You know, these brilliant "free market" gurus are right, so let's go all the way with this idea. Whatever your job is, be it in accounting, sales, plumbing, whatever ... let's allow every foreigner who wants your job into the United States and let them work at whatever pay they will accept. Come on, after all you are SO DAMN GOOD that it wouldn't effect YOUR job, right? In fact, let's just open the borders. Anyone can come to the United States without restriction, except that if they choose to take your job at a lower wage, your ex-employer can also threaten them with deportation to keep them in line. Oh, that's right. You are SOOOO SMART and just SO DARN GOOD that nobody could replace you! You are mommy's special little boy, aren't you?

The enormous Farm and Oil subsidies weren't touched, so your Crony Capitalist overlords are safe, huzzah!

What field did you move to? My defense contractor programming career is obviously coming to an end.

No, anonymous coward and idiot ... can I buy a car directly from China or India? I want to pay exactly what they pay, no surcharges. I want to get my electricity from China as well, at the going rate over there. You moron. Can I pay what they pay for housing, for utilities? Can I pay what they pay in taxes? No, you fucking idiot, because I live in the United States. So what you suggest has not shit to do with a free market -- it is Corporatism, pure and simple Crony Capitalism. Did I mention that you are an idiot or a moron. Sometimes I forget and leave those out. Ah, but you are anonymous, so what can you really say.

Supply and demand right? The "Free Market" right? Once again, brainwashed Corporatists who believe they are Free Market Capitalists think it is OK for corporations to simply manipulate the supply through H-1B visa abuse rather than pay the free market rate. These are the very same boobs who squawk that CEO pay is based on "talent" and the great scarcity of ex-football players with big egos who want to make 50 million a year. Tell me Corporatists, why is CEO pay OK, but programmer pay gets under your skin so much? Ah, because you believe that if you suck up to Big Daddy he will take care of you. Infants.

I don't think there are enough Apple lemmings (people who buy anything with the apple logo) to generate $6 billion ... but I've underestimated them before. Maybe by next year kids will be watching YouTube vids on their iWatch. Maybe then Apple can sell iGlasses to salvage their damaged vision, or an iMagnifyingGlass so that even the aging hippies can watch tiny porn.

It makes me laugh how the indoctrinated Corporatists think that Free Market Capitalism means that corporations and corporate executives answer to no one, not even the shareholders who actually own the corporation.