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This is really the problem, our high schools are not turning out too many people who are competant in math and science, and the universities produce many engineers who are also not that good.... The H1B visa bring in exceptionally good workers.... not to cry foul and get the government to help whenever things don't go your way.

Now I know you are an H-1B. Incase you didn't know the government IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS. Our schools are fine. Our Engineers are superior. WE JUST DON'T WANT TO GET PAID $20,000 a year like in India and China and we don't want to work 14 hours a day 7 days a week.

"Our schools are fine. Our Engineers are superior. WE JUST DON'T WANT TO GET PAID $20,000 a year "

I wish, look at an average software development team, I'm willing to bet that any given team of say 10 programmers are at most 50% operational at any given time. The reason is because most American Hi-tech workers did not receive formal training, many learned on the job. While its good for maintenance and small software projects, large scale development require a bit more talent. In collge, I've noticed that a lot of comp sci majors were very incomptetant and were only looking to get rich(this was during the boom). So in effect, a large fraction of American hi-tech workers are in fact very unskilled in their profession, add that to the need for high pay, and we have a problem on our hands.