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It is called "globalization" and both parties embraced it and still do. Liberals tend to be as concerned for foreign people as their own citizens. "We are citizens of the world" the mantra goes. Why is anyone surprised at the outcome here. And yes, yes, conservatives are concerned as well primarily for the business end of things where money is made and no one cares about the plight of foreign workers. Dog eat dog everywhere. Then there is the philosophy that diversity is a big strength for our country. So, adding foreign workers ought to be a big plus for those who buy into the diversity piece. Meantime, your neighbors, you family members are scrambling for crumbs. There are not that many crumbs left. Going to get more ugly as time goes forward.
I've seen Indian visa holders take many jobs, including jobs that aren't lacking for skilled employees, Two years ago I applied for a marketing director position and it went to a visa worker. The same company (which yes was Indian run)had the audacity to offer me a low paying clerk position instead (I declined).
Well where are your intelligent technical workers going to come from if you do not import them?
India graduates more engineers per year than the U.S. does all degrees combined.
You got enough lawyers to choke a python but they don't design or build anything do they?
Too true. Americans busy themselves with wanting to star in their own real-life version of L.A. Law or Ally McBeal then do real thinking work like engineering. Notice how lawyer shows are gone off the air but singing prostitute campaigns like The Voice and American Idol are still playing? Everyone in America wants to be a star rather than a hard-working producer of something other than a stain on Justin Beiber's loincloth or Kei$ha's g-string.
Yet at the same time Americans, in their usual myopic shizophrenia with that quaint touch of xenophobia peculiar to Eurocentric paranoids, want to blame educated dark-skinned people for having the trained mental abilities of an engineer!
What is all that education for here in America! To judge others as inferior due to their melanin count?
As for possible innovation lacking in people from elsewhere? Of course, they aren't being rewarded for that innovation are they? Americans will bend over backwards twice to prove to management they shouldn't get pink-slipped even at the cost of due compensation for their labors. They are such well-trained obedient drones in that regard. Americans go on about hating the CEO but won't think once about padding that bum's salary with their innovations if they get that head pat. They might get a $10,000 bonus for it while the lucrative patent they came upon is owned by the company, as it's in the contract signed upon accepting the job.
I've seen Indian visa holders take many jobs, including jobs that aren't lacking for skilled employees, Two years ago I applied for a marketing director position and it went to a visa worker. The same company (which yes was Indian run)had the audacity to offer me a low paying clerk position instead (I declined).
I quit my last job because it was a Calcutta sweatshop.
Infosys, an Indian IT software and services company with offices throughout the world, has been accused of discriminating against American job applicants. One Infosys employee who raised concerns about the company's hiring practices was repeatedly called a "stupid American," the lawsuit states.
Infosys has about 15,000 employees in the US "and approximately 90 percent of these employees are of South Asian descent (including individuals of Indian, Nepalese, and Bangladeshi descent)," the lawsuit states.
We have these workers here. I know many educated scientists and engineers who are unemployed.
Oh really? What are they still doing sitting on their hands? How come they haven't gone where the work is?
A resume showing a period of lack of work does not speak well towards a person holding one of the science or engineering degrees. What that says is "I wasn't willing to seek elsewhere for a job to remian current in my field". "I sat on my azz waiting for a job to come to me".
Those folks you know sitting on their hands are being left behind while others are keeping current in their respective fields.
Immigrants have that in common, they go looking for work until they find it. Even outside their comfort zone. That would be the guy I'd hire before one sitting on his butt playing his PS3 waiting for the phone to ring.
i'd love to see the H1B program opened up to lawyers, accountants, doctors, nurses, real estate agents, janitors, farmers, retail employees ....
let everyone else see how much FUN it is to compete against third world labor
It's being done with Nurses now....I think a lot of us KNOW how it feels-
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