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To: Doughboy who wrote (7917)	1/6/2003 12:28:40 PM
From: Doughboy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Link to Washington Post article predicting residential real estate trends in DC. washingtonpost.com

To: Doughboy who wrote (7917)	1/6/2003 3:49:25 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

As for (c), I'm not sure that there is a true H1-B preference. There is certainly a preference of employers for a lower wage, higher loyalty employee. I think there is an H1-B preference in locations where the management is foreign. I agree with you about the H1-B program but this lack of regard for diversity I see in IT depts run by indians from Bangalore for indians from Bangalore has to stop - UNLESS I as a US citizen and manager am free to discrimiate against whoever I choose with the same reckless abandon. When you walk into an IT dept at Lucent for example, and it is all indians, it is discrimination that is going on, pure and simple. And there are many depts like this at least in the bay area.

To: Doughboy who wrote (7917)	1/6/2003 4:25:44 PM
From: J. P.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

<<This is not discrimination or illegal or whatever, it's just how the job market works. >> Then why don't we let the Japanese dump cheap steel on the markets in the U.S.? Why does OPEC attempt to control the flow of oil? Why does DeBeeres control the flow of diamonds? You need to regulate things to keep the prices up. Dumping cheap labor on the U.S. market is not good for anyone here. (Except of course for the top 1% of corporate executives who then steal the cost savings in the form of non-expensed stock options, cash bonuses, and payraises)