Reply #3: As an Ohioan, I can speak to that ...the ire is not so much at the

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people that fill these jobs but at the blatant - in your face fashion they strong-arm and facilitate the reduction of wages and benefits for deserving American middle class to struggling to leave the lower class workers who have gone into debt or paid their own way to obtain a degreed education only to be told they are not even qualified for even the entry-level experience while watching the exotic-appearing workers in native dress, no less, fill the American jobs in retail, service, and hospitality causing deferment/default in American's student loans while their parents who not so long ago qualified for FAFSA assistance go bankrupt and lose homes because their IT/manufacturing jobs were outsourced/off-shored, merged, relocated, re-organized, etc...furthered, of course, by Wall Street feasting on their worthless swapped tranches.

I have been coerced to prepare an immigration worker's legal letters to their immigration attorney, citing the unavailability of nurses who regularly graduate from the area's top schools of nursing while my IT husband went jobless due to outsourcing/off-shoring, and the endless mergers, relocations, re-organizations, and contract phase failures. I still cannot believe that the owner of a small local dance studio could not find a qualified American instructor team and had to sponsor foreigners--just as I am sure these were "nothing personal - just business decision" that somehow Connecticut workers somehow could provide better service than local ones.

Spouse has now been out of work over two years (for the second time) - I've now been out two months; we've chased jobs thoughout Ohio since the late 80s, and we're now fighting age discrimination and wage discrimination and will surely have nothing but survival funds on which to retire.

I shuffled resumes for an American company with global connections in another life, and no candidates of any nationality ever were as ill-treated as Americans are today by their own fellow citizens.