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Hot off the presses folks!

Yes, that’s right, Mr. Patriotic 9-11 wants to make sure middle class workers are displaced and exposed to labor arbitrage! Aren’t you glad he’s such a loyal American?  Loyal to corporations operating in America that is. Look at Rudy Giuliani’s top priority:

Expand the number of H1B Visas for skilled foreign workers to meet market demand

Anyone based in reality would never say the program needs to expand since right now American graduates cannot get a job!

Dr. Harold Salzman, The Urban Institute -

The available data indicate that the United States’ education system produces a supply of qualified STEM graduates in much greater numbers than jobs available.

We just had world leading experts testify before congress proving there is no worker shortage and Americans are being shut out of high quality middle class careers.  So Giuliani of course wants to make that situation worse!

Giuliani claims he wants to aggressively push for more bad trade deals and this is his only solution for our trade deficit:

Reduce corporate tax rates and regulatory burden so that Americans can better compete in the global economy.

Oh yes, I’m sure that’s it, has nothing to do with the agreements themselves being written by and for…

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The House Science Committee held a hearing on November 6, 2007 completing their series on Globalization of R&D and Innovation. 

Before you go to sleep, some fairly shocking testimony proving there is no worker shortage and some additional shocking facts on how the US debt is affecting job creation as well as how current research grant awards are inversely affecting R&D!

Dr. Harold Salzman, The Urban Institute -

The available data indicate that the United States’ education system produces a supply of qualified STEM graduates in much greater numbers than jobs available.

even further more frightening is the implications that Americans might be displaced in graduate school opportunity:

Although there have been steady increases in the numbers of U.S. citizens and permanent residents pursuing a STEM education at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, the number of graduate students on temporary visas has also grown. It is unknown whether this indicates students on temporary visas are filling a demand for graduate students that U.S. undergraduate colleges cannot meet (serving as a complement to the domestic supply) or whether universities and companies are substituting temporary visa students for academically qualified U.S. students. Most likely, it is some of both.

Most interesting was this observation:

Wall Street now considers firms…

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With friends like these who needs enemies?  The IEEE-USA issued a statement supporting turning our University system into a glorified green card machine. They also have literally teamed up with a corporate lobbyist organization, the SIA, to issue their policy position.  The IEEE-USA claims to be concerned about career and labor issues for it’s United States citizens, American members.  Why would they betray their own members and issue policy that is a notorious and obvious method to flood the US labor supply and cause further erosion of U.S. engineers’ careers?

The Center for Immigration Studies gives some hints as to why.

The “free green card” proposals also comprise a response to the academic lobby, as U.S. universities have seen their foreign applicant pools for graduate programs shrink in recent years. Students in other countries are less interested in study here these days because the U.S. job market is poor while opportunities back home are burgeoning.   This is causing academics to panic, since their lucrative federal research funding depends on having the “bodies” to work in the labs. Graduate study at the PhD level is unattractive to American students because the graduate assistant stipend is so low, as is the salary premium paid to PhDs…

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