Posted on 12/21/2006 5:56:27 AM PST by A. Pole
Are you suggesting that a "free trader" would have no problem with Indonesia and Pakistan exporting their entire populations to the U.S.? If so, nonsense.
Yes. We can, because they are more likely to be employed explicitly because of technical expertise. Hence placing them in the path of temptation disproportionately from the population as a whole.
As for your "august persons" there are indeed, as you say, rotten apples everywhere. But not in proportion to those who may yet have, shall we say, divided loyalties...?
The country is not making babies at replacement level...A large part of the population is aging..Baby boomers would start retiring soon....They only way to keep this country running is to get more immigrants...
Hardly the only way. A moratorium on abortion of about ten years would do the trick nicely. Hence, your "solution" is rather unnecessary.
I want to limit my involvement with wider issues of what is wrong with the American Society..I understand that those are very important issues. We would need to have a very large conversation for that. If my immigration issues are not taken care of, the rest of the issues becomes meaningless to me..
At this point, I want to convey to all freepers that Legal immigrants are suffering in this country even if they follow all laws..The legal immigrants deserve some consideration when the whole immigration issue gonna come to the front burner next year....
Which free-traders here would deny that adding over 400 million Muslims to the US would be a bad thing? Be specific.
Why, Todd, if let's say U.S. Widget corporation could suddenly find employment for them...you would be first in line.
No I wouldn't.
Congress is not in session,
The Republican or Democrats can't do anything HOWEVER this comes out as bonus time for Christmas is happening.
I smell a little job insecurity spin in order to justify poor bonuses.
I don't know how they handle IT in foreign colleges, but here in the US, IT curriculum's are a total joke. You learn nothing that prepares you for the real world. A degree helps an IT person as much as a degree would benefit an auto mechanic in most cases. A BS degree in IT is little more than a social political title.
Exactly. IT moves so fast, and college curriculums lag a few years behind. There are so many resources on the Internet for people who are motivated to learn about the newest technology. Why do you need college for that?
Your point is well taken, in my IT career most of what I learned was either through self study or courses given for a particular assignment. The problem is when you go to get hired, especially early in your career, you need to get past HR people. In my experience most HR people have zero technical knowledge and they screen people based on search words found on a pile of resumes. If they don’t see a degree listed you won’t even get called in for an initial interview.
I am an immigrant myself and, though I am now a citizen, I was on an H1B visa years ago.
Immigration is not the problem, as long as it is predictable. What we have is that the immigration quotas can suddenly and unpredictably change, if some lobbyist sweettalks enough congressmen. I can live with market - induced cyclical volatility (it can be predicted and it eventually corrects itself) but government - induced volatility is the worst.
An overheated housing market between 2000-2005 and runaway spending by the Gov is what kept the US economy going, not immigration.
You seem to be confused. I did not say anything about "domestic tea production".
Forget it.
If they were to made profit, they would do it in a blink of eye. They would give their own grandmothers as a bonus.
LOL . . . that's like saying your typical protectionist would nationalize everything in sight in order to make the trains run on time.
For freedtraders the ultimate measure of all things is money and profit. The only reason why they would not bring "400 million Muslims to the US" or did not convert to Islam is that they might consider it risky or unprofitable. Simple like that.
Why would you not? Are there some principles higher than personal gain? If so, tell me what they are?
Really? Which free traders said that? Where?
The only reason why they would not bring "400 million Muslims to the US" or did not convert to Islam is that they might consider it risky or unprofitable.
Really, the only reason? Source?
I happen to be IT and you are correct..
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