John Dvorak has written an interesting column on Rajendrasinh B. Makwana. It's a little bit Xenophobic, a little bit protectionist and it also makes some good points that I've often wondered about.

When this story broke, I wondered why FNMA would hire H1-B contractors. I can understand HP or Intel to some extent. But FNMA is not doing anything that average U.S. programmers cannot do. What special skills did Makwana have? Perhaps his best skill was his pay rate?

I guess our own government is willing to "go foreign" in order to avoid U.S. wages? That certainly gives me warm and fuzzy feelings. Particularly since my tax dollars and your tax dollars are being delivered to this outfit by the trainload full.

Does make one think...