Interesting note regarding companies hiring overseas. My brother-in-law's employer has started to shift from hiring people in India to hiring people here, citing the ROI as the reason. Regardless, I can see both sides of the coin on this issue and will be keeping my opinions to myself. :-) -Andrew On Feb 8, 2013 1:21 PM, "Florin Iucha" <florin at iucha.net> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 07:48:25AM -0800, Ubu Sumner wrote: > > "....Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar's legislation to increase H-1B > > visas and green card quotas is welcome and will help the U.S. > > economy. The jobs that are offered will only be located where there > > are not sufficient qualified local citizens...." > > Businesses will go whether the costs are lower, so they will either > lower costs here or go to China, India, Vietnam in search for cheaper > workforce. > > The same force propels people to migrate wherever more resources (or > Maslow's "needs") are available for them and their families. > > > Today in the New York Times: > > > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/08/opinion/americas-genius-glut.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130208 > > > > "....Bringing over more — there are already 500,000 workers on > > H-1B visas — would obviously darken job prospects for America’s > > struggling young scientists and engineers. But it would also hurt > > our efforts to produce more: if the message to American students is, > > “Don’t bother working hard for a high-tech degree, because we can > > import someone to do the job for less,” we could do significant > > long-term damage to the high-tech educational system we value so > > dearly. > > Those scientists have to compete in the global talent pool anyway. > > Best, > florin > > -- > Beware of software written by optimists! > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAlEVUDwACgkQTnmMTLK0CAiBQwCfZ2GN9kd5tigoK6tz+wznpHpf > bEYAniTTunN+VhXKJzc0dTln2GcC8WvW > =oy+n > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130208/6bd4811a/attachment-0001.html>