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Why This H-1B Visa Thing Is Bulls**t
- dennisnedry 11y agoThis is a big deal. In 2000, there were lots of H1B's that Motorola brought in to replace their programmers. Once again it seems that shady companies like Microsoft and Facebook are becoming greedy. The author also got the whole "cheap labor scam" analogy correct as well, except it's not exclusive to the Republicans - Marco Rubio has the nickname of "The Facebook Senator" for wanting to increase H1B visas. Hillary Clinton also has a deep history with wanting to increase H1B visas (http://www.computerworld.com/article/2909983/it-outsourcing/heres-where-clinton-and-rubio-stand-on-the-h-1b-visa-issue.html http://www.computerworld.com/article/2909983/it-outsourcing/...)
- hwstar 11y agoJust about every establishment candidate is going to be for more H1-B's. They have to; its the only way they can get the funding to get re-elected.
- dennisnedry 11y agoTime to not vote for an establishment candidate.
- hwstar 11y agoYou are correct, however there may not be a non-establishment democratic or republican candidate on the ballot for American voters once the nominations have taken place.
- toomuchtodo 11y agoIf Bernie doesn't get the nomination, I'll vote Trump. Not because I'm republican, not because I'm crazy, but because I refuse to waste my vote on a political robot.
- hwstar 11y agoAs I allured to in the previous post, Trump may also not be nominated by the powers that be. Call me cynical, but the people nominated and presented to the voters, are preselected by the capitalist class.
- DrScump 11y agoGenerally speaking, Congress' biggest pusher of H1-B visas over the past 20+ years is San Jose's own Zoe Lofgren, a Democrat.
- Shivetya 11y agoOddly only those whose jobs are threatened by H-1B seem to care about it yet the vast majority of those same are all for illegal immigration. It is the same coin. Both are pushed by the establishment to support their corporate buyers.