Note - this may be considered a political message although it does concern our
industry, so if you don't want to read such messages, please skip this one.
Some of you receiving this message may disagree with it. Some may even be
offended - if so, that's not my intent (a clear analysis of this message and
my position will confirm that) and I apologize for any misunderstanding. I am
not a protectionist and am not prejudiced against any race, religion,
nationality, etc. and I don't think America is for US citizens only. Just
wanted to make that clear.


Those of you who still subscribe to the Talent Economy probably received a
brochure about the upcoming NACCB national conference in Oct. 22-25 with a
special conference on offshoring Oct. 25-26. Since it's here in Dallas, are
any of you interested in organizing a protest? We could issue press releases,
invite Congresspeople, etc. Our Oct. ICCA meeting will be Oct. 21, right
beforehand, so that could be useful.

To be fair, it looks like some of the programs in the conference are about
presenting a good enough value proposition to get around clients' desire to
offshore, and other topics look useful too, and if I had the time, money, and
iron stomach required to join NACCB and attend the conference and learn as
much as possible and try to help reform them from within, I probably would,
but life's too short and I've got a business to run and a wife to take care
of.

See http://rmpcp.com/naccbmem.html and its links (especially
http://rmpcp.com/naccbmem2.html ) to see what happened after I complained
about what possibly looked like Satanic symbols on the NACCB D/FW chapter's
web site (which is apparently no longer there or has been moved), and ask
around about the NACCB if you're not familiar with it - the NACCB and the ITAA
support 1706 and H-1B etc. and were either behind them or at least help keep
them going and benefit from them, even though NACCB claims to have been
founded to defend against 1706. For the most part, these are the organizations
and companies responsible for destroying our industry or at least keeping us
from having a level playing field to compete on. Heck, they should probably be
investigated under RICO.

I'm not saying we can't succeed despite this, of course, but one must
acknowledge that their blatant use of Congress to circumvent the free market
has made things harder for us. I'm not saying that there's no place at all for
some amount of foreign work visas and offshoring, but these activities have
grown way past what the free market would support or require, due to this
interference. Also see the disclaimers on the sites above, there may be some
good NACCB members out there somewhere.

Oh, another angle we can use in our arguments, besides the loss of American
jobs and talent, some of the 9/11 terrorists apparently got here on foreign
work visas and had been lost by the INS, and the private data of American
citizens (SSN's, financial info, etc.) is apparently floating around in
computers in India, China, and who knows where else. I haven't had time but
I've wanted to write some proposed legislation to prohibit any such personal
data (or the software to manipulate it) from going outside the USA.

Anyway, I'd be interested in seeing if anyone wants to help protest this
conference, write press releases, invite Congresspeople, or whatever. We also
need some people who can refute the H-1B abusers' smear tactics of calling us
racist etc. so if any of you want to help that have various minority status it
would be helpful, especially former H-1B workers who once they got their
greencards were replaced by new H-1B's. I don't have the time, energy, or
knowledge to organize this type of thing, despite my Libertarian Party
experience, but I wanted to at least suggest the idea. Thanks.


P.S.: For those of you receiving this message who are not in technical
industries such as computer programming, engineering, etc. and don't see how
the loss of American jobs in these areas can hurt you, what do you think
happens to people who are forced to give up and leave the industry entirely to
find any work at all? Now they're competing with YOUR jobhunt. I read
somewhere that the unemployment rate among American programmers 50 or older is
17% - and it's probably even worse among minorities.


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