[TriLUG] OT: PT One tech issue from tonight's debate

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, Scott Chilcote wrote:

> On 10/17/2012 09:14 AM, William Sutton wrote:
>> Ugh, politics.

the companies who want foreign workers, are not doing so to 
make the country stronger, as other people have suggested.

They just want cheap labor. They are not hiring the best and 
the brightest. They are hiring regular people to do the 
grunt work. Alan Greenspan was one of the originators of 
this process. He declared that salaries for US IT workers 
were too high and it would cause social disruption in the US 
for such a large slice of the workforce to be seen having 
such large salaries. (As well all know, the high salaries of 
financial people don't cause social disruption.) The cure 
was cheap foreign labor.

Joe

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