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It's all about money
I've been working in IT for 10 years now. I think the idea that there is a shortages of IT workers is a myth. It's all about the workers being available at a price companies want to pay. Equivalent American workers are more expensive than H1-B workers and companies don't want compete for American talent when they can import eager workers from abroad for less money.
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Are any of you football fans? Outsourcing American jobs is the equivalent of sending your favorite quaterback to play for the other team. Then your team gets to play in the big leagues against another pro team two men short! Two because the other team has a talented extra man and your team is one man short of full strength.

The American government and state chartered corporations are supposed to provide the welfare , security and prosperity of the governed. Corporate agendas are supposed to take a back seat to the will and needs of 'We the People'. After all, corporations are merely tools, fictious people created by the minds of men. Should the carpenter bow down and worship a hammer? Should 'We the People' do without so our fictious creation may prosper?

During the American Revolution our ancestors held a Tea Party in Boston harbor. One of the things we revolted against were British corporations. After the revolution corporations were chartered in the states for a public purpose and limited time. - Repeal

"It is necessary to go back to some fundamentals in our history to understand how the modern corporation, initially a creature of the state, has managed to turn things around so that today, the state is a creature of the corporation." -Molly Rush, "Rethinking the Corporation, Rethinking Democracy" workshop participant

"I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country." -Thomas Jefferson, 1816

Every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add... artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society--the farmers, mechanics, and laborers--who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government. (President Andrew Jackson, veto of national bank bill, July 10, 1832).

The system of corporate life is a new power, for which our language contains no life. We have no word to express government by monied corporations. (Charles Francis Adams, A Chapter of Erie, 1869).

"[A U.S.] Supreme Court ruling in 1886 ... arguably set the stage for the full-scale development of the culture of capitalism, by handing to corporations the right to use their economic power in a way they never had before. Relying on the Fourteenth Amendment, added to the Constitution in 1868 to protect the rights of freed slaves, the Court ruled that a private corporation is a natural person under the U.S. Constitution, and consequently has the same rights and protection extended to persons by the Bill of Rights, including the right to free speech. Thus corporations were given the same "rights" to influence the government in their own interests as were extended to individual citizens, paving the way for corporations to use their wealth to dominate public thought and discourse. The debates in the United States in the 1990s over campaign finance reform, in which corporate bodies can "donate" millions of dollars to political candidates stem from this ruling although rarely if ever is that mentioned. Thus, corporations, as "persons," were free to lobby legislatures, use the mass media, establish educational institutions such as many business schools founded by corporate leaders in the early twentieth century, found charitable organizations to convince the public of their lofty intent, and in general construct an image that they believed would be in their best interests. All of this in the interest of "free speech." -- (Bold Emphasis Added) Richard Robbins, Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism, (Allyn and Bacon, 1999), p.100

"the Supreme Court ruled no such thing in 1886. The 'corporations are persons' ruling was a fiction created by the court's reporter. He simply wrote the words into the headnote of the decision. The words contradict what the court actually said. There is, in fact, in the US National Archives a note by the Supreme Court Chief Justice of the time explicitly informing the reporter that the court had not ruled on corporate personhood in the Santa Clara case." -- Thom Hartmann, Dinosaur War, The Ecologist, December/January 2002 Issue


"The recent quantum leap in the ability of transnational corporations to relocate their facilities around the world in effect makes all workers, communities and countries competitors for these corporations' favor. The consequence is a "race to the bottom" in which wages and social conditions tend to fall to the level of the most desperate." Jeremy Brecher, historian and author

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