Why does CNBC allow someone to come on and spew nonsense? That is the case of the below video clip.
What is the issue? Stopping the corporate practice of firing Americans and replacing those U.S. workers with cheaper foreign guest workers. There is a fundamental divide where the issue is not immigration but simply a global cheap labor supply. That divide in immigration of any kind is when new workers are not in addition to but in place of.
It’s clear from this rant Wadhwa doesn’t want that differentiation to be even realized. Vivek Wadhwa literally comes on this segment, with incredible fear mongering, mis-categorizes temporary foreign guest worker Visas as immigrants and also implies all of America are a bunch of xenophobes. Literally! This is the most idiotic rhetoric we’ve heard to date.
Fortunately Dr. Ron Hira was the other guest. Hira patiently tries to present the facts of H-1B abuses as well as the methods to displace U.S. workers in the midst of such inane comments. Hira manages to get a few facts out onto the airwaves and God bless him, the man is sticking to his Academia integrity and professional expertise.
Vivek Wadhwa also misrepresents the TARP H-1B Dependent employer…
Once again, we get the idiotorials and biased research trying to claim immigrants are critical to the U.S. economy. Every single time, U.S. workers are ignored, the underemployment of U.S. citizens is discounted, and most of all, the wholesale, institutionalized age discrimination that fires workers over the age of 35 and replaces them with a steady stream of cheap young labor from other countries is endorsed.
the vast majority of these returnees were relatively young. The average age was 30 for Indian returnees, and 33 for Chinese…
Wadhwa is referring to the workers leaving the United States and returning to their home countries. Note the focus on the keyword young. The implication is if one is experienced, older, magically their talents are no longer worthwhile. This is age discrimination at it’s best and interwoven through the United States technology companies. Somehow, these companies now believe one loses their ability to even tie their own shoes when one hits age 35.
Senators and Congress Representatives: How would you feel if you were told you were over the hill and could not be in the U.S. Senate as a result? That…
