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.
In Vivek Wadhwa’s constant promotion of workers who are not U.S. citizens, once again the prejudice against Americans shows:
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 is is what is going on in technology companies today.
What Wadhwa fails to note is the United States has a glut of PhDs and massive underemployment in these same occupational areas. Wadhwa refuses to acknowledge the American brain drain . That’s right, that’s U.S. citizens, U.S. talent. (amazing isn’t it in a country of 300 million we too could generate a few brilliant people). By promoting policies which continually fire Americans, replace them with guest worker Visas, even deny U.S. citizens access to higher education, those American innovators are denied the opportunity to contribute to their country. This is what is really happening in the United States. Corporations and policies are denying those very Americans, the innovators of the economy, a chance to hone their skills and even earn a living!
When one represses their own people to such a degree, in favor of promoting another country’s workforce, how long will it take before that first world country becomes a 3rd world one and vice versa? That’s what is really going on. These sorts of biased reports which really promote global labor arbitrage, are just speeding up that process.
Even more ridiculous is the claim immigrants generate jobs, as if guest worker Visa holders can even legally start a company or Americans cannot start companies and generate jobs. Even more odious is the mis-categorization of U.S. citizens as guest workers!
This is complete intellectual dishonesty. Many of these people who are claimed to be immigrants are actually U.S. citizens, often who came to the United States as children or are children of others who immigrated long before guest worker Visas existed!
There is clearly serious Academic bias even to the point of using a
The attack upon U.S. workers, Americans is endless and it’s clear even our universities are now enabling the assault.
Technology industry is brutal to “older” (over 40) workers. I guess the thousands of Americans being laid off at IBM are a bunch of dummies. Now IBM wants to hire some of Vivek Wadhwa’s genius H-1B visa holders:
Quiet Layoffs Sting Workers Without Notice
Rick Clark, 50, an engineer in East Fishkill, N.Y., had worked for I.B.M. for 11 years. He said he was disappointed in I.B.M. this time because the job cuts were deep and spread across so many businesses and came at a time when I.B.M. has been proclaiming its success.
What the tech industry wants is low wages. They use the “churn strategy” to achieve that.
CHURN is a big word in executive suites. It means fire higher paid workers while at the same time hiring lower paid replacements. “Older” workers are the ones most affected by churn.
Primary tactics used to implement CHURN are (a) guest worker visas and (b) offshore outsourcing.
You know, he recently recycled that tripe in TechCrunch, you know, Arrington’s rag where they can’t be bothered to fact check:
http://mindtaker.blogspot.com/2009/10/oh-noes-indians-chinese-are-leaving.html
I get the feeling that Fraudwa has a big clipboard buffer left over from his ‘dissertation’ full of little out of context factoids like like what you mention.
Heck, even the WSJ fell for his tripe. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.