[Principled]

There aren’t enough American kids who are willing to do the work necessary to gain such an education. The norm has shifted a good bit from what it was when I came up. Today, a kid who works hard, makes good grades, goes to a good School with a real major is the exception.

The majority is now lazy and entitled. Seriously. That’s why we’re short of qualified workers. Women’s studies, gender studies, etc we have plenty.

My issues with letting more people in is that those we’re currently letting in are net tax consumers by a friggin long shot, we don’t know who or where they are, they’re taking jobs that we DO have people for (unskilled), they get benefits (they should not- if you come here you must contribute not suck resources), and they’ll try to vote.

I’m ok letting people in who don’t get benefits, don’t vote, don’t take jobs Americans can do,

Can H1-B help combat that? I don’t know. But I do know we have to secure the border and control what comes in. Hopefully what come in _helps_ us.

[skeeter]

In a nation of 320 million people there generally are no native kids with a work ethic?

I'm not buying it.

[skeeter]

The public education system stinks on ice but people are people and are still motivated by the same things they have been in the past.

The reasons we are bringing in labor more complex than that and many of those reasons are indefensible.

[ConservingFreedom]

we’re short of qualified workers.

No we're not: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/05/16/scholars-debunk-claims-of-high-tech-workers-shortage-question-industry-s-free-pass/