[Sub-Driver]

racist!

[Radl]

We can’t have this. It makes sense and therefore should not be considered.

[agere_contra]

Microsoft should lay off whomever they like. The Senator is way out of line.

[The Sons of Liberty]

"I am concerned that Microsoft will be retaining foreign guest workers rather than similarly qualified American employees when it implements its layoff plan."

My question is: "Why wasn't that a REQUIREMENT by law in the act that let all these foreign "guest workers" in the Country?

[ShadowAce]

Kinda.

[Drango]

controversial suggestions

Only controversial to moonbats.

[GeronL]

How is this idiotic Senator on the issue of illegal immigrants??

[DoughtyOne]

Protectionist! ;-)

Imagine this having to be something that is debated. Is there any question who should go first?

Why should this Senator even have to raise the issue. It should be a given.

[reaganaut1]

It is dangerous for politicians to start telling private companies whom they should hire or fire. If Grassley has a beef with h1b workers, he should push for lower h1b quotas, not browbeat individual companies.

[Doohickey]

Grassley is pissed because they’re stopping development of a data center in Iowa. In short, he’s being a freaking hypocrite.

[Dixie Yooper]

Not one cent of the new stimulus package should be used to employ white male computer programmers...sarcasm off.

[Non-Sequitur]

Senator Asks Microsoft to Lay Off Foreigners Ahead of Americans.

ROTFLMAO!!! Like that's gonna happen.

[Snickering Hound]

How about letting Microsoft decide who to layoff based upon competency Mr. RINO?

[FormerLib]

Tech firms I know are laying off American-born workers and keeping the H1-B’s on the payroll.

[reagan_fanatic]

[villagerjoel]

It´s none of the government´s business who Microsoft hires and fires (assuming it was done legally to begin with).

[Political Junkie Too]

What Grassley could also do is sponsor a bill reducing the number of H-1B visas in the United States, claiming the labor bubble was over. If passed, this would force companies to give up the H-1B workers as their work visas expire, and replace them with citizens or green-card workers.

Remember, the H-1B visa program was about jobs looking for workers, not workers looking for jobs. If the job disappears, the worker goes home. The worker should not be allowed to look for another job. They were brought over in the first place by the hiring company that stipulated that they couldn't find the skilled worker anywhere else. When the work goes away, the worker goes home.

-PJ

[gakrak]

Oh gosh if were going that far, lets ask them to lay off the Dumbs first then the foreigners. Amen. LOL

[AuntB]

“A prominent Republican Senator has some controversial suggestions for Microsoft on its job cuts”

Controversial?

This is how far we’ve sunk...when common sense fairness is called ‘controversial’

[Da Coyote]

I’d like it if Microsoft simply ceased to exist. The nation’s productivity would measurably rise immediately following the complete erasing of that abortion called “windows” - all rotten versions of it.

[Da Coyote]

I’d like it if Microsoft simply ceased to exist. The nation’s productivity would measurably rise immediately following the complete erasing of that abortion called “windows” - all rotten versions of it.