It is an outrage that our government is considering increasing the number of available visas to “import” foreign workers to meet American high-tech job needs (“Visas for high-tech foreign workers debated, Critics say ploys used to pay less for skilled help,” News, May 28).
I have worked for 30-plus years as an information technology professional, in what is now called Legacy Systems.
Every skill I have used to earn tax payments was hard-earned, on my own time, by my own sweat.
As I earned more, taxes increased.
I had to work more hours (more than 50, plus commute time) to stay even.
This meant that I had less time to retool for the client/server and Internet technology.
Instead of importing foreign technical talent, let the IT industry needing this talent re-educate the Legacy IT professionals, who drip with tons of U.S. business savvy and well-developed logic.
I have yet to find a foreign IT professional with an adequate understanding of U.S. business, or well-developed logic.
Let our government plow some of its budget surplus into the retooling of folks like me. Paying the tuition and me for 12 weeks to retrain in client/server-Internet curriculum would allow me to increase my income enough that the increase in income taxes would repay the government investment in less than a year.
Don’t bring in outsiders.
Invest in America’s Legacy System professionals.
Repay me and others for our hard work and our meeting an excessive tax burden for so many years.
