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July
2, 2007 The Exporting of High Tech Jobs Is Only The First Stage Now US High Tech Jobs Are Going To Specially "Green-Carded" Non-Americans. plus Humor: If GM Cars Were Built by Microsoft. And Is Bill Gates Really The Anti-Christ? and Microsoft's Stock Looks Vulnerable I got an old customer back this week. He had been laid off when his high- tech company moved from California two years ago. Now the company has moved back. And he has been re-hired, but at a lower salary! Some folks would say that I should not concern myself with whether or not American companies keep their workers here and what they pay them. But this little story teaches me that I will benefit as a businessman if my customers, many of whom are high tech professionals, are paid a decent wage and their jobs are not sent overseas. So, you see, it is my business. Goldman Sachs says that up to 6 million white collar jobs will be lost in the US over ten years, due to outsourcing. Asked about this in the 2004 Presidential Debates, Bush said someone whose high-tech job is outsourced should go back to community college and retool. "I have a Computer Science degree, so I should go back and get a degree in. . . what?" asked one jobless worker posting in a ZDNet forum. Said another: "I'm nearly 50, with 20 years in the IT field, and can't get a job 2 years after being laid-off due to outsourcing. I'm supposed to go back to school -- and do what?" Source: http://www.cpsr.org/pubs/workingpapers/1/Brigham ) NY Times, 2/15/2004:"Many New Causes for Old Problem of Jobs Lost Abroad" There has been a considerable comeback from the days of the biggest layoffs between 2001 and 2004. But the layoffs continue at places like Micro Technologies and now there is a new threat to IT workers. The Green-Carding of American High-Tech Now Microsoft's Bill Gates says that he just can't find enough qualified American workers. He urges Congress to increase the immigration of high tech employees because there are not enough qualified professionals here. What self-serving tripe!. He knows he can pay someone from India who can get a "Green Card" much less. He just wants to make more money! How much more money does he need? Every day qualified high tech workers are being laid off in the US as obscenely over-paid corporate executives seek a higher profit margin by exploiting American workers who must longer and longer hours, for smaller and smaller pay checks. .That's plain wrong and it hurts my business, too! The Washington Post has recently run an article showing that Microsoft does not even recruit on any California State University campus. One lady wrote: "The H-1B program is simply a ploy by Bill Gates and Michael Dell to flood the American market with cheap foreign labor and to bring down wages in America. My husbands job was offshored and he's had difficulty finding another one. He has two Masters degrees from Universities in the US. How much more educated can he get? No one can be an idiot and make it through 2 Masters programs." Now with so many high tech jobs going overseas, many students do not trust American companies. Why should they learn the skills for a job which will probably be outsourced, or for which there will be a green-carded high tech professional? Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/comments/display?contentID=AR2007022301697&start=81 "The vast majority of American companies that hire foreign worker through the H-1B visa program do not have to prove - or even declare - that they have searched for American workers first.' Foreign workers can be hired under this program for up to six years. (Atlantic Journal Constitution - 5/20/2007) Source: http://www.thetigerbeat.com/utilities/newsclip/pdf/2007/2007_05_20_Atlanta_Journal_high_tech_visas_Hira.pdf The Watchdog agency of Congress, the General Accounting Office, says there are serious flaws in two oft-cited reports from companies like Microsoft that claim that the nation is suffering from a shortage of technology workers. (Goggle "Boston Globe article on H1-B/"Shortage". ". For more information: http://beta.h1b.info/ |
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Humor BILL GATES VS GENERAL MOTORS (Source: http://www.lifeisajoke.com/miscellaneous7_html.htm ) At a recent
computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto
industry and stated that :- "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer
industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 miles to the
gallon."
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Bill Gates Really The Anti-Christ? The real name of "the" Bill Gates is William Henry Gates III. Nowadays he is known as Bill Gates (III), where "III" means the order of third (3rd.) By converting the letters of his current name to the ASCII-values and adding his (III), you get the following: B 66 I 73 L 76 L 76 G 71 A 65 T 84 E 69 S 83 + 3 -------------- 666 !! Some might ask, "How did Bill Gates get so powerful?" Coincidence? Or just the beginning of mankind's ultimate and total enslavement??? YOU decide! Before you decide, consider the following: M S - D O S 6 . 2 1 77+83+45+68+79+83+32+54+46+50+49 = 666 W I N D O W S 9 5 87+73+78+68+79+87+83+57+53+1 = 666 Coincidence? |
| Micorsoft's
Stock Looks Vulnerable MSFT's stock has essentially missed the 2003-2007 bull market. It has gained very little since the market's bottom in March 2003, when it was 23, up only to 29.47. Meanwhile, the DJI-30 has risen from 7500 to 13,500 the Indian Stock Market has boomed from 3000 to 14,100 or +367%. Its Tiger chart shows it to be under Big-Money Distribution. Bill Gates is still a very big seller. And the stock is again under-performing the DJI-30.   |