With all the IT jobs being outsourced or Visa workers brought in to this country to work, does anyone know how this might affect the Social Security system in this country?

America’s guest worker program is in disarray, displacing American workers and exploiting their foreign replacements, according to a study conducted by the Economic Policy Institute.

Rather than complementing the U.S. workforce as the H-1B and L-1 visas were intended to do, they have instead served to displace countless American workers in the IT sector and drive down the wages of those American workers remaining in the field.

"The goals of the H-1B and L visa programs have been to bring in foreign workers who complement the U.S. workforce. Instead, loopholes in both programs have made it too easy to bring in cheaper foreign workers, with ordinary skills, who directly substitute for, rather than complement, workers already in the country. They are clearly displacing and denying opportunities to U.S. workers," the report says.

The visas were intended to be used to bring in foreign workers in highly-skilled fields that lacked a sufficient amount of American talent. However, there is no labor market test required to be performed to ensure that there is a lack of acceptable American talent in the field.

"Loopholes in both programs have made it too easy to bring in cheaper foreign workers, with ordinary skills, who directly substitute for, rather than complement, workers already in the country. They are clearly displacing and denying opportunities to U.S. workers" Ron Hira, author of Outsourcing America, told the International Business Times. -- Economy In Crisis

Vote for issues, not people or political parties or this situation will never get better!

Sorry, I didn't realize I was able to create my own blog post. Here's me technologically aging right in front of everyone. I blame global outsourcing for this too, naturally.

More seriously, have you noticed the way the Tea Party has been usurped by the Republican drones lately? Karl Denninger is furious. I remember the rally I attened back when it was a movement that belonged to neither of the indistinguishable major parties, back when many of the members - at least of the crowd - were against open borders for exporting jobs and importing cheap crappy products. Here's a great quote from a recent blog post:

[W]hen you add those "discouraged workers" and "underemployed workers" into the equation the actual [unemployment] rate is about 17 percent, and in the state of California the actual rate is about 22 percent. Meanwhile, foreign nations are using sovereign wealth funds to buy up staggering amounts of U.S. infrastructure. America is quite literally for sale in 2010. All across the United States, highways, ports, toll roads and even parking meters are being gobbled up by foreign powers. We have shipped massive amounts of wealth and jobs to other nations, and now those very same countries are turning around and buying huge amounts of U.S. infrastructure with the gigantic piles of dollars that they have accumulated. -- Fed Up USA

My understanding is a part of the proposed Healthcare Reform is to mandate that everyone buys health insurance for themselves, otherwise pay penalties.

How do they expect people to buy Healthcare insurance when people are struggling just to buy food because of lack of jobs and jobs being outsourced? I heard of an article that mentions more middle-class people are near poverty line now thanks to the corporations that outsource and hire visa workers.