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To: Dat Mon
if you don't know...just say so...its cool!

I'll certainly do so if this is indeed the case. But what does your remark have to do with mine?

Nothing works better than capitalism in providing and distributing private goods. This does not mean that public goods -- such as national safety, culture, etc --- are to be provided by the markets. Markets are actually terrible in providing public goods, and government intervention is both warranted and unavoidable.

It follows that I am against data bases with our citizens' data being off-shored to India and other such things, including the recent attempt to monopolize our ports by a very unstable, if not untrustworthy, country. Now, job protection is something else altogether. When one argue for socialist measures such as that, one actually favors a small group of Americans over the rest. This is neither fair nor smart.

Even more specifically, H1 visas have nothing to do with the issues, and I wish people would stop whining about it. It allows universities, for instance, to hire the best people in the world to teach our kids. Yes, you can find some third-rate American with a Ph.D. from some third-rate school who would take that job, but why do that? why not let our kids be taught be the absolute best we can find?

Most people on this board, in contrast, whine about programming jobs. They want us, Americans, to continue paying them 150,000/year and up they were making in 1990s. Now, what is that you were saying about capitalism?

208 posted on 03/15/2006 5:24:39 PM PST by TopQuark
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To: TopQuark; Dat Mon
"It allows universities, for instance, to hire the best people in the world to teach our kids. Yes, you can find some third-rate American with a Ph.D. from some third-rate school who would take that job, but why do that?"

This is not really an issue in the primary areas of college / graduate study that American's are wisely willing to invest their money-in; i.e. very few courses in Constitutional Law, Legal Writing, Civil Litigation, and other courses in Law School are taught by professors over here on an H1B visa.

As for courses where your argument might apply...in the long run you will basically have H1B professors teaching H1B-bound students.
214 posted on 03/15/2006 6:03:24 PM PST by indthkr
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