[ale] OT: Response to the State of the Union

[matty91 at bellsouth.net]

On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, cfowler wrote:

> <BEGGING>Do not run with this and start a wild thread</BEGGING>
>
> I wrote a very long letter to Bush in regards to his speech last night.
> I include a topic of H1-B.  I'm sending you my comments so you can
> coninue this by sending our people on Capitol Hill emails and snail
> mails.  I send him this long letter via email and followed up with a
> snail mailed copy.
>
> Here is what I wrote:
> H1B:
>
> Man is this a sore subject when it comes to the tech industry.  I don't
> have to elaborate but I hear many times a week when someone has been
> laid off and H1-B's still exist.  This could be fact or fiction but a
> question must be answered:
>
> "If *any* American IT workers are looking for jobs, Why do we allow
> H1-B's to stay in America?"
>
> It goes back to America needs to help Americans and that includes
> everyone.  You, CEO's, employees, and anyone else who dare calls them
> self American.  To me it is treason against your fellow American when
> you provide a job to a immigrant when there is an American standing in
> line for that job.  Would you not agree?
>
> Bottom line:  From today until further notice,  The H1-B program is
> suspended and all H1-B visas are revoked until unemployment levels go
> back down to an acceptable level of 0.0001%.  Makes since does it not.
>

Amen!

>
> Please run with the ball and start the letters flowing out.
>
>
>
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