“Does anyone believe there are 100,000 unemployed American IT people out there who are ready to take all those jobs mentioned in the article? “
Yes, there are.
“Anyone who has dealt with recent U.S. college graduates will tell you that this country simply can’t educate enough capable, responsible people to keep our economy running on all cylinders. “
As a professor, I know we have the people. To say otherwise is insulting to Americans and showing stupidity far greater than the people you are trying to insult.
You have three candidates for an open position: an American, an immigrant from Asia, and an immigrant from South America.
1. Which of the three is most likely to fail your drug test?
2. Which of the three is most likely to have a college degree that cost $150,000 and didn't teach him much of anything?
These aren't insults. This is the reality I faced for years as a senior manager in a STEM field. I knew this country was facing a disaster when I looked at those three hypothetical candidates above and found myself asking a third question that was about as pathetic as it gets:
3. Which of the three can write most coherently in the ENGLISH language?
Even Debbie Does Schultz had to go to Pakistan and the Imrans for IT for the DNC.
“As a professor, I know we have the people. To say otherwise is insulting to Americans and showing stupidity far greater than the people you are trying to insult.”
Amen!
“Does anyone believe there are 100,000 unemployed American IT people out there who are ready to take all those jobs mentioned in the article? “
Yes, there are.
“Anyone who has dealt with recent U.S. college graduates will tell you that this country simply can’t educate enough capable, responsible people to keep our economy running on all cylinders. “
As a professor, I know we have the people. To say otherwise is insulting to Americans and showing stupidity far greater than the people you are trying to insult.
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Thank you so much for challenging the misinformation that continues to be posted...
For anyone following this issue,
1. They must have forgotten that Disney IT workers as well as COM Ed and others had to retrain cheap labor replacements...
2. It is not just new grads who are facing cheap labor hiring preference (I am sure you are aware of the Oracle lawsuit).
3. There are many older tech workers who have been replaced by cheap H-1B Visa workers from mainly India but also China. They are not even counted in the numbers because they have been looking for work for YEARS.
I am well aware of the full spectrum of this issue as it relates to US workers as I have 4 STEM graduates/workers in my nuclear family who have been impacted competing for seats in US-tax-supported payer universities (Univ. of IL/China), grad assistantships, Silicon Valley wages, and older displaced worker competing against cheap labor and ageism...
Ironically, I suspect all those cheering the increasing of cheap labor are also Freepers who endorsed tariffs to protect steel workers’ and coal workers’ jobs...in the name of national security. Sadly, they have no problem allowing endless supply of Indian and Chinese foreign workers take jobs and US intellectual property.
Seems to me that there are a lot of conflicts of interest regarding this issue. More importantly, it does not MAGA to allow job market to be flooded by cheap foreign labor until US workers have had chance to get up to bat.
Thanks again!