Are American high tech workers obsolete?

[Jerry Feldman]

You are quite right. Thanks for the history lesson. 
The labor thing was also regional. The New england knitting mills all moved 
down South because of its abundance of cheap labor. 

The political solution many times is and was add some type of political 
barrier, which was always too little too late. 
H1-B is one of those things that was put into place late in the boom years 
when we needed some labor in our industy. Now we would have preferred not 
for it to have passed. 

Additionally, the current corporate shinanigans (Enron, WorldCom et. al.) 
are mirrored back in the late 1800s by the so called "robber barons", 
Rockefeller, Vanderbuilt, Jay Gould, Chester Arthur and a few others.  I 
mention Chester because he was a president from Tamany Hall. Look at what 
some of the stuff John D. Rockefeller did and compare to Bill Gates. 
On 14 Aug 2002 at 14:03, Randy Edwards wrote:
>     The U.S. has historically had high labor costs -- this has traditionally 
> been seen as a good thing.

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