In January, Microsoft announced it’s very first mass layoffs when they eliminated 5,000 U.S. jobs. Quietly, Microsoft was still investing and hiring new workers in India.
Now, several tech & business sources are reporting that Microsoft is going to eliminate up to 3,600 more U.S. jobs.
Yet, Microsoft is still paying dozens of lawyers to lobby Congress for more H-1B visas for cheap foreign tech workers. Bill Gates has testified dozens of times in front of the U.S. House and Senate in an effort to get Congress to approve more H-1B foreign workers. Despite, the January job cuts and the expected 3,600 coming later this year, Bill Gates is still scheduled to testify before Congress that they should totally eliminate the current annual H-1B cap of 65,000. Bill Gates wants an unlimited number of foreign tech workers to flood our market so that they can eliminate more U.S. workers and hire more cheap foreign labor mostly from China and India.
Despite our struggling economy, leaders from the Democratic party support bringing in more foreign tech workers to displace U.S. workers and bring down wages of those U.S. tech workers that are lucky enough to keep their jobs.
The Democrats and moderate Republicans are horrible on this issue. During the campaign trail, then Senator Obama supported bringing in more U.S. tech workers. Hillary Clinton, Chris Dodd, Bill Richardson, Fred Thompson, John McCain, and Ron Paul all went on record with interviews that stated they were ok with bringing in more cheap foreign H-1B visa holders.
We will continue to watch this issue and call on everyone to call / email the clowns in congress when this is close to coming up for a vote again.
We need to stand by American workers. We need to strive for American self-reliance.
Washington can shove its globalist agenda.
Exactly!! We need to stop letting in immigrants for the sole reason to work. Americans need jobs right now. This hasn’t been always the case but trust me, there are thousands of very educated American citizens that are qualified for these tech jobs. Heck, even grunt jobs! Bill Gates isn’t worried about his fellow countrymen. He’s worried about cheap foreign labor. Oh and don’t forget that 95% of the time, when an immigrant comes here on a work visa, they stay after it has expired and fall into the “illegal status.” That’s a quote from the INS.
Take the stimulus bill. It has all kinds of infrastructure projects in it. There was a clause that ensured that the jobs were contracted out to American workers but the Democrats took it out and are now employing CHEAP FOREIGN LABOR for our stimulus. It makes no sense.
Again I say, globalism is on the march and it’s killing AMerican manufacturing.
Mica
I did read the blog that you had referenced, and I completely agree with that one. However, illegal vs legal aliens is the issue. Stopping the entrance of illegal aliens into the country should be one of our top priorities as it hurts our economy and posses an enormous security risk.
Legal immigrants that come here specifically for work and pay taxes is a big part of making our economy run. We should concentrate more on training and educating Americans for these jobs more than keeping out qualified workers that keep companies like Microsoft fueling the technology that advances our country.
If we stop letting in or reduce the amount of workers that those companies are looking for, they will just outsource to foreign countries.
Matt
Matt, First thank you for the compliment. Also, I absolutely admire the way you tactfully disagree. I always respect an opinion that disagrees but does so in a respectful manner.
With that, I’d like to state that I disagree with our free market agreements. I have done lots of research on the subject and have come to the conclusion that it is killing America’s manufacturing economy. Also, you may want to look at my blog “Now is the time to be selfish.” I am all for immigrants because they usually have the best work ethic but we can’t help ourselves right now. How are we supposed to let others in and give them jobs? Americans don’t have jobs!
About a month ago there was a high school in Ohio that put out an add for a janitorial position that paid $9 an hour. They received over 700 applicants! That is ridiculous. And the Obama administration is pushing for 20 million new H-1b visas. Geez! It’s killing us.
Also, make sure you read the post above this one about the recent study done on the subject. It’s very interesting.
Mica,
I have agreed with basically everything that I have read of yours so far. But I think this time you are a little off. Our country was started and has grown on the backs of immigrants. We have a free market economy and with that it means that companies are looking for the most talented and for a lack of a better word cheapest employees possible. Now I am not saying that we need to fire all US employees and hire a bunch of foreigners, but we can not turn into a protectionist society. We tried this about 70 years ago and it proved not to work.
With that said – I love what you do – keep it up!!!