There is also the age discrimination factor. After age 40 it is almost impossible to find software development work. You are priced out of the market and are less willing to be exploited. According to this so called "market philosophy" you too will be replaced in time. There are countries with less of a standard of living then the current H1-B originators that will be the future H1-B suppliers.
You are 100% correct, execellent points. Actually MBA's do understand that exporting American jobs hurts everyone. This is considered "Free Riders" in economic terms. Someone who takes from an economic system but give nothing in return because laws govern this behavior.
MBA's must understand they will be held accountable for their actions. This is the part they do not yet understand.
The real problem is that American Software Developers have no political say. The inventors of the H1-B program the ITAA make tremendous campaign contrubutions to the sponsors of their program.
Faced with this threat it is clear that American IT workers need to have political power,as other occupations do, but how to get there. Unions represent blue collar workers well but there are problems with wage standards, corruption. Doctors are represented by the AMA, Lawyers by the American Trial Laywer association, etc.
Currently there is the Programmers Guild, ( www.programmersguild.org ) a potential political source of representation in the future. Today however the AFL-CIO has tremendous political power. Upon pulication of this memo many represenatives are finally given a truthful explanation of the H1-B program as opposed to the propaganda industry has painted for years.
The H1-B program is destructive to the American economy. It is well known that more qualified Americans are being bypassed because of cost not skills. 750,000 American IT workers have been displaced by this program. At an average wage of $60,000/yr the American economy has taken a hit of 45 billion dollars taken out of the consumers hands. The head economist at Morgan Stanley Steven Roach has commented that cheap labor from China and India is the number one threat to the U.S. economy today.
Another point is H1-B's and outsourcing are not mutually exclusive. A large number of H1-B's are facilitators for outsourcing. They work a few months in the U.S. learning the sytem in question then return to their home countries to continue the work. In sheer numbers of American IT workers displaced the H1-B program is on a factor of several to one over outsourcing.
It's all about cheap labor I applaud the NSA on their decision, foriegn nationals should not be given any jobs here in America.
"They are taught to please those in authority, and are willing to work for the priviledge to stay in this (the U.S.) country. "
This sums up the state of our educational institutions at this time. We want students who want to please those in authority ( ass kissers ). Essentially these students are indentured servants
who work just to stay in the country. What the hell is this doing to our labour market in IT. What type of innovation can I expect from a corruped educational instutions that operate on these priciples.
After 17 years in software development I spent most of last year being unemployed because 90% of new jobs are being given to foriegn nationals. My wife is now long-term unemployed with out even an interview in months. What about a stable life for me and my family. If this trend continues me and my family will be homeless and hungry in a few years. Dont' forget it was the citizens of this country that defeated the empire of their time.
What it all comes down to is cheap labor. H1-B's work for starvation wages as well as graduate and PHD students. The reason foriegn nationals make up the bulk of the graduate students cheap labor for our corrupted educational system. Americans don't go on to get these advanced degrees because they can make more over their lifetime with an undergraduate degree.
See Norm Matloff's Debunking the Myth of a Desperate Software Shortage Section 6.3.3 for more information
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There is also the age discrimination factor. After age 40 it is almost impossible to find software development work. You are priced out of the market and are less willing to be exploited. According to this so called "market philosophy" you too will be replaced in time. There are countries with less of a standard of living then the current H1-B originators that will be the future H1-B suppliers.
You are 100% correct, execellent points. Actually MBA's do understand that exporting American jobs hurts everyone. This is considered "Free Riders" in economic terms. Someone who takes from an economic system but give nothing in return because laws govern this behavior. MBA's must understand they will be held accountable for their actions. This is the part they do not yet understand.
The real problem is that American Software Developers have no political say. The inventors of the H1-B program the ITAA make tremendous campaign contrubutions to the sponsors of their program. Faced with this threat it is clear that American IT workers need to have political power ,as other occupations do, but how to get there. Unions represent blue collar workers well but there are problems with wage standards, corruption. Doctors are represented by the AMA, Lawyers by the American Trial Laywer association, etc.
Currently there is the Programmers Guild, ( www.programmersguild.org ) a potential political source of representation in the future. Today however the AFL-CIO has tremendous political power. Upon pulication of this memo many represenatives are finally given a truthful explanation of the H1-B program as opposed to the propaganda industry has painted for years.
The H1-B program is destructive to the American economy. It is well known that more qualified Americans are being bypassed because of cost not skills. 750,000 American IT workers have been displaced by this program. At an average wage of $60,000/yr the American economy has taken a hit of 45 billion dollars taken out of the consumers hands. The head economist at Morgan Stanley Steven Roach has commented that cheap labor from China and India is the number one threat to the U.S. economy today.
Another point is H1-B's and outsourcing are not mutually exclusive. A large number of H1-B's are facilitators for outsourcing. They work a few months in the U.S. learning the sytem in question then return to their home countries to continue the work. In sheer numbers of American IT workers displaced the H1-B program is on a factor of several to one over outsourcing.
It's all about cheap labor I applaud the NSA on their decision, foriegn nationals should not be given any jobs here in America. "They are taught to please those in authority, and are willing to work for the priviledge to stay in this (the U.S.) country. " This sums up the state of our educational institutions at this time. We want students who want to please those in authority ( ass kissers ). Essentially these students are indentured servants who work just to stay in the country. What the hell is this doing to our labour market in IT. What type of innovation can I expect from a corruped educational instutions that operate on these priciples. After 17 years in software development I spent most of last year being unemployed because 90% of new jobs are being given to foriegn nationals. My wife is now long-term unemployed with out even an interview in months. What about a stable life for me and my family. If this trend continues me and my family will be homeless and hungry in a few years. Dont' forget it was the citizens of this country that defeated the empire of their time. What it all comes down to is cheap labor. H1-B's work for starvation wages as well as graduate and PHD students. The reason foriegn nationals make up the bulk of the graduate students cheap labor for our corrupted educational system. Americans don't go on to get these advanced degrees because they can make more over their lifetime with an undergraduate degree. See Norm Matloff's Debunking the Myth of a Desperate Software Shortage Section 6.3.3 for more information http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/itaa.real.html