MOST countries have laws which protect their CITIZENS for losing jobs to foreigners.
Including the US, which has several different visa programs. Heck, you even have to get a visa (or at least fill out the visa-waiver) when you just want to *visit* the U.S. Most other countries are more welcoming than that...
I strongly disagree. H-1B employment keeps money flowing inside the U.S. economy. The single biggest factor that drives the U.S. economy is consumer spending. By bringing H-1B workers into the country, you are making sure that you pay workers in the U.S, and that those workers pay taxes and spend money on products in the U.S. This fuels the economy, which means the company can grow, which means it can hire more people (part of whom will be American, and part of whom will be more H-1B workers).
Outsourcing has the exact opposite effect: it sends money to another country, and none of that money is coming back.
Also, H-1B workers consitute only a very small fraction of the workforce in the U.S. H-1B workers are NOT the reason unemployment is so high right now. That's entirely due to the economy being in shambles. Do you really want to send more money out the country right now?
Lots of jobs have been outsourced for years, if not decades. Clothing, electronics, cars, most of it is made in asia or Mexico already. Very few people make a conscious effort to "buy American", they just go for whatever is cheapest. Just because now it's the IT industry and those IT workers are vocal on the Internet doesn't mean that anything's going to change...
From the article: Prosecutor Jerry Wilson says he isn't abusing the law, which defines
chemical weapons of mass destruction as "any substance that is designed or
has the capability to cause death or serious injury" and contains toxic
chemicals
Sounds like that would cover the likes of Philip Morris...
Complaining about the price of gas is something we should all do, regardless of what we drive
Compare what you pay for gas to what the rest of the world pays, and you won't feel so bad. You might also want to go to the Global rich List and feel similarly good about your salary.
He asked for *practical* forms of transportation. A Segway is about as practical as a Razor scooter: you can't take it on the highway, can't carry any passengers or cargo, and you'll get soaked when it rains.
I don't mind
allowing everyone on earth to relocate here,
as long as they don't work in IT.
In short, competitors should be shot and
rot on hell. Non-competitors (who might
need my IT services) are welcomed with open
arms.
If your IT skills are so limited that you fear competition from foreign labor to the point that your desire physically killing your competitors, then perhaps you should consider a change of career. Burger-flipping comes to mind.
It is clear from your comments so far that you have nothing better to do than to sit at home and blame the loss of your job on those damn foreigners. Why don't you brush up your skills and go find yourself a job instead? Do you really want to stay home and collect unemployment (partially payed for by those same foreigners, no less!) until somebody rings your doorbell and hands you the job that is so rightfully yours?
Sometimes - to keep down the number of responses, they'll also stick in all sorts of obscure unrelated skills their visa applicant has. You see this a lot on job boards -- "HW Design Engineer working in Boise - must be fluent in Mandarin".
Contrary to popular belief, visa applications have to meet a stringent set of requirements. One of them is that the job description cannot be tailored like you describe above. A visa-application for a job description like this will be denied by the INS and/or the department of labor, unless the company can show that being fluent in mandarin is really a requirement for this position.
Companies don't have to expend a lot of effort to find qualified American workers because those people are beating their doors down
I was recently involved in several interviews for multiple positions within my company, and let me tell you: it is *very* hard to find qualified American workers. Not only were they not beating our doors down, but the ones we tracked down ourselves turned out to only look good on paper.
Thankfully, the H-1B Visa quota will be cut to 65,000 this month and there is increasing pressure to eliminate L-1 Visa's altogether.
If anything, that's only going to move *more* jobs overseas.
Cash that will flow OUT of your economy if that person leaves after his 6 years are up, or if he sends it to his family overseas...
Not only should you want that person to bring over his entire family, that person should also *stay* after the H1-B expires. That way, the money stays in *your* economy.
Tell me: are all of the clothes you wear manufactured in the United States, or were they assembled in a sweatshop in Asia? Where was your TV made, your car, your cellphone? Jobs have been moving abroad for many years now. It is only now that some of the more "prestigious" jobs are moving abroad that people are really starting to take notice (or at least being vocal about it on the Internet).
The only way this will stop is if people make a conscious effort to pay more for "made in USA" products (ain't gonna happen in the current economy), or by regulation (ain't gonna happen since Bush is a puppet for big corporations).
I read it. Now what? The propaganda you linked to has nothing to do with jobs moving abroad, but talks about (non-)immigrants in the US. They are NOT the cause of your problems. Your bad economy is. Sending all current H1-B holders home will not magically give you a job, but will only cause more problems for the US economy.
It's interesting to note that the this cluster of 128, 2 GHz processors is only about 9 times faster than a single 1 GHz Itanium 2 processor at performing the PvRay benchmark.
