NYC Mayor: U.S. Needs More Foreign Tech Talent
Michael Bloomberg calls for an end to H-1B visa caps and wants automatic green cards for grad students in advanced STEM programs.
By Paul McDougall, InformationWeek
October 10, 2011
URL: http://www.informationweek.com/news/services/outsourcing/231900459
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the U.S. is committing "national suicide" by limiting the number of green cards and visas available to hi-tech talent from overseas.
"In today's global marketplace, we cannot afford to keep turning away those with skills that our country needs to grow and to succeed," said Bloomberg, at a speech sponsored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Partnership for a New American Economy. "I've called it national suicide--and I really think it is."
Like Paul Craig Robers, I call BULLSHIT -- America graduates 100's of 1000's of high tech students from our colleges and universities each and every year and they can't find jobs (because they need experience to get that first job, dontch know?) in their field of sutdy, and thus, they end up working as bartenders and waitresses and health care service industry folk - with the bartenders and waitresses making one hell of a lot more money than the health care services industry folks - as per my own son, Adam James Ganzer, fully certified both state-wide and nationally as a phlebotomist, which was to be for him an entry into the more exciting world of health care services - EXCEPT, only by the grace of God did he get a job, with QUEST in the first place, but he was lucky to get 18-20 hours a week, which was not exactly enough to fill the tank, wash his laundry, pay his rent, etc, etc, etc, and thus, he took a job as a food server at one of the local exclusive country clubs, part time, until he realized he was ROLLING in money from the side job and decided to give up (for the time being at least) on his dream of being a high tech health care serfves industry worker.
The mobile workforce is one of the fastest growing threats to security.
Hardly. Disaster capitalism and the US corporate welfare state are the biggest threats to security, both nationally, and world wide. Wait, just WAIT, until American workers (with no jobs or seriously undereimployed, American college students with degrees and outstanding academic track records, US veterans of the military who can't find any one to hire them decide ... well, if the damned Egyptians can do it, why can't we? And take up guns. Picture this: 1,000,000 unemployed Americans armed to the teeth with 100's of rounds of ammo going to Wall Street, NYC, and firing 100 rounds each into the New York Stock Exchange. That mother fucker would tumble in a heart beat. And THEN, and likely ONLY THEN, would the US political and financial elites come to know the fear that the French government knows, with a long knowledge of history, that when the masses rise up together to take OUT the oppressing mother rapers, NO ONE IS SAFE!
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Bloomberg cited a number of studies that he said showed that immigrants working in hi-tech fields help to create jobs for Americans through investments, entrepreneurship, and by helping U.S. companies become more competitive globally. "These high-skill workers will not only help create thousands of jobs, they'll also give us knowledge of foreign markets that will help U.S. businesses increase their exports."
Pure bull shit. Immigrant workers will work for 50-65% of what an American worker has every right to expect, thereby reducing wages for the American worker. The whole fucking idea is pure bullshit propaganda designed to reduce wages, increase profits, and keep the lower 99$ down, forever and ever, AMEN!
Bloomberg, who made his own fortune by developing systems that feed key financial data to Wall Street traders, said Congress should pass legislation that increases the number of green cards available to foreign born workers in fields like computer science, math, and engineering. He also called on lawmakers to pass bills that would eliminate the numerical cap on temporary, H-1B visas and that would make Ph.D students in STEM programs immediately eligible for permanent resident status upon graduation.
Unfuck Bloomberg forever that he might no longer breed (and God Willing) that he no longer breath. ASllegedly we can't find American workers to do the jobs that the Mexican and South American workers are only too eager to perform, for minimum wage, paying their full share into social security, from which they will get NADA ... not one fucking dime .... give 'em all green cards, and let the American-miseducated workers compete against somebody who has known hunger daily. Trust me, it won't be no fair fight at all. As OBUMMAH said, we 'Murcans is SOFT, FLACCID, LIMP-DICKED non-fuckers.
[ Groups that represent tech workers oppose easing visa rules. Read Microsoft IT Hiring Problems Bogus, Say Programmers. ]
"Turning these students out of the country is, to put it bluntly, about the dumbest thing we could possibly do," said Bloomberg, who delivered the speech Sept. 28 in Washington, D.C. "Other countries are bending over backwards to attract these students--and we're helping them to do it. We've become the laughing stock of the world with this policy."
ALSO, to do so is poaching the intellectual and technical resourcwes of the countries from which these students came. Quite a bit different, really, and far more devesating than poaching their natural resources. At least when we've poached their natural resources, we TEND to leave them alone.
Bloomberg said the U.S. risks losing top global talent to countries like China, India, Canada, and Chile, (by which he means top Chinese, Indian, Canadian, and Chilean talent to the countries of their birth and family origins ... we will lose them to who they are and where they came from!)
all of which have instituted programs designed to make it easier for hi-tech professionals to immigrate. His comments echo calls for immigration reform by executives at major U.S. tech firms, including Microsoft. The software maker says it has thousands of open positions it can't fill because it's unable to find workers with the right skills.
MICROS-FUCKING-SOFT -- you mean that high tech company that buys out individuals who make better software? The only thing Microsoft does consistently is to change their MSN home page annually and make it ever harder than it was before to find shit! MICROSOFT SUCKS, and there REALLY ought to be a bounty on the head of Bill Gates (metaphorically, speaking, of course, I would NEVER advocate doing harm to another human being, even one of such questionable genetic make up as Mr Gates - who wants to privatize education in 'Murikca! FRIGGING ASSHOLE GATES.
Such comments are sure to provoke controversy, as they come at a time when the nation's high-unemployment rate, in excess of 9%, SUCH a friggin crock of shit, 9% my bare ass - it's 25% under anything resembling human understanding of the term "unemployment" except that .. first the NIXON misadministration changed the definition and then the Clinton Clusterfuck Administration changed the definition of "unemployment" so that if you've been out of work too long, you are not counted, period, if you are a single working mom with two jobs and you report income you make from babysitting on the weekends, you are counted as 3 jobs and 1 wodker, leading to 300% employment ... ta fucking da ... how this number goes unremarked or unchallenged baffles me - unless the press corpse is innumerate (which it is) or unless the news elites of this nation want to perpetuate the myth that all is well in the land of the un-free and home of two million slaves (the prison population, which works for peanuts)
has helped spark protests like the Occupy Wall Street movement. On Monday, Bloomberg, in his capacity as mayor, said he would allow the protesters to occupy parts of lower Manhattan indefinitely.
As, they are legally ENTITLED TO DO!
Some groups that represent U.S.-born IT professionals say the H-1B program, which allows foreign tech workers to remain in the country for a maximum of six years, gives employers the means to replace them with cheap labor.
WHAT A PERFECT OPPORTUNITY TO REPORT SOME NEWS ... this IS the friggin' story, but note how the "reporter" (stenographer) doesn't even bother to find out if there is truth to the claim that H-1B gives employers the means to replace US workers with cheap(er) labor
Bloomberg said he doesn't buy such arguments. "As the data clearly show, immigrants don't take away jobs; they make jobs--and that is especially true for high-skilled immigrants."
As "THE DATA" okay, Mr Stenographer, did you think to fucking ask JUST WHAT IN THE FUCK DATA ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT MR BLOWS SMOKE UP MY ASS MAYOR?
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