[rollo tomasi]

HB-1 Visa was designed for companies that needed business skills and abilities from the U.S. workforce due to shortages, not as replacements used for cheap labor. You spit on the middle-class with your pompous anecdotal platitudes that have nothing to do with the original intent of HB-1 Visa program. The elitist attitude is in poor taste, especially if a you are a young-just-out-of-undergrad programmer (That needs a job, yes, people of lower "status" need jobs) who is also working on a graduate degree (To pay tuition) is replaced by cheap labor via corporatism.

There is nothing "free" in that market, just totalitarian manipulation tactics from renting out politicians and horrible business stewardship by CEOs who could care less about the stakeholders; only their personnel short-sighted holdings while implementing long-term misery.

[NobleFree]

replacements used for cheap labor [...] horrible business stewardship by CEOs who could care less about the stakeholders; only their personnel short-sighted holdings while implementing long-term misery.

"Stakeholders" is an abusably elastic concept - I'd say simply that short-sighted CEOs are sawing off the stable-middle-class limb on which they sit (not to mention getting lower quality for lower pay).