You prove my point exactly. There is no need to bring in foreigners who will work for less and displace fully qualified Americans--unless it is to help business cut costs.
No, a lot of them are working at Home Depot or selling furniture or doing whatever else they have to do to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table. They've been doing that for several years since their IT and engineering job got outsourced overseas and they couldn't find another one in their specialty.
The President can call for all the technical students that he wants to. So long as we live in a world where an engineer in India makes 20% of an engineer in the U.S. then the U.S. worker will always be at a disadvantage. When companies can outsource overseas or bring in an unlimited number of cheaper replacements from overseas to compete with you then why should the U.S. student bother?
The method of counting unemployment is faulty. Get a grip.
Engineers who flip burgers are counted as employed while those who gave up on looking for job are not counted. The sample of people interviewed is skewed and not all unemployed receive unemployment benefits. Get a grip and open your eyes.
The "unemployment rate" is people claiming UI benefits. They fall off of that in 6 months or so.
This might help you to see where Bush is coming from:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48656
there are more high-tech jobs in America today than people available to fill them
Anyone over 45 or 50 need not apply, you are an idiot by definition.
It prooves ZERO.
Many fully qualified people are in jobs that do not make use of their skills. Jobs for technical folks have gotten scarce. You simply aren't watching for the employment ads that were once plentiful. I know. I am.