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.

I'll tell you how the H1-B Visa fans (big corporations) define it: you are a foreigner willing to work for half or less than the current programmers who are out of work due to the recession. H1-B is the governments way of helping giant multinationals cut their expenses while putting Americans out of work. And judging by the huge economic recession we are in now, it is working! Oh big media certainly chips in by repeating nonsense fed to them by big biz and big govt. like "we've got to have the best and the brightest" pap. Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg are just not rich enough yet. So foreigners are better than you as far as our brilliant govt. it concerned.

RO desal plants have to use tremendous amounts of electricity and are very expensive to build. Nuclear plants can desalinate tons of water per minute and get you all the electricity to use for anything you want, carbon free. I guess that guarantees Calif. won't use it because it would solve the problem and if that happens then you can't hold something over the people's head telling them you need more taxes, fees, etc.

This problem has long been resolved. Nuclear desalination of seawater could allow the entire state to irrigate using the Pacific ocean, if they can rouse themselves out of their purple haze and think clearly. You can desalinate tons of seawater per minute and the only side effect is all the electricity you want. Of course the Ca. govt. shut down its only nuclear reactor. Some states are so stupid they just need to go away for good and California is one of them.

Yep. Typical response from a techie that doesn't understand the question. Ask them the time and they'll try to tell you how a watch works. This way they don't get the info coming or going but the techie living in his parents basement gets to feel good about himself until its time to go back and play the Sims. He walks away thinking he impressed someone and they look at him as an imbecile, which he is.

This is why I trust the government with everything including my healthcare. They can really be trusted!

Thats right! They're also the same people that froze all of the Great Lakes last winter! And it looks like they'll do it again this year! Damn them!!!

You mean the state of Florida isn't under 17 feet of seawater like they said it would be by now?