USAID, a department of the government, is even now inking a deal to train workers in Armenia how to do Java programming and to manage call centers. If US workers can't muster enough gumption to express outrage, maybe they don't deserve these jobs. Take note that the "jobs that American workers won't do" has grown to enourmous proportions. I happen to do Java programming, have a Masters degree, and made straight A's in college. It looks like design, implementation, manufacturing and everything else that isn't nailed down is going away.

WE NEED YOUR HELP!  Please Support the Employ America amendment!

Senators Sanders, Grassley, Harkin, and Tester are trying to help U.S. workers. They have filed an amendment to the Small Business Lending Act to block companies from hiring foreign guest workers when firing competent and hard working U.S. workers.

The Amendment is S.AMDT. 4438, introduced to the Small Business Lending Fund Act of 2010 bill number H.R.5297.

Below is their plea to save U.S. jobs.

Andy Grove, Intel CEO, in the past has been a strong proponent of raising H1B visa limits, giving the industry standard line of

* We need these workers to be competitive

* They are brighter than their American counterparts

* American workers need better education

Former Intel CEO Andy Grove is not someone who comes to mind when calling for action on U.S. jobs. Under his watch, Intel displaced U.S. workers with foreign guest workers, labor arbitraged, underpaid salaries, age discriminated and offshore outsourced manufacturing and jobs in droves. Their corporate culture was so notoriously vile, they even had their own personal protester, warning anyone who would listen to not work at Intel.

What happened I have no idea but Andy Grove just wrote the most specific and dynamite article, How America Can Create Jobs. He actually knows how to create high paying jobs because at one time Intel on it's path to the world's dominant computer processor maker, actually did manufacture in the United States.

WashTech, a tech worker's union, is asking for your help. They want you to click on this link and ask your representatives to co-sponsor S.887 H1-b & L-1 Reform Act and HR 5397. Please click this link to send an email to your representatives.

Below are some facts WashTech lists. There are many more. Support the U.S. worker and demand Congress take action!

This company must really suck. The Huffington Post has on their front page, a company who advertised a job which demands no one should apply if they actually need it! From Disturbing Job Ads:

In a current job posting on The People Place, a job recruiting website for the telecommunications, aerospace/defense and engineering industries, an anonymous electronics company in Angleton, Texas, advertises for a "Quality Engineer." Qualifications for the job are the usual: computer skills, oral and written communication skills, light to moderate lifting. But red print at the bottom of the ad says, "Client will not consider/review anyone NOT currently employed regardless of the reason."

In a nearly identical job posting for the same position on the Benchmark Electronics website, the red print is missing. But a human resources representative for the company confirmed to HuffPost that the The People Place ad accurately reflects the company's recruitment policies.

"It's our preference that they currently be employed," he said. "We typically go after people that are happy where they are and then tell them about the opportunities here. We do get a lot of applications blindly from people who are currently unemployed -- with the economy being what it is, we've had a lot of people contact us that don't have the skill sets we want, so we try to minimize the amount of time we spent on that and try to rifle-shoot the folks we're interested in.

When it comes to illegal immigration, the Democrats have been dead wrong (on visas, both parties are in-the-wrong). This was the reason that I am now an independent progressive instead of a Democratic progressive. Things have changed a lot over my lifetime. When I was young, patriotism (also known as love of country) was a cherished trait. Today the word is used as a perjorative, often in conjunction with the word zealot. If you stand up for your country, you are now a nut.

Sometimes I see small eruptions of sentiments to hire only Americans (and legal residents of course). You'll see new sites like hireamericans.org arrive. While I certainly understand the emotional pull and the therapeutic value of these sites, in my opinion, they will have very, very limited success. There are a couple of limiting issues. First, this action is targeted at the very bottom of the food chain, meaning that it effects will be limited.