Jobs and the Job Market: Re: More H-1Bs

» Kirk - Re: More H-1Bs

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In response to More H-1Bs posted by Bill_Duffy:

I agree.

Bush wants cheap labor to come in to work in restaurants for wages lower than Americans with a high school education are willing to work for. He is all for the "guest worker" scam. They get no health care so the tax payers in the middle pick up the tab in this "welfare for the rich" program.

The liberals see these cheap folks as future voters because they have children when they are here who are automatically citizens for being born to illegal parents. Also, all the 85% of people in my neighborhood who claim to be liberals have gardeners, nannies and house cleaners who are often paid under the table. Why give up a good thing when you can be "compassionate" and give a job to people who need it?

On the other end, we have H1B visa's because the high tech companies won't pay a salary and offer working conditions to entice successful semi retired engineers like you and I to come back to work. If you are going to make people work longer than 40 hour union jobs and not pay any more than a crane operator gets in a shipyard (Port of Oakland was paying $115,000 a year to operate a crane... duh... ) then smart, young people are better off going into law or medicine where extra work means extra billable hours or procedures.

-- posted by Kirk