And a surplus of stupid people who will vote for the idiot politicians who tout the H1-B Visa program.

Thats right. Odd how the rest of the world has the best 95% that the world has to offer but can only come here to realize any of it don't you think? The rest of the world varies from grinding poverty to outright slavery but boy~! They really know what they're doing!!!!!!!!

I've worked with many Indian workers over the years. Most are male and they do not regard the words of females over them or even beside them. Microsoft hired Satya Nadella never even thinking he would have any view of women different from their own. They just knew he was a foreign born person so therefore would be better and then had to apologize for his words. U.S. corporations are under the comfortable delusion that all nations think just like us and act like us.

All on a salary that is half or less of the going rate? Nope sorry. Again their definition of "really good developer" would be one who works for half or less than current workers.

I don't believe a word of it. If that were the case then they would not have to pay them half or less of the going rate for salary. The logic of your sentence would be concluding that only foreigners can do this job, not anyone born in your particular region of the globe.

Yes, the premise was not only flawed it was only targeted at 1 industry. Oliver Wendell Holmes said it only took 1 good catch phrase to keep people from thinking for 50 years. Insults and jingoism are what passes for logical argument in this great con they are trying to push over on us. That is why cries of "racism" to you objecting to losing your job should be called out for what they are: lies. The above should demonstrate why we need to import 95% of our executives to get the " best and the brightest" that we need to stay on top of the world. Suddenly it would stop overnight.

They are not bringing them here because its cheaper to hire labor in foreign lands and keep them there. They want them here so they can talk to them in person and show them what they want and not spend many hours a day on the phone. That drives up costs as well. H1-B is bad all around for everyone. But since they think they'll benefit there is no stopping them.

Good luck getting that rule through. Such a rule would end the program entirely, or, more likely, certain players would a get a "presidential waiver" under the guise of being an "essential industry" or some other lie the govt. tells to shut people up.

Thats not the free market at all. That is unconstitutional corruption and crony capitalism for the pleasure and profit of the rich and powerful, most of whom do not know anyone who makes less than a 6 figure salary. The rest of us can be lower than the Morlocks in the Time Machine for all they care. No skin off their nose.

They don't believe you are racist. They do want to shut you up about the fact that they are giving your job away and also want you to chase your tail explaining why you are not a racist for not wanting to give your job away to an company imported IT worker. It sometimes shuts some people up but it should not from now on, particularly when they are doing great damage to people and the economy at the same time.

Of course. But companies with pointy haired bosses (who of course know nothing about technical items) will tell their superiors how much they saved on the project no matter how bad it was. It turns out that mediocre or worse programmers from foreign countries are all of a sudden "the best and the brightest" when they work for half or less of the going rate here.

If you think calculus has anything at all to do with programming you show your complete ignorance of programming. Almost no programs anywhere use calculus to do anything. It also shows the ignorance of the early days of computer education where they thought computers were for doing math equations and not much else so they made programming a math major. Also stupid. You don't have to be a math major to program a computer any more than you have to be an automotive engineer to drive a car.

Exactly and that is what the economic statistics have shown for several years now. The middle class getting less and less for their work and the rich and powerful getting more and more. What is so maddening is the politicians who claim they are for the little guy do everything they can, such as the H1-B Visa program courtesy of a bought congress, to screw the life out of the little man. Also maddening is the idiots at media outlets like NPR do everything they can to talk about how great the program is. Its like they don't know we are in a recession or how many people are out of work.

IN all universities above just a few thousand students, and many have much more than that, administrators far outnumber actual classroom teachers. The great bulk of people employed in a university have nothing to do with what goes on inside the class and they do little to nothing all day long. It goes everywhere from Assistant Athletic Director to Assistant Secretary to the provost's assistant. One stupid school in California has a Vice President for Diversity who does nothing but goes around every few weeks and gives a PowerPoint presentation on the benefits of diversity. For this he is paid over half a million dollars a year. Higher Ed is now a racket akin to the French Noblemen living off the backs of the poor who are trying to make it in modern society and having a real bad time doing it thanks to thieves like those in 'Higher Ed'

Microsoft laid off over 20,000 IT people just recently. I guess they were all just bums? Hell no. So no one can find these top programmers? Hell no. And you expect us to believe it has nothing to do with costs and everything to do with around 300,000 programmers a year being just no good? Sorry I won't believe any of it. We have an idiot govt. in the tank for big corporations and Congress doesn't give a damn about us. There are currently 96,000,000 people in the U.S. who are either unemployed or underemployed and looking for work elsewhere. The H1-B program will keep it that way and make it worse.