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Students, graduates swarm BYU job fair

There are many people in Mexico that go to work for the drug cartels when they are short on cash. Apparently there are many BYU students that don't seem to have any moral reservations about going to work for the IRS. Well, I guess I should have expected as much. Unfortunately too many students have relied on welfare to fund their education rather than working or serving in the military. If I did to my fellow man what the IRS does, I would be thrown into prison. Two wolves and a sheep gathered around a campfire to decide what is for dinner, hope you like lamb chops. I am so happy that these students could put their education to use for the betterment of society. I can't wait to tell the school where my money went the next time they solicit me for a donation.

Judging from the guy I had to interview with during my one IRS audit - I think a BYU grad could do much to help improve the face of the IRS. BYU grads would be a welcome relief and benefit to any business. This is one of the very few universities where honesty is still taught to be a desirable virtue. I just hope moving out into the world doesn't change that in a recruit.

Just because they mentioned that the IRS is hiring doesn't mean every person at the job fair was at their booth applying.

It's a little harsh to say that these college students are funding their educations off of welfare, don't you think? Everyone is in a different situation and if they are trying to better that situation by getting an education then good for them.

Mr Frederic Bastiat! I thought you were long since dead. Maybe you shoul dgo back and read your own book, "The Law" because you obviously must not fully understand what it is that you wrote.

The first poster's crtisim comes from his failed understanding of Frederic Bastiat's "The Law." He needs to go back and reread the book and more fully understand what it is the author is saying. Because the author would not critize the IRS, although he would heavily critize the congress.

It is time someone went back to school.

No worries. The economy will recover right after President Obama and congress bankrupt the government.

Frederick Bastiat's the law and Economic Sophisms are excellent books. I recommend them to all.

Intermountain Healthcare (IHC) hires a majority of its IT staff from India. I worked there (Lake Park Facility in West Valley) and you would have thought you were in India. Every team was loaded with programmers from India who spoke broken (if any) english and who were here on 3 year work visa's. IHC does this because they can pay their staff less and then have the big wigs at the top pocket the savings. The bottom line here is that IHC - a BIG employer - could and should be hiring Utah and US citizens for these jobs. Someone needs to bring this to the attention of the media and expose IHC for this cheap, unfair practice.

IHC should not be made to change their 'cheap, unfair practice.' The only correct adjective in that line is cheap. That is precisely why they hire foreign workers, because it is cheaper for the company to do so. Suggesting that hiring a foreign worker is wrong or immoral is completely unfair and short sighted. The United States is an importer of skilled-laborers in many fields requiring science and engineering. There simply aren't enough graduates in those areas to fill all of the positions available. Even if there were, companies would hire foreign workers because they can hire them at lower wages. Also, to suggest that the presence of foreign workers (especially high-skilled workers) hurts the American economy is absurd. How do you think the bottom line of IHC would be if they were forced to hire Americans for every position?
The point is, if you don't want IHC to hire foreign workers, compete with them. Do the job they do at the salary they do, and I'm sure IHC will be happy to take you on.

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With your line of thinking, ALL hi-tech jobs in Utah should be exported to India leaving the thousands of talented Utah resident programmers working at Wall-mart. The point you don't seem to understand here is UTAH CAN'T compete with India or China and never will be able to. Indian programmers typically work for 15k per year in India and when they come here they will gladly work for 50% less than the going rate for a normal Utah resident and then after they have made their money they take their experience and money and head back to the home land. How do you compete with that? Are you suggesting companies in Utah lower their wages to meet the Indian standard? The Utah economy would collapse with that idiocracy unless you likewise reduce homes , cars , etc... accordingly. Also, you suggest that there are more jobs than can be filled by companies so they are forced to go to India. Well that is obviously NOT the case in the hi-tech industry. Finally, what are these Indian folks contributing to Utah in any lasting way? NOTHING!! This is simply a money grab for them.

I wish I'd known about this event.

For all but the last 7 years, I've been a software engineer since graduating from BYU in 1982. After the "dot.com" bust of 2001, work was so tight I decided to attempt early retirement. I was able to do OK living on my investments until a year ago. Like so many others, after peaking in Oct. 2007, I stayed too long at the party and got knocked down more than 50%. So, like so many others, I’m now desperately seeking a job to keep me afloat.

As a 58 year-old who hasn't done any software engineering in 7 years, I doubt I would have competed any better among the many recent college grads than I have for the last four months in the general job market. But, I would have been there to make the attempt.

I hope this is more widely publicized next time.

I guess Tom at IRS has never heard of Customs. From 1789 to the creation of IRS in the 1930's Customs was the only revenue generating agency in the entire Gov't. Doesn't sound like he knows much about how the US was funded before IRS. Maybe he needs to go back to school.