Here is some unclassified information. The W-88 warhead is an ultra-compact high yield nuclear bomb that has about 1/2 megatons of destructive force. That is to say, the force of a billion pounds of TNT. According to some analysts, the W-88 is the "crown jewel" of the U.S. nuclear arsenal. This intellectual property theft (that U.S. taxpayers facilitated) is a metaphor for the loss of American technical might since 1976.
As a native - born American citizen, I am angered by the conduct of a small number among us who seem all to willing to sacrifice this great nation for their personal gain. I'm willing to work "within the system" to use my analytical and presentation skills to reform what many characterize to be an insane situation. I have twice testified to the U.S. House of Representatives and twice to the National Academy of Sciences regarding the harm of excessive numbers of work visas being granted to foreign technical professionals. I have faced the prospect of homelessness several times since earning my Ph.D. As has been the case for most of the years since 1990, I do not have health insurance. I drive a 1991 Honda Civic with 220,000 miles on it. I repair that car to keep it going. Oh yes, I'm a 56 year old white male.
I think this situation needs to be reformed. I work for NumbersUSA in Arlington, Virginia as a modestly - paid information technology professional. I'm glad that my employer is helping almost 700,000 citizen activists to use the free online tools available at http://www.NumbersUSA.com to press for reform.
I sincerely hope that you will inform Daily Gazette readers more about this side of the story in future articles.
Dear Mark Robarge and Sara Foss: Just to give you a bit more background about "being discarded like yesterday's newspaper," I worked 11 years full time at SUNY Buffalo to earn my 1984 doctorate in radiation biophysics. I was falsely told prior to, and while engaged in the arduous work, that the US faced shortages of Ph.D. scientists. I had won a number of awards prior to that time, including a prize at the 1969 International Science Fair in Fort Worth for a 3-year long research project that I completed while a high school student.
I quickly learned when I was in the work world that such personal sacrifice was NOT valued. My job in clinical instrumentation at Technicon in Tarrytown, NY was abruptly cut in March 1985, along with half of the positions in the advanced research department. The company was preparing for a leveraged buyout orchestrated by Michael Milken that destroyed what had been a world - class clinical diagnostics firm.
I mentioned in my published Daily Gazette LTE that I have not worked a day in the radiation biophysics world. As an example of employer conduct, I completed a week - long interview process at Los Alamos National Labs (LANL) for a "postdoc" research position in 1981 related to my Ph.D. research. LANL is the premiere U.S. nuclear weapons lab. I received considerable positive feedback from LANL staffers while on site. Six weeks after I completed the interview, I was informed that LANL would not be hiring me. The program had been de-funded.
However, in 1978, LANL hired the ethnic Taiwanese computer scientist Wen Ho Lee, Ph.D. I believe that Wen was working under the authority of a H-1 visa. That visa program was passed in 1976 under the so-called "Eilberg Amendemnt" in response to AAU lobbying. There is evidence that Dr. Lee was subsequently involved in passing some of the intellectual property for the W-88 warhead to the Chinese Communists. (There were many other scientists and engineers recruited to LANL from Communist China and Taiwan subsequent to 1976.)
The foreigners were recruited because they offered to LANL administrators the "benefit" of being inexpensive and appearing to be pliant. According to CIA analysis, the Chinese Communists detonated their first W-88 warhead in 1992. They accomplished this feat via massive amounts of stolen LANL intellectual property.
The increase in numbers of refugees in the Capitol Region reminds me of a 1994 Atlantic Monthly article by Roy Beck about what happened in Wausau, Wisconsin. (It wasn't pretty.)
From the biography of NumbersUSA founder Roy Beck:
His investigative report, “Ordeal of Immigration in Wausau,” published in The Atlantic Monthly, inspired a 60 Minutes segment and is included as one of the five most important writings of 1994 by the Encyclopaedia Britannica’s The Annals of America. Author of four public policy books including The Case Against Immigration (W.W. Norton, 1996) — which is still used to teach an immigration course at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, Beck has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, C-SPAN, as well as NPR and numerous national radio programs. He regularly briefs members of Congress on immigration issues.
