Great work.

It looks like Mr. Miller's past is catching up to him.  Is it a character issues that's he's not facing up to it?  Mr. Miller should be proud of his career and speak openly about his life accomplishments.

He's looking less like a policy "wonk" and more like a policy "crank".

The hardest working man in outsourcing is saying this stuff.  This is utterly bizarre.  What is it, a new campaign tactic called let's pretend like we're in another universe or what?

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And he says this, too:
"I try to get things done, without compromising my principles in any way."

Seriously, does Miller have some kind of medical problem?

If he doesn't, all I can say is I *told* you he thinks we are stupid.

ITAA Headline
Labor Market in Flux: How Can States Respond to Outsourcing, Labor Shortages & Job Creation?
29-Apr-04

"The fact is, during the recession the vast majority of IT jobs were lost due to factors other than global sourcing," said Miller. "Thirty seven states around the country are considering legislation to effectively end sourcing of state services. While these restrictions may make for good local politics, they’d be terrible for many American IT firms, their workers and our economic growth. By enacting such policies, we’re giving foreign governments an excuse to forgo buying products from leading American companies such as Dell, HP, Intel and Microsoft. These governments represent major market opportunities for American companies to export products, which in turn increases profits and real wages for American workers."

Miller attempts to confuse newspaper readers with products being sold overseas when the true subject is foreign labor replacing domestic jobs and workers, mostly computer programmers and analysts.

Under the pretext of non-existent "labor shortages" in the high tech and white collar employment jobs categories (such as software engineering) Miller, the ITAA and allied corporate lobbies repeatedly lobbied Congress to increase the numbers of foreign guest workers permitted entry into the U.S.

It was/is critical for corporations to have these foreign "guest workers" (an ironic name since American workers sure as heck don't think of them as "guests") in the U.S. Only then, could they force their American workers to carry out "knowledge transfers" -- in effect forcing Americans to train their own replacements.

Please see http://www.computerworld.com/careertopics/careers/story/0,10801,92150,00.html and http://www.cio.com/archive/090103/people.html and http://judiciary.house.gov/media/pdfs/miano033006.pdf for details. Additional articles/testimony may be found on the rightmost column under "LINKS" at http://modernpatriot.blogspot.com

Outsourcing's Next Hot Spots
By Reuters , VARBusiness
6:59 AM EDT Thu. Jun. 01, 2006
....
By 2004, when there was a public outcry in the United States about white-collar jobs being moved to India, 700,000 such jobs had already been created there. Another 250,000 jobs followed in 2005. However, even in the Indian cities of Bangalore and Chennai, there is a limit to the number of skilled people available. Indian giants like Tata Consultancy Services are recruiting aggressively and U.S. rivals like IBM and Accenture are competing for the same staff. As a result, labour costs are starting to rise.

Harris Miller's old organization, ITAA, is begging for more H-1B programmers to extend the offshore exodus.
http://www.itaa.org/newsroom/release.cfm?ID=2312

ITAA Press Release
ITAA Says Evidence Clearly Shows H-1B Cap Needs Upward Adjustment
02-Jun-06
"Access to the world's best talent and skills in an increasingly competitive global economy is a no-brainer," said ITAA Senior Vice President Jeff Lande. "Congress needs to move quickly to pass legislation that raises the cap substantially and adds a mechanism that avoids these unfortunate shortfalls by allowing the number of annual visas granted to increase based on market demand."