US to hike H1B visas, merit will count for green cards

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145. If we should be all "equal" then why don't you argue for OUR right to have an equal cost of living..

... with them as well? HUH?

Damnit! The world is just not an equal place, and we have to deal with our costs of living being higher than others. If we want an equal "quality" of life, then DAMMIT, we need to have more money to pay the higher bills! If you think that everyone should be paid equally on the global stage, then why don't you argue that our CEOs should also be paid equally to CEOs of other foreign companies. They don't have to compete with those CEOs for their jobs, because THEY make the rules and force US to compete, even though we are doing most of the work that makes their companies more productive and lets them make more profits.

You should FIRST demand that our students have more of an equal opportunity for education that the rest of the world has, and our families have more equal access to health care that the rest of the world has before you ask us to sacrifice our jobs for others!

Indians get their bachelor's degrees subsidized by their government. If they pay for any school themselves it is more figuring out whether they will get a cheaper graduate degree in India, or pay a bit more and pay for a graduate degree here and then work here for a while afterward (where hardly any of our kids can afford to pay for both an undergrad and graduate degree) and be on an even playing field with them.

You should be ranting about the TPP and other of these corporatist so-called "free trade" agreements that are destroying both our lives and other people's around the world as well as the race to the bottom screws all of us except those at the top.

Now maybe, just maybe, suddenly our property and the value of our currency and other property at some point will collapse when none of us is working any more and we will all have the same low cost of living everyone else has.

But you know when that will happen? Only when these [h1]UNAMERICAN[/h1] 1% jerks that control our companies and our government now have moved all of their money off shore at today's currency rates so that they can laugh at us after our economy has collapsed when their wealth is worth so much more then than ours is now. That's when it will happen, and then we will have a world f'ing RIPE for a French style revolution when people have nothing else left to lose, complete with guillotines and the rest of that atmosphere of kind of revolt.