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Post by blueneck on Aug 23, 2007 11:09:59 GMT -6
More claptrap from a think tank - one that actually seems to make the opposite case for what they are promoting in terms of foreign visa tech workers www.kauffman.org/item.cfm?item=906As I have said before - the product of these think tanks is not much different than the product I make on my own "think tank" every morning
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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Aug 23, 2007 22:53:34 GMT -6
The Rightists slice and dice statistics and numbers from anywhere they can find them, to try to prove why we need to allow more immigrants into this country, when their entire motivation is to drive down wages by increasing the labor supply. We graduate more engineers each year than we can employ. We have many well trained IT workers who are working in other industries because they were replaced by a cheaper foreign immigrant, or because their job was outsourced to a foreign country where workers are paid even less. Meanwhile, we have a total of 84 million working age Americans who are not working, while Corporate Agriculture is pissing & moaning because they can't find enough workers, which is only because they won't pay enough to hire Americans. We have a population of 302 million, and we have a population growth rate of 3 million per year, and last year our working age population expanded by 3 million, and we created only 1.8 million jobs for those 3 million new workers. Since the start of 2007, we've only created 184,000 jobs. We don't need any more workers, in any area, or in any field. We need more jobs. Corporate America needs to stop whining about not being able to find enough cheap labor here and abroad, and start paying Americans more--which will pull many of those "no-in-labor-force" workers back in to the labor force. We have plenty of "entrepreneurs" in this country, always have, and always will. Unfortunately, many of them want to set up shop in foreign countries where labor is cheaper, or bring more immigrants into this country to work for less, and drive wages down by the supply-increasing effect of their sheer numbers. It's ashamed we can't prosecute slimeballs like Bill Gates for public deception, disinformation, and lying. And it's too bad none of the Democratic Presidential candidates (except Kucinich) can't grow a spine a stand up to their big Corporate campaign contributors and say: "no more NAFTA, no more WTO, no more outsourcing, and no increase in H1B visas." But they won't. And that leaves the best choice either Kucinich or Paul. I don't think Kucinich has much of a chance. But I'm still holding out some hope for Paul. His online popularity is tremendous. His media popularity is not. Hard to say how popular Paul actually is with the general public.
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Post by blueneck on Aug 24, 2007 19:45:41 GMT -6
I am always amused by these think tank websites. Go to the "About" section on everyone and they always say they are a "non partisan" group promoting blah blah blah. It becomes really clear almost immediately what political persuasion they lean toward whether it be left or right - hardly non partisan at all.
There needs to be some control over these clearly biased sources of "reports" that politicians, the media and business all use to cherry pick and support their positions no matter how illogical or non-sensical. They are as bad or worse than lobbyists in my opinion, at least with lobbyists its about money - these think tanks are more insidious with their attempts at controlling thought and discourse.
There should at least be some sort of "truth in advertising" or similar control imposed to prevent them from spinning sometimes out right falsehoods as fact.
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