[A. Pole]

"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?"

[NRA1995]

I think no small part of preferring foreign-born engineering graduates to home-grown is in their scholastic performance. Too many here are content to just squeak by on math and science.

[Uncle Miltie]

Ping!

(Just wanted to make your day, Willie.)

[Bertha Fanation]

How can the U.S. be third world when we produce so many intellegent, productive attorneys?

[herst1240]

Oh don’t worry, our savor Hillary Clinton will rescue us! She is superwomen, she can do anything and she will save the USA!

yeeeah right..

[KevinDavis]

More BS from Paul Craig Roberts..

[oldbrowser]

We represent five percent of the world's population and we have been living large for fifty years.

The rest of the world is catching up with us and we are going to have to compete for the lucrative jobs.

Before we only had to compete against other Americans, now we have to compete against the world.

Being born in this country gives us a huge advantage against others, but it is no longer a guarantee of success.

[sportutegrl]

Really. According to the WSJ, Higher-Paid Jobs Rise at Faster Clip Lower-Wage Sectors Trail For the First Time in Years, In Healthy Economic Sign By KRIS MAHER Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL July 12, 2005 In a sign of an improving U.S. job market, the growth of higher-paying hourly jobs is outpacing that of lower-paying jobs for the first time in nearly four years, according to an analysis of Labor Department data by the Economic Policy Institute. The Washington-based liberal economic think tank, which has bemoaned the dominance of low-paying jobs in recent years, compared year-over-year employment growth and wage data for nonmanagerial jobs in 20 private-sector industries. The analysis found that nine sectors expanding as a share of total employment paid about 3% more in average hourly wages than 11 sectors that were contracting in the first quarter. That marked the first time since the most recent recession that higher-wage jobs have grown faster as a share of total jobs. Link requires subscription.

[RAY]

Our multiculturalism leads the way to a third world existence!

[rvoitier]

Did someone say Banana Republic? He ought to take a look at Louisiana. We're already there.

Add to that our state budget increased by $1B this year to $18B+ where Haley Barber's Ms. is running on only $4B but pulling in a Fortune 100 company where our 'rat governor is talking to Cuba.

And to top it off, legislation was passed where the state can confiscate private land and resell it to 3rd parties. This has already been done with lakes being built as economic development. The lakes cost us La. taxpayers $40M but the land is being sold by friends of politicians. sigh

[hlmencken3]

http://www.asianlabour.org/archives/000247.php

...An initial study by Alliance found a decline of 16 million manufacturing jobs in China from 1995 through 2002. However a bit more intensive data mining revealed a total loss of 25 million, while an initial finding of a 2 million increase in manufacturing jobs in China since 1999 suddenly got transformed into a loss in every year since 1995. According to Alliance's head researcher Joe Carson "All of China's 28 industry categories showed losses between 1995 and 2002. ... Only two industries - garments and electrical and telecom equipment - experienced positive job growth since 1999...

[dennisw]

good post!!

[Modernman]

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.

Sigh. This old canard. We manufacture more than we ever have. The problem is, manufacturing has gotten so efficient that it doesn't need all that many workers. There's really nothing that can be done about that. A couple of decades from now, most manufacturing will probably be completely automated.

[DTogo]

Spot-on article.

[IamConservative]

Only 144,000 private sector jobs were created, each one of which was in domestic services.

I work at a technology company of 300 employees. We added approximately 30 high tech jobs in Q2. We are back to not being able to find qualified candidates. Hillary must be the ghost writer in this article.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Is Jimmy Carter President again?

[Casloy]

The sky is falling.

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

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.

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.

[colorado tanker]

5% unemployment, 4% economic growth, continued strong growth in personal income, the best economy and wealthiest people in the world. People from other countries willing to risk death to come here to clean our toilets.

The horror . . . . How did we come to this???

[DoctorMichael]

At the moment, I am attempting to remain optimistic. However, I am edging towards your way of thinking and criticism of current economic policies.