Not a big fan of hypocrisy either.

Ah, don't you just love irony? ;)

Agreed, same reason high-tech companies are low-tech, when they don't embrace telecommuting.

One chooses to be a cop or a soldier. Truman had a sign on his desk: "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen". I believe many of the problems that we are seeing with policing has to do with bad hires(i.e. can't keep their @#$% wired, as you put it.)

It's a small exhaust port, right below the main port.

You cannot learn and retain web technology skills in 19 weeks. Especially if you are coming in cold(i.e., no programming experience).

Yet Another Programming Language

New law: If, in your district, there is a net gain in H1-B visa hires over net gain in non-H1-B visas hires. Then you cannot run for re-election. Problem solved. This would give the incentive to representatives to make sure Americans are being hired/retrained as needed. The status quo system we have now -- crony capitalism -- is geared toward looking after business and not the voter.

Agreed 100%. We should just mind our own business. Trade with all, entangling alliances with none. Winning WW II and coming out as the least damaged industrial power has been a curse -- we are the de facto world policeman now. How do we break the perpetual war cycle we are in?

Yes, I totally agree. Delta = Great - Okay, units of Delta are dollars.

I used to use the hit-by-a-bus scenario, but now I use the slightly modified but more favorable hit-by-a-beer-truck scenario. ;-)

American are stupid/insane, they keep voting for the same people but expecting a different result.

Basically what I said in my post, but I got 0 Karma. I think karma function is: int karma(){ return rand(0,5);} I agree with you 100% btw. How long ago did this happen in Canada?

Or invest in training, although they won't do this because it is cheaper to layoff someone and replace them with a H1-B visa worker.

Companies want cheap labor, labor locked in with one company, and willing to work 60+ hours a week. Politicians are bought and paid for by business, thus H1-B visas and illegal immigrants are feeding labor pool to increase shareholder value and increase profits. It's not that complicated. If a politician truly cared about America and American workers, there would be no H1-B visas and no illegal immigration for low skilled workers. As a side note, Cezar Chavez was against illegal immigration because he knew that if there was a steady stream of low-skilled farm workers from Mexico, then that would dilute the power of his union. Companies would just hire from the very large pool created by illegal immigration. It is interesting that this administration had been talking about income inequality, but H1-B visas and illegal immigration lead to more income inequality not less. Again, not too complicated --- low supply higher wages, ample supply of labor lower wages.