On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 19:49:27 GMT, Rick wrote:

We have reached the same situation here. There have been massive layoffs
in the technology sector and I have friends with 10-25 years of
experience who cannot find jobs. The government, however, allowed an
additional 20,000 H1B work visas this year (over the previous
50,000/year allowed before) to replace "inferior workers." Inferior
means, by the way, expensive to pay (another example of doublespeak).

When the world salary structure begins to equalize and you no longer can
pay someone from India 30% of what you pay someone in the US, the US
worker will suddenly have become more knowledgeable.

Too bad the downsizing of employment and salaries does not extend to
the executive types in proportion to what has happened to American
workers.

Have they finished changing $6/hr burger-flipping jobs to be
considered as manufacturing jobs, so that the stats look better?

Happy trails,
Gary (net.yogi.bear)
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