If you have a shortage of workers in a field such as information technology or science and mathematics. wages go up. do they not? If wages are not up and are basically down since 1999. I think the case for our freemarket friends is pretty clearwe dont have a shortage. So rich hightech companies are using the HlB visa program to keep wages down and to hire less expensive workers from abroad. Indeed. the same companies demanding more guest workers are laying off American workers in droves. I would like to read some excerpts from that oped published in USA TODAY.