Posted on 04/12/2010 5:57:25 AM PDT by opentalk
The Department of Homeland Security has just reported that during 2009, they issued 1,130,818 new Green Cards to foreign nationals, allowing them to work legally in this country. That number represents the fourth highest number of cards issued in one year.
750,000 of the new Green Cards were given to the families of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents.
The top four recipient nations are as follows:
-Mexico…164,920
-China…receiving 64,238
-Philippines…60,029
-India…57,304
In Feb. 2009, the financial institution Merrill Lynch announced that the nation’s actual unemployment rate had reached 13.9 percent. A year later, that number had risen to 17.3 percent. This figure represents Americans who have been laid off from full-time positions and are now working part-time, as well as those who have simply stopped looking for work, and workers whose unemployment benefits have run out.
The official unemployment figure given monthly by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is now listed around 10 percent, but represents only those Americans currently receiving unemployment checks, and is not truly indicative of the dire employment situation now facing the U.S.
In 1931, the second full year of the Great Depression, the average rate of unemployment was 16.3 percent, with U.S. unemployment peaking at 25 percent in 1933. We now sit in between those two disastrous figures, with an ever-worsening economy.
With U.S. unemployment now at depression levels, we simply can no longer tolerate not only illegal immigration, but any immigration which allows foreign nationals to take much-needed jobs from American citizens.
Why are we paying the salaries of elected representatives who now seem to represent everyone, but us?
Straight out of Das Kapital.
Getting ready for Election 2010. Am not sure how we fight the illigitimate ballot box; thinking back to Black Panther’s threatening voters - and Holder dropping case. They have the power; somehow; we must wrest it back.
Correct, Karl Marx was a free trader.
Borders mean something.
--Karl Marx
I take it you are a big fan of Mr. Marx?
I take it you failed reading comprehension?
Open border One World Type. Socialism for Capitalism is your motto. Anything for a buck, who cares if my fellow Americans are screwed.
Marx was a free trader? He wouldn’t agree with you there. He’d agree with just about everything else you said, though.
Hey, I’m not the one saying supply and demand only works for employers.
Help me follow your reasoning: Karl Marx believed free trade would destroy the economy, you believe free trade will destroy the economy. I believe free trade will not destroy the economy, I am a free trader . . . how does that make me a Marxist?
I have never seen any of you H1-B cowboys ever justify the program except as some bogus worker shortage stopgape. F - off. Look around, the shortage is over.
good point and true.
Hey . . . all I did was state the fact that H1 visas make people eligible to apply for a green card. Think I care that it gives you hotflashes, old woman?
Yeah, like in post #2, who cares if there are tens of millions of Americans out of work...Lets bring in one million more to take American jobs.
For those that find this too complex, or feel keeping millions out of this country to too mean, I suggest they move their drool cups closer to their mouths.
Yeah, skilled workers and entrepreneurs don’t add any value to the economy. Marx would agree with you there, too.
Yes, Marx would like the fact you are willing to cut the economic throats of your countrymen. Me, he wouldn’t like so much, I won’t sell my countrymen out, actually I pledged to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic for them. I have finished talking with traitors, economic or otherwise. I need a shower now.
That Marx quote has tripped-up dozens over the years I’ve been on FR. Never fails to crack me up: someone who agrees with Marx’s premise using that premise to prove that someone who does not agree with the premise is a Marxist.
Great. Send me that Confederate Naval Jack. I've always wanted one, and clearly you don't need yours.
It’s OK if they tailor their cooking and waiting style to American tastes. A good cook is a good cook, and a good waiter is a good waiter. The cooks need to cut back on the hot stuff and the waiters need to slow down to a more relaxed pace. IMO.
Answer the following question and I will continue with this;
Do you personally benefit directly from the H1-B program? As a lawyer, recruiter or employer of H1-B visa holders?
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