The tech industry, through lobbying organizations such as Compete America, argues that there is a skills shortage in the U.S., which justifies the need for H-1B visas. The claim of a skills shortage is in dispute, however.
Paul Krugman, a New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist, argued in a column Monday that the idea of a skills gap is something "that should have been killed by the evidence, but refuses to die."
"The offshore outsourcing firms are once again getting the majority of the visas," said Ron Hira, a public policy professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. "The program continues to promote the offshoring of high-wage American jobs."
[You can read the rest @ http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9247241/Offshore_firms_took_50_of_H_1B_visas_in_2013]
In other words, the new "persons" (corporations) really don't give a damn about the US economy; they only worry about their economy. Perhaps this is all we should expect them to do.
But who is looking out for our economy? Certainly not Obama ad-Dajjal and his minions. Certainly not the members of Congress. Certainly not our schools and universities. They are all teaching our kids that offshoring of American jobs is fine. It's what "the market" wants, and "the market" is their new god.
And what else are our kids learning is school? That their government is stupid, that drugs are cool, that they can become billionaires without working hard or even finishing school. No wonder there is a skills gap.
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