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American Techies Fear Competition.
I am continually surprised by how many tech people still don't understand globalization. It's over. Your competitors in the workplace are no longer local. And that is as it should be.

As for America's "superiority"? That is restricted to Military and Economic might. Not workers.

Americans fear "outsourcing", the fear "terrorism", they fear the "draft" and as this thread illustrates they fear H1B workers. One could make the case that Americans fear competition in general. (See United Auto Workers, the Airline industry, and more recently the Telco's)

The so called "race" to attract the "best and the brightest" is over. American universities (despite their world class standing) are now being challenged and in some cases eclipsed in the recruitment of science and technology students.

In 1973,Henry Kissinger said that part of his job as Secretary of State was to prepare Americans for the rise of the Pacific. That if the 19th century was the century of Europe, the 20th century was indisputably the American century. The 21st century belongs to Asia (Ok....the BRIC countries).

This is not "bad" news. Rather it is the way things are. Bemoan it or deal with it. America cannot change these historical forces.

Cheers,
Mike
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slap a 100k application fee and be done with it  Linux Geek | 06/02/06
Re: slap a 100k application  mKind | 06/02/06
What Linux Geek means  Patrick Jones | 06/02/06
Re: What Linux Geek means  mKind | 06/02/06
You missed the point  KTLA | 06/04/06
Start with the idea...  Anton Philidor | 06/04/06
You are incorrect  KTLA | 06/04/06
How many people are required...  Anton Philidor | 06/04/06
Malarky..  Patrick Jones | 06/05/06
Companies are still relying on H-1B's...  Anton Philidor | 06/02/06
or....  Linux Geek | 06/02/06
Same intent...  Anton Philidor | 06/02/06
But what about lower prices for us Americans?  HypnoToad | 06/02/06
I wonder how many are from Sun?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/02/06
Yes, how many H1-B applications are from Sun...  Anton Philidor | 06/02/06
Like "communisim" Sun employees will "wither away"  mewcomm2 | 06/02/06
CHINA=CAPITALISM MELDED COMMUNISM  BRIANCAM | 06/02/06
Most Sun workers will drive their Z3's to the unemployment office  mewcomm2 | 06/02/06
"One Nation Under Surveillance"!!  BRIANCAM | 06/02/06
He doesn't care  OhMyGosh | 06/03/06
That choice shouldn't even be there  buran | 06/04/06
Dawggone it. Being an American gotta count for something!  mewcomm2 | 06/04/06
What they really mean ...  Jake Danger | 06/02/06
American Techies Fear Competition.  mewcomm2 | 06/02/06
Globalization or slavery?  OhMyGosh | 06/02/06
Slotful Americans in a Globalized World  mewcomm2 | 06/02/06
So your just confused  OhMyGosh | 06/02/06
IT workers in 1934! Drugged and Paranoid  mewcomm2 | 06/02/06
Did you put your tinfoil hat on too tight?  OhMyGosh | 06/03/06
We don't fear H1Bs ...  Jake Danger | 06/02/06
you "darkies" is alright as long it's your lower classes doing better  mewcomm2 | 06/02/06
Good explanation  bmonster | 06/05/06
Proves one thing.  Outside T. Box | 06/05/06
H1B WORKERS NOT CHEAPER  mme2709 | 06/04/06
the decline of the US is accelerating  mewcomm2 | 06/04/06
Where will you retire?  Anton Philidor | 06/04/06
IT workers with Communist / Socialist views  mewcomm2 | 06/04/06
We live in a society.. and wish to maintain it.  thetruth_z | 06/05/06
What you don't know.  Outside T. Box | 06/05/06
Ok, so...  petemitchell | 06/02/06
Man the Barricades! They're coming from all sides!  mewcomm2 | 06/02/06
Big application fee  drichards1953 | 06/02/06
H1-B and Time of War  mighetto | 06/02/06
H1-B v B-52  seosamh_z | 06/02/06
Time of War...  John L. Ries | 06/02/06
Winner of Terror War  llundgren@... | 06/02/06
Since when?  gordon@... | 06/02/06
Two points  HypnoToad | 06/02/06
Hail GATES&Bush, Tax Cut=Out source=DOWNSIZE!!!  BRIANCAM | 06/02/06
Clinton was the beginning.  Outside T. Box | 06/05/06
Request for online counseling when posting H1 B stories  mewcomm2 | 06/02/06
They should fulfill your request  OhMyGosh | 06/03/06
Second class citizenship is slavery  OhMyGosh | 06/03/06
Where do you get ideas like this?  B.O.F.H. | 06/04/06
H1b, Xenophobia and let's all make the same salary. No matter what!!!  mewcomm2 | 06/04/06
I love foreign workers  OhMyGosh | 06/04/06
And exactly why do they have to become citizens?  B.O.F.H. | 06/04/06
Read the posts again  OhMyGosh | 06/04/06
Globalization...are you sure?  bmonster | 06/05/06
American IT workers over paid?  mewcomm2 | 06/04/06
Everyone should get overpaid!  OhMyGosh | 06/04/06
Thankfully govenment cannot and will not intervene  mewcomm2 | 06/04/06
What they can do  OhMyGosh | 06/04/06
I worked with an H1B  boxmonkey | 06/04/06
Most IT people are trolls. Not leaders. Not managers.  mewcomm2 | 06/04/06
The endless lies  OhMyGosh | 06/04/06
IT Workers of the World UNITE and be IDLE!  mewcomm2 | 06/04/06
Again you've shown your true colors..  thetruth_z | 06/05/06
Better idea: hire US citizens  buran | 06/04/06
There are "legitimate  mewcomm2 | 06/04/06
There are "legitimate" US citizens. They just aren't qualified  mewcomm2 | 06/04/06
QUALIFIED? US citizens invented most of that tech!!  thetruth_z | 06/05/06
Time to boycott Microsoft products..  thetruth_z | 06/05/06
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