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Subject:Re: US professional issues From:Richard Mateosian <xrm -at- EMAIL -dot- MSN -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 15 Oct 1998 19:47:39 -0700
>The other side of that coin is that there really IS a lack of
>qualified technical workers in many parts of the U.S.
Maybe so, but many large companies would just like to dump more
expensive workers and replace them with others who are:
* cheaper
* desperate to keep the job (or face deportation)
In any event, just increasing the pool of available workers tends to
lower labor costs. Nothing intrinsically bad about that, of course,
but it clarifies the motivations of some folks arguing for and
against increasing the quotas on imported high-tech workers.
I'm not arguing for either side. ...RM
Richard Mateosian <srm -at- cyberpass -dot- net> www.cyberpass.net/~srm/
Review Editor, IEEE Micro Berkeley, CA