The special interests that advocate for illegal aliens don't want U.S. citizens to know that many illegal aliens are filling highly-skilled jobs.
How is that done? Simple. The foreign national overstays their valid visa. Learn more by reading the March, 2008 CIS backgrounder, "No Coyote Needed" which documents that about half of the current illegal alien population arrived in the U.S. on work, student, or tourist visas. http://www.cis.org/articles/2008/back208...
I strongly advocate that Daily Gazette readers use the powerful, free citizen advocacy tools at http://www.NumbersUSA.com to press for reform. NumbersUSA has almost 700,000 members now. The job you save may be your very own.
This was my Letter to the Editor published in response to your 3 August 2008 article. I'll let the readers of this blog judge how angry the tone my letter is..... I do not agree with your negative characterization. I have been following how special interests have been destroying the career prospects of American citizen technical professionals since the passage of the 1976 "Eilberg Amendment." The focus of my article cited below is how Microsoft lobbyist Jack Abramoff helped Microsoft (with about $100 million in political expenditures) obtain three employer-friendly changes to H-1B legislation in 1996, 1998, and 2000. Thus, I call the H-1B the "Abramoff Visa." - another example of how we now have "the best government money can buy."
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Jill Bryce and Sara Foss's 08 03 08 article "Immigrants Make It All Work" falsely alleges that there is a shortage of scientists. As a consequence of employer's preference for "fresh (inexpensive and imported) young blood" I have not worked a day in the field that I trained in at SUNY Buffalo, radiation biophysics! I earned my degree in 1984.
I'm very dismayed with the one-sided reporting in the article. There was a complete lack of content from U.S. citizen workers who have been harmed by this tidal wave of immigration. You may learn more about it by reading my recent investigative article, "The Greedy Gates Immigration Gambit." http://www.thesocialcontract.com/pdf/eig...
As Daily Gazette readers note shuttered business sites in Schenectady, NY, you are seeing one of the dark sides of excess immigration and offshoring of good U.S. jobs.
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Here is some unclassified information. The W-88 warhead is an ultra-compact high yield nuclear bomb that has about 1/2 megatons of destructive force. That is to say, the force of a billion pounds of TNT. According to some analysts, the W-88 is the "crown jewel" of the U.S. nuclear arsenal. This intellectual property theft (that U.S. taxpayers facilitated) is a metaphor for the loss of American technical might since 1976.
You may read more of the dispiriting details in my 2005 article about how U.S. colleges and universities have been converted into "Career Destruction Factories." http://www.thesocialcontract.com/pdf/fif...
The missing table regarding H-1B visa usage by NIH Grantees is found here.
http://www.jobdestruction.com/ShameH1B/L...
As a native - born American citizen, I am angered by the conduct of a small number among us who seem all to willing to sacrifice this great nation for their personal gain. I'm willing to work "within the system" to use my analytical and presentation skills to reform what many characterize to be an insane situation. I have twice testified to the U.S. House of Representatives and twice to the National Academy of Sciences regarding the harm of excessive numbers of work visas being granted to foreign technical professionals. I have faced the prospect of homelessness several times since earning my Ph.D. As has been the case for most of the years since 1990, I do not have health insurance. I drive a 1991 Honda Civic with 220,000 miles on it. I repair that car to keep it going. Oh yes, I'm a 56 year old white male.
I think this situation needs to be reformed. I work for NumbersUSA in Arlington, Virginia as a modestly - paid information technology professional. I'm glad that my employer is helping almost 700,000 citizen activists to use the free online tools available at http://www.NumbersUSA.com to press for reform.
I sincerely hope that you will inform Daily Gazette readers more about this side of the story in future articles.
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