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You said ; "Just heard today on the radio
that India is attracting Silicon Valley jobs!" Thanks the media for that
little oversight. This isn't new stuff. Its been around for years. Blue collar
jobs have been disappearing for as long as I can remember, and
now,
Tech workers in the Silicon Valley have been
raped for at least a couple of years.
Concord, CA, where my son worked, is in the SV.
His company has "outsourced' close to 1100 jobs from that general area alone.
Add to that the huge number of other companies doing the same thing and you
come up with hundreds of thousands of folks out of work. I know personally 4
guys who've been unable to find tech work for from a year to as high as 3
years. Its easy to say to them that they should take whatever they can get.
Unfortunately, there simply isn't anything there. One of the guys got a
part-time job in a bookstore. $6.75 per hours, 30 hours per week.
We can blame industry I suppose, but more than
that, we can look to our government. NAFTA, h1b, and L1 are job stealing
legislations passed buy a Republican congress, a Democrat and Republican
president, and in general, a legislative body that combined doesn't have a
clue as to what they're doing to America. Its a goddam shame!
TFlan
