Sold Out: How High-Tech Billionaires & Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasels Are Screwing America's Best & Brightest Workers: Malkin, Michelle, Miano, John: 9781501115943: Amazon.com: Books

The #1 New York Times bestselling author and firebrand syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin sets her sights on the corrupt businessmen, politicians, and lobbyists flooding our borders and selling out America’s best and brightest workers.

In Sold Out, Michelle Malkin and John Miano reveal the worst perpetrators screwing America’s high-skilled workers, how and why they’re doing it—and what we must do to stop them. In this book, they will name names and expose the lies of those who pretend to champion the middle class, while aiding and abetting massive layoffs of highly skilled American workers in favor of cheap foreign labor. Malkin and Miano will explode some of the most commonly told myths spread in the media like these:

Lie #1: America is suffering from an apocalyptic “shortage” of science, technology, engineering, and math workers.

Lie #2: US companies cannot function without an unlimited injection of the most “highly skilled” and “highly educated” foreign workers, who offer intellectual capital and entrepreneurial energy that American workers can’t match.

Lie #3: America’s best and brightest talents are protected because employers are required to demonstrate that they’ve made every effort to hire American citizens before resorting to foreign labor.

For too long, open-borders tech billionaires and their political enablers have escaped tough public scrutiny of their means and motives. Sold Out is an indictment of not only political corruption in Washington, but also the journalistic malpractice that enables it. It’s time to trade the whitewash for solvent. American workers deserve better and the public deserves the unvarnished truth.

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Customers find the book informative and well-researched. They appreciate the author's writing style and find it eye-opening. Many readers praise the author and her work. However, some feel the pacing is too slow and the content is disturbing.

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Customers find the book well-researched and interesting. They say it's informative, better than government training materials, and a must-read for IT professionals. The book answers many questions and is a great American history book.

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Customers enjoy the author's writing style. They find the book informative and well-researched, with a special writing style that they appreciate. The author makes a valid point about US immigration law and is described as knowledgeable and professional. The book provides a timely description of abuse of foreigners.

"...He is a very good person,a pleasure to work with, and good professional but he had no idea what was actually involved in the job that I was doing...." Read more

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Customers find the book informative and eye-opening. They say it's full of facts and individual stories about how the tech industry has affected Americans. The book provides shocking details on how corporations and the government work together.

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"Pretty good book. Contains historical background on how the H-1B and other visa programs developed, who is behind them, and who in Congress has..." Read more

"A great American history book, chock full of facts, that shows how in the last half of the 20th century, and beyond, the American labor force was..." Read more

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Customers appreciate Michelle Malkin's writing style and find her book great. They also say she is a good writer, no matter the subject.

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Customers find the book's pacing slow. They say it provides an honest and frightening look at how American workers have been deceived by Washington.

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The book clearly shows how Americans are getting scamed + personal story
Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2016
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I'm very pleased with my purchase. The book was delivered on time and in the excellent condition.
The book itself is great, as usual when Michelle Mallkin is the author. She and John Miano collected and presented so many facts on how American workers were literally Sold Out by big companies with full cooperation of our government.
I worked in IT industry for more then 20 years and saw it with my own eyes and felt it in my pocket but this book gave me much better understanding on how it was done. The book is full of appalling details on how corporations and government work together to take jobs from American workers and give it cheap foreign workers. I'm really disgusted with our politicians who let it to happen.
The book also presents great individual stories of the Americans who were affected by this scam.
I'd like to add the personal story as well.
Firstly, I'd like to note that I don't have bad feelings against foreign workers, they do what they can to better their lives by using the system and as the book clearly shows they often themselves become the victims of the system. I worked with a lot of the IT guys from India and most of them are very pleasant people and good professionals BUT, in my experience, they are not better than American workers that I worked with and who lost their jobs because influx of cheap Indian labor.
Recently, I had a job with the big company that I also had worked for about 10 years ago. I was laid off 10 years ago but was lucky to find another job with much smaller compensation. I was really lucky because a lot of people who were laid off with me were not able to find any job. When I started this new assignment with the same company, I was amazed on how many Americans were replaced by foreign workers. I spoke to friend of my who by the way is Indian and was still working at this company and he told me that he had not have raises and bonuses for a while and he has to cope with it because it is harder and harder to find a decent job.
When my assignment was ending and I made it clear that I would not like to extend it, my commute one way was around 2 hr, one of the coworkers that I worked with said that he would try to do the job that I was doing. He is a very good person,a pleasure to work with, and good professional but he had no idea what was actually involved in the job that I was doing. When I started to explain it to him, he said that it would be better if I would document everything and then they can ask workers in India to do it for $ 10 per hour. It is his exact words. He himself was from India and in a couple of days he came to the office and was really upset. He could not keep it to himself so he told us that he just visited another department and at this department they were interviewing person from southern India. For some reason, he stressed the fact that this person was from southern India like it was something bad. Then he said that if this person and others like him would be hired and get paid $10 per hour, again his words, then his salary and job are in jeopardy. It was really ironic.
I hope that new administration would stay for American workers and would stop this abuse hidden under false pretenses of diversity and claims that there are not enough qualified American workers.
As I said before the book gives excellent coverage on how this scam is done now.

