What you propose would, more than anything else, kill American business. There are simply not enough skilled workers to fill the positions that need to be filled. I don’t see why businesses shouldn’t be able to hire folks who are willing to come to America to make a living and work for them.
As for global competition, there are things like medical tourism. People will go where they can get the best deal for their money. Unless you are willing to curtail american freedom to travel and conduct business abroad, then you are going to deal with foreign competition.
I believe the American worker can and will be competitive with anyone. I don’t believe that he needs a tariff which will stifle American businesses more than anything else, and reward uncompetitive union firms with our dollars.
America is not doing all she can do to bring about a competitive business environment. It makes no sense to complain about being uncompetitive, while at the same time, a minority of states are right to work. Fix the red tape, fix the bloated bureaucracy, and you’ll see what the American worker is capable. That is what is killing America right now.
Blessings,
Sean
read post #23
if you want American’s to compete more efficiently, then it can be done by improving the people we have, not by undermining them and their families by bringing in cheaper replacements from whatever third world country can provide labor.
funny how these globalists never demand improved American employees
holding Americans to higher standards should definitely be done. going after the schools and demanding they answer for their inability to provide quality employees should be the attack by employers. unfortunately, business is being disingenuous.
using the IT sector as an example, there were 5m Americans in the industry in 2000. the claims were that there were not enough people in the US with the skills needed to do the job. if that were the case, you would expect those 5m people would continue being employed and the visas would work along side them.
unfortunately, that wasn’t even close to the truth. instead, the visas were used to bring people into the US, train up, and ship home to staff shops in other countries. exactly why is there any need for visas in the IT sector these days, as the number of Americans in the IT sector dropped to 1.5m... that implies 3.5m people are available, either immediately or after a short period of training, to staff any open positions new visas are supposed to cover.