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To: TopQuark
It is a free-market capitalism: citizenship is a barrier to an unbridled, completely free market; the government removes that barrier for certain professions.
Couple things wrong with this:
1) H1Bs are required to stay with their current employer for so many years and can't easily leave this endentured servitude state. There's a barrier to the H1Bs leaving their current situation.
2) H1Bs are targeted mainly towards one segment: the IT industry. Singleling out one profession for government intervention isn't capitalistic.
3) Capitalism doesn't exist in a vacuum, and I believe voiding any sort of citizenship requirements for work in the country degrades the US as a whole. It makes the country more of a port of call for any sort of migrant worker coming through. Why try and flourish in a country where cheap labor is brought in from anywhere w/o restrictions?
59 posted on 11/17/2002 11:50:27 AM PST by lelio
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To: lelio
TQ: It is a free-market capitalism: citizenship is a barrier to an unbridled, completely free market; the government removes that barrier for certain professions.

Lelio: Couple things wrong with this:
1) H1Bs are required to stay with their current employer for so many years
This is illogical: you are pointing to another barrier. To reiterate: permission to enter the country is a removal of a previously erected barrier. As such it is an improvement of the flow, not an impedence thereof.

and can't easily leave this endentured servitude state. Now you are pointing out the terms of a contract with the employer who sponsored you.

And, I have to add, I cannot read without disgust that you confuse the privilege of being here with the state of servitude.

2) H1Bs are targeted mainly towards one segment: the IT industry. Singleling out one profession for government intervention isn't capitalistic. Once again: it is citizenship that is not capitalistic.

I've said that much in the previous post. Reflect before you write, don't just repeat someone's words.

3) Capitalism doesn't exist in a vacuum, and I believe voiding any sort of citizenship requirements for work in the country degrades the US as a whole. It makes the country more of a port of call for any sort of migrant worker coming through. Why try and flourish in a country where cheap labor is brought in from anywhere w/o restrictions? I answered that in a prebious post.

61 posted on 11/17/2002 12:00:12 PM PST by TopQuark
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