From what it looks like the reason why H1B company can afford to pay lower wages and not have personnel leave in a couple of months after they learned which paper posts job ads - is because of the H1B setup that binds the worker to the workplace. In the absence of such setup the companies paying below market wages would experience a constant and expensive personnel churn, when the new workers leave as soon as they accomodate to the country, workplace procedures, cultural/language environment, etc. and find out how to shop for better job - i.e. at the same time as they become most productive. So now, to solve this problem one would logically advocate abandoning this binding and allowing unrestricted mobility of the workers within the workforce. But the people that use lower H1B wages as an argument almost always advocate exactly the opposite - more and stricter limits! >> Quit using the government to skew the market in your favor. Does this include using the government to artificially limit labor force supply by excluding qualified applicants having non-US citizenship?

Banding together is fine. Denying others right to work because they don't want to band with you - or forcing them to pay you protection money whether they want to band with you or not - is not fine. The latter is exactly the problem with most unions.

It's even simpler than that. 1st Amendment protects you from prosecution by the government for the fact and the content of your speech. It does not imply that you speech will have no consequences at all, including legal ones. If you damaged somebody by your speech - or intended to damage - you still can be prosecuted and sued. If, for example, you wrote a program and used it to steal money from the bank - you can not avoid prosecution claiming programming is like speech so it's protected by 1st amendment. It may be like speech, but stealing money isn't. In the same vein, saying "I own Facebook" is protected speech. Undertaking fraudulent legal actions with intent to steal Facebook's money under false premises of owning Facebook is not protected at all. Ceglia is getting a lesson about it right now.

In Judaism, it's also about choice. God told Adam what to do - so basically Adam had to rely on God in his knowledge of right and wrong, like a child that relies on his parents to tell him how to behave. Adam instead decided to find out by himself what is right and wrong. So God basically told him - ok, you want it - go and find out by yourself. One can say Adam has been doing that ever since.

False. Look for example at the comparison between private and federal government compensation. Both raise, but the raise of government compensation is much quicker. CPI was 174 in 2000, 210 in 2008.

This is total bullshit. Amazon employees enjoying some benefits in some other state has nothing to do with me having to pay sales tax in California. I do not have a moral duty to ensure California gets as much tax revenue as possible from me. And if California businesses feel disadvantaged by the huge taxes - they should either complain to the California legislature or enjoy the fruits of the out service California government provides them for this money. Either way this has nothing to do with "fairness" or my private transactions with Amazon.

PERM ads are for *Green card*, not H1-B's. Which means the applicant *would not* be limited to one employer after he gets it, and so if HP or anybody else would really want cheap hitech slave labor, it would make zero sense for them to do it. The reason they do it is because they need more people than US-only market can provide them, and they are ready to go through considerable expense that PERM/GC process involves because they have no other way to get enough people that they need. They would not be cheaper or in any way linked to the employer once they have the GC - the only way to keep them would be to pay them the same as US citizens. And since hiring them involves additional expense there's absolutely no monetary or otherwise reason to prefer them to qualified US citizens - if those were available.
The reason why they do it is very simple - they already have a person that they know fits the job and they want to keep her on the job. The government, however, doesn't let them to do just that - they require to post fake job ads, even though there's no real intent to hire - because nobody wants to replace known trained good worker with unknown newbie. This farce is a direct consequence of government meddling, as most bureaucratic farces in US are.

It is sad that the post which gets basic facts wrong gets moderated as "Insightful"...

It's never about piracy or drugs or security or health or children or anything like that. It's always about control over your life. And they are getting more of it every day.

Yes, exactly, If you go around saying judaism is fake, absolutely nothing is going to happen to you. Well, some people may be pissed off, but that's it. Nobody is going to arrest you, send Mossad after you, have black helicopters take you to secret prison. Some people may yell at you, that's about it.
Yes, I am Israeli and lived in Israel for 13 years, and I know what I am talking about. Looks like you do not.

About CarMax not having fixed vacation - I think it's super-clever from their side. I know that I constantly accumulate more vacation time than I take and I have hit the company cap sometimes and took time off just not to lose it - and if I leave they have to pay me all the vacation time I have accumulated. However if they don't have a fixed vacation - nothing of it applies, they can just rely on tech people being workaholics (which happens quite often) and not take too much vacation (if one does, you can always fire him...) - but they don't pay any additional money for unused vacation time! This is pure genius.