Booyah! Democrats Please Stop the Insanity!
It was good news that the Democrats were elected majority party for both the Senate and the House. I hope it becomes a breath of fresh air instead of business as usual.
I hope they have the insight to realize that the American middle class is critical and that they must do whatever is necessary to protect the American Dream. Bush and the previous Republican Congress gave middle class Americans a royal poke in the eye which should never be tolerated again.
Republican abuse lowered wages for Americans with jobs, transferred millions of high paying American jobs to foreign countries, highly increased the number of Americans without medical insurance, saddled each of millions of college students with tens of thousands of dollars of debt, made a joke out of elected officials not following the law, such as not arresting employers of illegal aliens, and created a second society in America - the Spanish speakers to name just a few of their transgressions. America tolerated two societies before for more than 200 years and it is wrong now too.
George W. Bush started class warfare in America and it is time it stopped. We all know multi-millionaires like him and many others in Congress benefited from what has happened during the last 6 years, but most of us in the middle class suffered. We know that you can send your kids to private schools and then to Ivy League Universities and pay full tuition without mortgaging your homes or anchoring your children with massive student loans. We know high energy prices do not harm your household budget. Not raising minimum wage for those years is a mortal sin and each of you need to spend many hours with your clergy for direction. Million of other middle class Americans were fired and replaced by people in foreign countries. Millions of other Americans were fired and replaced by illegal aliens in America.
Many of the people you recommended to Congress for jobs, hired people that did not pay minimum wage or contribute to their social security account. To me that is slavery and was outlawed more than a hundred years ago by President Lincoln. Mr. President and the Republican congress how can you and your colleagues be so outrageous?
President Bush called this election a thumping. The President and the new Democratic Congress must get it right during the next two years or they all will receive another thumping by the voters.
Congress, Wake Up!
There is no URL, I looked, but the following comments were in the hardcopy issue of "Red Herring" magazine of November 13, 2006 in the “Publishers Letter” (Alex Vieux) titled “ A Tale of Statistics”...
New studies show that China and India will not only force job displacement but also cause middle class turmoil...
The tech sector should realize that most of the rapid growth is occurring outside of the US--mostly in Japan, south Korea, China, and India....
The (U.S. small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) the Holy Grail of the tech sector may be shrinking in the future....
...The US tech world still lags far behind the heyday in the US while it is blossomig in Japan, china, and other International strongholds...
...Nasdaq will remain at its current level until the end of the decade or beyond.....
My comments:
This is happening across the range of all technology in America including IT, medicine, research, engineering, graphic design...America was first in all industries in the world for the most part...but now are in a steep decline. And also it is happening to other professional groups like attorneys, accountants, business analysts, writers......
And where the jobs are not outsourced overseas they are lost by bringing in H1b's, foreign nationals, who came because supposedly no Americans were available for the job...but Americans are available now by far, yet no h1b has ever been sent back to their home countries...and American industry is requesting congress to increase the immigration levels of these "temporary workers".
American students are ignoring the technical majors more and more because they are informed what has happened to those professionals during the past six years.
I believe this is all President Bush and Congress’s approach to free trade...where everything business wants to do is ok... is wrong for America. American foreign trade and H1b immigration policies are a farce. Many of us in my generation have suffered job loss due to foreign outsourcing and the H1b infection. I was an IT pro for 30 years and an officer in a professional organization. I do not know anyone in the business anymore...most are trying to start over...the older lucky ones retired. In the old days, up to 6 years ago, in the Big Apple, if you wanted to change jobs you would update your resume and go to interviews and have several offers within 2 or 3 weeks at higher pay. Now it is almost impossible to even get an interview. Today most of the recruiters for IT employment or temporary work are Indian nationals. If you get an interview you will meet Indian H1b's doing the interview even though you are there for a job in America.
If this continues our children and grandchildren will not have any good jobs in their future.
And not protecting the borders or prosecuting the employers of illegal aliens is despicable. This widely and unfairly increased the supply of workers and caused the salary and benefit levels to drop for millions of American workers in landscaping, construction, meatpacking, supermarkets, fast food, warehouses, hotels, restaurants, and other industries.
Today there are two societies in America...the Spanish and the English, which is another mistake. We already lived through the 2 society mistake before for more than 200 years until the 1960's civil rights movement. Today many employers have ads for Spanish or English Spanish speakers only...you know no English only speaking person like most of us are going to get any of those jobs. And the Spanish speaking society is getting bigger by more than a million people each year.
Manufacturing has seen this happen in even a bigger way and nothing has been done to help the blue-collar workers and industries. My blue-collar work in the 1960's paid for my college education and living expenses, which probably meant they went twice as far than the blue-collar wages of today. In fact my full time tuition for an out of state student was $250 and was $500 at its highest and in state undergraduate tuition was free. Tuition is out of hand today. Most of the recent college graduates that I know now have tens of thousands of debt and feel lucky to obtain sales jobs or highway store assistant management positions and are behind in their repayments.
The Spanish speakers are the largest minority in America and will influence more jobs. African-Americans already lost any privileges they may have won in the past. Already thousands of English only teachers have been fired to be replaced by ESL Spanish-English teachers. How soon do you think it will be before millions of others will be fired because they do not speak Spanish like police, firemen, ambulance workers, more teachers, other government workers, and business workers? Press 1 for English, press 2 for Spanish.
I think it is a good first step that the Democrats took the Senate and House...many elected officials are outraged too about the economy and immigration...The more critical time is to find a creative president with a positive vision for America within the next two years. The current leaders for President (McCain, Hillary, and Guiliani) are all part of the problem and no good. All of us have to get involved actively in the political process.
This past Tuesday, President Bush took a thumping by losing Congress to the Democrats...I think voter rage will continue and build to the Presidential election in 2 years and probably longer. In the next election both the Republicans and the Democrats up for re-election are at risk if Congress and Executive do not accomplish some meaningful positive things between now and then.
