On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 20:10 -0700, Joshua Zeidner wrote: > At this point, I would suggest young americans pursue the only > remaining profitable career: sleazeball politician. > > "there's a great future in plastics." > > - http://www.joshuazeidner.com/ > > > On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 7:32 PM, keith smith wrote: > > Let's export our economy and we can all move into Gabrielle Giffords house > > and she can support us! > > > > > > > > > > Joshua Zeidner wrote: > > > > Although not everyone agrees on the matter of h-1b visas, it's > > important to know that Arizona's own Gabrielle Giffords is playing a > > role in increasing national visa caps that greatly affect technology > > workers in AZ and elsewhere. > > > > "The Innovation Employment Act, introduced by Representative Gabrielle > > Giffords, an Arizona Democrat, late Thursday, would increase the cap > > in H-1B visas from 65,000 a year to 130,000 a year. In addition, there > > would be no cap on H-1B applications for foreign graduate students > > attending U.S. colleges and studying science, technology and related > > fields. Currently, there's a 20,000-a-year cap on visas for graduate > > students in all fields." ---- I agree that the whole H-1b visa thing completely stinks and I presume that IBM and perhaps some other corporate interests are probably the motivation for this. I agree that the corporate interests have way too much influence in politics. I don't agree that this is the place to start calling politicians 'sleazeballs' simply because they have taken a position probably contrary to most people here. Craig --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss