[r9etb]

I could rattle off a dozen fellow highly skilled highly educated AMERICAN engineers who have been displaced by H1Bs ... right off the top of my head

OK, fine. Suppose they were sent back home. Do you think the companies would rehire the Americans, or would they merely hire the same or similar engineer overseas? You know the answer to that -- it'd go overseas, in the same way those jobs did that explain the 8.6% unemployment rate.

[clamper1797]

There are many technologies that can't be sent overseas. Motorola learned that when they closed their wireless plant here (and laid me off) and moved to China. Later they found the Chinese stealing their technology and moved the plant back to the USA.

Portal Player ( design company for the iPod and iPhone chips ) discovered that when they moved much of their stuff to Korea ... Samsung was able to get the technology and Portal learned the hard way not to move offshore ... they don't exist anymore nor does my job at Portal because of it. AGAIN if you're NOT in the industry and live and breathe it EVERY day ... you don't know what your talking about