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Concord CA 01/05/2010: In the coming weeks there will be many changes to this site.  I've been offline for a number of years but kept the site running as best I could. 

The key points regarding the use and abuse of this has changed little since my foray into this debate in 2001, www.programmersguild.org and www.zazona.com preceded my efforts and of course Professor Norm Matloff’s research dates back to the mid 90s.

It’s possible were emerging from “The Great Recession” or “The Great Second Depression” which presents a chance that the US workers can get these jobs.  In 1994 when I got my first large company gig the recruiters were all US based, 100% owned by American firms, then by 2001, most were gone, people and companies I’d known for years were acquired as they could not compete.  The bigger threat is what’s in a resume should be just as important to the department of homeland security as all the other threats.  A resume can paint a pretty accurate technology picture of a company’s inner workings, more important when you have 10,000 from the same companies the barn door is wide open. 

Today you can look at any job posting and if you know what you’re looking you can fake recruitment job postings, that’s every day in every city in the U.S.  You can't count on the Department of Labor or any government agency, there are few that will even try, the wording on the Visa’s is so weak that the DOL can’t do much.  I've had personal experience way back in 2002 where I learned my claim was dismissed way up the food chain within the Bush Administration. 

Today we have new politicians, many old ones are leaving, many as millionaires, many are tired and getting on in their years. The debate is global competitiveness in new century, the debate is what changes need to occur and what protections are needed for future generations.  Thomas Friedman said that world is economic flatland, I say he’s wrong as he my cost living was never or level to my closest competitor, never in a blue moon and that’s why my old town of  Danville CA has thousands of defaults and growing, the 700 fico scores are gone with their jobs, their families are destroyed and maybe the economy will rebound but there are millions that were taken.  More on my opinion later.

The H1b visa, and all the visas combined are so far off target it's hard to understand that lack of support in DC, but it's money, it's trillions and it will never cease, that's Washington, that's politics and it's what they do. 

Keep coming back as we're going to have regular content, articles plus a new membership database, a moderated forum, no rants and raves, a forum filled with resources, career options, discussion on companies and best of all a tracking system that the DOL will have a hard time ignoring plus I've got an eye trends, opportunities where I can offer solution and answers.

Will this be a period of fresh horizons for US workers, perhaps that one retrained worker can be re-employed at now idled factory in a lonely forgoten city or maybe it's time where factories open instead of closing. 

We live in a complex world with complex problems and issues, nothing can fit all the time as Frank Sinatra sings "That's Life"

Regards,

Pete Bennett