>And as a small businessman, I will gladly outsource tech work
>if it helps keep me afloat.
You do realize that as a small businessman, the only reason you are afloat is that the business you happen to be doing has not yet been exposed to the crushing weight of some offshore competitor who can hire workers for $0.25 an hour, don't you?
Or are you one of those arrogant franchise owners who has deluded themselves into believing that they are something other than an outsourced middle manager for a MNC...
I do my work because it's profitable. When it isn't, I'll need to find another line of work, not count on the government to help me at someone else's expense.
Americans have been doing this for centuries.
How about my case, where I have my own government turning a blind eye to employers who hire criminal trespassers? Is this fair to me? I pay my help well, and pay FICA and all the other Gub-mint bull$hit taxes and regulatory fees. My closest competitor, 40 feet away, does not have to pay. GWB sucks on this issue. He is just as bad as his predecessors.