trb,
You almost hit the nail on the head. The H1-B program was not expanded due to any sort of shortage(your remarks alone are clearly indicative of this fact) but rather the H1-B program was and is being used for the same reasons that corporations are sending jobs offshore, i.e. cheap labor.
But, with regard to the original post. Are you off your rocker? No, not by a long shot. I work with a few H-1B's from India. They were brought into my group as HP syads. Now, at the time, I had been force-fed a lot of B/S about how "superior" they are to "technically-illiterate Americans." Of course, that myth was shattered when one of them asked me how to do a NFS-mount and the other, on another occasion had asked me what the asterick meant in a case statement in a ksh script. The notion of cheap labor is valid here, after all, you do get what you pay for! LOL!
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No, more like "invade, subjugate, rebuild (at a tremendous sost to the American taxpayer), and send them our jobs." Get it right.
No, get rid of the existing h1b's and put the Americans they fired back on the project.
trb, You almost hit the nail on the head. The H1-B program was not expanded due to any sort of shortage(your remarks alone are clearly indicative of this fact) but rather the H1-B program was and is being used for the same reasons that corporations are sending jobs offshore, i.e. cheap labor. But, with regard to the original post. Are you off your rocker? No, not by a long shot. I work with a few H-1B's from India. They were brought into my group as HP syads. Now, at the time, I had been force-fed a lot of B/S about how "superior" they are to "technically-illiterate Americans." Of course, that myth was shattered when one of them asked me how to do a NFS-mount and the other, on another occasion had asked me what the asterick meant in a case statement in a ksh script. The notion of cheap labor is valid here, after all, you do get what you pay for! LOL!