On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Florin Iucha <florin at iucha.net> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 07:48:25AM -0800, Ubu Sumner wrote: > > "....Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar's legislation to increase H-1B > > visas and green card quotas is welcome and will help the U.S. > > economy. The jobs that are offered will only be located where there > > are not sufficient qualified local citizens...." > > Businesses will go whether the costs are lower, so they will either > lower costs here or go to China, India, Vietnam in search for cheaper > workforce. > The Federal government allows the 1%-ers to have it both ways - they can take their jobs overseas OR bring the low-rent talent here. The same force propels people to migrate wherever more resources (or > Maslow's "needs") are available for them and their families. > If you're implying the labor is as willing to migrate as the employer - I'm not sure that's true. Not sure I understood your point correctly though. -Rob -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130210/78451030/attachment.html>