Posted on 07/27/2005 6:21:50 AM PDT by A. Pole
The June payroll jobs report did not receive much attention due to the July 4 holiday, but the depressing 21st century job performance of the U.S. economy continues unabated.
Only 144,000 private sector jobs were created, each one of which was in domestic services.
Fifty-six thousand jobs were created in professional and business services, about half of which are in administrative and waste services.
Thirty-eight thousand jobs were created in education and health services, almost all of which are in health care and social assistance.
Nineteen thousand jobs were created in leisure and hospitality, almost all of which are waitresses and bartenders.
Membership associations and organizations created 10,000 jobs, and repair and maintenance created 4,000 jobs.
Financial activities created 16,000 jobs.
This most certainly is not the labor market profile of a First World country, much less a superpower.
Where are the jobs for this year’s crop of engineering and science graduates?
U.S. manufacturing lost another 24,000 jobs in June. A country that doesn’t manufacture doesn’t need many engineers. And the few engineering jobs available go to foreigners.
Readers have sent me employment listings from U.S. software development firms. The listings are discriminatory against American citizens. One ad from a company in New Jersey that is a developer for many companies, including Oracle, specifies that the applicant must have a TN visa.
A TN or Trade NAFTA visa is what is given to Mexicans and Canadians who are willing to work in the United States at below prevailing wages.
Another ad from a software consulting company based in Omaha, Neb., specifies it wants software engineers who are H-1B transferees. What this means is that the firm is advertising for foreigners already in the United States who have H-1B work visas.
The reason the U.S. firms specify that they have employment opportunities only for foreigners who hold work visas is because the foreigners will work for less than the prevailing U.S. salary.
Gentle reader, when you read allegations that there is a shortage of engineers in America, necessitating the importation of foreigners to do the work, you are reading a bald-faced lie. If there were a shortage of American engineers, employers would not word their job listings to read that no American need apply and that they are offering jobs only to foreigners holding work visas.
What kind of country gives preference to foreigners over its own engineering graduates?
What kind of country destroys the job market for its own citizens?
How much longer will parents shell out $100,000 for a college education for a son or daughter who ends up employed as a bartender, waitress or temp?
A common myth. Foreign-born professionals are just as aggressive in negotiating competitive salaries as native-born.
Do you really think someone from India DOESN'T want to make $100,000 a year if he can?
"US corporations that are home grown have no allegiance to the US workers or the US in any way. "
And the free marketeers will tell you that's a good thing!
Bring up patriotism, or Christian values, and they will tell you you're behaving like a lib.
Odd, very odd.
The sky is falling.
I work in the software industry and that's not what these ads are saying. They want citizens OR these special visa. I have even seen ads that just want citizens only, because they do not want the visa hassles.
The mediocre and average, on the other hand...
And of course everyone here is from the first group.
The posts make that evident. ;-)
Do YOU really think he'll push for it before he gets more than his nose under tent?
For some reason they don't carry many of these goods in Walmart or anywhere else I shop. I have a hard time figuring out just what these American manufactured goods might be. If we make so much how come it is almost impossible to find anything American made to buy?
it has to do more with choice of career. When I went to engineering school, over half the students were foreign. Science and engineering are tough things to study and you will miss out on a lot of parties and socializing. I would say a lot of Americans students would rather have their fun instead.
So true. I'll know that all is right with the world, once again, when my attorney is waiting tables at my country club to make ends meet and solicit clients.
My dad's is an engineering consultant for various automotive industry companies. Finding well-trained workers with a good work ethic has always been a problem for the companies he has worked for. Everthing from welders to design engineers.
I know this is going to seem terribly old-fashioned, but there is still value in a diversified, rigorous liberal-arts background
I tend to agree. Pushing your kids into a highly specialized field doesn't seem like a great idea, IMO.
"Every time one of you pop off with your dithering anti-U.S. industry misreprentations, they are smiling widely in Bejing. You are very useful to them."
But, but, your facts don't fit with the dogma here.
Because the American consumer wants the cheapest software. Which video game would you buy for your kids, the $50 one or the $100 one?
He'll do it like everyone else in the work force. Start at entry level and work his way up.
If he's good enough to qualify for $100K a year he'll push for it.
I didn't start at $70k my first day out of college, either.
Really, sometimes the expectations people have...
You are right on point. Colleges have become social and party centers, not centers of higher education. Some of these universities look like frikkin resorts with all the amenities they've got. Cut the "fun" stuff out and I'll bet you'd bring down the cost as well.
There is a serious surge of demand for bullets due to the Iraq war. Bullet manufacturers in this country don't sit around with spare manufacturing capacity just in case a war breaks out. They manufacture enough bullets to meet standard demand. So, it only makes sense that in such a situation, we would need to turn to foreign manufacturers.
What would have been your solution? Government subsidies to bullet manufacturers to allow them to keep lots of unused manufacturing capacity, just in case?
Then it should be easy to find products made in the USA on the shelves of local stores, right?
"What kind of human being relishes sacrificing his fellow Americans to satisfy their own short sighted ideology?"
I didn't realize I gave the impression that I "relish" sacrificing anyone! And if expecting someone to give a day's work for a day's pay is a short-sighted ideology, I'm guilty. When I can hire a legal alien (especially those working diligently to learn English AND become citizens), I'll just continue to be short-sighted. Besides, who wants to bother those spoiled little Americans, just out of college, with their brains full of liberal mush...many of them are too busy wandering the malls and still trying "to find themselves".
My great-grandparents came over from Scotland, England, and Ireland with tremendous work ethics and without college degrees; is it too much to expects today's so-called well-educated graduates to work for their pay?
First redefining entry level salary, of course.
"but there is still value in a diversified, rigorous liberal-arts background"
Well you should hire this particular skill set and at the same time tell us the buildings that they will design so that we can avoid them.
Garbage can only design more garbage.
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