Why Is Sen. Kennedy Promoting the Loss of 30,000 High Tech Jobs to Foreigners Moving Here?
Does He Or His Family Own Stock in American Companies that are Benefiting?
              When the U.S. Senate passed a bill to reduce the deficit earlier this year, Senator Kennedy added an amendment which would increase high-tech employment visas for foreign nationals by an additional --- 30,000 visas/year.
              This would allow 30,000 more workers from other countries to come here and take high-paying American jobs every year.
            Originally, these programs were necessary because they helped American businesses get the necessary skilled engineers when there was a shortage of labor. During the ”dot.com” bubble of the late 1990’s, Internet businesses were growing so quickly that there was a need to bring in foreign labor. Since that bubble burst, there has been no shortage of technical workers. Instead the program in recent years is being used by some companies to replace American workers with the cheaper, foreign employees.
              The mean salary for a computer scientist nowadays is $90,146 versus $78,169 for a foreign worker. In California, the disparity is typically about $20,000/year for such highly technical jobs. 
              There are companies nationwide where whole departments have been replaced simply by importing workers on foreign visas and forcing American workers to train those non-citizens who have replaced them as a contingency in order to get their severance package when they themselves are terminated.
              Is there anyone who thinks we can get the New York Times or the Washington Post to investigate and discover the connection these companies have to Kennedy? Is it even possible that he or someone in his family owns stock in some of the them?
              This subject became a front-burner in Massachusetts last week when Sen. Kennedy blasted Gov. Mitt Romney for hurting workers by not complaining when a contract for a Massachusetts food-stamp information telephone line that was previously handled in India relocated to Utah instead of coming to this state. 
              While Kennedy was blustering about those few entry-level jobs that Romney at least got back from India, the Senator’s own scheme to sell American jobs was already underway.