Protectionist
Banned
- Joined
- Nov 26, 2010
- Messages
- 209
- Reaction score
- 42
- Location
- Dunedin, Florida
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Independent
Looks like Colbert didn't do his homework. Center for Immigration Studies reported some years ago that of over 450 occupations, immigrants were in the majority in practically none. As for visas for skilled jobs, the Director of the National Society of Black Engineers said that when you have a labor shortage, wages goes up. He's right. But wages for engineers have been plummeting. Why ?
Simple answer - domestic outsourcing with work visas (hiring cheap, foreign labor). This isn't happening because of a labor shortage. It's happening because of greed - employers maximizing profits any traitorous way they can.
I forgot to mention (and apparently so did Colbert) that some of the toughest, dirtiest, and most dangerous jobs in America are being done entirely by native born Americans, with hardly an illegal alien in sight (coal miners, cops, firefighters, troops in Afghanistan, US Coast Guard, etc.).