"David A. Bandel" wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 15:33:31 +1130 > begin Mike Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth: > > > On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 13:47, David A. Bandel wrote: > > > > > > "The stunning success of the U.S. tech-powered boom in the 1990s > > > > drew some 500,000 highly skilled H1-B visa holders from around the > > > > world and > > > > > Yeah, the H1-B's worked cheap, while the highly skilled, highly paid > > > US workers went unemployed. > > > > Not this H1-B, I was highly skilled, and highly paid. America has a > > habit of going to sleep for a decade then waking up to discover the > > outside world has overtaken them (viz the HP / Motorola memory chip > > wakeup call, viz the collapse of Fairchild) America also has the > > phenonemal ability to re-invent itself. You were written off 15 years > > ago, It took a decade of imports, such as myself, to give your > > industries the breathing space they needed with new college Grads. The > > 'highly paid US workers' retrained during that time to get, highly paid. > > No-one ever said to me, ozzie go home. I would have been more than happy > > to. > > Yep, Mike, you're exactly the Indian subcontinent H1-B I was talking > about. Couldn't communicate with them. They could code in C. But I
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