They only need a few million more H1B1 slaves a year to compete with India and China. I heard that myself from Mark Zuckerberg. ‘We just don’t have qualified, as in people who will work for 80 hours a week for 2/3rds the normal pay for 40 hours and be afraid to leave or complain for fear of being sent back to Calcutta or Chongqing, programmers and professionals to remain competitive.’
This is a contrived shortage to try to force “comprehensive immigration reform” with its sharp increase in the number of H-1B visas. In other words, continued wage suppression for American STEM workers. I’m speaking as someone who spent a 35 year career in manufacturing and engineering and witnessed a lot of dirty dealing.
Remind us again how many jobs the emergency 2009 Porkulus trillion dollars was supposed to create or save. How did that work out?
STEM is an acronym referring to the academic disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Why do we need more when we have more than can fill the jobs we have or are likely to have in the coming years? We even import them from overseas. The laws of supply and demand will make those degrees less lucrative. We need more manufacturing jobs in heavy industry. We cannot survive as a nation on a service economy...................
I will use this as an illustration.
My company had an opening for a summer intern. The majority of those who applied had already graduated, some up to two years ago, in engineering.
Yet we keep importing more and more H1B’s.
Sorry, we have way to many in the STEM fields here to be doing that, but it is what the companies want. New engineers (who can find jobs, a majority can not) are working for less than I started at in 1998. They also have hundreds of thousands more in debt that I ever did.
In a forum that discusses employee concerns at a large US high-tech employer where I once worked, a manger described how they were coached by the company’s legal consultants to create a bogus employment posting containing a job description that is based entirely on the education and resume of a selected foreign national that the manager wants to hire. In this way there is only one person can possibly meet the job requirements. HR would then provide the paperwork to the government to prove that since on one else applied for the job the employer is forced to hire the foreign national.
Based on my experience, I believe this account to be accurate.
It’s embarrassing for our educational institutions to teach things that require raw genetic intellectual capacity. You can’t fake it. It goes against the liberal redistribution of “opportunity”.
Any enlightening comments/rants, Grampa Dave???