Re: Oracle DBA Job Opening in Boston

Niall Litchfield wrote:
> Well true enough, but disliking food or some other aspect of a foreign
> culture is somewhat different reaction to swearing at the mere mention
> of an employment for immigrants scheme. "Coming over here , taking our
> jobs" is as old as the hills. Discussing drawbacks, shortcomings and
> abuses is one thing, but the post to which I was objecting did none of
> the above.

Since I live near an area with a large concentration of illegal aliens (of the sort who take menial jobs), the "taking our jobs" folks (or "crackers"
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060804/news_7m4perata.html ) have targetted this area for media brouhaha. Meanwhile, the increased border security has actually reduced the number of illegals, so labor-intensive jobs that they would take are going unfilled. This has hit wineries and organic farms
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20060813-2338-farmscene-emptyfields.html  the hardest. I haven't seen any Minutemen picking grapes. They are out on the Arizona border stringing up special fiber-optic sensors made in China that can tell the difference between wind, animals and people, with their presence effectively creating a denial-of-service attack on infrared and buried-contact sensors the border patrol uses...

>
> And of course there is the possibility that the OP merely thinks
> incorrectly that the H1-B scheme and others like it is a bad thing
> economically. Hence the economically illiterate part.

Well, H1-B abuse is a bad thing economically. No matter how much abuse there is (and there is a lot), it poisons the whole thing. (I'm not disputing that an economic illiterate could come to the same conclusion with the wrong derivation). The cost of getting caught is perceived to be much lower than the pecuniary benefit of cheating.

jg

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@home.com is bogus.
Maybe Hui was just selling off his shares to drive the price down:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060824/news_1b24gateway.html