[lit-ideas] Here's the high paying jobs
- From: Eternitytime1@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 08:59:20 EDT
Hi,
Of course, the fellow you like to read may be thinking of these jobs. Now,
these are fairly well-paying jobs (of course, taking them away from people
like my neighbor who, when he is downsized like the woman across the street
was, won't be able to find a comprable position because of the influx of those
willing to work for so much less...but that is, after all, his problem and he
did complain once about my yard not being as great as he wanted it to be.
On one hand, I'm glad that we are giving people who have great educations
from other countries a place to go to hone their skills so that they can then
return home in a couple of years with experience and open up competing firms
(I can send you that information if you would like)
Still--looking at these young ones coming up the ladder and not able to
create lives better than their parents is troubling. (esp with the cuts in
the
education world, the National Science Foundation, etc.) The traditional
conservative in me has great problems with how we are not taking care of our
own.
The part of me which wants to take care of all my young ones is horribly
horribly concerned.
But, perhaps these are the jobs that the article you cited is looking
at--for they DO pay a bit better than what a tyical IT guy has--and it is
cheaper
to higher someone already trained in the newest technology than it is to
assist him/her with new or continuing education or re-training.
Not very patriotic, but hey. As was once noted on this List of Ours, we, as
regular folk, are asked to be patriotic when we can give our lives or
children's lives--or our money. Otherwise, we are to be be glad that those
companies are able to compete in a market-driven economy which has no reason
to
care for the Other. (Of course, I do think that when companies stop caring
for
the Other that it causes people to either identify with the victimizers or
[more rarely] identify with the victims. It's one reason why people really
do
not care for the Other any longer, why there is no loyalty to shareholders by
those in upper or upper middle management, why there is such deception,
lack of customer service and lack of ethics--why bother when no one else does.
If there is something to that trickle down theory...well, it works all ways.
People to grow and develop and BE--to be nurtured, to be encouraged, to be
walked through to the other side...
Not going to happen while we have the selfishness around which abounds.
Okay, everyone. Sounds like we have a victimizer in our midst....<sigh>
Just remember, he is an outcome of the market-based economy which no longer
cares for the Other...
He can learn to Go Deep. Dig to the inside core...He can grow. He's here.
There is Hope.
Lighting a candle in the darkness,
Marlena in Missouri
MAY 04, 2005 MAY 04, 2005 <NOBR>Federal officials will open the doors to an
additional 20,000 foreign workers under the H-1B visa program beginning May
12, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services department said today
(download PDF).
USCIS also said that the visas would be granted only to foreign workers with
at least a master's-level degree from a U.S. academic institution.
Congress approved the additional 20,000 visas last year after U.S.
technology firms and academic groups complained that the reduced 65,000-worker
cap was
too low to meet demand. Opponents of the controversial visa cap, which had
previously been set at 195,000, argue that the influx of skilled foreign
workers is costing U.S. citizens and permanent residents jobs.
The 65,000 H-1B visas approved by Congress for the fiscal year that began
last Oct. 1 were taken in a day.
The release of the 20,000 additional visas comes after a delay and some
controversy. Last month, USCIS roiled backers of the cap increase when it said
that the 20,000 additional visas would be available to all qualified
applicants
-- not just those holding an advanced degree from U.S. universities (see
story).
Sandra Boyd, who heads Compete America, a Washington-based group
representing more than 200 corporations and universities, said that change
would be
contrary to the intent of the H-1B Visa Reform Act of 2004. Evidently, USCIS
agreed.
In an interview today, Boyd said the agency had made the "right
interpretation" of the law with the regulations that will be published in the
Federal
Register on May 12. She also said the agency's apparent indecision over how to
handle the visa allocation created much uncertainty for U.S. employers, as
well as for prospective visa-holding employees.
"There was a lot of confusion about whether people would be offered jobs,"
said Boyd. "It made it impossible to plan, and it all seemed pretty
unnecessary."
Tech industry groups had asked Congress last fall to approve more than
20,000 additional visas. If the visas being released next week are quickly
claimed
-- as some immigration attorneys have been predicting -- tech groups are
likely to cite that as a reason to raise the visa cap further.
Last week, H-1B visa supporters got some help from Microsoft Corp. Chairman
Bill Gates, who said that preventing "smart people" from entering the country
by placing a cap on H-1B visas "doesn't make sense." (see story)
But in an interview with Computerworld this week (see story), Gerald Cohen,
founder and CEO of New York-based Information Builders Inc., said Gates is
"full of it. He's going there [to China and India] because it's just cheaper."
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