A certain senator wants Microsoft to first cut H1B workers' jobs. This could be the beginning of a nasty trend that will hit us Indians where it will hurt the most. We have spent the better part of three decades training the world's largest white collar work-force, and done so largely at the expense of developing better industrial research. As a result we have pen pushers and coders, but no genuine 'products' in the sense that a Dell desktop is a product. These workers depend, and with them the Indian economy depends on the US economy, and the H1B visas are the umbilical cord. Times are bad indeed.
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