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07/19/2007: "H1-B shortage is fake; plenty of domestic IT workers exist"

Countering claims that the United States is facing a critical shortage of
skilled technologists, former IT professionals like Lovelace and Adler point to
depressed wages and their inability to score even preliminary interviews as
evidence that the market is already flooded. Yet at the same time, technology
companies such as Microsoft, Google, and Oracle, asserting that their ability
to function at full capacity is being hampered by the lack of qualified
technologists, are furiously pressing Congress to allow more temporary
high-tech workers into the country by raising the cap on how many H-1B
temporary foreign worker visas are issued. Indeed, on the first day in April
2007 that H-1B petitions could be filed, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services (USCIS) was overwhelmed with more than 150,000 petitions from
employers hoping to snag some of the 65,000 general visas available for fiscal
2008.

[ Oh yes, dear morons... they don't need better workers, or more workers, they need cheaper workers. They don't want geniuses. They don't want jacks of all trades. They want interchangeable parts, and you're not providing it, so they'll import it, for greater profit. And since you love "freedom," you'll vote for the "rights" of immigrants, just like your TV told you to! Smart, very smart. ]

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