And they wonder why American kids are not interested in pursuing engineering and science careers.
Maybe this flood of outsiders displacing Americans will only stop when we have H-1 visas for reporters, pundits, politicians, and CEOs.
After all, could an imported Paraguayan CEO paid $80,000 a year screw up ENRON any worse than Ken Lay did?
I work for a large government contractor and we work a HUGE IT contract for the SSA. It’s got to be 75% H1-Bs here. I do interviews now and again and the candidates are nothing but H1-Bs.
Last year the company bussed us all to a speech by the CEO and he gave some BS about how the company has programs to encourage students to study math, science and engineering. I felt like standing up and saying “Why should ANYONE go though the trouble of studying calculus (like I did) when companies like yours lobby congress to allow more workers to drive down our wages?”
But I need the paycheck.