I know people with PhDs in the math and sciences who are desperate in their search for jobs. It’s not that we don’t graduate these kinds of students; it’s that companies view them as radioactive to hire, as they actually have the nerve to expect a fair wage. Go to Bellevue, WA and see what Bill Gates did. He only hires foreign PhDs, who are willing to work for a green card & minimum wage. If you want more info on this tomorrow, I’ll get it to you.
That said.....people are conveniently forgetting the reason why US colleges have been so generous with student visas. It is not to make them citizens or anything like that. The original reason for granting general foreign student visas was simple: to expose students to free market capitalism, a constitutional republic, carried out in democratic ways. It was SUPPOSED to be something they learned and took back to their home countries, in order to enact peaceful change to totalitarian and feudal governments.
And I honestly don’t know how many times I have to say this around here. But Obama’s “motto” for running this country is:
“I’m gonna get ‘even’ with you bastards”
That’s it.
He is going to do as much damage, as fast as he can, putting in place as many statutory IEDs as he is able to, while he still has the power to do so.
This is why I continue to warn my fellow FReepers to not dig their heels in. We all have our own candidates in 2012 that we like. But those who promise to stay home and not vote if their candidate is not “the one” are committing treason, IMO.
Every single candidate who is in, and even among those who have dropped out are better than the current occupant of the White Hut.
My daughter was classmates to a nice young man and his girlfriend who got married soon after he graduated from CMU, as well qualified as any graduate from India, but he had a very tough time getting a job whereas his Indian classmates all got multiple offers. Go figure.