[WilliamofCarmichael]

RE: IBM or some other outfit will have to have a secure American based facility to produce government PCs. . . .

That's a good point.

If $800 toilet seats were bad I cannot imagine the cost of an office PC for government.

However there were news stories a year or two ago about efforts to limit foreigner contractors from working on certain federal contracts. The body shops that use H1B contractors and various advocacy groups raised so much hell that the plan was scraped or severely weakened.

[Dat Mon]

"The body shops that use H1B contractors and various advocacy groups raised so much hell that the plan was scraped or severely weakened."

One item Id like some poster with better search capabilities than myself to look into is the fact that 8A companies can use H1b workers to fulfill their minority requirements.

Based on what I know about how government work is mandated to be "set aside" for these companies...THIS IS A SCANDAL that needs to be hammered home to the American people. Lets import cheap foreign talent, then use these people to secure DOD or NASA work, undercutting American companies also competing for contracts. How many people out there know that consultants who want to contract to a government agency such as NASA for engineering services have to usually go through such companies which have umbrella engineering service contracts with the government. Most of these companies will not go corp to corp..they insist on employees only. Their markup on salary as billed to the feds is over 100%. They contribute NOTHING , they merely pass paper and take a fee.