Sometimes I see small eruptions of sentiments to hire only Americans (and legal residents of course). You'll see new sites like hireamericans.org arrive. While I certainly understand the emotional pull and the therapeutic value of these sites, in my opinion, they will have very, very limited success. There are a couple of limiting issues. First, this action is targeted at the very bottom of the food chain, meaning that it effects will be limited.

One of the axioms that the free trade industry espouses is that immigrants are only doing work that Americans won't do.

This was echoed a couple of years ago by John "Give Them All Amnesty" McCain, who made the statement that Americans just won't pick lettuce for $50/hour. Shortly after that, his office was flooded by applications from Americans who wanted that job.

Economic conditions force older workers to make it hard on younger generations -
which will make them cheer the death panels of the New Health World Order (Obamacare)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100409/us_nm/us_usa_economy_employmenttrends

NEW YORK (Reuters) – More adults over age 65 are staying in the work force, which could make it harder for younger workers to find jobs, a private report showed on Friday.

From the India Economic Times:

MUMBAI: The outsourcing industry received its biggest bonanza yet with the US healthcare bill being passed by the House of Representatives. The opportunity that it throws up for outsourcers is huge and far bigger than the Y2K, which included only changing code, said experts. When the bill becomes law, it will bring around 32 million more Americans under insurance cover, pushing healthcare providers and insurance firms to become more efficient and opening up demand for less-expensive services, better technology and business intelligence.

“The opportunity is not at a company-level but at an industry level,” said Milan Sheth, partner, Ernst & Young, indicating the scale of opportunities that is expected to unfold over the next 10 years. Nearly all top IT firms and BPOs have been anticipating the move and preparing for it by pursuing contracts and acquisitions giving them a footprint the US healthcare provider and insurance segment, estimated at around $ 30 billion.

There is something wrong with the way American business performs. America does the R&D and introduces new gadgets to the market. It overprices and underproduces.

Like the transistor radio in 1954 - $49.95 - equivalent to $364 in 2006. The Japanese and Chinese jump on this and take over the market. Same with cameras, consumer electronics, household appliances, cell phones, cars, trucks, drywall, fruit cocktail, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Regency_transistor_radio.jpg
Regency TR-1. $49.95 1954

In the news the Obama administration promises to save 600,000 jobs. I believe that is $1.3 billion per job by the way.

So, why is it the Obama administration will not stop the use of our taxpayer dollars to ship jobs overseas, bring in more foreign guest workers and refuse to use any system that verifies if a potential employee is authorized to work in the United States?

This is just ridiculous to not make sure all Stimulus money is tied to American workers, American jobs, U.S. citizens. Instead our taxpayer dollars are pouring overseas, helping other nations instead of the United States and the middle class.

How disconnected from economic reality does it have to get with an official unemployment rate of 9.4%?