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Companies hire them because they're cheaper, and because they can get the name credential (STEM degree), and because they come with stated qualifications. They stay because they like it, and often get green cards because they end up marrying co-workers. If more Americans were to get the STEM degrees that are harder, and if they weren't so burdened with educational debt that they can only afford to take top-paying jobs, it might be different. Being a federal contractor, we actively went after graduates from HBCUs as well as the majors, and had about the same percentage of good luck from them. Not every employee works out. When I was working, the nature of the work was such that you had to be a citizen. Another group had a summer intern from Montenegro once, and finding work that she could do was a significant task for her manager. Wendy P.

I think that's what a lot of people in SC do; they provide the rebuttals to the points that they either think or wish their "opponents" were making, rather than considering what's actually said and implied. Kind of like how some people (US baseball analogy here) play catch WITH someone, and others play throw against them. Wendy P.

I'm going to say that H1B visas shouldn't be for someone with potential, they're for someone with proven capacity. That's coming from someone who got that level of score on the SAT, and never became a billionaire tech bro, or sis, or anything else. I was successful, but no more so than any number of people already here. Wendy P.

Maybe the same way that you deal with a screaming child in your car on the way to the emergency room --- you speed like crazy and take the consequences. Wendy P.

Not if you ask college professors. Daughter of one here. Wendy P.

They do call you Bigun Wendy P.

We sold both our bikes a couple years ago. More and more we were just riding them to stay current enough to ride. Locally, I’d rather ride a bicycle (wonderful trails) or just hike. Wendy P.

We no longer have the thin plastic bags available in most of the towns around here; the grocery we use does have both compostable plastic and paper bags, to go along with the salad greens in bulk. We buy our milk in glass bottles from a local dairy, and make our own yogurt. We can get laundry detergent by refilling our containers at the store No styrofoam in most of the local restaurants; and here it’s the local market that drives more sustainable choices. Two recycling centers in town, one of them is for profit even, which is cool (the other is the city) #1 plastic is relatively well recycled; #2 less so but still possible. Most of the others are more wishcycling than recycling, so we really try not to get stuff in them at all.

There are people who are severely reducing their plastic use. It's kind of like the fossil fuel industry (oh wait -- it IS the fossil fuel industry), where so much has been invested in making plastics really hard to get rid of in daily life that most people say fuck it. What have you done to reduce your plastic use? You can't eliminate it entirely with anything remotely resembling a normal lifestyle, but you can reduce it. Wendy P.

Wait until next summer Wendy P.

How about adding just plain rude to that list. Wendy P.

That never, ever, happens. Any more than any lie, when uncovered, is acknowledged by the devotees. Wendy P.

Nope, it's Obummer's fault all the way. Apparently the worst president in history, according to my reliable MAGA sources. Top men, y'know Wendy P.

A cage match a la Thunderdome might be interesting. Lock them all in there and see who comes out Wendy P.

I am just a poor boy Though my story's seldom told I have squandered my resistance For a pocket full of mumbles Such are promises All lies and jests Still a man hears what he wants to hear And disregards the rest Courtesy of Simon and Garfunkel Wendy P.