On 8/2/07, Anthony D'Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We need some evidence for the following: > > "Meanwhile, US colleges and universities continue to graduate hundreds of > thousands of qualified engineers, IT professionals, and other > professionals who will never have the opportunity to work in the > professions for which they have been trained. America today is like India > of yesteryear, with engineers working as bartenders, taxi cab drivers, > waitresses, and employed in menial work in dog kennels as the offshoring > of US jobs dismantles the ladders of upward mobility for US citizens."
This article does a nice job of mixing anti-immigrant rhetoric with labor issues. The author conveniently forgets the fact that "foreign workers brought in on work visas" are concentrated in the few industries that actually have seen healthy wage growth such as technology and finance. If this is the quality of the articles on Counterpunch, you have to wonder what the conservative press is saying. Like: -----------------------------------snip Good jobs that still remain in the US are increasingly filled with foreign workers brought in on work visas. Corporate public relations departments have successfully spread the lie that there is a shortage of qualified US workers, necessitating the importation into the US of foreigners. The truth is that the US corporations force their American employees to train the lower paid foreigners who take their jobs. Otherwise, the discharged American gets no severance pay. Law firms, such as Cohen & Grigsby, compete in marketing their services to US corporations on how to evade the law and to replace their American employees with lower paid foreigners. As Lawrence Lebowitz, vice president at Cohen & Grisby, explained in the law firm's marketing video, "our goal is clearly, not to find a qualified and interested US worker." -raghu.
