> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ted Ashton [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 9:11 AM
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> Subject: Re: <<OT>> H1B revisited
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>

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> I know that the above don't guarantee anything.  After all,
> until recently, I
> considered HP a fantastic place to work and I'm no longer so
> sure.  But truth
> to tell, changing the rules to put American workers at an
> advantage doesn't
> guarantee anything either and has as many ethics questions
> regarding it as
> does companies hiring non-US citizens.
>

Maybe changing the rules to put American workers at an advantage doesn't
guarantee anything. But sitting idle while rules are in force that actually
penalize them is not acceptible either. I do not see it as unethical to
protect American workers when possible. America , thanks to the PC liberals,
is the only country in the world where the citizens have fewer rights than
non-citizens.

Right now many companies are run with extremely short sighted management
teams who focus on the here and now with no regard to the future. They focus
on shareholder value instead of trying to create a long term stable and
profitable company that produces quality products while providing employment
to many. They never stop to think that if Americans are not working then
they are not going to have a domestic market to sell too.

One thing I would like to see is legislation that requires anyone who
releases a study, like the one showing a shortage in qualified American IT
workers, to release the raw data they used and any assumptions they made
about the data.

But, on a more positive note, perhaps things are about to change. American
business practices are going to be under a microscope for quite a while
thanks to Enron, WorldCom, etc... Maybe we can get rid of some of the worst
management teams and get back on track. I do not think it is a coincidence
that all these revelations are happeneing now that we have a Federal
administration that does not consider concepts like honor, duty and personal
responsibility as punchlines and tries to get the job done instead of
chasing intern's and debating what the meaning of is is.

Comments are my own.. not my employer's.. etc.

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