Friends of India Redux

As alluded to in an earlier post, the Friends of India is a congressional caucus designed to further the needs of Indian businesses at the expense of citizen and resident workers here. The chief troublemaker is our own Sen. John Cornyn. His main assistant is... (drum roll)... Hillary Clinton. That's right, this is not a Republican vs Democrat issue. All politicians are equally for sale. Clinton is the co-chair. There are other notables too - Kennedy and Lieberman come to mind. In fact, many members of the Senate are falling all over themselves to help Indian businesses displace workers here.

For the "official," "sanitized" description of the caucus, see http://www.usindiafriendship.net/congress1/senatecaucus/senatecaucus.htm. For a more realistic point-of-view, see http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/Archive/Hillary5.txt.

SKIL Bill

SKIL bill

Even as I post this, one of the biggest pro-business immigration increases is being rammed down the throats of American citizens and residents in the form of the SKIL bill. This ghastly piece of legislation is being brought to you curtesy of Microsoft and all the politicians that money can buy. It has been engineered by my own senator John Cornyn (R-TX), who also is the chair of the Friends of India, the only "country-based" caucus in the Congress.

If you are a scientist or a high tech worker, you probably can kiss your career goodbye. Do yourself a favor and tell your kids to go for something else (shoe salesman, fast food worker, etc).

Long live the American dream.