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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (4073)	9/20/1998 9:20:00 PM
From: LKO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Off topic...unless you want to blame this on Clinton :-) Nope imo we dont have a global free market for labor in this country. We do have a national free market with respect to salaries it seems to me. OK, but we do have legal immigration, about 600K a year. Illegal is another story... Example are you aware that the paperwork required to get an H1B Visa worker requires a certain type of skill etc. and that leans heavily towards the technical worker. Yes, I guess that is what your complaint is. It is supposed to work by keeping some (lower) limits on wages based on profession but I guess you don't think those limits are high enough. You may be right, but only partially so. Even "imported" worker is paid a high enough salary to prevent wages going down. Without that wholesale jobs and services move so only a "labor expert" would know what the thresholds are and if you find two such experts they will disagree :-0 Why not open the floodgates I didn't say that... ....for foreign Doctors, Has been done in the past, may happen in future. The AMA "cartel" controls even the "national market" here. It is no free market. <..Lawyers etc? You want to do something so lawyers wages fall ...and we will have less people becoming lawyers .. Hmmm. :-) ...just kidding..we get the point. Laws make it harder for lawyers and mechanics to come from abroad and facilitate technical skill imports with some limits. You want to maintain those limits (I guess..or reduce them) while some people wanted to raise them and your claim is that will depress wages and "they" claim that that will help them grow. Remember, at a certain wage level, the business becomes untenable. Fast-food workers could be paid 10 times more, but then....would there be cheap fast-food ? Issues are complex, don't try to look for simple answers that "technical workers" are causing wages to be depressed. Maybe they are. Or maybe the are enabling a growth industry which wouldn't happen otherwise ? I certainly don't know which one is true, but you are entitled to hold your opinion.