🚀 go-pugleaf

> Charles Packer wrote:
> >
> > In article <36166af6.270677307@news.dgsys.com>, Jeff Kirk wrote:
> > >       Recently it has been reported that the Congress and Senate are
> > >currently reviewing a bill to increase the number of immigrant workers
> > >into the U.S. in an effort to lessen the burden on the computer
> > >industry, due to a lack of qualified professionals in that arena.
> >
> > I'm a middle-aged computer programmer who changed jobs recently
> > after 14 years with my previous employer. I've observed that,
> > yes, employers want younger, cheaper talent. (But sometimes they
> > end up hiring two young programmers to do the job that one
> > experienced programmer could do.) But unionizing isn't the
> > answer. Unions are for industries where wages truly are low,
> > as in factories, or where the wages are high but the job is
> > highly regimented, as with airline pilots.
 
It goes BEYOND importing workers -- U. S. companies have set up entire
separate companies in INDIA to handle programming at a fraction of the
cost of U.S. programmers.  Wouldn't surprise me if the IBM's of the
world are among them.  "Programming"  is the 'growth industry' if India.