Laws against globalization.... 2912

On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Gill Bentry

Hi Gill,

Oh, I don't know. I've read quite a few of you guys on a.c.c teasing, taunting, and calling each other names. But, "we" are up against several posters that just copy and paste off of Indian (and a few others) news sources that are better PR-spinned. I read the WSJ everyday and news out of India is a very dinky part of the big world picture. China is where its really at.

Hell, if we can cutoff trade with Cuba, why not India or

True, but there is no infrastructure in Cuba for trade with us. Its all been suppresed by our state department, etc. US trade with China began over 20 years ago (Nixon era initiatives, etc). At that time it was to balance off the China commies against the USSR commies.

But, guys like you ought to be making contacts with the protectionist enbreasties in the US, submit LTEs to newspapers, etc., and write to senators (not too often, and in handwriting not type-printered letters), etc. Spread the news. Arguing with the Indians on a.c.c is not going to do much except make them taunt and tease US people who lost their jobs. It was the CEOs who stole the jobs. And, its the exchange rate that makes all these 3rd world countries cheap. For all I know, it may stay that way for decades. If so, the USA is doomed. A day may come, soon, where the US$ is worthless abroad. If anything the question might be who has resources worth buying? Maybe low population density countries (Latin America?) instead of high density countries (India, China?). But, with the US having low unemployment (even if the numbers are cooked by the BLS, etc.), there isn't much chance of a serious revolt and the two parties just ignore immigration and all this h1b stuff. Not enough people care.

The H1B program was brought into existence by the

Don't forget our cooperative politicians that the Indian lobby sucks up to and gets favors. Then there are the corporations lobbying for h1b, unions sometimes lobby against but mostly unions lobby to benefit the union, not the citizens and members, so...do we underlings have anyone in power looking out for us? Besides ourselves?

Well, it also better locks employees into thier jobs; unlike US people who can get tired and quit a US company (I hear in IT there was around 30% turnover in the past, which is about the same turnover I'm hearing about as common, now, in India not to mention that pay increases over there are running 20-30% per year, now, just like economists would predict in a hot-tight labor market). So, I can find a wee bit of sympathy for the corporations but they are mostly a bunch of rip-offs.