CNN's Lou Dobbs Hour is the highlight to watching CNN, at least to my way of thinking. He skewers the incredible nonsense that is perpetrated by the greedy, the mendacious, and the politically correct. He has been doing a series on Exporting America's Jobs. On one segment he showed how companies were contracting out vast numbers of jobs overseas. Personally, I have a friend in California, who works for a large travel agency. Now, when she tries to line up an American flight for a client, she is talking to somebody in India. Besides the accent barrier, there is the often a misunderstanding of the air routes connections. "These people couldn't find Denver on a map", was her conclusion". But, they are much cheaper than hiring Americans, even at minimum wage. The same goes for the IT industry in Silicon Valley where she works.
The Nov. 8 episode had Dobbs showing that an Indiana job initiative computer program was being developed by an East Indian company. This is a state with numerous great universities; yet, this foreign company had been granted special work visas to do the work. The Secretary of Labour, in response to his questioning, simply kept repeating her mantra: "We allow only 66,000 of these visas." Dobbs wanted her to explain why over a 100,000 of these foreigners were working on these visas then. She repeated her mantra.
This is a program that should be watched. Or is that too racist for the CRTC, and Dobbs will be deleted from sensitive Canadian eyes, lest people start to question the entire rationale for our own immigration policy?
