Yes, this is because the 65k plus 20k caps are annual caps. Thank you for pointing the accumulative effect of this policy have been in place for 20 years! Out of hundreds of H-1Bs I have worked with, I have personally seen only one return home, and it was because of a medical issue.

65,000 is only one of the caps. There is a separate cap of 20,000 that applies to guest workers with advanced degrees, and these folks bring their wives, children and extended families on H4 visas. They are valid for 3 years, can be renewed up to six, and most of them expect a green card at the end of six years, because by this time, they have purchased homes and have borne new (American) children. Then there are L-1 visas which have NO cap at all, which are used to displace teachers and nurses and other occupations. InfoSys got caught sending people over on B-1 visas to do contract work, which isn't what that type of visa is for, but they were falsying applications and coaching their employees on how to lie about the reason for the trip.

Both political parties dutifully ignore the issue, as they have been paid to do.

They are "Guests" who never go home, essentially.

Look up the writing of Kim Berry, John Miano, and Norm Matloff for more.

For most companies, it's all about competing on COST instead of QUALITY of work. Example: A lot of internal-corporate software is now written in Java, instead of a better, more efficient language simply because the cheapest engineers have been trained in Java, to the exclusion of everything else.

I didn't say Google became part of the State. I'm talking about the mentality that everyone is stupid and needs taken care of. That mentality IS called "Nanny State", especially when the corporations doing is would LOVE to have state-like powers.

This is what happens get when (collectively) we try too hard to coddle the idiots will believe anything, click on anything, and download anything.

From IMDB:

[on whether to help the Klingons]
Captain James T. Kirk: They're animals.
Captain Spock: Jim, there is an historic opportunity here.
Captain James T. Kirk: Don't believe them. Don't trust them.
Captain Spock: They're dying.
Captain James T. Kirk: Let them die!
[pauses... Spock cocks his head in surprise.

Honestly, folks, what makes you think any Klingons, err, microsofties can be trusted in this day and age?

or maybe this is closer to home:
Steve Jobs (from Pirates of Silly Valley): "Dead culture in a crumbling castle"...

They're just saying "nice doggy" until they can find a rock. Maybe this is what the teachers meant when they said: "Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it".

Or how many times do you insist on touching that hot stove? Really. They need us more than we need them. Ignore them, move along, nothing to see...