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On Wednesday 28 May 2003 09:54 pm, Richard Strano wrote: > I was wondering if anyone had heard about a speech at EMC with > Governor Romney in the audience trying to justify H1B's. According > to a friend the speaker said that the H1B program had to be maintained > because it was still difficult to find qualified software engineers in this > country. > So I was wondering if anyone else had heard about this. > Rick Strano It doesn't matter what he said. Companies like EMC, Sun, and MSFT are lobbying the federal government on a regular basis and donating huge sums of soft money. The laws will not change anytime soon, nor will the lax enforcement of deporting H1B's who lose their jobs ------------------------------------------------------------------- DDDD David Kramer http://thekramers.net DK KD DKK D "Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an DK KD earth-shattering kaboom." DDDD - Marvin the Martian
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