If you think price is high...

There is always an Indian willing to do it for less; no offence meant to any Indians but that is just the way it is.  Plus the USA is allowing Indians to replace IT workers through the H-1B visa programme.

That's correct. It's all about the living expenses. 

Indians are leading in technology if your not aware of that !

As Satya nadella Ceo Microsoft and the list is long ...

No they are not.  I am wondering if the increasing number of hacks in US companies is due to the fact that Indians are replacing USA IT workers through the H-1B visa programme.  By the way, these companies are forcing the displaced workers to train the Indians when they come in; so if their skills levels are so f-ing great, then why would the workers getting sacked have to train the Indians that are coming in?

You might want to read this article:

https://medium.com/@CodeTheDevil/busting-ola-wallet-1ceea6174b1f

I don't think it's fair to generalize that USA programmers are better than those in other countries.  It might be fair to say that, on average, USA kids have had better opportunities to learn programming than kids from less developed countries (and there are lots of places in India that are far better off than places in USA so there is no clear divide). 

BTW, I've heard Canadian programmers have a "good" reputation and many of my friends have been hired by companies in the USA... but I'd never say that Canadian programmers are better than those from another country.  :-)

Canada has a law that is suppose to keep Canadian workers from being displaced by foreign workers yet they are experiencing the same thing as in the US; I have Canadian friends and I read the news on the internet. I also know some Indians as well.

Of course India is known for one thing above many countries, it is the rape capital of the world.

It is not about who is better. It is about cost. Sadly, in the USA, CEO's are not dedicated to a particular country or people. Matter of fact, they will unethically circumvent the laws to benefit their bottom line dollars. They do this while pressuring lower levels to increase productivity. Can you say happy workers? Great working environment? So it is not about the people or their knowledge, it is about cost at the expense of productivity. IMHO, there are excellent programmers from many different countries. On a daily basis, I need to speak with programmers. Like many others, I can find it difficult dealing with the language/cultural barriers. I can only expect that this would inhibit an employee to make that phone call and resolving the issue at hand. Unfortunately, the ones sitting in the Ivory Towers are out of touch.

I've worked for companies that have used programming teams from other "cheap rates" countries and talked to other project managers about their experiences with using "off shore" developers.  We all found that in most cases it's doesn't work very well, especially during the first 18 months.  Projects have to be well thought out and programming tasks done in a different time-zone need to be very well defined with clear input and output parameters.  As one project manager told me, paying programmers half a world away half as much to do work that takes twice as much time to manage and ends up taking twice as much time to complete is not effective.

@Itsawhiz, agree with much of what you say... too often greed (both seller and buyer) has forced smaller highly creative companies to struggle and either disappear or merge with large corporations that have become global thinking in order to squeeze the world's "cheap" resources to maximize their profits. 

Weird !

i wrote then i delete..its waste of time..