Thanks for doing up this post and leading this movement. We created a comedy (but totally serious) about the Startup Visa – We call it “Lord of the Visa.” (from Lord of the Rings)

Are you an Elf or a Hobbit?

http://blog.vidli.com/startup-visa/

Enjoy…

We need to pass the Durbin and Grassley Bill – S887
it will make the playing field even again. Americans and Permanent Residents can compete again

There are thousands of highly skilled Americans that are unemployed that are willing to take these jobs. It’s about time that we help Americans which helped bail out Wall Street. The American middle class has been devastated by these temporary Guest worker visas that were not meant for immigration purposes. It’s about time we help our own American Citizens and local residents instead of bringing in cheap foreign labor. There is no skills shortage just companies that don’t want to pay prevailing wages.

Let’s take globalist logic as far as it goes. The population of India alone is around 1.2 billion, and there are plenty of other nations whose citizens would love to come take and jobs here or else have our work shipped over to them. The US population is only around 300 million. Since they don’t come burdened with our mortgages, rents, student loans, and other bills, the vast majority of foreign workers would be delighted to take a significantly lower wage than what we need to live comfortably here. Theoretically, every single American worker, present and future, could be replaced with a willing foreign worker. Think how much money that would save. Not just the tech workers. The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker. The cop, the handyman, the lawn guy, the teacher, the plumber. They have blue collar workers too. What if every single one of us got our walking papers? What would America be like then? For us? Welfare benefits have a tight lifetime cap. Savings? Home equity? What would you live on if every single time you thought of a plan to earn, a foreigner was right there, johnny-on-the-spot, to take your place? In the tech field, in some areas, this is already happening. Better get active and do something about this, unless you trust the third world to show restraint and stop wanting our jobs.

I guess, when you say 1/5 of American Salary, you mean the salary in India and not the salary in the US.
All H1-Bs in the US are paid on par with their American co-workers.

This argument is very debatable. Many would argue that low-paid illegal immigrants in low-paid jobs also contribute much more to the system than the take when considered as a whole. I can pretty much guarantee that prices for many of the things we buy on a regular basis would increase if not for illegal immigration. Those prices not going up is a huge benefit to all of society!

However limited, partial and narrow their conception of democracy, our history since the founding of this country has been a defining of that concept we call democracy, ever expanding, and always more inclusive against those would restrict equality and guard privilege and hoard advantage of the status quo. In times of national stress, we have been sorely tested by Know Northings, KKK and isolationists, but we have finally always defeated these forces of reaction who would deny to others what they claim for themselves.

We will always remain an immigrant nation and we will finally defeat the minimen and those who wrap themselves in the flag and pose as patriots, because they are fearful and distrustful of democracy. The teabagging, lunatic right will only become more isolated until they implode once again in their next Oklahoma City Murrah Bldg-like blast against our democratic government. –mo

I had once called a US Senator office and obviously he did not call me back as I did not have a vote. The realization of the virtues of immigration at corporate level may not translate at a political level.