Savant needs to take it up with his fellow unions
Only in Obamaland. DAMN I hate that man...
oh man I agree with a union rep. is the world ending?
immigrant IT workers are better trained ,trained by their home country , LOL ,things will fall apart very fast
Then WHY are Unions giving to politicians who support Shamnesty?????? ie. the Demonrats?
“Lavin is a stalwart Democrat”
You voted for change, now accept it.
And the republican amnesty plan will have no limits on H1-B visas anymore.
Mitt Romney: “Corporations are people too!”
The very heart of the disease that infects the GOP-Establishment.
Versus Union greed which is bankrupting a lot of cities.
Better ratchet up the volume, Mr Union Boss. There’s not much time before Obama overruns us all with dirt poor, illiterate cheap labor.
Those few politicians who believe in securing the border, will call for increased immigration as a way of softening or sweetening what they think is a hard-to-sell immigration policy.
But, no. With record high numbers of Americans out of work, they should be reducing the numbers of immigrants, especially including H1B.
Give the immigrants already here time to assimilate, and wait until we have an honest unemployment rate well below 5%. Aside from a few special cases, only in a full employment economy should we allow anyone to immigrate.
My building in Washington State is full-up with Indian programmers.
Unions are pissed because they can’t sign up the H1B visa holders as easy as they can with the illegals. The SEIU and like LOVE the illegals.
AMERICA is being pulled in far TOO MANY different directions simultaneously to be able to GO in the ONE direction that truly SERVES ALL Americans.
It's become a DIVISIVE America NOT a UNITED America.
Without LEADERSHIP we're momentarily SCREWED.
Amnesty / H1B bump for later...
nothing wrong with corporate greed. The problem comes when corporations and politicians work together to undermine US immigration by lying that it is broken.
Did the Union support Barack Obama?
If so the chickens have come home to roost.....
Savant needs to take it up with his fellow unions
My question is this: If the best and the brightest scientists and technical workers in India,China, Taiwan, Pakistan, and South Korea remain in their countries, then what level of workers is the United States importing from those Asian countries?
Such distorted logic and reasoning on the part of American technical firms like Microsoft, Apple, and Facebook makes no sense.
Have these greedy technical companies forgotten that America was made great by such programs like apprentice programs and internships? How do these technical companies think that American plumbers,electricians, and air-conditioning technicians learned their skills: Through apprentice programs.
We should encourage, maybe even demand, that technical companies like Microsoft, Apple, and FaceBooke develop strong apprentice and intern programs so that they wouldn't have to depend so much on HB technical workers from India, China, Taiwan, Pakistan, and South Korea.
I believe that the HB program should be immediately and drastically reduced or abolished completely.
My point is this: The HB program has done more harm than good in developing of technical skills among future American young people. The HB program is slowly destroying rather than helping America's ability to compete in the global market.
The severe problem of getting American young people to pursue technical skills goes something like this:
1. Schools throughout the country are working hard to encourage young people to enter the technical fields like working with computers.
2. Many young Americans are enthusiastic about entering the good-paying technical field.
3. But these same students look around and see that they have to compete not only with their fellow Americans but with technical workers imported from foreign countries, mostly Asian countries---for instance, you don't see a flood of HB workers coming from,say, Spain and England.
4. So what do these bright students end up doing? They become discouraged. They give up on their dreams to entire the fast growing amd good-paying technical field, and so they decide to go into some line of easier work where they don't have to compete with foreign technical workers.
5. Then what happens? What happens is that the United States demand for technical workers ends up caught in a vicious circle.
6. The vicious circle goes something like this: Now that more and more smart American students are discouraged from pursuing studies in the scientific and technical fields by such horrible self-defeating programs like the HB program, American companies claim that they can't find enough skilled American workers to meet their increasing demand for skilled technical workers.
7. So, argue American companies, they have no choice but to beg Congress to allow them to import more and more foreign technical workers from such Asian countries as India, China, Taiwan,Pakistan and South Korea so that they can compete on the global market with the highly skilled technical workers in Asian countries like India, China, Taiwan, Pakistan, and South Korea. Huh? Am I missing something here?
8. And round-and-round we go with no end in sight to this terrible, self-defeating HB foreign workers problem.
9. Meanwhile, executives at technical and rich companies like Microsoft , Apple, and FaceBook run all the way to the bank to deposit all the money they saved by bypassing highly-qualified American technical workers for foreign HB workers.
10. Yes. Let's drastically reduce or abolish the HB foreign workers program so that we can give American youths the chance to develop the technical skills that America will need for a long, long time.
we need to create a tax on foreign workers so that companies see hiring Americans as being financially advantageous. I normally am not one who wants more taxes. I look at this more as a fine that the company is paying. the companies claim they need more foreign workers I would allow them to hire as many as they want but have them pay a tax that is as high as 200% of what they are paying the foreign worker.
The bad news is that soon the defense industry will be absorbing all those displaced US IT workers.