Tuesday, March 24, 2009  Our Real Immigration Problem: Talent
Leaving U.S.          At 3/24/2009 6:34 AM, Blogger jake171986
said...  What worries me more than immigrants not coming in, is
U.S. citizens leaving. I ran into a gentleman the other day with
a British accent, and we talked for a while. I finally asked
"what brought you here (to the states)", and he responded
Britain did. He didn't have to say anymore. I knew he what he
was getting at...The socialist ideologue has consumed Britain;
strangling the wealth and prosperity it had taken so much time
to build. My fear is that we too are going down that same
stream. First step: national healthcare. In my opinion this will
be the destruction of the U.S. as we know it.  At 3/24/2009 8:50
AM, Blogger Jeff Springer said...  I am all for turning off the
flow of h1v folks because they have decimated pay for
programmers. Judging from my vantage point as a senior
programmer, hourly pay for consultants is lower today what it
was in 1997, or down by roughly 40% from