Garbage. I know lots of US engineers who have been out of work for years and are not being hired even though they are doing occasional contract work at what amounts to below minimum wage.
These aren't just any old engineers. They include guys who built the Internet and have current skills. Clue: HP spent a half billion dollars on "Internet Chapter 2". Due to my long history with the Internet (chief architect of AT&T's foray into electronic newspapers with Knight-Rider 1982 as well as previously being on the PLATO system programming staff for CDC), they tried to get me in and I repeatedly declined because what they said they were doing made no sense and I knew exactly what was needed for "Internet Chapter 2" having, in my capacity with AT&T, worked directly with David P. Reed during the time he was authoring the "End to End Arguments" paper. I finally agreed to come on board if they would let me have a little corner of the project -- remember we're talking $500M of risk capital here -- the largest single lump-sum invested during the dotcom bubble and it was being invested by Silicon Valley's founding company. All I wanted was one guy:. A PhD with a specialty in a branch of relational mathematics who happened to have the unfortunate characteristic of being a US citizen. My request for this consultant was declined but I was offered all the H-1b visas from India I wanted. Literally. Guess what ethnicity was of the guy in charge of that project? The Fortune 500 is now taken over by India. On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Edmund Storms <[email protected]>wrote: > Not just sad but scary because such an apparent lack of education is > revealed in the comments. We all agree that standards have been lowered > for both high-school and college degrees. As a result, many graduates are > qualified only for low skilled jobs. Consequently, a big push is now > underway by companies that have high skilled jobs to open more visa > opportunities for skilled people from other countries to work here. > Naturally, these skilled people are cheaper to hire than the older skilled > people who are already here, which provides the basic incentive. I fear > how the growing number of uneducated people will vote in the future. The > population is almost equally divided now between people who do not have a > clue and people who still can understand what is happening. The future does > not look good. > > > On Jan 29, 2013, at 8:17 AM, Daniel Rocha wrote: > > It's funny and sad to see people in denial in the comments section. > > > 2013/1/29 <[email protected]> > >> Unemployment dropping? >> >> >> http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2013/01/28/college-educated-over-qualified-study/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl3%7Csec3_lnk2%26pLid%3D262707 >> >> >> > > > -- > Daniel Rocha - RJ > [email protected] > > >
