Reply #25: We're hogging all the good jobs

[LiberalEsto]

Give me a BREAK!. Nobody wants to hire a 57-year-old female former newspaper reporter. I'm as obsolete as a buggy whip maker.

Companies LOVE buying out older workers and replacing them with low-paid new college graduates or, better yet, lower-paid people from other countries who come here on H1-B visas. There companies whine that there aren't enough American tech workers, so this somehow justifies increasing the number of H-1B visas. Well the companies are lying. My husband's a data professional, and he knows plenty of people, including his brother, whose jobs have been destroyed by H1-B visa abuses. There are plenty of competent computer professionals out there looking for work; unfortunately they need to earn enough money to eat, pay the rent, have health coverage and pay off their student loans. Corporations just don't want to pay people enough to be able to do those things.