It is perfectly sensible to oppose non-enforcement of the border with Mexico, assimilation problems, insist on legality etc. It is marginally understandable to oppose lots of unskilled workers. But opposing imports of genuises is stark raving mad.
You left one word out of that statement. The jobs and the captial will go where they can get the cheaper talent. That is the overriding issue in all this, not the lack of adequate local talent. Not lack of competent U.S. engineers or well-trained and motivated U.S. programmers. There is not, nor has there been for some time a lack of qualified U.S. applicants in virtually all the situations. It is the salary differential that is the difference. Why should the U.S. company pay the going rate for a talented and experienced U.S. engineer or IT professional when they can bring in a H-1B for less or outsource it to a foreign country entirely for even less than the H-1B? And why should a U.S. student bust their hump for four or five or six years only to join a profession that's racing towards the bottom in terms of compensation?
Great. Then let the Federal Government outsource what we are doing in Iraq and around the world to be the world's policeman.
The American military, paid for by the American taxpayer, provides a lot of stablility in the world.
What exactly are American soldiers fighting for if we live in such a "global world" that the American middle class is being made to compete with cheap foreign labor and large corporations that used to hire Americans are now global?
Myself, I'd tie foreign trade to human rights. China sure wouldn't have most favored nation status until you could preach the gospel and hold church services in your home without getting thrown in jail for it.
Although one problem with my idea is that women don't have much in the way of rights in most middle east countries, so there would be a problem if we did't buy oil from them until their women had the same rights as our women...
I am sure the American politicians are bought and paid for by big business on these issues, but I have a real problem with seeing Americans that are willing and able to work having to compete with much cheaper foreign labor from nations that do not support basic human rights and don't do much to support world stability.
Let these foreign geniuses serve two years in the American military as part of the deal.
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I sincerely doubt your analysis. If the talent in question stays in China or India or Brazil, do you think Microsoft and Citicorp are going to refrain from hiring them? They aren't you know. They are just going to open a branch in China or India or Brazil. The jobs and capital go where they can get the talent. You can't stop it, it is a law of nature. You can however make the talent as mobile as the capital, and have it happen here with our tax base benefiting.
It is perfectly sensible to oppose non-enforcement of the border with Mexico, assimilation problems, insist on legality etc. It is marginally understandable to oppose lots of unskilled workers. But opposing imports of genuises is stark raving mad.
ROTFLMAO
But opposing imports of genuises is stark raving mad.