Our manufacturing industry in the United States is in the

toilet. Johnson Rubber of poor old Ohio - will close it's

doors to it's 500 workers in April - a 100 year old firm.

We have always needed guest workers for agriculture - but

this is the last straw - when Bill Gates tells congress that

we don't have the skilled workers here in the USA to fill

info-tech jobs!

I'm all ears for any bright ideas as to what exactly we

ARE supposed to do.

We have local experience with these imported info-tech

workers. It is not a good feeling to know that they are

being underpaid - and they ARE - many of their fellow

workers report that these are nice people but there is real

anger that our jobs are being farmed out!

So true, engineer.

Here's a site that may offer more info as time goes on:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h...

I am totally against this requested increase and am going

to call my Congressman - now. What really irks me, is that

sometimes when I ask his office how he intends to vote on an

issue........they tell me they won't know until after the

vote! I can only hope that fence he likes to sit on is a

picket fence!! And - yes, that's one of "my" Democrats,

sorry to say he's now touting how he is a Conservative Dem -

gag me!

From the Times of India article linked below, and entitled:

Study shows H1-B visas create more jobs (LOL)

"Combined these two studies show that US employers continue

to need skilled labour, including individuals not born in

the United States who, the empirical evidence indicates, are

creating new opportunities for US workers"

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/H1-B_visas_c...

I just refuse to see the up-side. Like the standard -

"When one door closes.......another door opens"

That's all well and good when you are trying to cheer up

a fellow who's CAREER position has been outsourced -

but I never left a job thinking how much fun it would be

knocking on "another" door looking for a job.

Gee - the opportunity to find out what they do in the

back room at MacDonalds AND the challenge of feeding the

family,the pets and the mortgage on minimum wage -

Lucky us!

Thanks for the heads up AnteUP; have to come back when the story will open. I have not been having an easy time this morning navigating on Propeller.