Posted on 02/15/2014 2:28:46 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In a global economy, investment follows talent. When we draw top talent to our shores, investment dollars follow because companies want to be near the best workers.
An infusion of capital and economic development will be a tide that lifts all boats, creating jobs and opportunity for all Americans.
But the reverse is also true. If companies can't find talent on U.S. soil, or if it becomes too costly and burdensome, they will move their operations elsewhere. It's in our own best interests to welcome the world's brightest minds and hardest workers into our economy.
Immigrants can help bridge a growing skills gap in science, technology, engineering and math - the so-called STEM fields that are vital to a modern, competitive economy.
More than half of the master's and doctoral students studying the natural sciences and engineering disciplines at U.S. colleges and universities are from foreign countries.
Meanwhile, the number of American students studying STEM disciplines is growing at less than 1 percent per year. By 2018, there will be 230,000 unfilled positions requiring advanced STEM degrees, even if every U.S. STEM grad finds a job.
Many of our fastest-growing industries require advanced skills and higher education beyond a bachelor's degree - 22 percent of new job openings through 2020 will require at least a master's degree.
Among all 25- to 34-year-olds living in the United States, 10.6 percent of those with masters, professional or doctoral degrees are foreign born, compared with 8.5 percent of native-born young people....
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The existing quotas of 1.2 million are too high. We don't need that many.
Productive immigrants only adds to the economy, they pay taxes, buy products and services and for every job they take, somewhere up or down the supply line, another job is created.
Check out the charts on my post #54. Legal immigrants use the welfare system to a higher degree than the native born. They are bankrupting our social safety net. 20% of legal immigrants lack even a high school degree. They use more in services than they contribute in taxes.
We just had our two highest decades of immigration in history. We have 20 million Americans unemployed or underemployed. Where are all the jobs these immigrants have created? Check out my post #60.
No one has a problem bringing in the best and the brightest by the hundreds or maybe thousands. But the vast majority of the 1.2 million legal immigrants who enter annually are not exceptional. In fact 20% are high school dropouts. Do we really need to import hundreds of thousands of high school dropouts annually?
And I said it was true, where? I read it and did think. Sure it has meaning for writing this article. Think.
I didn’t say that you said it was true. I asked the question, how can you say it is true which was intended as a rhetorical question, I apologize if I did not make myself clear.
“Among all 25- to 34-year-olds living in the United States, 10.6 percent of those with masters, professional or doctoral degrees are foreign born, compared with 8.5 percent of native-born young people....”
I still see no real meaning in this, it would seem to say that 8.5 percent of native born young people are actually foreign born which is of course impossible. First he says what percentage of a group is foreign born and then compares that to the percentage of native born young people. What is that supposed to mean? If he is trying to say that 8.5 percent of native born 25 to 34 year old people have advanced degrees that is apples to oranges, comparing the percentage of advanced degree holders who are foreign to the percentage of natives who are advanced degree holders is meaningless. If he means that 8.5 percent of advanced degree holders in that age range are native born then what are the other 80.9 percent of advanced degree holders in that age group, are they neither foreign nor native?
Did he in fact intend to write that 10.6 percent of the foreign born in that age range have advanced degrees? That would seem to allow a valid comparison but it is not what was written and I would not believe it anyway considering the number of low education illegal immigrants in this country, otherwise I see no valid comparison here of any kind, one may have been intended but it was certainly not written.
The only information I can glean from it without question is that it was written by an incompetent or very careless author and that author is apparently CEO of the United States Chamber of Commerce, a very frightening thought. I would not be surprised to learn that he is the sort who would respond to my criticism with an angry, “You know what I meant, don’t nitpick!” Actually I don’t know what he meant, I can only guess.
Others have posted to this thread pointing out the same errors I am attempting to point out.
I asked the question, how can you say it is true AND here you admit it,
which was intended as a rhetorical question,
And I was to know what you INTENDED to do? I don't mind read.
I apologize if I did not make myself clear.
You made yourself very clear. You simply failed to mentioned what was in your mind - be careful next time, FR isn't a mind-reading place.
You did rhw same thing!! You expected me to read your mind!
Others have posted to this thread pointing out the same errors I am attempting to point out.
Here you are pointing out errors when you did the SAME thing. It doesn't pay to be so self righteous as if you saw something no one else did. You ASSUME way too much! Next time 'check yourself' instead of being a busy body attempting to check others.
Do you freak out often?
Just when a self-righteous busybody needs to be put in place.
Suit yourself but there is still no discernible meaning to this,
“Among all 25- to 34-year-olds living in the United States, 10.6 percent of those with masters, professional or doctoral degrees are foreign born, compared with 8.5 percent of native-born young people....”
I suspect that your indignation springs primarily from having to admit that to yourself.
Have a good day.
“A steady flow of talented, industrious immigrants can fuel a booming economy”
What can a tidal wave of unskilled, shiftless immigrants do to an already stalled economy?
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