Posted on 04/29/2009 6:49:17 AM PDT by seatrout
Large corporations prefer to use H-1B visas to hire foreign engineers and computer technicians. H-1B workers increased threefold during the Clinton administration, and CEOs are constantly demanding that the number be raised or even unlimited.
Large corporations prefer H-1B foreigners because they work for lower wages with fewer rights. A recent study by researchers at top business schools reported that H-1B visas depress wages for software engineers and programmers by as much as 6 percent.
The cumulative effect, as described by another study, depresses wages even more. Many U.S. engineers even lost their jobs just after they were required to train their foreign replacements.
The Americans hardest hit by H-1B visas, according to these researchers, are recent college graduates and those who want to change jobs. One of the reasons why big corporations prefer to hire H-1Bers is that foreign workers are restrained, almost like indentured servants, from changing jobs and competing with their original employer.
Americans used indentured services in the 1600s when plantation workers were brought to Virginia to work for seven years in exchange for a free voyage to the New World. Later, this practice was supplanted by African slavery.
That's certainly not a model to imitate today. H-1B visas disrupt the free enterprise system that has yielded tremendous wealth to America and the world.
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
Ah, so we should just all cheerfully let the Third World tide flood into this country and live happily ever after in shantytowns.
Get lost.
I do Development, Operations, Business Analysis and QA. Only person in the department with all four skillsets. And I'm the pivot person for all projects.
Knock it off.
Only four jobs? Why you lazy lima bean. /Hey Mon
No, I didn’t say that at all.
You seem to want prosperity to flood out of this country, though.
Like hell, that is the logical conclusion of your viewpoint.
You seem to want prosperity to flood out of this country, though.
So, tell us again how having the middle class working for Third-World wages keep prosperity IN this country. You're a tool.
I work with many Indians and they are for the most part fine people.
Many of them live in apartments with no desire to purchase a house, do not own a car, take the bus to work or walk every morning.
How can I compete with that? Should I sell my house and car and go move next door to the office? Is this the new reality for IT workers?....who will be next?
Who is going to purchase the cars from Government Motors if we are all making Asian wages?
I am not at all in favor of open borders.
If Americans have ownership shares in companies that prosper based on wages that are at market rate, they remain prosperous.
Nah, you just want to let foreign workers flood into this country. Other than that, you want them closed. /sarc
If Americans have ownership shares in companies that prosper based on wages that are at market rate, they remain prosperous.
If Americans are making third-world wages in this country, they won't be able to afford their own homes, let alone invest in companies. You seem to overlook that minor detail.
I figure some day we'll live in beat-up trailers on reservations next door to the last group of Americans who didn't watch their immigration laws...
bttt
Ban me. Ban my other two accounts too: TKDietz and smallgovrepub . This place is a waste of time anyway. I'm surprised I've never been banned before for not spouting the party line. Maybe if I were a Rudy Giuliani supporter I would have been banned a long time ago when Jim went on his rampage. This place is a joke. Most of the good posters are gone and we are left with cocksuckers like Reese.
And maybe they'll even be nice enough to provide accurate layouts for all the feeds? And have it sanitized a bit first?
Naaaah...
Done.
Mod number 007, you are very nice to oblige the poster with his request. Who says we ignore it when people ask us to do things. He didn’t even say please.
Hey, that’s not Mod 007! I am. Go ahead, ask Jim.
Yeah, well, I’m RoboMod, so all of the rest of you had better watch out!
LOL
Sorry, you don’t get off that easy.
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