Tech Czar Unimpressed With US IT Workforce 568
theodp writes, "'The IT work force is not skilled enough and almost never can be skilled enough,' said Robert Cresanti, Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology. So what does the Poli Sci grad and ex-General Counsel for the ITAA think is the answer? Open the gates to more foreign workers, urged Cresanti, including H-1B holders."
at first glance... (Score:3, Funny)
Lobbyists Lobbyists Lobbyists (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:What we really need (Score:5, Funny)
The government will also be monitoring the bedrooms of these couples to ensure that the mandated sexual encounter per week is not avoided.
Re:No no no ... (Score:3, Funny)
You just don't understand. The Huns are a burden on society, but if we put them to good use guarding the gates of The City our native legions will be free to roam afield expanding the Empire.
KFG
Re:Or alternatively (Score:0, Funny)
You are my new hero.
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This is incoherent gibberish: if there is a shortage of a good (in this case IT labor) in one place and a surplus in another place (i.e. India) then a government that allows free movement of the good from the surplus location to the demand location is facilitating a free market. It is the artificial imposition of borders and boundaries that you would like to have that impede such travel that hamper any kind of free market.
Reality is: tech-monkey skills are cheap and easy to acquire, as witnessed by a hundred million perfectly-qualified folks in China, Korea, India etc. IT skills in the US are vastly overpriced, if anything or otherwise the free market wouldn't be moving the demand for these skills away from the US.
Does "Libertarian" really mean "mentally retarded moron" or does it only look that way?
Re:Big Picture is Missing - No Studies (Score:3, Funny)
So what happens when the network fails because it was put in 25 years ago and has finally just worn out?
Yep. . . Panic
Furthermore I agree with the lack of good understanding of what a business wants its employee to do. Many companies have NO job descriptions that mean anything, and the ones with detailed descriptions often have the phrase: "other duties as assigned." That is really informative.