Bill and Hillary Clinton Sold Out America

August 11, 2007

By Diane Alden

In 2004, two powerful members of the U.S. Senate instituted something called the India Caucus. New York Sen. Hillary Clinton and Texas Sen. John Cornyn put together an alliance giving special status to foreign interests including what appears to be sale of U.S. visas (student and work) in exchange for favors, campaign contributions, and God only knows what else.

The Senate India Caucus quickly signed 32 members of the Senate. The 2007 110th congress has a total of 37 senators in that caucus, including 18 Democrats, and 19 Republicans. In the House, 176 congressmen belong to the India Caucus, 115 Democrats and 61 Republicans including my own 11th District Rep. Phil Gingrey, R-Ga. I had no idea West Georgia had such a vested interest in India or its needs.

This association and Gingrey's vote in favor of CAFTA suggests whose interests far too many Democrats and Republicans now represent and it rarely includes their district or America's long term future.

Does your representative belong to India? Visit these Web sites to find out:

http://www.usinpac.com/members_house_caucus.asp
http://www.usinpac.com/members_senate_caucus.asp

In 2006, the New York Daily News reported Bill and Hillary Clinton's financial statement including their associations with Indian government and American business interests.

During the Clinton and Bush administrations encouraged the corporate transference of high tech jobs to India and elsewhere. Meanwhile, the U.S. visa went on sale to the highest foreign bidders. It appears India won. Hundreds of thousands of U.S. H-1B visas have gone to Indian foreign nationals.

Without question it is a corporate inspired replacement of Americans, including workers on all ends of the spectrum.

The corporate/government "partnership" in our replacement has profoundly impacted our future and that of U.S. born computer scientists, other sciences, and the entire range of engineers.

One corporate culprit is multinational Cisco Systems. Several years ago, Forbes reported in "A Tale of Two Cities" that Cisco was laying off $60,000-a-year "techies," while hiring new employees in Bangalore, India. Meanwhile, Indian companies like TaTa Consulting managed to aid in further depressing wages and prospects of American workers by bringing in low level computer workers on the cheap. They had political support for this.

The Clinton financials include:

Hillary accepted $60,000 in contributions from employees of Cisco System; Clinton's Presidential Exploratory Committee took $39,450 from Cisco employees during the first quarter of 2007.

Cisco employees have also donated $18,900 to Clinton's Senate committee between 1999 and 2006.

Bill Clinton received $300,000 from Cisco for two speeches, 150,000 on 5/18/06 and 8/17/06 (Hillary Clinton 2006 Financial Disclosure Report; 3,4).

In March 2007, the Economic Times wrote, "[Clinton] has roped in New York-based hotelier Sant Chatwal as co-chair of her recently formed presidential exploratory committee to run for the 2008 White House race." He is also creating an organization called Indian Americans for Hillary 2008.
There is much more New York Daily News obtained from Clinton financial statements and it is worth a look. Go to the NY Daily news' Web site for more.

Hillary Clinton and John Cornyn assert the Senate India Caucus is about better relationships with India, security, trade etc. In fact, the U.S. Senate and a significant bloc in the U.S. House have become shills for India, China, the Saudis, et al., and corporate interests. The political sellout includes providing India and Indian workers and students with hundreds of thousands of visas to address shortages that do not exist.

As of 2006, Indians receive more work and student visas than any other single nation. During fiscal year 2006 an official count of 43,167 H-1B visas were granted to Indians. The visa cap is 65,000 for the year. Although there is no real cap on visas for students and those who go to work for government related organizations.

In total, 358,734 temporary visas were issued to Indians in U.S. fiscal year 2006. This is a 14 percent increase from the previous year, according to U.S. consul general Peter Kaestner, who added that during the same period over 30,000 immigrant visas were also granted to Indians. (The 300,000 figure may include extensions — see www.workpermits.com.)

There was a 78 percent increase in the number of H-1B visas issued during the first two months of fiscal year 2007 over the same period last year.

U.S. consul Kaestner says that IBM is planning to hire 50,000 IT professionals in the next two years "and we expect one-third of these to come from India" (workpermits.com).

In 2004, Sen. Clinton told an Indian newspaper she represented 250,000 Indian Americans and looked forward to playing a key role in stimulating stronger economic relations between the two countries. She recalled her successful interactions with a delegation of Indian CEOs in upstate New York some time ago. One of the Indian companies was TaTa Consulting a primary supplier of American jobs to Indian workers.

On the other hand, Republican Cornyn claims the relationship between India and the U.S. increases trade opportunities and helps fight the "war on terror." Just recently, the Bush administration did a deal with India on nuclear issues in exchange for mangoes. John Cornyn has been treated like royalty in several visits to India. Meanwhile, American computer programmers, scientists and engineers are sold down the Ganges.

Sen. Cornyn has also been the mastermind driving the job related Skil Bill. This is an American job-killing effort the powers-that-be desperately wants. The continued demand for "guest worker amnesty" is the tip of the iceberg. The Skil Bill will expand numbers of work and student visas into the U.S. for "shortages" in nearly every single professional occupation; shortages only the irresponsible political, academic, and corporate establishment predicts.

What is happening? Since the end of World War II, American prospects have been sacrificed and used as a foreign policy tool to buy or influence "friends."

Subsequently, our post Cold War relationships with India and China, for instance, have nothing to do with selling American manufactured clothing, shoes, or car parts to India or anywhere else. If this were not the case, there would not be a lopsided trade deficit of nearly a trillion-dollars favoring foreign nations; there would not be crushing public and private debt, and no threats from China to annihilate the dollar if we object to their monetary or political double-dealing.

In the bargain, the establishment gets to elect a new people; perhaps one having no stake in the nation-state known as America: Maybe we will get that global "corporate sponsored" village after all.

Next time: Comparing apples and shortages. Is America too dumb to go on?

Source: Newsmax

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