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WSJ: Wages Are Rising, so Government Must Quickly Expand Immigration
Breitbart ^ | 20 Feb 2020 | NEIL MUNRO

Posted on 02/21/2020 7:30:30 PM PST by NobleFree

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To: FLT-bird
Let them start re-hiring the white males over 35 they laid off.

And pay back wages plus interest and damages.

Liquidate the wealth of the C-level suites.

There is no business case in existence for paying a failed CEO a $20 million severance package, or for paying departing CEO a pension of $2 million /year for life.

61 posted on 02/21/2020 9:21:31 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: ocrp1982

Great comment!


62 posted on 02/21/2020 9:31:26 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts (M / F) : Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: NobleFree

3.5 MILLION? I have never seen such a number published anywhere. Where does this number come from?
My youngest son is a double major in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in his senior year and is in his last quarter also studying for the Fundamentals of Engineering exam as a prerequisite to obtaining a PE and, is being bombarded with job offers from across the country.
He hasn’t yet graduated and he’s overwhelmed with job offers. How is it possible 3.5 MILLION STEM grads can’t find a job?


63 posted on 02/21/2020 9:38:41 PM PST by ocrp1982 (ll)
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To: Yardstick

The Basic of free markets is supply and demand.

The price of labor is subject to supply and demand like anything else.

They don’t understand it because its not in their interest to understand it.


64 posted on 02/21/2020 11:22:12 PM PST by desertfreedom765
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To: FLT-bird

Many American students won’t take stem classes now because they see that many supposedly American corporations ( such as in Silly Con Valley) are importing cheap and controlled workers from Communist China and other foreign countries. A longstanding problem that shows no sign of being solved as long as the h1 b visa program is permitted to continue


65 posted on 02/22/2020 12:34:25 AM PST by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE).)
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To: faithhopecharity

I’ve used the example of Bill gates whining that American kids won’t go to school for computers anymore - while out of the other side of his mouth he threatens to move jobs to Vancouver because Canada would let him import coolie scabs from Asia.


66 posted on 02/22/2020 4:28:56 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: NobleFree

Meanwhile, the price of everything keeps going up.


67 posted on 02/22/2020 4:49:07 AM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: NobleFree

““Maybe the only short-term fix is to increase legal immigration—unless Americans want to see their living standards decline and more jobs exported,” the editorial concluded.”

Yeah, flooding the country with an even larger mass of low wage third-worlders is sure to keep my living standards from declining.

Take your globalist, open-borders propaganda and shove it, WSJ.


68 posted on 02/22/2020 6:04:09 AM PST by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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To: SharpRightTurn
Yeah, flooding the country with an even larger mass of low wage third-worlders is sure to keep my living standards from declining.

The globalist Free Traitors really think we're all idiots.

69 posted on 02/22/2020 6:20:40 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: ocrp1982
3.5 MILLION? I have never seen such a number published anywhere. Where does this number come from?

I believe it's from the Center for Immigration Studies (cis.org); I'll see if I can dig up the specific page.

He hasn’t yet graduated and he’s overwhelmed with job offers. How is it possible 3.5 MILLION STEM grads can’t find a job?

He's being offered entry level jobs at an entry level salary; the 3.5 million are not entry level.

70 posted on 02/22/2020 6:25:10 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: ocrp1982

“The findings in this analysis are consistent with other examinations of the STEM labor market. We find no evidence of a general shortage of STEM workers. In 2012, there were more than twice as many people with STEM degrees (immigrant and native) as there were STEM jobs — 5.3 million STEM jobs vs. 12.1 million with STEM degrees. Only one-third of natives who have a STEM degree and hold a job do so in a STEM occupation. Further, one-third of STEM workers do not have a STEM degree, indicating that the supply of STEM workers in many cases is very flexible. Perhaps most important, real wages for almost all categories of STEM workers have shown only modest growth — both hourly and annual — for more than a decade. None of this is consistent with the idea that STEM workers are in short supply.” - https://cis.org/There-STEM-Worker-Shortage


71 posted on 02/22/2020 10:17:51 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: mrsmith

Locals will work for reasonable pay. I work for a nationwide lodging company and our wages will have gone up on average of 20% from 2017–>2020. Keep raising pay bands till you get bites


72 posted on 02/23/2020 4:04:33 PM PST by rb22982
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To: semimojo
Maybe because they've learned the hard way that American consumers want the the lowest price and won't pay a premium for American labor?

LOL What POS you are. Labor is cheap in 2020. It's just degrees of cheapness.

73 posted on 02/23/2020 4:09:19 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Vendome
Left home at 15 to go to college...

Yeah befor globalism took over. FR is geezing again.

74 posted on 02/23/2020 4:10:25 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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75 posted on 02/23/2020 4:12:34 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: mrsmith
Locals won’t take the jobs at the wages being offered- so ok to hire immigrants.

Fixed it. No charge.

76 posted on 02/23/2020 4:16:40 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: mrsmith
Nah, you are just an idiot and know nothing about the laws of supply and demand. You are a fool doong the bidding of the our globalist masters .

There is no labor shortage only a wage shortage.

77 posted on 02/23/2020 4:20:10 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: NobleFree
And apparently some a lot of them are FReepers.

Fixed it.

78 posted on 02/23/2020 4:21:06 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Yardstick
tariffs as far as the eye can see

Man, I like that.

79 posted on 02/23/2020 4:23:16 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: ocrp1982
Your son is lucky.


80 posted on 02/23/2020 4:26:09 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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