"I agree. Aren't people like JasonC, Rush Limbaugh, Hannity, WSJ gang, etc. really telling us that Americans are not smart enough, don't make the right decisions and in general not as industrious as these foreigners?"
There is a constant undermining of not only confidence, but institutions. I was told things two, three decades ago that I thought nutty, but I'm beginning to see the fruit of all this and I'm sorry that I didn't take it seriously.
The great "levelling" of our society is unstoppable. This country had to be taken down at all levels since the rest of the world could not be brought up to our standard of living.
OK, what the immigration policy of an elitist, then?
Exactly.
Astute observation. We're living through the end of the kind of society that Ayn Rand described in Atlas Shrugged.
The people who create things, produce things, or just plain make things work - are the enemies of the non-producing socialists who control the reins of government and big business. This bunch of counter-productive socialists also includes the RINO neo-cons who, (according to Irving Crystol, who coined the "neo-con" label), were liberals who had become disenchanted with the more extreme Democrat liberals in the late '60s and '70s, so they moved into the Republican party and took it over.
Now the Republican and Democrat parties are both controlled by liberals with only minor differences on foreign policy. The liberals of both parties are anti-American, pro-socialist, and uniformly globalist.
Outsourcing and the importing of H-1B workers haven't affected the incomes of many Education majors, or Sociology, or Psychology, or History majors, or students of any of that other fluff. Most of these people don't create anything, or produce anything, they don't fix anything, and they could't make anything work if their life depended on it. But they dominate the management ranks of government and corporations, and they dominate the political ranks in both major parties. They decide who gets hired, who gets fired, and who gets replaced with foreigners, who gets taxed the most for the least, and who benefits from monsterous government and bureaucracy, and who gets crushed.
The primary targets of outsourcing and the importing of H-1B visa workers have been Computer Science, Business, Engineering, and technical professionals who create stuff and make stuff work, and on down to the workers and supervisors on the shop floors.
Academia and government are exempt from caps on H-1B visas. They can, and do, bring in many thousands that are not even counted in the official reports. They don't care how many come in, because they have ever-expanding budgets, and they can "create" whole new bureaucracies to absorb as many guest workers and immigrants as can get in the country. Corporate managers don't care that nothing works, so long as their salaries and bonuses benefit from the cheaper labor. The IRS suspects they are losing billions of dollars from H-1B fraud, but has decided it is easier to clamp down harder on American citizens to make up for their shortfalls.
It is just like the train-wreck scene, in living color.