NY Times: Temporary Visas To Import Talent Help Copycats Take Jobs Abroad

ErichTheRed writes: A new article from the NY Times surprised me. It describes what we in the IT industry see all the time — H-1B visas being used way outside of their original purpose. I think this is significant because the article describes the problem well and shows how Tata, Accenture, etc. are offshoring regular office work as well as IT work. I feel that showing the average Joe/Jane that their nice safe middle class office job isn't so safe is the only way to sway popular opinion on this important matter! Reader theodp notes that Congress is making H-1B visa less costly for India-based IT services providers.

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One Billion

[Forgefather]

I can imagine whoever wrote this article sitting in a large leather office chair, holding a white cat while saying "one BILLION clicks!"

Re:Is the NYT Racist?

[execthis]

Not just the American middle class being decimated, but this is the decimation of America. The current generation of politicians are destroying America. Apparently that is and has been the plan of the oligarchy for quite a while - going back at least to the time of Clinton, but accelerated to shocking proportions today in overt acts of betrayal of the American people.

There is only one chance for a country which is close to dying: Donald Trump, the only non-oligarchy-shill candidate who talks at length in his press conferences about this problem, about problems with jobs being lost overseas, about immigration abominations which never would be occurring in any other developed nation of the world, and about the policies that need to change to truly change a country which has been methodically gutted, stripped, and sold out by global oligarchs.

Donald Trump 2016, not just to make America great again, but to save it from impending disaster.