Reply #46: Actually, it's a proposal to use fees from H1-B visas

[lapfog_1]

for education.

Like somehow *I* am not educated enough! ( I have a BS in CS from a major university plus 3 patents and authored a number of papers, served on IEEE standards committees and so forth )

I'm a prime example of someone who is out of work because US firms would rather hire people in India for $25K a year than hire me at any salary. And would rather hire someone from India to work here for $50K (this would be Silicon Valley, where $50K doesn't get you very far), than hire me with 25 years experience for over $100K/year (which is a low salary here right now)

It's not that there aren't educated people here or a need for more educated people in the field... it's that there are qualified workers from India, China, and former USSR countries who are willing to do the work (software development) for far less than workers here. If I could live anywhere I wanted, I might could compete salary wise (though even living in rural Arizona is more expensive than Hyderabad) with foreign workers, but it would be difficult but doable. But US companies, who have no problem outsourcing to countries around the world, refuse to let people here work in a virtual office. Also, health care here is much more expensive than paying a minimal amount for health care of a foreign based worker.

I tell my Indian co-workers and friends that their day in the sun will be short lived... China will be the next "out sourcing paradise" and African countries will be behind right behind the Chinese.

Education will NOT fix the problem. Increased globalization only leads to the destruction of middle class in the Western World. In the future, you will either be part of the "ownership class" (i.e. own stock in large global corporations... and not just a little stock, a *lot* of it) or you will be one of the working poor (even if you have a formerly middle class job like machinist or bank clerk or even software programmer).

Every country will start looking like Mexico.