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MARCO RUBIO BLAMES THE VICTIMS: FOREIGN TECH WORKERS MORE QUALIFIED THAN AMERICANS
Breitbart ^ | October 29, 2015 | Julia Hahn

Posted on 10/30/2015 6:38:02 PM PDT by thetallguy24

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)79% told a nationwide audience in Wednesday’s CNBC Republican presidential debate that companies are importing foreign graduates because American college grads just can’t do the work.

The claim came when CNBC’s John Hardwood asked Rubio if he was undercutting American professionals by supporting a bill to let companies import more foreign temporary H-1B “guest workers” for white-collar jobs. Rubio evaded the question by blaming Americans’ supposed lack of skills.

“We need to get back to training people in this country to do the jobs of the 21st century… The best way to close this gap is to modernize higher education so Americans have the skills for those jobs,” Rubio claimed. The “ideal scenario is to train Americans to do the work, so we don’t have to rely on people from abroad,” Rubio declared.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnestypimp; amnestywhore; border; cannedbeans; cannedspeeches; cannedtuna; fraud; gangof8; gop; holdonnow; immigration; president; sellout
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To: thetallguy24
MARCO RUBIO BLAMES THE VICTIMS: FOREIGN TECH WORKERS MORE QUALIFIED THAN AMERICANS

I certainly hope this communist pissant makes this his campaign slogan.
If not, we should. Every day, every venue.

61 posted on 10/30/2015 11:01:16 PM PDT by meadsjn
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To: Parley Baer

Exactly, and he has to be called out on this. With conviction.


62 posted on 10/30/2015 11:03:27 PM PDT by biff
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To: thetallguy24

This amnesty whore is getting his. Screw all the rest of you.


63 posted on 10/30/2015 11:04:04 PM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: glabbe
Sorry, but Rubio is correct. Go to any university or college and visit the different departments. The math, science, and computer science departments will be half filled with foreign student. American student can be found in great numbers in the history, literature, social science, and the African-american studies departments. American students don’t want to do the hard work that it takes to get a technical degree. And that is the truth.

This article and discussion is not about those students in other fields. It is about Americans with STEM degrees, compared to foreigners with similar degrees.

64 posted on 10/30/2015 11:21:36 PM PDT by meadsjn
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To: glabbe

Then why do we graduate twice as many Americans with STEM degrees each year than find STEM jobs?

The reason so many foreign students are in the US now is because A) Our universities are held in high regard, and B)Our universities recruit foreign students for the higher tuition they pay.


65 posted on 10/30/2015 11:27:13 PM PDT by Paul R.
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To: JediJones
"Bonnie Dunbar, director of the University of Houston STEM Center, said she continues to see a STEM labor shortage, attributable in part to poor math course offerings by inner-city high schools. Many students, she said, don’t think they need math classes. Others don’t become interested in STEM occupations until later in their academic careers, when they’re far behind on needed coursework."

You'll notice Dunbar referenced the shortcomings of inner-city high schools and students. And she made no mention of the many American citizens who have successfully completed the academic requirements for STEM degrees, and are highly competent in their fields.

One of the liberal complaints against the STEM sector has for years been that those fields are overwhelmingly (i.e. disproportionately) dominated by white males. That has been (or was previously) a function of academic and career choice and ability, rather than any racist or sexist plot.

However, to liberals, the disproportionate white male dominance in these previously high-paying fields was some sort of crime or social injustice that had to be "fixed". H1B visas is the fix.

66 posted on 10/30/2015 11:43:55 PM PDT by meadsjn
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To: Auntie Dem

Why are you attacking jennychase? She(?) points out an aspect of fraud in the system, and you ridicule her grammar? Or is it more than that... (doh!)


67 posted on 10/30/2015 11:47:25 PM PDT by Paul R.
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To: thetallguy24




68 posted on 10/30/2015 11:51:28 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen (When the going gets tough--the Low Information President Obie from Nairobi goes golfing/fundraising)
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To: Spaulding
the salaries the most talented engineers require just to live in California

Require? Or want? Maybe Silicon Valley should move to, say, the Tennessee Valley.

69 posted on 10/30/2015 11:51:57 PM PDT by Paul R.
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To: thetallguy24

“American college grads just can’t do the work”?
Just one more reason to say F you Marco.
Common core
amnesty
No wall
American college grads just can’t do the work
Again, F you Marco.


