Round 2: H-1B Battle: American Engineers vs. President Bush!

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Round 2: H-1B Battle: American Engineers vs. President Bush!:

It hurts to get slapped across the face by the most powerful man in the world, but American engineers are not down and out yet. At the very opening moment of round 2, President Bush comes out swinging; knocking down any argument American engineers and other high-skilled professionals might have against H-1B immigration laws.

The president fired the first salvo in the 2007 H-1B Battle, telling selected employees of Dupont that he feels strongly that America needs to raise the cap on H-1Bs. Here is the exact excerpt:

...As an aside, when I talked about the immigration bill last night, I also want you to know I understand that we need to make sure that when a smart person from overseas wants to come and work in DuPont, it's in our interests to allow him or her to do so. We've got to expand what's called H1B visas. I know the Senator and the Congressman understand that. I'm looking forward with Congress to do just that. It makes no sense, by the way -- I know, I'm getting off topic here -- (laughter) -- but I feel strongly about what I'm telling you. It makes no sense to say to a young scientist from India, you can't come to America to help this company develop technologies that help us deal with our problems. So we've got to change that, as well, change that mind set in Washington, D.C. I know we can work together on that.

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1. Even Bush's Peanut Gallery Is Throwing Peanut Shells At Him

LOL -- get a load of the love from the FReakshow on this subject:

"Oh my G8&d. Can you believe the total imcompetance of this man? How did he ever win the presidency, he shouldn't be a dog-catcher. He's selling out our country to his buddies in Mexico. Jorge wants to destroy our country to make an american union, where half the country can speak french and the other half spanish. Anything for oil and power. The whole Bush clan is corrupt, ever since Poppy sold us out for a big tax increase we should have known."

"Impeach this jack-ass!"

"This is just another example of Bush's ignorance and his pandering to the wishes of big business that wants cheap labor and minorities to fill their affirmative action goals. I bitterly regret the day I voted for him. With all due respect, he is a moron. How about employing unemployed AMERICANS first?"

"Why not your people, President Bush?
Ah, the real question. I guess it is because he is not really an American."

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2. The crazy bastard is on a rant to screw each and every one of

us as best he can before he vacates OUR White House.

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3. Immigration hypocrisy:

On one hand, * says need the millions of illegal immigrants for jobs Americans refuse to do, and on the other hand, he says we need to raise the quota of H-1B visas to stay "competitive.

It's like he wants to punish anyone with a diploma.

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4. Bush visits Wall Street today ....

Another speach thats guaranteed to jack 20 points onto your blood pressure.

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5. What's With Him, Anyway?

You'd think he's at least try to keep his supporters happy so the GOP doesn't totally tank in 2008 -- instead, he provokes even the FreeRepublic crowd to say stuff that makes the stuff we say here look like a freakin love letter.

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6. Whats With Bush?

Hmm .. I have heard a lot of people have become convinced that he has either developed some form of mental illness orthat he has always had the condition and it is just now become way to obvious for anyone to deny.
Others speculate another possibility, that he has relapsed into a drug-alchohol induced stupor.
Either way we the public typicaly find out the real scoop in 5-10 years (like Reagans alzheimers). Whoo-hoo

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7. Nah

I think he's just so used to living in a bubble of priviledge that he just never got a clue about the real world.

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8. We must allow it -- so we can lower salaries of American engineers

THAT will help us solve our problems of too many people in the middle class with too much money and not enough money for the uber-rich and overlords.

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10. LOL

Couldn't have said it better. Wouldn't want to deny the uber-rich their 25th BMW now, after all, would we?

[Muddy Waters Guitar]

9. More in Bush's war against the working and professional classes

basically, the Rethugs' war against living wages (supported by the DLC candidates, regrettably). The Bush H1-B push is disgustingly stupid-- he doesn't have a pliant Congress anymore but can still do a lot of damage.