[Charlug] WTF??

[Jason Edgecombe]

Peter Senft wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I really thought about this mail. And I am still not sure if it is good
> to answer because I am still too emotionally affected by it.
>
> I feel *again* reminded of a time when an Austrian guy ruled Germany and
> some dark mindset was planted in the brains of people. Everybody wanted
> "Deutschland den Deutschen!" (translates: Germany for the Germans!). We
> all know what happened then... What I hear from that senator sounds very
> pretty much the same. And *nobody* in politics criticizes him! THIS IS
> SCARY!
>
> In addition this senator should think about his request first and do his
> homework. Visa holders by law shall be treated equally to a US citizen.
> So there is no visa holders first possible until somebody changes the
> laws! But hey, every politician lies more or less all the time and it
> seems that it is so common for them to break laws that they suggest it
> for everybody else.
>
> People get real. You try to work on some symptoms and not on the cause.
> You live in a capitalistic country where greed is considered good. These
> companies are greedy and they give a shit about people. All they care
> about is money. But hey, let them lay off all the foreign workers. I
> want to see the US workers that is willing to do these job for the
> salary that the H-1B's got! These people are needed to hold the economy
> up and running! But with all this pressure these companies think now
> more about outsourcing. *That* will help laying off all the visa holders
> *and* the US citizens and still the company wins.
There is another downside to sending the H1-B's home. We're sending 
well-trained professionals out of the US and they will be competing 
against instead of helping us.

I think the whole H1-B program is unfair to the visa holders. I say 
scrap the program and roll all of the visas into a permanent visa and 
raise the cap of permanent visas to accomodate the H1-B's. If companies 
want to recruit people from abroad, let them stay permanently and switch 
companies if desired. Let the immigrants bring over their families so 
that they will stay and increase the brain pool and work pool.

Jason