Earthstation 5's pressrelease makes it clear that they are trying to do their little bit in the jihad against America. It is obvious that they are terrorist, and I expect it won't be long before the Bush administration labels them a terrorist organization, and will dispatch some troops to take care of the matter.
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Including the US, which has several different visa programs. Heck, you even have to get a visa (or at least fill out the visa-waiver) when you just want to *visit* the U.S. Most other countries are more welcoming than that...
If capitalism works, why is the U.S. economy in such bad shape right now?
Outsourcing has the exact opposite effect: it sends money to another country, and none of that money is coming back.
Also, H-1B workers consitute only a very small fraction of the workforce in the U.S. H-1B workers are NOT the reason unemployment is so high right now. That's entirely due to the economy being in shambles. Do you really want to send more money out the country right now?
Lots of jobs have been outsourced for years, if not decades. Clothing, electronics, cars, most of it is made in asia or Mexico already. Very few people make a conscious effort to "buy American", they just go for whatever is cheapest. Just because now it's the IT industry and those IT workers are vocal on the Internet doesn't mean that anything's going to change...
Sounds like that would cover the likes of Philip Morris...
Note that NASA has already done extensive studies on the subject.
Compare what you pay for gas to what the rest of the world pays, and you won't feel so bad. You might also want to go to the Global rich List and feel similarly good about your salary.
It's only about $50000, or $35000 afer Bush's SUV tax break.
Who says that's not their intended purpose?
More likely the problem is that hardly any of the "jokes" on slashdot are actually funny.
He asked for *practical* forms of transportation. A Segway is about as practical as a Razor scooter: you can't take it on the highway, can't carry any passengers or cargo, and you'll get soaked when it rains.
Another lie. Please educate yourself before spouting such nonsense.
In short, competitors should be shot and rot on hell. Non-competitors (who might need my IT services) are welcomed with open arms.
If your IT skills are so limited that you fear competition from foreign labor to the point that your desire physically killing your competitors, then perhaps you should consider a change of career. Burger-flipping comes to mind.
No, a man shot himself because he was mentally unstable and in dire need of help.
Dear soundcore,
It is clear from your comments so far that you have nothing better to do than to sit at home and blame the loss of your job on those damn foreigners. Why don't you brush up your skills and go find yourself a job instead? Do you really want to stay home and collect unemployment (partially payed for by those same foreigners, no less!) until somebody rings your doorbell and hands you the job that is so rightfully yours?
Contrary to popular belief, visa applications have to meet a stringent set of requirements. One of them is that the job description cannot be tailored like you describe above. A visa-application for a job description like this will be denied by the INS and/or the department of labor, unless the company can show that being fluent in mandarin is really a requirement for this position.
I was recently involved in several interviews for multiple positions within my company, and let me tell you: it is *very* hard to find qualified American workers. Not only were they not beating our doors down, but the ones we tracked down ourselves turned out to only look good on paper.
Thankfully, the H-1B Visa quota will be cut to 65,000 this month and there is increasing pressure to eliminate L-1 Visa's altogether.
If anything, that's only going to move *more* jobs overseas.
Cash that will flow OUT of your economy if that person leaves after his 6 years are up, or if he sends it to his family overseas... Not only should you want that person to bring over his entire family, that person should also *stay* after the H1-B expires. That way, the money stays in *your* economy.
Too bad there is no "mod -1; if you spell like that, it's no wonder you're unemloyed"...
Tell me: are all of the clothes you wear manufactured in the United States, or were they assembled in a sweatshop in Asia? Where was your TV made, your car, your cellphone? Jobs have been moving abroad for many years now. It is only now that some of the more "prestigious" jobs are moving abroad that people are really starting to take notice (or at least being vocal about it on the Internet).
The only way this will stop is if people make a conscious effort to pay more for "made in USA" products (ain't gonna happen in the current economy), or by regulation (ain't gonna happen since Bush is a puppet for big corporations).
I read it. Now what? The propaganda you linked to has nothing to do with jobs moving abroad, but talks about (non-)immigrants in the US. They are NOT the cause of your problems. Your bad economy is. Sending all current H1-B holders home will not magically give you a job, but will only cause more problems for the US economy.
Shouldn't that be: "Patent Case Against Palm Can Rescue E-Pass" ?
It's interesting to note that the this cluster of 128, 2 GHz processors is only about 9 times faster than a single 1 GHz Itanium 2 processor at performing the PvRay benchmark.
The fact that one of the supposed screenshots shows a BeOS-icon tells me that somebody was a little too creative with PhotoShop...
Earthstation 5's pressrelease makes it clear that they are trying to do their little bit in the jihad against America. It is obvious that they are terrorist, and I expect it won't be long before the Bush administration labels them a terrorist organization, and will dispatch some troops to take care of the matter.