The Washington Times Commentary
Americans are being sold out on the jobs front. Americans' employment opportunities are declining as a result of corporate outsourcing of U.S. .jobs, H-1B visas that import foreigners to displace Americans in their own country, and federal guest worker programs
President Bush and his Republican majority intend to legalize the aliens who hold down wages for construction companies and cleaning services. To stretch budgets, state and local governments bring in lower-paid foreign nurses and schoolteachers. To reduce costs, U.S. corporations outsource jobs abroad and use work visa programs to import foreign engineers and programmers. The U.S. job giveaway is explained by a "shortage" of Americans to take the jobs.
The U.S. is bursting at the seams with unemployed computer engineers and well-educated professionals displaced by outsourcing and H-1B visas. During Mr. Bush's entire first term, there was a net loss of American private-sector jobs. Today there are 760,000 fewer private sector jobs in the U.S. economy than when Mr. Bush was first inaugurated in January 2001. Comparing this pathetic result to normal performance produces a shortage of 8 million U.S. jobs. What happened to these jobs?
Posted by Suzanne at February 20, 2005