I think this is a good topic to discuss. I am afraid I do not have enough information to have an educated opinion. I am a technology small business owner and I am struggling with finding specific skills. Ubu what is your position. BTW- The main motivation of joinging TCLUG is to develop relationships and eventually recruit talent. David Nelsen, BoTG Healthcare Technical Analyst Slingshot Healthcare Informatics Office 651.472.5678 Skype: slingshot.hci On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Ubu Sumner <ubusum at ymail.com> wrote: > I don't expect a discussion of this here, since it's stretching the TCLUG > mission perhaps, but I'm hoping some of you might appreciate a gentle > suggestion to put your opinion into an email, whatever that might be. The > horse may be out of the barn for Klobuchar on this issue, but sometimes it > helps anyway to write a thoughtful letter. If you agree with her you can > send her a thank you note. ;) > > Contact links to your Congress people: > http://www.usayfoundation.org/states/minnesota > > Yesterday in the Star: > > http://www.startribune.com/opinion/letters/189453241.html > > "....Minnesota *Sen. Amy Klobuchar's legislation*<http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/188777081.html> to > increase H-1B visas and green card quotas is welcome and will help the U.S. > economy. The jobs that are offered will only be located where there are not > sufficient qualified local citizens...." > > Today in the New York Times: > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/08/opinion/americas-genius-glut.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130208 > > "....Bringing over more — there are already 500,000 workers on H-1B visas > — would obviously darken job prospects for America’s struggling young > scientists and engineers. But it would also hurt our efforts to produce > more: if the message to American students is, “Don’t bother working hard > for a high-tech degree, because we can import someone to do the job for > less,” we could do significant long-term damage to the high-tech > educational system we value so dearly. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130208/8ee6e695/attachment.html>