Newest Boycott Call to Arms!
I’ve been under the weather, so to speak today and have been catching up on things. Wasn’t planning on posting anything today either – it’s just that kind of a day. But then! One of my Digg friends just happened to send me a shout with an item that got me riled – again!
You know what? I’m sick and tired of people bashing this country, bashing our economy, bashing everything about us, but yet jumping on the nearest flight to the US to take our money. Aren’t you?
I mean, let’s start putting the money where your mouth is – right?
Well, the article the Digg friend shouted, has to do with the new HB1 Visa approvals. The Article actually listed the companies that received approvals for HB1 Visa’s in the U.S. in 2008.
Although 6 Indian companies received approval, I’m not addressing that. I can understand a company from India that does business in the U.S. needing those visa’s for its employees or additional support.
The one’s I’ve got my panties in a bundle over is the American, U.S. companies that have filed along with the anti-American, and anti-American Worker sentiment these companies have exhibited in the recent past.
So, I’m adding some more companies to the boycott list based on this new information.
Microsoft was ranked 5th (and I’ll link you to the article at the end of this post) in obtaining visa’s for foreign workers by obtaining 1,037 of them in 2008.
I’m adding Microsoft to our boycott list because of the following points:
1. Microsoft was founded in the U.S.
2. Microsoft’s early profits were built from American consumer sales.
3. Microsoft, and specifically Bill Gates, Founder (since retired) has slammed the American worker and insulted our intelligence publicly.
In April of 2005, Bill Gates stated:
“The whole idea of the H1B thing is don’t let too many smart people come into the country. Basically, it doesn’t make sense,” Gates said.
Excuse me?
In all fairness, let me not take this out of context for you and finish what Gates was saying:
“You can’t imagine how tough it is to plan as a company where we say, ‘let’s have this engineering group and staff it.’ You get a few and then you go through these periods where nobody can come in,” Gates said.
He continued: “So, we’ll have Canadians waiting at the border until some bureaucratic thing happens where a few more get opened up. That’s just wounding us in this global competition.”
According to Gates, the core of the problem rests with members in Congress who want to step back to U.S. isolationism.
“It’s very dangerous because you get this reaction: ‘Okay, the world is very competitive, let’s cut back on trade; the world is very scary, let’s cut back on visas,’” he said.
Source: http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/career/article.php/3500986
Okay, so he was allegedly talking about protectionism and isolationism, but then why the smart ass comment about smart people? That statement really says what he (and many others) think about American’s and their brains – we’re stupid! Only foreign workers are smart.
Fast forward to March 2008 and once again, Gates goes before congress to plead his case.
This time he states:
“The thing that limits us is hiring the world’s best engineers,” he says, noting that 60 percent of the students at the top U.S. computer-science departments are foreign-born.
Source: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88154016
Well damn you stupid American students in college! How dare you fall into the 40% that Gates doesn’t want to hire!
I could go on and on, but I think you get my point.
If we’re not good enough to hire, and we’re too stupid to be hired, then we must have stupid money that shouldn’t be spent on ANY Microsoft products!
We’ve already added IBM to the list based on their wanting American Worker’s to outsource themselves. See: A President’s Day Call to Action.
But they fall 10th on the HB1 Visa list and thus earns another chalk mark for staying in the boycott category and our Boycott page!
And Cisco and Intel, we’re watching you too! You both are up in numbers on that chart, but thus far, we’ve found no evidence of an anti-American worker sentiment. So you’re safe so far!
If you want to see the full article and chart (with the option to download the Excel spreadsheet), see: InformationWeek
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“That statement really says what he (and many others) think about American’s and their brains – we’re stupid! Only foreign workers are smart.”
No, what he’s saying is that Microsoft requires (surprise!) intelligent people to work for them, and some of them happen to be foreigners, thus the remark. Your angry response and denial of statistics that have been proven correct time and time again reeks of xenophobia. Fact is, a lot of Americans ARE stupid (A lot of Europeans are stupid too, but they’re not coming to the USA and going to college), and denying a business your money because they aren’t Blue Collared Americans! is only going to end up shooting you in the foot later on when every product you buy has been created by lesser skilled people, but that’ll be okay because it’s genuine AMERICAN crap! None of that foreign shit!
Every time I hear someone spouting ‘Anti-American’ bullshit I know that most of the time their opinion is highly pro-America without good reason, and should be ignored.
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Facebook User reply on March 9th, 2009 12:37 pm:
You are entitled to your opinion and I respect your opinion. Thank you for sharing.
Debbie
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If i may add…
I do believe that the problem rests yet again in how the department of education, as well as college level departments are treating the students. This goes back to my own experiences; you have students who know exactly what they want to do (e.g: computer sciences) whom are forced into taking classes which are not related in the slightest to their functions as professionals.
In addition to which, the field with teaching and delivering materials for computers if you ask me is quite bland. On one spectrum you have a plethora of talented individuals who know their stuff; yet are discouraged, or have to undergo YEARS of garbage to get to where they want to be. By the time the students emerge as “paper accepted drones” what happens is their skill sets are only worth another two years of of use. The vicious cycle starts again. Back to school, and hopefully have a learning curve.
Instead of spreading into foreign lands why not study how the European countries are running their educational systems? Free! Our government is too cheap, and stupid to realize this. The more people you have in school, who are taking up a valid trade will allow for more taxes. What’s worth more? 40 people out of school having high end jobs where they can pay back taxes, or 40 people having low end income jobs barely making ends meet whom need tax breaks?
I do feel that boycotting a company will only lead to a company either being closed or sold. What happens then? Overseas markets that are raking in the big bucks will opt in to purchase those companies, or what ever was built around that corporation will now be up for copying [ideology from cisco, intel, etc]. Who are we hurting then? Ourselves again! NO?
If you want to successfully eliminate the issue with out sourcing, make the corporations pay taxes as if they were paying a worker here the amounts they were to be making. So, say, India is paying an employee 25,000 a year where the U.S. is paying the workers 100K a year, make them pay the taxes on the outsourced workers making 25k a year, but pay the taxes at a rate of a normal employee in the U.S.
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I don’t normally comment on blogs but your post was a real call to action. Thank you for a great read, I will be sure to bookmark your site and check in now and again. Cheers, Amy xXx.
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