[Anti-American tech bias charges] Are American citizen tech workers discriminated against during layoffs? I'm not even going to begin to speculate on the legitimacy of this one, but I've heard this complaint from every laid-off American engineer I know since things started getting bad, so I thought it was interesting that it finally made print. Typical complaints are that H1-Bs drastically undercut American salary and hourly consulting expectations, but Sun Microsystems may have taken a more explicit strategy in their layoff decisionmaking process.

This is an interesting debate: Should the U.S. look out for its own when hard times hit, or is this just the unfortunate reality in free-market global capitalism?