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The H1-B program was a stab in the back to American software engineering. It was designed to lower labor cost and forward the globalist agenda. In retrospect we should have formed unions, protected our jobs and maintained our position of value.

As has been stated earlier on this thread, why are forklift drivers making more than highly educated and skilled engineers?

So that we could screw over our industry as badly as these longshoremen are screwing over theirs? Sorry, I didn't go into QA to be part of the problem. Lack of unionization is one of the things that drew me to the industry, and I'll never join a union. The longshoremen are overpaid. Making ourselves overpaid wouldn't have helped the situation. The H1Bs play little if any part of the problem. Crappy business plans that couldn't possibly work but got funded anyway were the problem. And businesses that didn't even HAVE business plans, and yet IPOd for $25/share. Pie in the sky thinking results in egg on your face. Pushing blame to the H1Bs is excuse mongering and just sets up the industry to make the same stupid mistakes next time around.