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H1B's does more good than bad.

Yeah, right. IT is awash with people out of jobs, but the government and industry says we need more? From the article:

First, consider that H-1B is a very limited program. Assuming the 2000 statistics are correct, the maximum number of new H-1B computer professionals who would enter the market is 105,300 (54% of 195,000). The total number of computer professionals in the United States, according to a 2001 Labor Department study, is approximately 2.8 million. This means that the percentage increase in the number of workers available is 3.7%, hardly an increase that would seriously affect salaries.

Now, let's say the unemployment in IT mirrors the rate in the economy in general - six percent. And now you add 3.7 percent more workers competing for the same scarce openings. The impact is then far more profound on those seeking jobs.

H1-B is based on a lie. Until it is based on a truth, that there are a shortage of qualified positions, it should be suspended.

BTW, there was plenty of other B.S. in that Z-D article as well. And the author was, surprise, an owner of a software company who has a vested interest in keeping down IT salaries.

Welcome to FR, and realize that we're a lot harder to bamboozle than the average bear.

Yeah ur right.

Now, let's say the unemployment in IT mirrors the rate in the economy in general - six percent. And now you add 3.7 percent more workers competing for the same scarce openings. The impact is then far more profound on those seeking jobs.

But the reality is that even H1B's are affected with this economic downturn, infact more than citizens here. I agree this is the hard time for everyone, that does not mean these H1B's are culprits.

Dont be oppurtunist. If people are required then they are hired else they are fired. Who are the people who make the policies here? It sounds like a Use&Throw attitude. Get workers when u need and throw them when u dont need. Everyone was happy when economy was booming and who was responsible for so much work being done in US, even H1B's were part of that. Even they helped pump the economy, its the stupid executives who screwed everyone here with false hopes, wrong analysing or whatever. There will be no H1B's in this screwed up system at this level.

I agree its kind of frustrating to everyone to be without work. But dont just blame someone for our faults just for the heck of it.