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Bush is still right.

No, I'm not asking my employer for any less than i think I deserve. But I know that as soon as they find someone who can do what i do, and asks less for it, they will let me go. It's up to me to be valuable. It's not up to Bush to protect my job.

Whatever the reason for H1-B visas, it makes sense to hire the best for less. When I shop for software and hardware I look for the best quality at the best price. I don't expect any one to be any different. That's the way markets work, wether it's the job market or the supermarket.

Again, if your job can be done by someone else for less, make yourself more valuable.

Again, if your job can be done by someone else for less, make yourself more valuable.

And what new skills would you suggest a techie learn to make himself able to compete with an Indian programmer making 6k a year? I know maybe I could learn to be a millionaire star athlete, no too old for that. Maybe a millionaire hollywood actor, no too conservative for that. Any suggestions?

Whatever the reason for H1-B visas, it makes sense to hire the best for less

No, it makes sense for this country to quit making it easy for our economic competitors to kick our butts and siphon millions of good-paying jobs away, leaving an ever-shrinking middle class caught between job loss and a rapacious government consuming more and more of their paychecks.

Whatever the reason for H1-B visas, it makes sense to hire the best for less. When I shop for software and hardware I look for the best quality at the best price. I don't expect any one to be any different. That's the way markets work, wether it's the job market or the supermarket.

It is about a direct violation of our Immigration law and you say whatever the reason. Perjury isn't really a crime if its about sex or money right?

Try giving up the Marxist line.

A constant theme of these threads is some babbling fool of a libertarian strutting about how he doesn't owe anyone anything and if the middle class is decimated it's their own fault with his chin set defiantly into the wind as if he's some Ayn Rand ubermensch.

Sure. Go ahead. Allow the working and middle class of this country to be decimated by pervasive outsourcing and offshoring. Get used to the society it creates. You had better live behind gated walls because if you don't you will live in a society that can no longer control young males of average or less intelligence by being able to give them secure futures. Get used to a generation of amoral, rootless, antisocial young males without mercy or remorse who will take your callousness and hand it right back to you. When the manufacturing jobs go you get hoodlums, like the gangstas of South Central or the skinheads of the Midlands when the British industrial economy died or the neo nazi skinheads of Eastern Germany, etc.

Whether you think you owe it to them to pay for them is of no importance. You Will pay for them one way or another whether you like it or not.

It does my heart good to read someone that actually seems to agree with the idea of the free market. I sometimes forget that I'm on FreeRepublic when every other post I read is someone whining because an employer found someone who can do a job cheaper and better than he. What is this, DU?