India set to bypass H1B/L1

[Peter1x9]

NEW DELHI: India seems to have finally acquired some trade chutzpah. It is all set to offer a free trade agreement on services to the champion of free trade, the US.

...Moreover, Indian professionals like software engineers, accountants and doctors can take up jobs in America without worrying about H1B quotas.

Indeed, if the deal materialises, it could open the door to the vast US market for India's large pool of service professionals, particularly in the IT and health sectors, and boost business process outsourcing from the US to India.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/804642.cms

[brokensymmetry]

1. Enjoy your job while you've got it.

If you've got one.

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[havocmom]

2. There are no nations, only corporations herding people

across the planet.

[tom_paine]

4. Looks like Paddy Cheyefsky was a Prophet

The Mad Prophet of the Airwaves, to be exact.

I used to love the movie 'Network' for it's brilliance and social commentary, not to mention it's prophetic nature.

By now, in Imperial Amerika 2004 with a Clowning Pravda Industry who would do credit to Communist China it is so lying, weak, and fraudulent, Network is archaic and almpost irrelevant for what bordered on near-madness in 1976 is less insane than what 300 million Imperial Dubjects of Amerika watch every day as a matter of course.

[Veggie Meathead]

10. With all the resources in broadcasting and print journalism

at their command, our Press seems incapable of trusting the intelligence of our people and keep feeding trivia day after day.In the process really important questions that affect our lives today and in the future are completely ignored.The vacuum is effectively filled by the rantings and ravings of the likes of Limbaugh,Hannity, Savage,Matthews etc.

Just as an example,no TV network has dared to examine the relationship between the PNAC document and Bush's policies even though the PNAC was published on a website for more than five years.Even the very word PNAC is rarely mentioned on the networks.

Now this outsourcing is hitting us like an avalanche and they dare not ask the right questions about it and examine its implications for our jobs and our children's futures.

I am sick of these "journalists" talking down to us as though we are children and feeding us an interminable line of BS.

"I am mad as hell and not going to take it anymore".

[ramapo]

3. The door has been open for years

I truly can't imagine things getting any worse in the IT sector. Here in NY Metro area a large percentage of jobs are filled with current or former H1B-visa holders. That is those positions that haven't been sent offshore.

[brokensymmetry]

6. Oh, it's gonna get worse.

If Chimpy has his way, there won't be a job available in America.

Maybe I can open my own business...say, a shoe shine box. Then I can compete with a dozen other hopeless people at the door of some office building, hoping against hope that we can make a quarter.

I wish I was joking. If the pResident has his way, that's the America we'll have.

[Veggie Meathead]

5. When people lost factory jobs in steel and automotive work,

they were told you have to retrain for the New Economy,i.e.Software,Systems Analysis what have you.Those who believed it,are now shafted by the outsourcing of IT jobs and the direct importation of IT professionals from India.I am sure we will be told this will create more jobs in the US because corporations will be able to sell more and will need more and more people.Another thread at DU says a full 15% of It jobs were lost in the past two months alone.

The most recent issue of Scientific American says that pharmaceutical companies that spend 25% of their revenues on Research and Developement of new drugs are planning to do all their R&D work including clinical trials in India because of the availability of a large pool of research scientists with Ph.Ds in Chemistry and Biology.
Along with the drain of IT jobs, accounting,legal work and pharmaceutical research and quite possibly routine medical diagnostic work, we are seeing the elimination of middle class.And it is going to get worse.So, the question remains WHAT WILL WE TRAIN FOR NEXT?

And even scarier: What will our children's future be like?

[brokensymmetry]

8. What to train for?

I don't know. Maybe we can learn to wait tables. Or shine shoes. Or - if we have the right bearing - we might be able to get a job as a house servant.

As for our children, I can sum up their future in a single word: "Hell".

[sadiesworld]

7. They seem certain that this will happen if * is elected...

much less confident w/ Kerry.

Is this part of your "conservative" agenda, o'wandering trolls?

[sadiesworld]

9. kick for the freeptards

This is the only way they'll see it...it won't be on newsmax and limpballs sure as hell isn't going to bring it up.

[Peter1x9]

11. More people need to see this.

:kick: