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The group most impacted by this - now and in the future - is the under 40 demographic. This is also the group that voted for Obama in the majority in 2012.
Too bad so sad.
What's your point? Do you think Romney was going to tighten the screws on foreign workers in the US? Of course not. This is a bipartisan issue where both sides of the aisle agree that importing labor is the way to go.
Laura, What American company? If one operates globally, they are a global company.
I was referring to this comment by the previous poster:
"Around 6.3 million American 'guest workers' are working overseas."
...when I asked "How many of those are working for American companies as in their companies here transferred them there. An example of the reverse would be "How many Koreans (not Korean-Americans) are working in the US for Hyundai as in the South Koreans transferred then here.
I am living the American Dream. The dream that my ancestors came here looking for centuries ago. You are your only barrier. Put the blame where it belongs. On yourself.
my boss is a mexican, he came over to united states when he was young , graduated from an american university with a degree in engineering. He is a P.E engineer and he twenty years younger than me.
I have some personal experience on the subject. I worked for a major aerospace company for 28 years. The company built plants in Mexico, China and the Czech Republic. The vast majority of all manufacturing is now done overseas. Foreign workers did not take those jobs, the company gave those jobs away. This was done before Obama took office.
Yes, this has been going on for years. I remember seeing a program where our tax dollars contributed to education was sent to other countries. Not a small amount of money. 66% of all tax dollars allloted for educaton were used to educate those in other countries. Then the government would bring them here, and give them jobs.
I still have a job, so I don't know what you are talking about.
I've never blamed my situation on other people , thats a recipe for defeat.
Oh, I see. Just because YOU have a job there is no problem of outsourcing, importing legal immigrants to work for less or illegal immigration in this country that is negatively impacting American job opportunities?
There has been almost ZERO discussion by the 3 main cable news networks what the possible impacts of the massive immigration for the past 50 years has been doing to American workers. ZERO.
So we have to look at things ourselves. Pensions in private companies have almost disappeared. Wages have not kept up with inflation. Vacations, holidays and other benefits have been reduced. The decline of private unions. Companies getting rid of older workers. More and more jobs are just part time.
All this points to a worker surplus and companies that can take advantage of people. If you do not like it - they will find someone else.
Its not just the massive amounts of immigration that is the problem, so called "free trade" and changing technology such as the internet are also a problem. But please don't tell me that bringing millions of new workers when there is a job shortage already, is not making things worse.
One in every 5 US jobs held by a foreign worker.
Net gain in employment from 11/2007 has gone to legal and illegal immigrants.
And they aren't just poor Mexicans, either...
"The influx of foreign workers includes many foreign graduates. Their arrival is forcing many debt-burdened Americans graduates to start their careers in lower-wage jobs. Those American graduates will be stuck with lower wages for many years unless employers face a shortage of workers in the next few years...Roughly one million foreign, university-trained guest workers are already working in the United States in a wide variety of long-term jobs in universities, hospitals, finance firms, retail and technology firms."
There are more numbers in the article and how the number of foreign workers are increasing under the Obama administration.
Do you think the national news media doesn't talk enough about about foreign workers displacing American college graduates, that is, the focus of the news stories are overwhelmingly about the uneducated/undereducated illegal border crossers (simply because they are more burdensome to society as a whole in their need for jobs/services/entitlements where as the college educated foreign workers only impact American college graduates as it relates to jobs)?
I remember when my Mom was told that Asians were taking all the jobs when she came here in the early 1970s. She shrugged it off and kept working. She's retired now and lives comfortably. I wasn't born in the US, either, so I guess I took someone's job, too. We talk about it from time-to-time. And then we laugh a little.
my boss is a mexican, he came over to united states when he was young , graduated from an american university with a degree in engineering. He is a P.E engineer and he twenty years younger than me.
My boss is a native of the Philippines. She has been my boss for 34 years.
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