"We had the best programmers in the world. A lot of them are selling used cars and wearing Home Depot aprons thanks to H-1Bs."
I don't believe this to be true.
"Wouldn't it just be easier to send the programming work to India or China? Business is and they claim to be saving a bundle. Why shouldn't government?"
This is my point. If we restrict the best and brightest from coming here then companies will just go there. By opposing increasing H-1B Visas you are increasing outsourcing. I don't think it is prudent to outsource top secret defense deprartment programing jobs. Which is why we must bring the best programmers here.
What do you have a problem believing? That American programmers were the best in the world? Or that a lot of them have been driven out of their chosen profession by cheaper H-1B competition?
By opposing increasing H-1B Visas you are increasing outsourcing.
Nonsense. H-1B promotes outsourcing. What do you think these companies are bringing them here for?
I don't think it is prudent to outsource top secret defense deprartment programing jobs.
What you and I think on the matter is of no importance to those running large corportations. Did you know that each precision guided munition in the military's arsenal requires a battery to power the guidance system? And did you know that there is a single supplier for those batteries? And did you know that they moved their manufacturing facility to China? After that what's a few Chinese programmers among friends?
Which is why we must bring the best programmers here.
Why couldn't we just keep the U.S. born programmers that we had? Why did we have to import them?