Posted on 07/04/2007 6:15:37 AM PDT by truthkeeper
LOL. That's the best you can come up with?
By the way, you missed my point. The State Dept. comes under Bush's purview. So, as in this case, the State Dept. is doing what Bush wants.
I still say Bush did this in a fit of petulance.
“We got 300,000,000 here and thats gawd-damn plenty. If we can’t operate the UNITED STATES of AMERICA with 300,000,000 people we are all sorry sacks of sh!t....”
Mash here...you’ll see what our elites in DC have in mind for us...ONE BILLION..just imagine how rich each Senator will become with 3 times the bribery pool to choose from!!!
http://www.balance.org/articles/projections75.html
You have got it!
Anything that makes lawyers irate, I am generally in favor of.
“The Robber Barons are still with us. different tactics, same old greeed! Human nature never changes, its as crappy as it has ever been.”
The “Robber Barons” robbed nobody but helped build up America as an industrial nation. The namecalling against them was by the socialists and ‘progressives’ of the era. Our economy grew by 7% a year on average from 1865 to 1929, an amazing accomplishment that created wealth and a middle class that never existed in any society before. We owe a lot to the early industrialists and fail to give them credit that is due them. They were no different than Bill Gates and Steve Jobs in our era. Except maybe Jobs and Gates have done a better job at PR.
Come to think of it, you are right. Today’s ‘robber barons’ are Gates and others in high-tech. They have created huge wealth, advanced our nation, and done quite well for themselves in the process. To keep the ball rolling, they want highly skilled employees, but our education system is so awful, we don’t produce the level of skilled engineers required. So, they are asking for the H1Bs, etc.
Maybe we need to import profession *schoolteachers* from other countries, break the NEA, implement school choice nationwide, and raise standards significantly so American-educated workers can once against competitively fill these needs. Now *thats* doing a job American Educrats refuse to do!
I always thought of the H1B program as a way of balancing demand. The system can't always predict how many engineers to educate. Remember the 70s when aerospace shut down and engineers got pink slips. But when these days we are forecasting a constant shortage we are really permitting, even encouraging our domestic system to underperform.
That is just HUGE. As far as State goes go find Dr. Jack Wheeler's article on The State Dept.
When did we abandon all qualifications?
I hadn't thought of that angle...great point.
Bingo, we have a winner !
True, but as an IT professional, this probably helps increase my income. Foreign imports drive down wages at all levels....except, if you are an executive or owner of the business.
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