Subj : Re: Industry Calls for More Foreign Programmers
To   : comp.programming
From : topmind
Date : Sat Aug 20 2005 10:19 pm

AeA is simply part of the Deep Pockets Cheap Labor Lobby.

They want to do to IT what has been done to farm work. Nobody "wants"
to be a farm worker because it is crappy pay ($3 per hour) for
back-braking work because it has been flooded by non-citizen migrant
workers. The same is happening to IT: smart people go to law school
instead of IT because IT is too volitile and has poor upward mobility
outside of management now largely due to offshoring and visa workers.

AeA and it's evil twin ITAA are simply full of shit.  They didn't want
to lend a helping hand during the depth of the IT recession of
2001-2004, still claiming there was a "shortage".

Microsoft only hires about 1 out of every 100 applicants that apply and
hire almost entirely graduates. They did not bother to deviate from
this narrow formula to expand their horizons, yet Gates went to
congress to cry about a "tech shortage". This is clear evidence that
Mr. Gates is full of it. That is not "shortage", but being picky.

He simply wants "A" choices at "C" prices. There is strong evidence
that globalization benefits the upper classes at the expense of us
regular Joe's. Dr. Ravi Batra has compiled some interesting evidence on
this.
  
-T-

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