70 posted on 10/31/2015 3:19:57 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Obammy is a lie, a mooselimb and pond scum.)
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To: thetallguy24

Hate to rain on everyone’s parade, but he may be more than half right on this. DH (PhD in Physics) worked for a contractor in the defense industry for 40 years before retiring in 2013. He hired and worked with young people. Sadly, recent American grads were entitled brats; couldn’t write at 6th grade level which is a problem when responding to RFPs, etc.; had no reasoning skills, and basically didn’t know the material. Many of these people had graduated with PhD degrees but shouldn’t have.

Foreign employees, even if educated in America, were better in every way. That’s a huge problem for America if foreigners are being hired in highly classified positions.

P.S. I don’t trust Rubio as far as I could throw him and he pretty much makes me sick.


71 posted on 10/31/2015 3:42:28 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: thetallguy24
What an ass. My company recently tried the outsourcing route for a location that had problems - mainly because management did not enforce fundamental SDLC rules on that division - a few bad apples were causing the problems.

The outsourcing company was even worse and still is.

Rubio is beyond help on this, I only hope Cruz comes around - because this is my personal bread and butter issue, because it is my job on the line. I don't ask for special treatment. I ask that the existing laws about abuse of H-1b be both enforced and strengthened to where H-1B is ONLY used to bring in truly gifted persons, not line workers.

72 posted on 10/31/2015 4:21:51 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
...until we get our house in order.



Are you still killing your unborn?

-- GOD


 

73 posted on 10/31/2015 4:47:17 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Cruz2Victory
Our schools have given us a crop of idiots with engineering degrees. that will VOTE correctly.
74 posted on 10/31/2015 4:48:38 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: miserare
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Donald Trump will "politically MASSACRE" snarky little Marco "Amnesty" Rubio at the next GOP Presidential Debate ... by ATTACKING Rubio over the H1B Visa issue.

They debate television crews will need a ten-man bucket and mop brigade to mop the "political blood" off the floor ...


================================


I'm a GREAT Ted Cruz supporter ...

I spearheaded and organized the FIRST and VERY successful "Ted Cruz Florida Grassroots Leadership Conference" on 18 July 2015 in Orlando.


BUT ... as a Senior Aerospace Mechanical Engineer ... I've seen LOTS of Americans Computer Programmers, Engineers (et al) get FIRED and replaced by Indians and other H1B Visa "drones" ...

"Every" American scientist and engineer live in FEAR of H1B Visas ... trust me ...


Finally ... Ted Cruz's (otherwise brilliant campaign) comes to a screeching "Warp-Speed-Nine" DEAD-STOP in the future debate where Donald Trump CHALLENGES Ted Cruz on H1B Visas.

At that point, Ted Cruz's campaign is OVER - DEAD - FINISHED.




Jeff Roe (Ted Cruz National Campaign Manager) ... are you LISTENING ?????




 photo Ted-Cruz-FL-Conference--2015-07-03--Picture-B_zpsgvlpko7s.jpg.

75 posted on 10/31/2015 5:53:15 AM PDT by Patton@Bastogne
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To: Paul R.

Where is the evidence of her assertion? Maybe, just maybe, if we didn’t have the highest corporate tax rate in the world U.S. Corporations wouldn’t have to save as much money by hiring cheap foreign labor.

With all the welfare benefits available to the increasing number of gibmedats, foreign and domestic, we have more and more U.S. “workers” that don’t want to work. Liberalism is destroying much of this country. All the Rubio haters on this thread aren’t helping that.


76 posted on 10/31/2015 9:39:31 AM PDT by Auntie Dem (Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Terrorist lovers gotta go!)
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To: Elsie

Yep, 58,000,000 and counting. “How DARE you infringe on a woman’s right to choose, God!”


77 posted on 10/31/2015 10:18:40 AM PDT by Lexinom
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To: thetallguy24

I’m more concerned with illegals


78 posted on 10/31/2015 10:27:54 AM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: DoodleDawg

Great idea! At least the new hire will be present for all Senate votes.


79 posted on 10/31/2015 7:57:01 PM PDT by Lauren BaRecall (Descended from heterosexuals.)
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To: Auntie Dem

Isn’t it nearly impossible to check degrees now? And oddly, it was our conservative Senator James Buckley who made that impossible with his educational privacy bill of c. 1975.


80 posted on 11/01/2015 3:16:52 PM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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