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Would you say that if you could not find work for over a year? There is no way, and I don't mean to sound self-righteous about this, that I would not be able to find work for over a year. If, for some reason, I could not practice law, I would start a bookeeping or secretarial service, or a delivery service, something to keep money coming in. I'd have to in order to survive!

This country was founded on competition and innovation. I'm not ignoring the fact that things are tough for a lot of people right now, and it's tempting to blame cheap foreign competition, or greedy corporate policies. But those things have always been with us.

My grandfather came here from Italy to Birmingham, Alabama, where he was considered the "cheap foreign labor." He worked his butt off doing jobs that the Americans wouldn't do, bought crummy houses, moved his wife and 5 kids into them and fixed them up and sold them.

It's the same story for millions of Irish, Italian, German, English, Norwegian Americans. And it's why we Should be the heartiest breed in the world, because our ancestors were of stock that was not afraid to leave home to make a better life.

All of that drive is still somewhere in our collective gene pool. We have just been spoiled by the inflated prosperity of the last few years. Now it's time to roll up our sleeves and get to work.

Your Honor, I object.
The boatlawyer has taken my client's comments out of context.
My client simply meant he/she has been unable to find a salary situation that had previously matched their level of achievement, this was not meant to imply that my client was disinclined to accept a position that was benaeath his/her previous level of compensation, but that once said client reached the age of 40, there were no such offers.
I plead with the court to at least grant those reaching this plateau in life, where the white picket fence has met the wheels of globalism, to at least gather their splinters and shattered dreams and rebuild them into more than a fire to keep warm.

There is no way, and I don't mean to sound self-righteous about this, that I would not be able to find work for over a year. If, for some reason, I could not practice law, I would start a bookeeping or secretarial service, or a delivery service, something to keep money coming in. I'd have to in order to survive!

Nice of you to want to give your job and your career to some foreigner in another country. Good for you if you would be happy being a secretary while your government gives all the lawyer jobs to foreigners. The fact is that because you are a lawyer you will never have to worry about this because the government bureaucrats will watch out for their own. It is easy for someone like you to talk about how you would just "do something else". Some Engineers in this country are Engineers and can not just flip a switch and be a secretary or a business person. Also, why should our government give American jobs to foreigners? Exactly who is representing who?

This is a far cry from the current H-1B visa policy. Corporations are bringing people over here. There is no risk.

All of that drive is still somewhere in our collective gene pool. We have just been spoiled by the inflated prosperity of the last few years. Now it's time to roll up our sleeves and get to work.

Oh yes, let's just give away all of our "good" jobs and start putting on our WalMart uniforms. And please lets smile while we watch all the foreigners buy our homes.