Huge Guest worker increase in the works 2/17/08

[onbudsman]

another knife in the back of American workers, at the worst possible time

so what do Hillary & Obama have to say about this?

does this issue fall under 'change', 'hope' or 'experience'?

From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
Date: Sunday 17FEB08 4 p.m. EST


Congress needs to hear from you this week -- Stop the increases in foreign workers & amnesty

DEAR FRIENDS,

Just when you think the Big Business Lobbyists can't be any more callous ...

At the same time as reports that we may be in an economic recession and that the job market is getting more and more difficult for Americans, the magazines, newspapers and airwaves are filled with op-eds, editorials and articles quoting the business leaders and lobbyists saying we must import more foreign workers!

Both the Democratic and Republican leadership of U.S. House and Senate are right now conspiring to bring legislation to the floor to greatly expand the pool of foreign labor in this country -- even as they talk about the need for taxpayers to provide more unemployment compensation for all the Americans who are losing their jobs.

This kind of insanity is nothing new.

And it will never slow down unless we as a Lobby of the People mobilize in massive fashion to put an end to it.

Please go to your NumbersUSA Action Buffet corkboard and make sure you have taken all the actions we have provided you to stand up against this latest effort of the Big Business Lobby to depress wages and foist major new subsidies upon the taxpayers.

I have been working full-time on these immigration issues since 1991. The Big Business Lobby and its well-compensated friends in Congress always use every upturn in the economy to cry for more foreign labor because of perceived shortages. But they never change their tune when the economy turns down. In every period of rising unemployment, the Big Business Lobby continues to cry about terrible worker shortages and always brings in hundreds of thousands of foreign workers during recessions.

Your NumbersUSA Capitol Hill Team has talked to a number of people who have been in high level Hill meetings where leaders of both Parties have expressed a desire during this time of economic turmoil to sneak through giant increases of H-1B visas for foreign tech workers, H-2B visas for foreign laborers, greencards for permanent foreign nurses and a five-year visa for 12-20 million illegal foreign workers and their dependents.

Friends, I know that all of this may seem too crazy to be true. But please believe me that that the worse our country's economic situation, the more your congressional leaders see a chance to give their corporate sponsors the huge foreign labor increases that the People's Lobby has been blocking the last several years.

Send your faxes immediately. Remember that Monday is a federal holiday. Wait to make your phone calls until Tuesday.

Congressional leaders hope you will be so busy worrying about your own jobs that you won't notice them giving away millions more through immigration increases.

THANKS,

[rurallib]

1. Kick - this needs exposure

Everyday those scoundrels are in office is another day to screw the country while nobody watches.

[onbudsman]

2. in the past, they avoided this during recession

since it was harder to maintain the LIE about what this is really about when you glut the market during a recession

instead, what they would do, is when the economy looked best, they'd jack the numbers sky high, then massacre the workforce during the next recession

they actually tried that last summer, right before the economy started to plunge - why do you think they were so desparate to jam a huge guest worker bill down America's throat last summer? they saw what was coming, and ordered a baseball bat for visiting American workers during the recession that was around the next corner

they didnt get their way, so they've taken the gloves off and want to pound the labor market as planned anyway

every Democrat needs to get that there is a very real war on the middle and working class citizens, and that both parties are in on it

it's not 'like a war', it IS a war, and and unlike other wars, this is the war where the average American actually loses everything. the war is fought with WTO/GATT/NAFTA/MFN-China/Singapore-chile trade agreement/H-1b visas, etc etc etc. the surrender of sovereignty from the US citizen to a wealthy elite is every bit as real as a white flag offered to a gun

(in the wars of the past, it was only the soldier (and family) defending his/her country who lost everything)

[Faux pas]

3. We need to go back to the barter system. Bring our jobs home

then we'll start buying your products again.

[onbudsman]

4. here's another

please call your reps, or you can use NumbersUSA's free fax service to quickly and easily send a fax to your senators and congress rep - you can choose several alternate texts they have written, you can customize it or write your own.

numbersusa is also against illegal immigration. i dont expect everyone here to agree with that, but the guest worker issue is wage suppression, plain and simple. everything the middle/working class experiences in earnings and workplace quality pain, derives from eroded bargaining power with their employer, plain and simple. you cannot ignore this issue if you support American workers. And since most Americans are workers, I dont see you anyone but the absolute top wealth can support their country without supporting workers

Dear Faxer:

Tell your Congressmen that America doesn't need more foreign workers!

This new fax has been posted in your Action Buffet based on your answers to the Interest Survey.

You can find this fax by proceeding to
http://www.numbersusa.com/faxes?ID=9576


Both the Democratic and Republican leadership of U.S. House and Senate are right now conspiring to bring legislation to the floor to greatly expand the pool of foreign labor in this country -- even as they talk about the need for taxpayers to provide more unemployment compensation for all the Americans who are losing their jobs.



CEOs and lobbying interests for big business are clamoring for more foreign workers, and it seems that Congress is listening. THIS MUST BE STOPPED!



Send a fax to your Congressmen and make sure they know that America has plenty of unemployed workers to fill any open jobs.




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