Catch H1-B

The Mercury News reports that a Senate committee has approved increasing the annual number of available H-1B visas from 65000 to 95000. This is at the behest of the tech industry, which claims that it can't fill jobs in the U.S. because of declining numbers of domestic math and science students. (For those unfamiliar with the term, H-1Bs are special visas that allow U.S. companies to indenture, er, employ highly skilled foreign workers without permanent residence -- green card -- status.)

So, let's see - companies lay off a large percentage of tech workers and out-source their jobs to overseas, thereby making math and science less attractive majors to college students, which leads to a shortage of skilled domestic tech workers, thus increasing demand for foreign workers, who can then be laid off and sent home. And the cycle of life continues...

Quoth George Jetson: Jane, get me off this crazy thing!