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"The companies WENT to the government to create this program in the first place. That is the flaw in your logic. And they created a program where the people brought over are basically indentured to a company - changing jobs resets the entire H1-B process."

Yup. There's no reason for the government to change things. Nobody with any influence is asking them to, either. CitiBank doesn't want an end to the program. Neither does Dell, or Microsoft, or any of the other giants. Why would they?

Anyone who expects the current, or any other, administration to end this program is dreaming. Campaign contributions are far more important than individual votes, and one doesn't mess with the big contributors.

Bush is not going to solve this.

Bush is not going to solve this.

Neither are the current crop of Democrats - they're too beholden to Silicon Valley interests. I think there may be a chance to have a third party form over the ruins of the Democrats that addresses issues such as H1-B and L1 programs and illegal immigration and working issues - basically what the old-school Dems were about before they went bonkers catering to communists and victim groups. And, just as the Whigs were eclipsed by the new Republican Party, so will the Dems go the way of the Whigs. I'd rather have a world where the Dems aren't so damned concerned about the stock market - all it got us was the mother of all market bubbles.