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The answer? It's simple: We need to educate our people better. It isn't H1-B that's doing us in, it's our schools.

Wrong. It's greedy corporate executives who could care less about America. It's people who believe everything those corporations report to the media.

We need to demand a revolution in academic rigor in our schools. Otherwise we are doomed.

We need to demand a repeal of the H1-B program. There are hundreds of thousands of HIGHLY educated and skilled Americans out of work. We don't need to import slaves from other lands.

"The answer? It's simple: We need to educate our people better. It isn't H1-B that's doing us in, it's our schools."

"Wrong. It's greedy corporate executives who could care less about America. It's people who believe everything those corporations report to the media."

Exactly right. In the 90s there was a hue and cry as companies rushed to idiocy in the dot-com craze, and found that when they required Java or some other new tech, they had to shell out appropriately as the candidate field was small. (Excepting people already skilled in related languages, whom they didn't want to hear from).

So they went to Congress and said, we have a shortage of tech workers, give us cheap labor. And Congress said, yes, certainly, have hundreds of thousands of people.

The rest is supply and demand; if we import 100,000 people for whom a 70 hour work week at half the normal pay is a treasure, then the wages stagnate, and employers demand crazy hours, and get them. We're not talking a good honest 40 hour week, or a dedicated professional 45 or 50 hour week, but mandated 7 day, 60+ hour weeks.

Some of the people I've seen forced into that were salaried exempt; so not only did their wages freeze, but they were working 50% or more extra hours for nothing. (I was lucky I guess, I got paid for the extra at least).

Then, as I said in the above post, the H1Bers' code falls to pieces, so the regular staff has to fix everything, at huge expense. But the contractor who pimps the H1Bs is gone, has taken his $ and moved on pushing 'cheap' labor.