Posted on 01/28/2006 9:28:18 AM PST by Willie Green
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Did I miss something, or is Wal-Mart trading at $47?
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Joe Cowan, president and chief executive of Cowan Systems LLC in Halethorpe, said he would hire at least 30 drivers for his trucking company at "$50,000-plus salaries," but he can't find any.
A quarter of the Restaurant Association of Maryland's members say labor issues such as finding good workers are their primary concern. A quarter of the state's small businesses have job openings, an increasing share, according to the latest poll by the National Federation of Independent Business's NFIB Research Foundation.
Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, which every year creates about 500 jobs and hires about 2,000 workers, is dealing with shortages on both ends of the spectrum of needed skills: pharmacists and other highly trained personnel on the one hand, and jobs such as cooks and laboratory technicians on the other.
"The demand is outstripping the supply much more now than it did five years ago, 10 years ago," said Pamela Paulk, vice president of human resources at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System.
Of course, Japanese engineers make good money, so these companies won't bother. It's just a matter of wanting to pay less, not a lack of skilled people.
The economies (sic) is not a zero sum game. But it's not self-rising yeast either. Empires rise and they fall.
If these companies really needed a larger pool of skilled workers, including many world-class engineers, they could extend their recruiting from China and India to also Japan, which has a large number of them.
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Big Government prevents companies from doing this. The total number of V1 (I think) or H1 visas sold out in the first 4 months of this year.
So, by blocking skilled workers from coming here, governent is encouraging outsourcing, costing Americans jobs and tax money.
Strange, considering many people who are opposed to having skilled workers come here say they do it to 'save' Americans jobs. The opposite of their intentions is the result (as often is the case when government is used for 'social management').
I know what some of these long haul truckers do hr. wise. You figure their wages up door step to door step and they are working for chump change. Little time at home. Trucking outfits that pay a decent wage get drivers. Those who want slaves don't. Simple as that. Just another excuse to bring in Mexican drivers. (who you don't want to share the road with).
So, by blocking skilled workers from coming here, governent is encouraging outsourcing, costing Americans jobs and tax money.
We have skilled workers with families who do not want to compete with skilled workers from other countries who live in efficiency apartments and live very well compared to the economic environs they come from. Taking a forty percent pay cut so some greedy damn corporation can make you compete with these foreigners just does not make sense. I guess if you continually sell the American worker short you will get what you want, a second class society.
There's a simple solution. Let the Department of Labor set the immigration quotas based on job skills.
Boom times, jobs are plentiful? Open the doors (but you leave your fingerprints, retinal scan and a DNA sample when you come through the door, thank you very much.) Recession, jobs are scarce? Sorry, no more immigration until things pick up. That's life.
There's another factor here, also. Why should anyone bust their hump at a menial job when welfare benefits are so generous? Go on the dole, work a little 'under the table' and spend your carefree days sleeping, fishing, watching TV, surfing the 'net, making babies, etc. etc.
For 200 years this country prospered without Free Trade agreements with third world countries. Now all of a sudden our economy will collapse without them, give me a break. Only the honest globalists/Free Traders will admit it's about that large pool of cheap labor corporations want to tap, nothing else.
The irony of someone with your nic making that comment is too juicy to pass up. LOL
Well, it looks like George W. Bush eliminated the worker surplus. And the elite liberals don't like it!
I don't have any problem with free trade, provided we're only talking about goods and services and capital, not labor.
Well, it looks like George W. Bush eliminated the worker surplus. And the elite liberals don't like it!
Looks like George W. Bush swung the damn gate open and a lot of conservatives don't like that either. Cept the ones who are making substantial gains at their countries expense. Pay attention!!! There are some major changes in the process. The seive like immigration policy is already being taken to task.
Japan didn't suddenly start producing cars in the US because we opened our borders to them to dump on our markets without penalty while they protected theirs. That's exactly what these so-called Free Trade agreements are doing today. They're being setup solely for the benefit of large corporations.
This is by far one of the most misleading (if not completely mendacious) statement I've seen on this topic in quite some time. "According to mainstream economic theory"? Commodities go through long term shortages and surpluses all the time.
Uh, labor is a "service."
Explain every Japanese, German, South Korean, etc. auto plant built in the U.S. in the last twenty years or so in the absence of "anti-dumping" policies.
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