The problem is xenophobia. With more high skilled laborers from Asia, none of this would have happened:
"A bipartisan group of Senators is planning to introduce a bill that allows the H-1B visa cap to rise automatically with demand to a maximum of 300,000 visas annually. This 20-page bill, called the Immigration Innovation Act of 2013 or the 'I-Squared Act of 2013,' is being developed by Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), and Chris Coons (D-Del.). It may be introduced next week. Presently, the U.S. has an H-1B visa cap of 65,000. There are another 20,000 H-1B visas set aside for advanced degree gradates of U.S. universities, for 85,000 in total. Under the new bill, the base H-1B cap would increase from 65,000 to 115,000. But the cap would be allowed to rise automatically with demand, according to a draft of the legislation." http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/01/25/187203/senators-seek-h-1b-cap-that-can-reach-300000 On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 10:58 AM, <fznidar...@aol.com> wrote: > A list of my friends. > > 1. Electrical Engineer me. At the start I could send out a resume and > expect to be hired. > Hung on at the end by taking contracts doing dirty work in coal fired > power plants. > Coal fire is down and I am hunkering. > > 2. Nurse RN, her husband abandoned her. Got rheumatoid arthritis and > is now on the system. She is waiting for a rich man to help her and her > son out. She will sue for money. Don't hit her on the road. > > 3. Nurse LPN, has fibra malaga and is now on the system. Prays a lot > and turned born again. Hopes for an answer there and believes it. Nice > looking if you can stand full time preaching. It appears that no one can. > > 4. Woman with schizophrenia, lives with elderly parents and is now on > the system. Worried that her parents will die and leave her. > > 5. Telephone switching engineer. AS in engineering at 58 > was thrown out. He is thinking of moving to Ecuador where has SSN will do > more. Claims his X cleaned him out. > > 6. Aircraft mechanic with large airline. Wiffed out at 55 in the > recession and now they don't want him back. He is to old. He is fixing up > a piper cub for a friend. > > 7. Woman artist, nice looking 55. No one has money for art any more. > She has no electrical power and has a hole in the kidney of her hot air > coal furnace. I am worried that she will die of CO poisoning. Lye heap is > coming, someday and the govt may provide a new furnace. I have sent her > money and helped her. I will patch the furnace. She placed angles at the > word trade center and at flight 95 when business was up. They will not > give her food stamps because she was self employed. I brought her a case > of chili. Its $1 a can at Walmart. > > 8. Woman, really nice looking hot 53 year old. Got the boot after 23 > years at from clerical position at an electric utility and now works at > Saint Vincent Depaul. She tells me that aluminium is up and you can get > $30 for a trunk full of crushed cans. I give her credit she will pick up > cans and take them to the dump. She is republican and will do it, she > grows her own food and is getting ready. Ed may want to learn from her. > A Beautiful looking woman by any means. I enjoy her company and she will > listen. I wonder how long she can hold out. > > 9. Meter reader doing well. Informed that smart meters are coming. > > 10. Coal miner 60. UMWA mine closed down when he was 56. He can thank > his lucky starts that his wife has a job in health care. > > 11. Elementary Ed teacher, young. Never got a job after graduation. > Worked in Walmart handing out samples. Recently got a > church related preschool teaching job. Does not make enough money for > beans. > > 12. Public sector employee. Retired early at 55 and is riding high on > the hog. > > > Are these people going to pay off the national dept? Maybe I just need > new friends and this > is not real. > > Frank > > > >
