There isn't enough Americans in our science and technology graduate schools because they are not allowed in. Take a look at any engineering or computer science department at any of the Cal State, UC or private university in this state and tell me if you hear the English language spoken. Call a UC extension program and just try to enroll in a high tech course when you don't have an H1-B or L-1 visa -- which they now ask for -- and then listen to the silence on the line before they tell you they're not equipped to process your application at this time.
The low paid manufacturing jobs are filled by illegal.
The payoff for having aborted our way to prosperity in the 70s and 80s. Those millions of aborted fetuses would now be the 20-somethings who would be manning the very jobs now taken by illegals.
Sadly, we may have to have another recession to get the message. I hope not.
Sadly, another recession will not matter to the multi-national mega-corporations whose market is world-wide. And there are plenty of bright young people out there who could do the high tech work and are not unwilling to get their hands dirty in the fields or on the assembly lines. They don't even get the chance anymore.
Carly Fiorina -- CEO of Hewlett Packard -- glibly announced to the world that Americans don't have any right to jobs, or anything else for that matter. And nobody paid any mind to it.
I just wonder what the dead Americans who fell to defend the country over the last two centuries would think about Ms. Fiorina's opinions about what rights Americans don't have.
Point to remember!
Probably that Ms. Fiorina is forfeiting her rights to live and do business in this country.
Well taking into account that they were revolutionaries soldiers, I have a feeling what they would have to say would be neither politically correct, nor civil. They would probably say something akin to, "Grab your guns cause it's time for a major house cleaning."