other technical workers have holes in our resumes from being unable to find work due to competition with H1b visas -- tech workers who can be hired for cheaper than an American, and abused, since if they quit the company that brought them here, they are supposed to leave the country. That goes back to the American education system, of course, which needs beefing up, but for people my age (boomers), we had a good education and good skills, we were just shouldered aside. Again, not for lack of skills, but because of money and sometimes age. It's too bad that Americans tend to lose to smarter, better educated, harder working Asian immigrants. But what are American high-tech industries supposed to do, hire inferior workers? Beg the Federal government to guarantee that they'll become uncompetitive with India and China even faster than they will anyway, by hiring only European-American workers who simply aren't as good as the Asians? Dream on. For at least two generations, Americans have simply not worked as hard in school as our Asian competition, and we're paying the price, which our even worse educated kids and grandkids will pay even more. There is no way we can keep up with Chinese and Indian kids in school. First, because their elite will be bigger than our entire population, which is 90% not elite. And second, because the Asians really do work MUCH harder in school than our relatively lazy kids do, and go to school MANY more