This short condensed section contains quotes that offer direct advice on what one
can do to oppose the offshore outsourcing from different perspectives according
to various roles assumed in life.
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Let's admit that our democratic, constitutional, system has been
sidetracked. Until we return power to the hands of flesh and blood citizens
EXCLUSIVELY, until corporations are summarily striped of "personhood," until
this legal obscenity is abolished, we flesh and blood citizens can have no real
freedom, democracy cannot flourish. Furthermore, to ensure that the will of the
people is respected and reigns supreme, all members of our federal judiciary
must face periodic reelection by the citizens — just as is the case for our
judiciary here in California.
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We could stop giving companies tax incentives to move jobs abroad. We could insist that
technologies developed by taxpayer-funded research (as virtually everything is)
can be licensed only to American companies using local labor for, say, 10 years.
We could decide that companies with a large percentage of their workforce
located overseas no longer qualify for lucrative "American-only" federal
contracts.
The path toward enabling more Americans to make a decent living lies in exactly
the opposite direction — not blaming ourselves, but focusing our collective
outrage on the corporate bigwigs who get rich by destroying others' jobs, and
the elected officials whose policies threaten to make us the first generation of
downwardly mobile Americans.
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The federal government must take action to protect these jobs without outlawing
the practice of offshoring (protectionism). I recommend we eliminate the R&D Tax
credit to any corporation that offshores jobs. In other words, instead of
punishing a company that does this, just remove an incentive. The R&D tax credit
is not just about technology but about U.S. technologists.
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The implementation of restorative measurers cannot be left to the good sense of
Washington policymakers and elected officials. As a group, they have
demonstrated convincingly time and again that they do not grasp the magnitude of
the problems they have created and that they are bereft of comprehensive
solutions. Instead, they prefer cosmetic changes, designed to relieve political
pressure and ensure reelection.
If the necessary policy reorientation is to be accomplished, the impetus must
come from the remaining domestic manufacturers, their employees, their
communities, and local and state governments, which are experiencing first-hand
the budget crises caused in large part by globalization policies — whether the
movement of plants overseas, company bankruptcies due to unfair foreign
practices, high-tech and other services outsourcing, uncontrolled immigration
with the resulting disproportionate consumption of social services, etc. In
short, grass roots efforts must reach critical mass to force Washington to
change two generations of misguided policies.
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... citizens of nations across the
planet must act resolutely to reclaim control of their own national governments.
The solution to the threat of runaway multinational firms lies in citizens in
nations across the world reclaiming control over their national governments.
Here in America instituting mandatory, loophole free, public financing of
elections would sever the coupling between corporate cash and winning elections.
As a start to our reclaiming our Republic from its usurpers, we must demand that
this be done now.
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Write your congress-people, your
Rep and your
Senators...
Let them know that the
issuing of foreign worker visas in the high-tech industry has to stop.
Either that, or
make it financially
unattractive for companies to do so by hitting them with a "we're screwing the high-tech American worker
and we know it" tax. At least we'll have it all out in the open for what it is.
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Congress should:
- Reject all attempts to extend the current high number of H-1B visas and
allow the limit to revert to 65,000;
- Require that corporate applications for H-1B visas first demonstrate
good-faith efforts to hire or retain American citizens;
- Require employers to lay off non-citizens before laying off American citizens;
- Restrict L-1 visas to a company's own employees earning at least $100,000
a year;
- Forbid all government agencies from hiring non-citizens or from contracting
with outside firms that hire non-citizens; and
- Repeal the 1986 law that prevents computer engineers from working as independent
contractors.
Tell your Congressman that importing alien workers to replace American citizens
is economically absurd, morally indefensible, and politically foolish.