Posted on 05/08/2012 5:31:59 PM PDT by anymouse
Corporate offshore outsourcing lobbyists are on a roll, going on talk shows and writing propaganda plants as articles. White papers are falling like snow where even labor economics equations are manipulated. Every day we hear pure statistical fiction and politicians tout corporate lobbyist provided talking points, even in GOP debates. Why? Corporations are demanding more immigration and foreign guest worker Visas to displace Americans, repress wages, technology transfer and offshore outsource further.
There is No Labor Shortage in the United States. None, and that includes high skilled labor.
In 2010, there were 3,531,000 computer & mathematical related occupation workers. Yet in 2008, there were 3,676,000. In just this occupational category alone, the United States is down 145,000 jobs, or -4%. The same is true for engineers and architects. In 2010 there were 2,619,000 people employed in these occupations, yet magically, in 2008, average, there were 2,931,000, another drop of 312,000 jobs, or -10.6%!
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H1B’s are an obscenity
Turn off the television for a few years. You’ll be amazed at what you’ll learn without being led by your eyes and ears by propaganda sponsored by special, government-linked interests. The result is that you’ll see more clearly, how much information from the media is propaganda.
The main tactic in sponsored in election politics is the bandwagon approach. It’s all quite vulgar and hysterical from the perspective of one who avoids popular media junk. Political speech today is difficult to see at all—even headlines alone.
Being in the high-tech electronics field I know this all too well. Not only off-shoring, but bringing them here and paying low wages. I don't know what the answer is.
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