The Bush Shortfall: 8 Million Missing Jobs

Americans are being sold out on the  jobs front. Americans' employment opportunities are declining  as a result of corporate outsourcing of US jobs, H-1B visas that  import foreigners to displace Americans in their own country,  and federal guest worker programs.  President Bush and his Republican  majority intend to legalize the aliens who hold down wages for  construction companies and cleaning services. In order to stretch  budgets, state and local governments bring in lower paid foreign  nurses and school teachers. To reduce costs, US corporations  outsource jobs abroad and use work visa programs to import foreign  engineers and programmers. The American job give away is explained  by a "shortage" of Americans to take the jobs. There are not too many Americans  willing to accept the pay and working conditions of migrant farm  workers. However, the US is bursting at the seams with unemployed  computer engineers and well-educated professionals who are displaced  by outsourcing and H-1B visas. During Bush's entire first term,  there was a net loss of American private sector jobs. Today there  are 760,000 fewer private sector jobs in the US economy than  when Bush was first inaugurated in January 2001.  [more]