Hoffman says: Remove visa limits!

Posted by James Bowery on Sunday, 08 March 2009 08:42.

‘CEO and founder of popular site LinkedIn Reid Hoffman urged the US Congress and the Obama Administration to remove the cap on H-1B visas, which enable foreign nationals to live and work in the United States. LinkedIn is a popular business-oriented social networking site.’

‘“Remove the cap on H-1B visas and impose a 10 per cent payroll tax beyond the benchmark salary for each visa,” Hoffman wrote in an article “Stimulus 2.0: It’s the Startups, Stupid” in TechCrunch, a publication of The Washington Post. A day earlier in another article in The Washington Post, Hoffman made a similar argument for the next phase of stimulus policies.’

‘Observing that the US is a country founded on immigration, Hoffman said, “We should welcome the best and the brightest as our own. Abolish the H-1B cap, and give me an economic reason for preferring local. I’ll only do foreign if I need to.” ‘

You know I remember when they first ballooned the H-1b visa program in the late 90’s there were all these IT luminaries like Tim O’Reilly and Bill Gates saying stuff like each H-1b visa issued would generate 5 jobs.

How’d that theory work out, anyway?

Yeah, I know…. “It would have been so much worse without them…”

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Posted by Al Ross on Sun, 08 Mar 2009 09:27 | #

“The US is a country founded on immigration”.

More correctly, “The US is a country founded on EUROPEAN immigration”.

Posted by Fred Scrooby on Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:30 | #

The above by Al Ross should be added to the list of great “come-back” lines we were compiling the other week.

Posted by Jupiter on Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:31 | #

Hoffman should be taken to africa and thrown into a river full of very large nile crocs. Throw Hoffman nnto the river. Film his dismemberment and consumption by the crocs. Come back a few weeks later and film the excretion of his remains. Post it on you tube as a warnng to all H-1B enthusiasts.

Posted by danielj on Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:25 | #

More correctly, “The US is a country founded on EUROPEAN immigration”.

More, more correctly, “The US is a country founded by ENGLISH colonization.”

Posted by Shaggy on Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:40 | #

BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA’S DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST EUROPEAN AMERICANS

Obama has supported:

(A) Reparations. Redistributing money from European Americans (whites) to blacks, mestizos, and Asians.

(B) Criminalizing white parents who refuse to let their children practice miscegenation.

(D) Using Third World immigration to overwhelm European American majorities.

(E) Maintaining anti-white affirmative action programs

(F) Creating a mandatory “America Serves” community-service program to indoctrinate and deracinate young European Americans

From sociobiology email list: “Children of mixed, white-black, marriages identify 99 percent of the time as black and detest European Americans (whites). Why? They almost always look black (eye color, hair texture, nose shape, lips, skin color, etc.). Obama wrote: “I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother’s white race.”“