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Wow, I'm speechless. I've never disagreed with any of your posts before.

My husband has worked in IT for over 15 years, and if I do say so myself he is brilliant. He is now working in a very undesirable company and has many qualified American friends out of work due to H1Bs.

These foreign workers force the salaries down and are beholden to their employers for lower than marketplace wages. If they don't work forced free overtime and weekends they are fired and deported. The employers literally abuse these workers and get away with it. Many American programmers are driving trucks and working in convenience stores. It's impossible to compete with people that have to obey because of what's at stake.

I have no idea what project managemnet is, but I'm sure if my husband could get into it he would. The compnay he works for expects weekends and 12 hour days. Their attitude is "go ahead and find another job." There aren't any. We had to leave Tampa, FL (a place we both loved) because there was no work for him due to so many H1B's working for low wages.

This is the ONLY issue I agree with my current senator Hollings on. Do away with H1Bs!!!

[These foreign workers force the salaries down and are beholden to their employers for lower than marketplace wages]z

Thanks for a real post. It is so easy to be flip about the hardship of other people - until it hits you. What a lot of people do not realize is, these foreign workers can do anything an American worker can do and unless something is stopped here - the greedy politicians will continue to force it upon the American workers in return for contributions.

I realize I am very simplistic, but I fail to see ever, how it is good to put an American worker out of work, put in a foreign worker who works for less, pays little or no taxes, sends most of the money home and has no interest or allegiance to this country. That is not the way to build or maintain a country. Just ridiculous

He is now working in a very undesirable company and has many qualified American friends out of work due to H1Bs.

We don't work with H-1Bs; the quality of their work can't be guaranteed or controlled as we can with work coming out of outsourcing subsidiaries in India.

My company is phasing out all H-1Bs as we move their work offshore. It's cheaper, and there is the opportunity to develop domain expertise, concentrate it, and capitalize on the synergies by reselling that expertise to our customers.

In addition, much of the work is done after hours, so projects can be tracked more easily.

There's simply no need for H-1Bs any longer with offshore outsourcing gaining strength.

Welcome to the club.. You're getting hit with the same BS that we in the North East were hit with over the last 15 years, only up here it was manufacturing jobs. All of our jobs went overseas. Now you see the real hidden costs of Globalization, Gatt, Nafta, etc. Don't worry though, there's plenty of 8 dollar an hour jobs to be found. You might be able to earn half of what you used to earn if you pick up two or three of these "Mc-jobs"

Don't worry, some idiot will come along soon and post that "it's good for the consumer"....."we had to move our jobs overseas to stay competitive" or other such crap.