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On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 11:33 AM, James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > The problem is xenophobia. With more high skilled laborers from Asia, > none of this would have happened: > > "A bipartisan group of Senators is planning to introduce a bill that > allows the H-1B visa cap to rise automatically with demand to a maximum of > 300,000 visas annually. This 20-page bill, called the Immigration > Innovation Act of 2013 or the 'I-Squared Act of 2013,' is being developed > by Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Marco Rubio > (R-Fla.), and Chris Coons (D-Del.). It may be introduced next week. > Presently, the U.S. has an H-1B visa cap of 65,000. There are another > 20,000 H-1B visas set aside for advanced degree gradates of U.S. > universities, for 85,000 in total. Under the new bill, the base H-1B cap > would increase from 65,000 to 115,000. But the cap would be allowed to rise > automatically with demand, according to a draft of the legislation." > > > http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/01/25/187203/senators-seek-h-1b-cap-that-can-reach-300000 > > On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 10:58 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> A list of my friends. >> >> 1. Electrical Engineer me. At the start I could send out a resume and >> expect to be hired. >> Hung on at the end by taking contracts doing dirty work in coal >> fired power plants. >> Coal fire is down and I am hunkering. >> >> 2. Nurse RN, her husband abandoned her. Got rheumatoid arthritis and >> is now on the system. She is waiting for a rich man to help her and her >> son out. She will sue for money. Don't hit her on the road. >> >> 3. Nurse LPN, has fibra malaga and is now on the system. Prays a lot >> and turned born again. Hopes for an answer there and believes it. Nice >> looking if you can stand full time preaching. It appears that no one can. >> >> 4. Woman with schizophrenia, lives with elderly parents and is now on >> the system. Worried that her parents will die and leave her. >> >> 5. Telephone switching engineer. AS in engineering at 58 >> was thrown out. He is thinking of moving to Ecuador where has SSN will do >> more. Claims his X cleaned him out. >> >> 6. Aircraft mechanic with large airline. Wiffed out at 55 in the >> recession and now they don't want him back. He is to old. He is fixing up >> a piper cub for a friend. >> >> 7. Woman artist, nice looking 55. No one has money for art any more. >> She has no electrical power and has a hole in the kidney of her hot air >> coal furnace. I am worried that she will die of CO poisoning. Lye heap is >> coming, someday and the govt may provide a new furnace. I have sent her >> money and helped her. I will patch the furnace. She placed angles at the >> word trade center and at flight 95 when business was up. They will not >> give her food stamps because she was self employed. I brought her a case >> of chili. Its $1 a can at Walmart. >> >> 8. Woman, really nice looking hot 53 year old. Got the boot after 23 >> years at from clerical position at an electric utility and now works at >> Saint Vincent Depaul. She tells me that aluminium is up and you can get >> $30 for a trunk full of crushed cans. I give her credit she will pick up >> cans and take them to the dump. She is republican and will do it, she >> grows her own food and is getting ready. Ed may want to learn from her. >> A Beautiful looking woman by any means. I enjoy her company and she will >> listen. I wonder how long she can hold out. >> >> 9. Meter reader doing well. Informed that smart meters are coming. >> >> 10. Coal miner 60. UMWA mine closed down when he was 56. He can >> thank his lucky starts that his wife has a job in health care. >> >> 11. Elementary Ed teacher, young. Never got a job after graduation. >> Worked in Walmart handing out samples. Recently got a >> church related preschool teaching job. Does not make enough money for >> beans. >> >> 12. Public sector employee. Retired early at 55 and is riding high on >> the hog. >> >> >> Are these people going to pay off the national dept? Maybe I just need >> new friends and this >> is not real. >> >> Frank >> >> >> >> >
