Mon

I worked for a staffing company - which, by the way - gave excellent benefits - however, they were contract positions.

A lot of US people DID take the jobs - the vast majority left wives and kids at home for very extended periods (up to years) and lived in small apt.s with other transplants. A large number chose NOT to take the jobs, and in those cases, when we were pressed , we went with H1B's. You all are making me feel like a traitor for doing it, and I don't think that's fair.

If a rule is in place, and your competitors are using the same rules to compete in the same market (a global market, how creepy is that?) how can you condemn a company, or a recruiter, for doing what they can to survive economically?

The trade rules need to be changed. The policies that encourage outsourcing need to be changed. The laws that allow OSHA to go in and fine Boeing $20,000 (or was it $200,000?) for having a bottle of Windex out of it's designated spot - things have to change or there will be no domestic employers left here.


183 posted on 10/07/2004 7:23:17 PM PDT by Julie(LCR) (democrats thrive when good people sit back and do nothing)
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To: LeftCoastRebel
The economic system that is in place now is what I would term a government entitlement program which benefits selected businesses. I am against entitlements in principle, and am inclined towards a level playing field for all.

The H1b program operates under the jurisdiction of the Federal government, which has the authority under the constitution to regulate commerce between the US and other nations.

The official policies of the government should NOT be policies which put some US citizens at an economic disadvantage. The free market not only establishes the prices of goods, but services as well (employment being a service transaction basically). Using H1b, a company has now circumvented the free market, establishing an artificial wage scale, with the power of the government to underwrite it.

I appreciate that you do not want to be part of the problem.

I wish that others also would share your concerns.
185 posted on 10/07/2004 7:45:10 PM PDT by Dat Mon (clever tagline under construction)
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