Comments on: What Judd Gregg bodes for high tech

President Obama's pick for commerce secretary has sided with business groups on Internet taxes and H-1B visas--and the FBI regarding encryption.

[nickh2]

Is this the same fella that Sylvester Stallone played in that movie - riding around on a huge motorcycle and shooting the bad guys?

[Pete Bardo]

All things considered, this is really pretty scary stuff! He really thinks the President is not subject to the laws created by Congress? It's GW all over again.

I'm disappointed by the Obama administration, again!

[colleen_yuan]

A N T I - A M E R I C A N S Against The People...

Obama/Judd Gregg Abandoning the Middle Class
http://www.cato.org/weekly/index.php?vid_id=64

The H-1B and L-1 guest workers programs have ?RESERVED? millions of high-value jobs for citizens of foreign countries.

And, we have plenty of evidence that these ?Fake Job Ads? consistently and routinely DENY, DEPRIVE and EXCLUDE United States Citizens from Equal Employment Opportunities.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cNnK2M4OTs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU
http://www.numbersusa.com/index

E-Verify Keeps Getting Delayed...
http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/politics/2009/01/31/wian.killing.everify.cnn

Microsoft lobbied Obama transition team on high-skilled immigration weeks before announcing layoffs
http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/techtracks/2009/02/02/microsoft_asked_the_government_in.html

Octopus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxJJXVdxuvk

Octopus Yacht in St. Lucia.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdHTBCz3luQ

Paul Allen's Yacht the Octopus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvLGWnh_8FU

New- Inedito Video Yacht Octopus (microsoft)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS3qtfJdaCU&feature=PlayList&p=FE3E579388C674D5&playnext=1&index=34

Paul Allen's Motor Yacht Tatoosh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LY-wCloSBU

TATOOSH YACHT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e4Y2LETpSM

Fire Foreigners First
Discussing Americans priority in job retention, with Rob Cox, Breakingviews.com U.S. editor
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1019715332&play=1

Fire Foreigners First?
Should American companies lay off foreign workers first?
Mark Krikorian, of the Center For Immigration Studies, and Stuart Anderson, of the National Foundation for American Policy, share their insight.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1019862800&play=1

[JoeF2]

Posting stuff from FAIR, a known hate group, doesn't help your cause.
Fact is and fact remains that the H1 helps the American economy.
For example, without Linus Torvalds getting an H1, Linux would probably have remained an obscure operating system from Finland. Having Mr. Torvalds here on an H1 (and now a Greencard) increased the visibility of Linux tremendously.

[Commander_Spock]

Wow.... Sorry John.... The OS/2's Struggle Continues. Now, On To The Final Frontier - Space!

[RompStar_420]

H1-B should be totally ended, right now. Have them all move back to where ever they came from.

You should be able to work in the US only if:

A) US citizen
B) Naturalized CITIZEN
C) Green Card holder are already exempt from doing some type of government work (go get a citizenship and bump your self to a B

D) Only strategically SUPER IMPORTANT people who have amazing skills of importance to the security of this nation should be allowed within D

Everyone else, stay in your country and build it, eventually you'll enter the Global Market place one way or another and you'll make good money

[nickh2]

**** or **** right?

[Commander_Spock]

If the United States of America loses its international competitive edge to countries such as Russia, China and some of those in Europe... due to a severe shortage of skilled H1-B workers then - what becomes of the United States of America as a super-power!!!

[Commander_Spock]

BTW, guess who are the people behind the upcoming enhancements to the once powerful OS/2 Operating System which was jointly developed by the U. S. based Microsoft and IBM Corporations!!! Read about it here for your self:

Re: "[...TheNerd: How many developers actively work on eCS and what are they currently working on?

Joachim: We have several developers working on various parts of the operating system, like ACPI and other important low-level drivers, we co-fund the development of UniAud (audio subsystem), a lot of volunteers work on translating and maintaining the NLV (national language versions) of eComStation up to date. The official development team consists of 74 people at this moment, however not all of them are equally active of course. (http://ewiki.ecomstation.nl/eDG)...]"

http://www.themadfatter.com/2008/12/17/an-interview-with-mensys-about-ecomstation/

And we talk about "Jobs-Baby-Jobs" while the foreign competition are beating us at our own games.

[Commander_Spock]

Can the United States of America win an "International Trade War"???

[JoeF2]

Quite a bit xenophobic, eh?
If companies can't get qualified people here, they would go abroad. That would mean: say goodbye to your paycheck, and be prepared to grow your own food. You can go to see the Amish to learn how it would be.
We have a global economy, and America relies more on other countries than other countries relying on the US.
Do you really think intelligent people would stay in a xenophobic US?
But of course, rednecks like you don't think. They don't know how to think.

[Commander_Spock]

One more thing; and, as this has been mentioned before... How many of us are anxious to see how American Astronauts will get to and from the International Space Station without the OS/2 Powered Russian Space Launchers with the Chinese and Indians following quickly behind!!!

[Akiba]

Under your regulations what do you suppose we do about Jobs such as localization etc, that require knowledge of foreign language, culture, etc? Do you want only Americans who studied some Mandarin and Asian studies to localize software, do crappy translations etc? Do you only want a domestic perspective on business and marketing to foreign customers? Or do you think there are already enough skilled Americans citizens from every nation to fill these positions? There have been enough failures in markets like Japan because of these attitudes. In reality you might lose more jobs because companies will be forced to hire more people in their international offices if they want to be semi competent abroad.

There is also the education issue. Let's give people one more reason not to study here, and take away more money from public and private universities. This isn't dark ages. People don't learn to build their nations by staying in them and closing themselves off. That only contributes to ignorance.

[pentest]

Problem is that education in the US is so bad, and Americans as a whole, are lazy.

A huge chunk of the H1B jobs require skills that few Americans have or can obtain without years of education.

This is the price of relegating Mathematics to the fringes.

1. We have 7.2% unemployment. Suspend or cancel the H1B programs and any other guest worker programs until unemployment drops below 5%.
2. Get rid of the illegal aliens.
3. Use e-verify to check all new job applicants and all current job holders. Use e-verify at hospitals, emergency rooms, banks, any place you can send money out of the country, schools, drivers licence and car registration locations, police, jails and prisons, all government locations, housing.
4. Take away all federal money from sanctuary cities, states, and organizations.
5. Put foreign legal residents on notice that providing sanctuary or material aid to illegal aliens may put their legal status in jeopardy.
6. Remember: Blanket amnesty for illegal aliens is TREASON!!!!!!!!!!!11

[JoeF2]

Do you really think somebody who was putting cars together can all of a sudden write operating systems???
You need to learn that unemployment numbers by themselves don't mean much.
Anybody with an education would know all that. So, start by educating yourself, instead of posting xenophobic BS.

[mpitogo]

This commerce pick seems a bit scary.

[SpiritMatter]

"but he was the first -- and only -- senator to call for a global ban on secure encryption products"

The only probable reason he backed off is that after he was confirmed "safe", he was allowed to know that the right people have bent over and there already is a back door in place. Those who think they are encrypted will use this communication format that they might otherwise have avoided. Electronic mind access is coming. Will he support prying into all our minds for the sake of our "safety"? God forbid!

Anyone that is willing to throw out all morals and do anything to defeat the "bad" guys has become a bad guy and does not deserve to succeed.