Comments on: Coop and the H-1B pinata party

Reader reaction to a recent post make two things clear: Lots of folks treat the H-1B program as a convenient scapegoat-and most agree that I'm a clueless stooge.

[genus11]

H1B is totally dishonest, money grabbing schema for various contractors including Federal ones. I am manager and I do hire MOSTLY H1Bs subs, sometimes we sponsor H1B candidates and we are the MAJOR Federal contractor. Why I turn to H1Bs? Low cost and instant responses by one of the H1B Indian contracting firms. What a shame! Well, at least I am employed :)
It looks like US is under constant fire from everywhere: from Asian semiconductor and car factories, Chinese cheap labor, Indian IT workers and outsourcing comps, mexican illegal manual labor, left idiots in the media, right imbeciles (so-called protectors of so called "free mkts"), narcotics assault, ghettos in major cities, muslim fanatics.. G-d dam, how we CAN survive?

[test10022]

"And Philippe Kahn, a one-time illegal immigrant, founder of Borland, invented what even all the xenophobes posting here use: the cellphone camera..."

No, he created a company based on the idea of sending the picture via email, after it was already taken.

The actual idea of a cellphone camera is pretty obvious to anyone who had to carry to objects in their pocket at the same time. And they existed before Phillipe Khan.

He's an interesting guy, but we had cellphone cameras before him and would have cellphone cameras without him (and his presence in the US didn't seem to stop all the cellphone manufactuers from being overseas.)

An HTC Touch is pretty darn cool too. It was probably "invented" (if you define "invention" as being the first company to combine Apple's pre-eixisting touch screen with a larger resolution display and Windows Mobile) by a Chinese person overseas, without a visa, which doesn't make any difference because it's going to be manufactured in China no matter what. And heck, I don't have to change my political ideology or lower my hourly rate get to get one!

[JoeF2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillipe_Kahn
"Kahn is credited with the creation in 1997 of the camera phone,which was the founding vision of LightSurf."

[CoolMower]

JoeF2,
Wikipedia is not considered to be a credible source of anything. Hope this is not your only source of your claims.

Cheers,
Cool

[KingDavid2009]

H1-B visa essential to bring exceptional talents into the country , but not the cheap labor substitute

[CoolMower]

King,

Not so, There is already a category O-1 for exceptional talent, and this has no cap.

H-1B is for ordinary workers doing ordinary work.