Do you know what would happen to the Silicon Valley if every H1B visa holder went back to their country? Just go to cities like San Jose, Santa Clara, Fremont, Milipitas, Cupertino, Sunnyvale.... Those cities will start looking like Iowa. All you need to do is drive through Iowa and you'll know what I mean.
| Demographics of Iowa (csv) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| By race | White | Black | AIAN* | Asian | NHPI* |
| 2000 (total population) | 96.14% | 2.51% | 0.63% | 1.48% | 0.08% |
Here is an idea Senator Grassley, instead of trying to make the rest of the country to look like Iowa. Try opening the doors of Iowa to H1B holders and may be in the next 5-10 years you'll have a Silicon Valley in Iowa.
*Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa
Your blog is nothing but a bunch of lies.
ReplyDeleteI dare you to post this comment.
BILL TUCKER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): There is no shortage of students studying for careers in Math and Science. There is a shortage of jobs. That's the simply bottom line finding of a new study from the Urban Institute.
The study shows that between 1985 and 2000 435,000 U.S. citizens and permanent residents a year graduated with Bachelors, Masters, and Doctoral degrees in Science and Engineering. That's three times the number of jobs in Science and Engineering added per year, 150,000 during that time.
Separately Michael Teitelbaum at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation told Congress last week that neither he nor a separate study by the RAND Corporation can find any evidence of worker shortages. These studies are not anomalies.
VIVEK WADHWA, HARVARD UNIVERSITY: Bottom line is that all of our research at Duke and now at Harvard shows the same thing. That there is no shortage of engineers; there's no shortage of scientists. Companies aren't going abroad because of skills. They're going abroad because it's cheaper.
For a person who gets his quotes from people like Bill Tucker, I feel pity for you. Let me tell you sir, that statistics is a very convenient way of lying these days.
ReplyDeleteLet me break down these numbers for you: Of the 435,000 residents there are at the max 30,000 citizens who graduate in Computer Science or IT. Most of the other engineers are in other disciplines like Nuclear and Aerodynamics and Mechanical Engineering etc.
80% of the people coming to the US from India, China, UK or other countries are coming here for IT or computer Sc related jobs.
Have you actually been to an American university in the last 5 years? Go to the graduate Computer Science division and up to 90 % of the students there are from India or China.
The fact is that a majority of the American Citizens would not like sit in front of a Computer and Code for 12-15 hours a day, 6 to 7 days a week. Yes sir, ask any computer programmer working at Ebay or Yahoo or Google and they will tell you that my numbers are not wrong. American Citizens prefer to work as Managers or in Sales or in Economics.
The fact also is that if you add avoidable costs to any business it becomes un-competitive. Look at what happened to GM or Ford. They were once the Best in the World. Would you prefer that happen to the American IT industry too?