Obama pushes for skills in careers that are offshore outsourced, subject to labor arbitrage - Science, Math
Look here! Obama is pushing for more skills and education in Math and Science!
Ridiculous! Why would any American, in their right mind, study, work very hard to obtain skills and education in a career subject to labor arbitrage and offshore outsourcing?
Show Me the Money!
You're kidding right? Ok everyone! Now we're going to bring out Sesame Street characters and tell you all to study hard, work your rear ends off, go into massive debt to obtain university degrees....so you can later train your replacement before being fired!
To improve science and mathematics education for American children, the White House is recruiting Elmo and Big Bird, video game programmers and thousands of scientists.
Big bird? How about brain dead? Going for skills and careers which do not pay out is pretty bird brain.
While they are out selling this spin, I hope they sell the Brooklyn Bridge too. America needs the money.
We've all heard this before
You can't sell foreign workers if you can't sell "Johnie is stupid!"
You can't hide job loss, so blame it on Dumbo.
Over 600,000 science and engineering degrees are granted annually from American universities.(1)
The US produces only 120,000 science and engineering jobs per year (much less lately; the number may now be negative).(2)
That leaves 480,000 graduates per year without jobs in their chosen careers. Add to this over 250,000 H-1B, L-1, and trade visas each year. Half a million Americans are losing their jobs to cheap foreign technical workers every year. Another half million Americans waste their S&E degrees on non-S&E jobs.
SOURCES:
(1) Tabulated by National Science Foundation/Division of Science Resources Statistics (NSF/SRS); data from Department of Education/National Center for Education Statistics: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System Completions Survey and NSF/SRS: Survey of Earned Doctorates.
http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d07/tables/dt07_267.asp
(2) http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2004/02/art5full.pdf page 83
H-1B, L-1, F-1 OPT, and "Free Trade" visas are the Trojan Horse to offshoring of American Jobs.
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/popups/exporting.ameri...
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