The brutal truth why America needs H1B visa.

[Mai72]

http://www.theatlantic.com/educatio...e-world-expensive-unequal-bad-at-math/281983/

The truth about those high scores is that Korea, China and Finland don't test their special needs students. In Asia, special needs students are normally shunned. Also, education is highly valued in Asia. It's a cultural issue. No amount of government intervention is going to change the fact that most Americans don't take education seriously. I remember walking into a bookstore in Korea on a Friday night and seeing it packed with young Korean high school students. That would never happen in America

I just named two reasons. I could go on about poverty, the size of America, and the multicultural issues that are unique to America.

 

[Virge_]

An engineer that has a $1K mortgage payment can not work for $40/hr

Wait.. what?

Since when is almost 80k a year (well above the median) not an affordable wage? $1k/m for a mortgage is cheap, that's what, a 150k house?

What point are you trying to make exactly?

 

[shortylickens]

Umm, I made 19 bucks an hour and paid 1150 in rent.
It wasnt fabulous but I got by.

 

[Mai72]

Umm, I made 19 bucks an hour and paid 1150 in rent.
It wasnt fabulous but I got by.

There a lot of Americans who would love to make $19 an hour.

 

[shortylickens]

There a lot of Americans who would love to make $19 an hour.

Agreed. But thats not the point.

The point is: That knucklehead above said people could not pay 1000 dollar mortgages on 40 bucks an hour. And he is fuckin wrong.

 

[ImpulsE69]

Seeing as how we have the most advanced military in the world, I'm guessing our engineering talent is still doing okay.

Granted, we still need to keep up, it's not like every single person can become a Doctor, lawyer, engineer or some high paid technical person. We still need high school drop outs to flip out burgers, and C average students to join the military or wait on tables.

Let's be careful with that generalization, thanks.


Also, in regards to talent... It has ZERO to do with lack of talent and everything to do with them not wanting to pay. Our company forces us into this situation all the time. Corporate greed is the only reason for it. You don't see them outsourcing high level executives for cheap do you?

 

[Sonikku]

Since Silicon Valley conspired to keep the salaries of engineers down, perhaps it has more to do with cheap labour than a shortage?

This is why we need unions. You can't just say f them I'll work somewhere else in the industry when they're all colluding together on the same game plan behind closed doors to kill employee benefits and a single person can't help to buck this behavior alone.

 

[Brainonska511]

Looks like you need a PhD in English. If you claim to be educated you can at least speak the local language properly.

Bravo. Sign up and bump a 2 year old thread with an insult. Off to a fabulous start.