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. <div>

<br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">David Nelsen, BoTG</span></div><font color="#FF0000">Healthcare Technical Analyst<br>Slingshot Healthcare Informatics<br>Office 651.472.5678</font><br>

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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Ubu Sumner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ubusum@ymail.com" target="_blank">ubusum@ymail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

<div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">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. ;)</div>

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<div style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:16.363636016845703px"><a href="http://www.usayfoundation.org/states/minnesota" target="_blank">http://www.usayfoundation.org/states/minnesota</a></span><br>

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<span style="font-size:16.363636016845703px">Yesterday in the Star:</span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16.363636016845703px;background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16.363636016845703px"><br>

</span></div><div style="background-color:transparent"><span><span style="font-size:16.363636016845703px"><a href="http://www.startribune.com/opinion/letters/189453241.html" target="_blank">http://www.startribune.com/opinion/letters/189453241.html</a></span><br>

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<span><span style="font-size:16.363636016845703px">"....</span></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17.27272605895996px">Minnesota </span><a href="http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/188777081.html" style="color:rgb(11,71,141);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17.27272605895996px" target="_blank"><u>Sen. Amy Klobuchar's legislation</u></a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17.27272605895996px"> 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...."</span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16.363636016845703px;background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">

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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17.27272605895996px">Today in the New York Times:</span></div><div style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:17.27272605895996px;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:normal">

<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17.27272605895996px"><br></span></div><div style="background-color:transparent"><span><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:17.27272605895996px"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/08/opinion/americas-genius-glut.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130208" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/08/opinion/americas-genius-glut.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130208</a></span></font><br>

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</span></div><div style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:17.27272605895996px;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:normal"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17.27272605895996px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;font-size:19.09090805053711px;line-height:27.5px">"....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.</span><br>

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