I work with several Indians. One in particular has been here a long time. He has owned a business and listens to Rush Limbaugh. We have to be careful when we talk politics so that no one hears us, but he and I have identical views on just about everything.
We live in a town that has a lot of government employees, including a lot of new Indian immigrants. He was telling me just this week about how there are cliques of immigrant Indians in town. A lot of the wives work in IT in the big government departments. Some of them know absolutely NOTHING about programming, but if the department is big enough no one notices and they collect paychecks. They are willing to work a lot cheaper than the going rate, which is why they get hired. If a man gets another immigrant's wife a job, his status in the group is enhanced. If a woman can get a few government jobs, even if she only lasts a few months, she has enhanced her resume.
This came up because we had to fire one such woman this week. She literally knew nothing. She was hired as a programmer, but she couldn't even navigate through the internal web page we use to log our work hours.
I could’nt agree more that big government is the most damaging factor in hurting prosperity in every country it has been tried. Very large private corporations also have lot of waste.