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Aligning with tech industry doesn't mean helping the workers
The article mentions several times how legislators "align with the tech industry". This means they support H1B visas and off-shoring, even though the same companies are laying off American workers in order to use these techniques to save money.

What everyone seems to forget is that the law enacting the H1B visa clearly states that workers hired under this program can only be hired for jobs where there are no others available. So how does a company LEGALLY justify laying off American workers to hire H1B workers? They can't. Fortunately for them all the legislators and regulators "aligned with the tech industry" are looking the other way and not enforcing the provisions of the laws governing H1B visas.

American workers should be first and foremost in the minds of all legislators. Offshore workers don't pay income tax. H1B workers pay less income tax on their lower wages. Our "big business" government seems to forget that to balance their checkbook they not only need to curb spending (which by the way they're not), but manage income (i.e. taxes).

If I ran my household this way I'd be bankrupt. But then again I can't just print more money....
Posted by: Richard.Schaefer@...   Posted on: 02/05/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Offshore outsourcing  Squawkbox | 01/19/04
WHAT?  Mike Cox | 01/19/04
Better Tech bad for the economy?  nucrash | 01/19/04
It is quite simple Mikey  Squawkbox | 01/19/04
WHAT?  pcjunkie48 | 01/22/04
I secont that  JWatson77 | 01/19/04
Views on Microsoft are irrelevant  IT_User | 01/19/04
Geez.  SuperSean | 01/19/04
A dash of cold water!  IT_User | 01/19/04
Mike Cox..needs a life and a job.  jimk_z | 01/19/04
Mike, some of these posters take you way too seriously  Taz_z | 01/20/04
Another industry parasite !!!  NT Admin | 01/19/04
Agreed  SuperSean | 01/19/04
like father like son  JWatson77 | 01/19/04
Cancel H1Bs  Nigel Johnstone | 01/19/04
No Easy Visa's  SuperSean | 01/19/04
Software development is becoming Low skill  voska | 01/20/04
Software is still high skill - you get what you pay for  Taz_z | 01/20/04
Just because you know syntax.....  mrbk_z | 01/20/04
Just pointing out the facts  voska | 01/20/04
re  jimk_z | 01/21/04
...and replace it with the "guest program"  dg mh | 01/20/04
Good...  BitTwiddler | 01/20/04
Howard Dean routinely speaks about this  Atlant | 01/20/04
Aligning with tech industry doesn't mean helping the workers  Richard.Schaefer@... | 02/05/04
Cancel HB1s  richman555 | 03/10/04

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