[BikePacker]

If you cannot afford the market value of labor, you should not be in business.

[TopDog2]

Well, gee. Let's see. I have a degree in CIS. I also have an MBA. I can probably do as well, or better, than those H1b's you want to bring in. I'm 55. Want to hire me instead?

I didn't think so...

[TXBSAFH]

And the shafting of the American middle class continues.

[KarlInOhio]

They shouldn't have wasted their 65,000 cap on hiring the Raji the Tapechanger. Now they'll just have to wait until October to hire those PhDs they want.

[itsahoot]

high-tech firms that complained of Cheap labor shortages during the Internet boom.

Better

[NavyCaptain]

You know if the unions were smart, they'd get ahead on this issue and support it. These future immigrants may be "tailor-made" union slobs. But, don't tell them! OK?

[mabelkitty]

There is no shortage - just a shortage of people to work for food instead of a living wage.

[nightdriver]

More than 100,000 out-of-work computer engineers in the Bay Area alone and American companies claim that there's a SHORTAGE?

Someone needs to buy a vowel. Sounds to me like there should be some serious head-knocking done.

[valkyrieanne]

The "shortage" is a lie, pure and simple.

Besides, why should we encourage foreign students to study at US universities, when the state ones, especially, are set up *by taxpayers* of that state for their own *resident children?*

[oceanview]

I do not believe Bush can do this via executive order. So contact your congressperson now to stop this nonsense.