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Why Good Jobs Are Too Few, Wages So Poor
Real Clear Politics ^ | January 8, 2016 | By Peter Morici

Posted on 01/08/2016 8:58:02 AM PST by Hojczyk

The future lies in educating Americans, not to be angry about false injustice or an omnipresent state, but rather to build and teach the machines that will do the work that has burdened humanity since the first branch was shaped into a hunting implement.

Without young people trained and encouraged to do that sophisticated work, the locus of prosperity will permanently shift from America to Asia, where pragmatic leaders urge children to study engineering, not the superstitions peddled by pious academics and deceitful politicians.

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: 2fewskillworkersmyth; corporatewelfare; h1b
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To: jjotto
My mother told me years ago to avoid professions where women were making inroads because women accepted lower wages than they should.

She said it was international and the reason why doctor's in the USSR didn't have the prestige or income of American doctors. There were too many women in the profession in the USSR (medicine in Russia evolved out of midwifery?)

Anyhow salaries for members of the press started dropping coincidentally when women started flooding newsrooms... She had a long list of examples...

21 posted on 01/08/2016 10:08:28 AM PST by GOPJ (Hillary's a broccoli politician - Donald Trump's an all-you-can-eat donut truck. Glenn Thrush)
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To: 1rudeboy
No. Here.

This is my Johnson.

My Johnson is bigger than yours.


22 posted on 01/08/2016 10:08:57 AM PST by Lazamataz (If the Oregon occupiers are occupying a National Wildlife REFUGE, are they not now REFUGEES?)
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To: Lazamataz
If you claim him you are responsible for him. :)
23 posted on 01/08/2016 10:15:33 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: Hojczyk

Wages are not poor in the USA.

Medical (and housing costs) are excessive.

We need to change zoning law to make all land not industrial or commercially used residential at 4,000 square feet/acre at least.

Prime land say in DC or NYC land might be given cost/$60 square feet of allowed development by federal law. Prime land worth $1.2 million per acre would have 20,000 square feet per acre of allowed development.

We need to break up the hospitals and make them renters of real estate at say $16/square foot triple net. Need an operation? Then $2,000 for the surgeon, $1,000 for the gas guy/gal, $500 (payable to the doctor renting the space)for the operating room and its equipment.

For nursing care, $1,000/day until ambulatory, then $700/day, payable to the nursing union running the ward.

Drugs - patents and FDA approval conditioned so at most you pay what you would pay as a parent for a kid in college per month for all needed.


24 posted on 01/08/2016 10:18:08 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: DonaldC

I agree. Good point


25 posted on 01/08/2016 11:21:26 AM PST by RatRipper (The biggest threat to US national security is our government and those in it.)
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To: SMARTY; Hojczyk

RE:””...After pushing millions of unqualified students into universities through affirmative action and government loan programs, four in 10 graduates lack the complex reasoning skills needed for white-collar work, as it exists today...”

THIS is the real issue. I work at a university... and this observation cannot be TOO emphatically expressed.”

While this is a real problem, it does not explain experienced, proven, up to date Americans being replaced by ‘guest workers’ and off shoring.

However the desire for CHEAP labor does.

It does not explain record unemployment among those already experienced in IT.


26 posted on 01/08/2016 12:34:44 PM PST by khelus
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To: GOPJ
My mother told me years ago to avoid professions where women were making inroads because women accepted lower wages than they should.

That's so insightful. You were blessed with a very wise mother.


27 posted on 01/08/2016 2:05:54 PM PST by FourPeas (Chocolate, sugar and lots of caffeine. Hard to beat that.)
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To: facedown
Common Core has nothing to do with academic rigor.

Only in the sense of rigor mortis.

28 posted on 01/08/2016 4:31:22 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Lazamataz

Pissing on that man’s grave is on my bucket list.


29 posted on 01/08/2016 5:02:24 PM PST by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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To: Rashputin

You want to pee on my Big Johnson?

Kinky!


30 posted on 01/08/2016 5:06:12 PM PST by Lazamataz (If the Oregon occupiers are occupying a National Wildlife REFUGE, are they not now REFUGEES?)
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To: khelus

Well said.


31 posted on 01/08/2016 5:16:40 PM PST by dragonblustar
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To: Hojczyk

Ping


32 posted on 01/08/2016 5:30:30 PM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: Lazamataz

Dunno, what ya’ got it buried in ?


33 posted on 01/08/2016 7:19:18 PM PST by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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To: Rashputin

PVC pipe with oxygen removing packets.


34 posted on 01/08/2016 7:35:30 PM PST by Lazamataz (If the Oregon occupiers are occupying a National Wildlife REFUGE, are they not now REFUGEES?)
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To: central_va
Re: “Why would a student go into STEM when they graduate they have to compete with 125,000 imported H-1B visa scabs?”

Exactly.

But your number is low - at least 600,000 minimum are currently working in the USA.

H-1B Visas are automatically renewable for 6 years - thus, 85,000 X 6 = 510,000.

And, H-1Bs that work in universities, nonprofit labs, and government agencies do not count against the quota, and no one knows how many of them are working in the USA.

Plus, there are at least a half dozen different programs and exemptions that bring in more.

35 posted on 01/09/2016 12:53:30 PM PST by zeestephen
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