The Best Thing Since The Invention of Vitamins

Rob Sanchez over at Job Destruction just mailed out this newsletter. Not only is cheap labor good for companies, its absolutely fabulous for workers. Therefore we really should be bringing in billions of workers and let the riches flow!


"There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore."
Carly Fiorina, CEO of Hewlett-Packard (HP). January 7, 2004


In March of this year the National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP) concluded that every H-1B that comes into the USA creates seven jobs for Americans. Not long after that Bill Gates testified before Congress with a slightly more modest estimate that every H-1B creates four jobs for Americans.

McCain just topped both them -- he said that every H-1B creates ten jobs for Americans!

Even assuming McCain, Bill Gates, and the NFAP were right, why can't the same number of jobs be created by hiring an American instead? Hiring a U.S.
worker should create at least as many jobs as an H-1B -- plus one more.

McCain said that the Department of Labor should determine how many H-1Bs are to be issued instead of having a yearly cap. Bad idea! McCain would probably appoint his campaign chairwoman Carly Fiorina to replace Secretary of Labor Elain Chao. BLECH!

Let Them Be Bathed

This is a press release from Elaine Chao, our illustrious Secretary of Labor. Its a public showing of contempt for resident workers. Long ago, this would have gotten someone run out of office. Of course, long ago, this would not have been merely passed off to the public - a real reporter would have been all over this. See what you think...

New York, June 28 – Foreign workers may be taking over jobs in the U.S. — not because they’re willing to work for less, but because they have better workplace skills and discipline. According to this Sunday’s Intelligence Report column in PARADE magazine, that’s the message Labor Secretary Elaine Chao hears from U.S. executives who are worried about America’s competitive edge. While job losses have been relatively low thus far — one study estimates that only 280,000 jobs out of 115 million in the service industry are outsourced each year – that could change. U.S. employers say that many workers abroad simply have a better attitude toward work. “ American employees must be punctual, dress appropriately and have good personal hygiene,” says Chao. “They need anger-management and conflict-resolution skills, and they have to be able to accept direction. Too many young people bristle when a supervisor asks them to do something.”

As for our economic future, Chao notes that most of the fastest growing fields today require advanced skills and are “very high or high wage.” To learn what jobs are hot and how you can get retrained in the changing economy, go to Parade.com.

Chamber of Confusion

Rob Sanchez has reported in his Job Destruction newsletter that "U.S. Chamber of Commerce president Tom Donohue says that anyone who opposes guest worker programs are dumb as a box of rocks. Donohue was defending Bush's proposal to allow unlimited numbers of guest workers into the UnitedStates to take our jobs."

I'm sure that Donohue really meant to say that many American workers now
have as much chance of getting a job as a box of rocks. Or maybe that
anyone that supports guest worker programs are dumb as a box of rocks.
I think Mr. Donohue is confused. It seems that he has some trouble getting
ethics right, also, as evidenced by the following headline, also from Rob's
newsletter: "Chamber President Tom Donohue Has Vested Interest in
Campaign to Limit Consumers Legal Rights as Steward of Two
Scandal-Marred Companies"

Watch Donohue on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjQF7v72YMg

RIP, Milton Friedman

I never was much of a fan of the ultra-free-market thinkers, but I'll always remember Milton Friedman, the Nobel economist who died this month at 94, for enraging the so-called "free market advocates" in 2002, saying

There is no doubt that the [H-1B] program is a benefit to their employers, enabling them to get workers at a lower wage, and to that extent, it is a subsidy.