Tuesday, September 06, 2005
on shore
Having read Steve's post regarding the export of jobs, I wanted to comment but wasn't sure anyone would see it because of my tardy response. I sense a little agony being a part of the whole thing. Much like the eels in my earlier post the construction industry suffers the reverse of the Tech buisness. Muhamid has come to the mountain so to speak. I have reluctantly dipped into the growing latino labor pool for extra help from time to time. Around here if you want to be competitive you almost have to do it. I try to stay away because of the legal questions that can arise. After the authenticity of some of the Green Cards were called into question at my bank I have not used any since. I must say though those guys work their asses off and are surprisingly quick to learn. It didn't hurt my cause at all to have them around for a while and their american counterparts seemed to pick up the pace a bit also.
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I liked the H1 program, which basically funded the brain drain of top talent into this country. To me it seemed like a good thing for the country overall. I dislike the abuse of it by employers, which is rampant. It has become a way for companies to save money, period. Don't believe anything else you hear. Now when it comes to offshoring, the issue I have is that we are permanently eliminating jobs in the US. These are jobs that people often spent $100,000 and four years to become qualified for. Poof! Gone. Not coming back. In my case, I have not seen US jobs removed, only expanded ones elsewhere. However, those are jobs that are not going to US citizens, contributing anything to the US tax base, or improving opportunities for anyone in the US.
I'm sure a few displaced construction workers trained for those jobs as well after being beat into bad health by the illegal alien. I just hope they didn't relocate to New Orleans to seek their fortune.
The good news is that New Orleans will be a good place to be in construction in the next few years.
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