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cantwealljustgetalong (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-03 05:28 AM Original message |
Crisis continues: US may abolish H1-B visa... |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 12:31 PM Response to Original message |
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Love Bug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 12:35 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Won't companies then just outsource more IT jobs? |
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northernsoul (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 12:43 PM Response to Reply #2 |
8. well, I'm getting out of IT |
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GOPHater (281 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-03 11:46 AM Response to Reply #2 |
58. Not paid the same |
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WhoCountsTheVotes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 02:43 PM Response to Reply #1 |
28. Repeal H1B now, NAFTA tomorrow |
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Frances (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 12:37 PM Response to Original message |
3. 2 constiuents at my representative's town hall meeting |
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cantwealljustgetalong (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 12:45 PM Response to Reply #3 |
9. Unemployment Has Touched A Third Of Valley Households... |
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htuttle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 12:37 PM Response to Original message |
4. There's really only one solution to this issue |
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Sentath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 12:46 PM Response to Reply #4 |
11. *bleep*in' A |
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Lostnote03 (850 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 01:27 PM Response to Reply #4 |
20. You Got That Right!!! |
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Wapsie B (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 02:14 PM Response to Reply #4 |
23. Whoever tried to do such a thing |
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WhoCountsTheVotes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 02:45 PM Response to Reply #4 |
29. Wobbly Kick! |
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searchingforlight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 12:38 PM Response to Original message |
5. This is not going to solve the problem. |
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OrAnarch (433 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 12:46 PM Response to Reply #5 |
10. Come on now... |
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w4rma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 12:52 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Bingo, OrAnarch. You hit the nail on the head, IMHO. (n/t) |
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MrMonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 12:56 PM Response to Reply #10 |
16. I join in saying "Bushwah" |
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MindPilot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 01:55 PM Response to Reply #5 |
21. Since when are IT people "in great demand"? |
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Sushi_lover (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 12:39 PM Response to Original message |
6. Hi Tech sector will take a big hit |
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dfong63 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-03 01:09 AM Response to Reply #6 |
49. oh, like there aren't enough qualified americans to fill those jobs |
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displacedtexan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 12:39 PM Response to Original message |
7. these are the techies |
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w4rma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 12:48 PM Response to Original message |
12. Abolish it! It only serves to export our resources out of the country. |
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AliceWonderland (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 12:53 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. Sure |
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w4rma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 12:58 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. It would be an economic boom, IMHO, since manufacturing would come back |
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AliceWonderland (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 01:11 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Boom |
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w4rma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 04:37 PM Response to Reply #18 |
34. You want me to complain about American jobs being sent to China |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 07:20 PM Response to Reply #18 |
41. When I can FIND |
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Kamika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 12:52 PM Response to Original message |
14. THIS IS GREAT!!!!!!!! |
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ramapo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 01:18 PM Response to Original message |
19. About time |
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Adamocrat (403 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 02:06 PM Response to Original message |
22. Anecdote... |
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shanti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 02:19 PM Response to Original message |
24. i've seen a huge increase in east indians |
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GregW (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 02:23 PM Response to Original message |
25. One thing I notice on the continuous "Bash Indian workers" threads .. |
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WhoCountsTheVotes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 03:21 PM Response to Reply #25 |
30. Of course you think that, you're management |
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OrAnarch (433 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 05:10 PM Response to Reply #25 |
37. Of Course I Don't work in IT... |
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cantwealljustgetalong (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 09:27 PM Response to Reply #25 |
47. Director or VP of IT?... |
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Kenneth ken (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 10:02 PM Response to Reply #25 |
48. what a crappy argument |
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GregW (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-03 01:57 AM Response to Reply #48 |
50. Person or budget? |
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Kenneth ken (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-03 06:33 AM Response to Reply #50 |
55. try again |
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Virginian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-03 03:25 AM Response to Reply #48 |
52. Unemployed IT worker. |
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TecnoCrat (47 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-03 02:16 AM Response to Reply #25 |
51. Lemme put it this way. |
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CivilRightsNow (646 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-03 03:32 AM Response to Reply #25 |
53. Whatever |
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CivilRightsNow (646 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-03 03:58 AM Response to Reply #53 |
54. Speak of the devil |
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geomon (358 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 02:27 PM Response to Original message |
26. I hope NAFTA is next... |
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OrAnarch (433 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 05:16 PM Response to Reply #26 |
38. Sometimes I think NAFTAs is my only hope |
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freeforall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 08:53 PM Response to Reply #38 |
44. OrAnarch... |
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OrAnarch (433 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 09:01 PM Response to Reply #44 |
45. thanks... |
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no_arbusto (548 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 02:35 PM Response to Original message |
27. The jobs will just go to India with the workers. |
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Frances (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 03:39 PM Response to Reply #27 |
31. The corporations just want to make money |
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SharonAnn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 05:09 PM Response to Reply #31 |
36. Yes, but that's a different visa. I think it's an L-2 visa |
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Trek234 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 03:54 PM Response to Original message |
32. Very bad |
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Kamika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 04:56 PM Response to Reply #32 |
35. were destroying india |
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nolabels (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 05:25 PM Response to Reply #35 |
40. This seems to me, partly of what happened to Iraq |
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GRClarkesq (595 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-03 12:24 PM Response to Reply #35 |
61. They are people not property |
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reprobate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 04:07 PM Response to Original message |
33. My only contact with outsourcing to India. |
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GRClarkesq (595 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-03 12:22 PM Response to Reply #33 |
60. Never happen |
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PhuLoi (748 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 05:20 PM Response to Original message |
39. The H1-B is being replaced with the L-1 visa, it's worse. |
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WhoCountsTheVotes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-03 10:39 AM Response to Reply #39 |
57. Corporate Indentured Servitude - H1-B, L-1 |
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GRClarkesq (595 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-03 12:17 PM Response to Reply #39 |
59. H-1B and L-1 not the same thing |
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maxsolomon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 07:29 PM Response to Original message |
42. populist issue #1 |
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WhoCountsTheVotes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-03 01:20 PM Response to Reply #42 |
62. Dean has already come out AGAINST saving US jobs |
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w4rma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-03 03:01 PM Response to Reply #62 |
63. Dean on free trade (pro-fair trade) |
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Nottingham (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 08:44 PM Response to Original message |
43. Oh They Better Because if they don't the Americans are gonna |
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inthecorneroverhere (842 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-03 09:13 PM Response to Original message |
46. I know I'm gonna be unpopular among some here, but here goes... |
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Logansquare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-03 10:10 AM Response to Original message |
56. Another viewpoint |
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