Senator Chris Dodd today released the following statement voicing his opposition to Peru Free Trade Agreement, which would take jobs away from American workers and send them to Peruvian workers instead.
"Americans are looking for change - but there's nothing new in supporting the failed trade policy of the last six years, which is partially responsible for the loss of 3 million manufacturing jobs. It's disappointing that Senators Clinton and Obama, in supporting this agreement, would support more of the same, which will only add to our deficit, taking jobs away from hardworking Americans and shipping them elsewhere.
"The United States must take a "strategic pause" and not sign any new trade agreements until we have a model for trade that raises -- not lowers -- living standards for the vast majority of Americans and the people in countries with which we trade. It's time to put the interests of our own people ahead of the interests of large corporations and give American families the reassurance that 'Made in America' means that their children will not be poisoned by imports."
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I hope Chris Dodd will be the first Democrat to stand up and publicly say "There is no shortage of workers - skilled or unskilled in the US." Everyone knows it.
I want to vote for a Democrat in 2008, but how can I when literally none of the candidates are standing up and telling the TRUTH about the SURPLUS OF LABOR and extremely competitive job market we have.
Please, lower the numbers.
To strengthen our middle class we need to lower the numbers on legal immigration, decrease illegal immigrant numbers by attrition through enforcement, and put a moratorium on the foreign visa worker programs that are putting Americans out of work, depressing wages, causing long term unemployment, underemployment, paving the way for rampant age discrimination, and creating personal financial havoc and insecurity for the entire middle class.
To anyone reading this (especially if you are sending a child to college), please join with the Programmers Guild and ask you representative to remove the skilled worker visa (H-1B) increase from the HR4065 border security bill where it doesn't belong, anyway. http://www.programmersguild.org/docs/oppose_hr4065_nov2007.pdf
Watch the Youtube video and check out the thriving immigration lawyer foreign visa worker business. They are caught redhanded in video this showing their client companies how to AVOID HIRING AMERICANS using their "PERM" process that includes techniques like posting fake job ads. (these are the jobs that Americans spend thousands of dollars on a college education to train for)
http://www.youtube.com/programmersguild
Watch Immigration Gumballs and get some perspective on the huge immigration numbers that are overwhelming us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7WJeqxuOfQ