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MUST READ - I ASK ANYONE How would you like to loose your job and be told to train your guest worker replacement?
Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2015
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I just finished “Sold Out: How High-Tech Billionaires and Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasels Are Screwing America's Best and Brightest Workers”. This is the first comprehensive book of its kind describing the nightmare conditions that Information Technology Professionals have experienced for decades in regard to visa abuse, working conditions, unemployment and stress levels in today’s Tech industry. I know, I work in the tech industry.

The level of detail and references in which the authors Michelle Malkin and John Miano, a programmer and who became an attorney, delve into and describe about the US Government's fraud ridden guest visa system and its adverse effects on US IT Citizens is amazing and shocking in its scope. The number of citations illustrates that the authors have done their homework. This is not a book that makes assertions without any supporting evidence. “Sold Out” describes how Corporate American and Congress that sells out American STEM and IT workers, and the book’s narrative truths are more shocking than I previously thought possible.

As an American IT professional with almost 20 years industry experience I have seen first hand the negative impacts these visa loopholes have had on US IT workers and quite frankly have witnessed the poor quality in software products as a result.

A colleague and I have established a FaceBook Community page “Save American Information Technology Jobs” as a means of providing the American public with relevant news and first hand accounts of how the US Guest Visa system has allowed employers the opportunity to provide preferential treatment to foreign nationals while victimizing US Citizens. “Sold Out” places a huge spotlight on the US Visa guest worker system, calls out the corporate perpetrators by name and provides irrefutable evidence that the American public has been lead to believe a blatant LIE. THE TRUTH is that there is absolutely no shortage of "highly-skilled" US nationals in the job market. The H-1B visa system was instituted and implemented by corporate Crapweasels to obtain cheap labor in order to enrich themselves, this is the 1% turning the screw on the 99%, plain and simple. The American main stream media has been blinded by US corporate propaganda techniques - leading the American public largely ignorant. “Sold Out” is leading the charge to educate the media and this the American public. That is why this book is so important. Once informed of the facts, public outrage is the result.

“Sold Out” is a must read book for IT professionals , families and friends of IT professionals, students studying Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) occupations, and parents of students studying STEM professions. The various corporate lobbyists and congress and the executive branch of the US Government has stacked the deck against its own citizens - those best and brightest IT engineers are forced into unemployment under the terms of training their own replacements - foreign guest workers from half way around the globe. A form of humiliation that is unacceptable and cruel to any one, in any profession, anywhere in this county; indeed any where in the world. I cannot think of any other country in the world that treats its own citizens in such a horrible fashion, a fashion of cruelty that the Disney Corporation as so well crafted.

John Miano and Michelle Malkin have performed a public service. Every US Citizen in IT, every college student studying STEM, and every parent paying for their children’s education should give read this book. “Sold Out” brings home this horrific victimization to the national conversation. H-1B Visa reform is long overdue, and this book hopefully will serve as a platform for reform as the election cycle approaches, now is the time for change, American Information Technology is at a critical juncture. Are we as a nation going to turn over our technology to a group and foreign and inexpensive unqualified guest workers? Or are we going to continue to innovate and create the best world class technological systems? Are we going to stand up for American Information Technology Workers - a critical portion of middle class? Tech IT systems run our economy, it is the central nervous system for our institutions and corporate America and congress is currently destroying our STEM workers and the technological innovation of this county. Our US IT and STEM workers need jobs and our economy requires a stable and growing middle class that is not going to be “Sold Out”.

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Alexander Glauberzon
How corrupt big business and corrupt globalism destroying IT industry
Reviewed in Canada on October 6, 2019
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This is am amazing book with the plenty of facts. This is the alarm bell for all IT professionals in western world on how corrupt business and globalists are trying to destroy our future, by outsourcing our jobs to incompetent and corrupt environments, forcing us to educate our replacements. I wish we have somebody in Canada to do similar research and to write similar book.

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How tech people's jobs are being affected and sold out
Reviewed in Canada on December 2, 2015
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Excellent, well worth reading, tech people being sold out by corrupt politicians, disproves that there is a shortage of tech people, shows Americans being displaced by foreign workers and this is just greedy business people trying to lower wages and get more money for themselves. Seriously affects the tech industry and jobs and future prospects of citizens.

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5.0 out of 5 stars How corrupt big business and corrupt globalism destroying IT industry

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The book clearly shows how Americans are getting scamed + personal story

MUST READ - I ASK ANYONE How would you like to loose your job and be told to train your guest worker replacement?

How corrupt big business and corrupt globalism destroying IT industry

How tech people's jobs are being affected and sold out