I make no secret of the fact that I’m a fan of the current President. In fact, given the previous eight years, I can’t understand why anyone would want to reverse course and go back to the good ole days of death in despair. Still….recent events have caused me great pain in that I watched helplessly as Obama went to India, in an effort to gain jobs for Americans. What was more troubling is that he went there with an entourage of the imbeciles who sent all our jobs there in the first place. I have to agree with Jon Stewart. I hope he doesn’t send the crappy customer service jobs back…even if it means we could finally understand what they’re saying on the phone.
Yes…I know that his intent was to get 50,000 jobs for the U.S. However, I think it will be more likely that we gain 50,000 and lose another 2 or 3 million. I would have thought someone would have told him that this was a ridiculous idea. Also, military contract jobs are only available to a limited number of people. If you have EVER missed a payment on anything, chances are you will never work for the military. Evidently they equate economic hardship with espionage. “You got laid off from your job you say? Well…we can’t hire people like you. It’s obviously your fault your company shipped your job to the country that’s now making our airplanes.”
Here’s my idea…drop the H1B program. Do what other countries do when foreign workers want to enter their country; don’t let them. Tell our U.S. employers that if they hire foreign contractors over U.S. labor that they no longer reap any tax benefit. Tell them that if they hire illegal labor, the hiring manager goes to jail. Hell…if a convenience store clerk can go to jail for selling a 17 year old a pack of smokes, I’m thinking sending a hiring manager to prison for starving out an American family is the least we can do.
I have long stated that it’s not the Mexican border that is a threat to the American Worker, but the influx of cheap legal labor from India, Pakistan, Vietnam, and elsewhere. I could care less if some guy picking oranges in Florida is from Mexico or Mars. What impacts our economy is someone from another country who works for ten cents on the dollar, and then sends all the money they earn OUT of the country. That doesn’t help us much.
So Mr. President, if you want to help us out, grow a pair. Tell Congress, and big business, that we will no longer tolerate sending jobs overseas. Tell them both that if they continue to partake, support, and promote the export of labor that you will do your level best to expose their actions to the American public. Do the country a favor. Stop going overseas to visit our jobs. Tell them they have to come home.