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

[aaron]

On Wednesday 29 January 2003 14:06, cfowler wrote:
> <BEGGING>Do not run with this and start a wild thread</BEGGING>

Sorry, but you can't throw a bleeding pig into the Amazon River and expect 
all the Piranhas to play dead. However, the well chewed H1-B topic is not 
the political carcass that I need to nibble on in reply...

What I find curious about your letter concerning H1-B abuses is that you 
would bother to send it to Mr. Bush. Surely you don't believe that this 
spoiled rich kid and notoriously arrogant elitist is going to give the 
real problems of common people a moments thought??? I only hope you 
haven't been fooled by the corporate media marketing circus that props up 
our resident select, because it is basically as much of a fraud as he is.

For example, Mr. Bush gave a widely broadcast stump speech to "business 
folk" about the economy at some warehouse in the midwest city last Monday 
(a transparent last ditch PR stunt before he tried to make excuses for 
the Sorry State of the Union). George's handlers staged his podium in 
front of a phony painted backdrop showing stacks of boxes prominently 
stamped with "Made In America" under the banner text "Economic Strength".  
They also placed a few real boxes from the warehouse around the base of 
the podium to complete the scene, only the REAL boxes had tan packing 
tape on the sides to conceal the fact that their contents were "MADE IN 
CHINA". Apparently, in an entire warehouse district, they couldn't find 
12 boxes containing products that were actually made in this country.
(: Go, Go, Gadget Globalization! :) Apparently the corporate controlled 
media won't even scratch the surface of the lies when they are only a few 
mils thick!

Unfortunately, lurking behind the thin veil of orchestrated PR that passes 
for mainstream news, we have the reality. Peeling back the tape we find 
that every one of Mr. Bush's actions since occupying the White House has 
been aimed at either inciting warfare, undermining our constitution or 
legislating pork barrel deficit budgeting scams that are guaranteed to 
bankrupt not just our financial futures, but those of many generations to 
come. Seems the only agendas that get his attention involve covering up 
for his criminal friends and paying off the fellow wealthy imperialists 
that bought the office for him.  The concerns of real working Americans 
don't even register as a butterfly sneeze on the radar of his radical 
right wing regime. If it is not an issue of expanding the Corporate 
Welfare state, padding the bank accounts of fellow billionaires, war 
mongering for the military industrial complex or spilling the blood of 
the innocent to pump up profits for his good ol' oil company buddies, 
your concerns about the massive injustices driving globalization won't 
even get the stock response of an evil, arrogant smirk.

Someday it would be interesting to have a conservative or two in the 
federal government. Since President Carter's final State of the Union, 
all we've seen is an increasingly fascist parade of corporate puppets.

peace
(after justice)
aaron



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


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