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Tech Czar Unimpressed With US IT Workforce

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the faint-praise dept.

theodp writes, "'The IT work force is not skilled enough and almost never can be skilled enough,' said Robert Cresanti, Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology. So what does the Poli Sci grad and ex-General Counsel for the ITAA think is the answer? Open the gates to more foreign workers, urged Cresanti, including H-1B holders."

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  1. Re:like we need more h1b's in the US? by cOdEgUru · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ...Have them bring their extended families with them into the US...

    You had me till that line.. After that, you were nothing but a bigot.

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    Rapid Nirvana
  2. Bush appointees aren't skilled enough by Animats · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    IT employees aren't the problem. The real problem is that Bush's appointees aren't skilled enough. There have been some real duds. Michael Brown, the FEMA director, was previously head judge of the Arabian Horse Association. Bush's early chief economic adviser, Lawrence Linsay, came from Enron. So did the U.S. Trade Representative, Robert B. Zoellick, and the secretary of the Army, Thomas White Jr. And then there's the Attorney General, Albert Gonzales, "Mr. Torture" himself, formerly Bush's lawyer.

    We could probably get better people from offshore. Certainly we could find better people in the financial and trade areas. Bring in some smart financial people from Singapore or Dubai as economic and trade advisers and get the country moving.

  3. Re:What we really need by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    We need more white people and fewer wetbacks.

    We already have too many mud people. The politicians want to turn America into a sea of mud. They (Democrats and Republicans) want America to become a third world country with a ruling elite and huge underclass of cheap mud people.

  4. Re:No no no ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    > So, the question becomes ... why, in his opinion, are Americans so much dumber than citizens in other countries?

    Americans are smarter. But not necessarily in the intellectual sense - most are "street smart". Nobody born and raised in the US will willingly put out an honest day's worth of work anymore, no matter how well they get paid for it. Because we know better over here, and we can get away with it - nobody cares if we give our best, as long as we fit in as good "team members".

    So here come these darn' foreigners who actually have EARNED their degrees, have proud work ethics, and won't slack off. They ARE different. They keep going, and going... Better than your Joe Sixpack. Bad team members. Let's get 'em, boys!