Comments on: Workers Not Confident In U.S. Job Market

Survey Finds One-Third Of Americans Say They Don't Earn Enough To Make Ends Meet

[missingamerica]

The fact is you can greatly increase your profits by paying eight offshore engineers $6 an hour to achieve the same productivity as one American engineer who should be earning $60 an hour.

[missingamerica]

All the skilled workers are foreign. But it''''s hard to communicate with them. I avoid them at all costs.

Posted by sly_64 at 01:04 PM : Aug 28, 2008

You must not be looking in the right places. A fact of life for Americans in the engineering fields is they typically have to train an H1-B up, are disappointed with the end result, and still know that what they have in fact done is "train the trainer".

The H1-B goes home, transfers the knowledge, and within a year the people who trained him are out of work.

It happens all of the time, although the rate is slowing down since there is simply less to offshore than there was.

[midvale3]

midvale3: I have no idea what you are talking about with Limbah or O''''Riley. Don''''t know who O''''Riley even is. I''''m in the technology field, have been for many many years, and I''''d be happy to hire someone who speaks good English. But there aren''''t many of them.


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Posted by sly_64 at 01:02 PM : Aug 28, 2008

If you truly do not listen/know then you should Google them. You writings could come directly from them. I disagree with you but you are entitled to your opinion.

[sly_64]

All the skilled workers are foreign. But it''s hard to communicate with them. I avoid them at all costs.

[sly_64]

midvale3: I have no idea what you are talking about with Limbah or O''Riley. Don''t know who O''Riley even is. I''m in the technology field, have been for many many years, and I''d be happy to hire someone who speaks good English. But there aren''t many of them.

[jmurrieta1]

Why are there so many Right Wing Bigots?

Why do Neocons hate America?

Because Neocons are scum?

[missingamerica]

There''''s not enough "skilled" workers in this country so the big tech giants like Microsoft keep petitioning the govt to expand H1 visas. What does that tell you about American workers ?

Posted by sly_64 at 12:55 PM : Aug 28, 2008

lolll...it tells me that thirty years of neglect of our educational system thanks to the implementation of "trickle down" economics is having an impact on the skill level of our workers.

But you also fail to recognize a fact of live: Numerous surveys have shown that America''s youth are not entering computer and engineering fields because of documented fact:

As soon as a corporation figures out how to get their job done remotely, they offshore it to lower wage nations.

So when faced with going massively into debt (debt that cannot be walked away from, even if it takes garnishing their or their parent''s - if they co-signed - Social Security payments, thanks to Republican bankruptcy law changes) with student loans, they do not choose engineering fields because there is no job security.

It is the corporations who ae directly to blame for the "lack of skilled workers" they continually whine about...a whine that is, in fact, camouflage meant to distract Congress from their offshoring of America.

[midvale3]

There''''s not enough "skilled" workers in this country so the big tech giants like Microsoft keep petitioning the govt to expand H1 visas. What does that tell you about American workers ?


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Posted by sly_64 at 12:55 PM : Aug 28, 2008


It tells me they are getting screwed for lower wages and you are a puppet on a string regurgitating whatever your Gods Limbaugh and O''Riley tell you to say.

[godzfan]

while I watch you all writing and attacking each other more people have been put out of work. It is not anyones fault except those who refuse to do anything about the immigration problem.
My wife is a security supervisor for a Toyota plant that makes motors for the cars wiper and window systems. She told me this morning that 3 more people turned in their uniforms yesterday that they took a layoff. These are regular employees that have to either voluntarily take layoff or be laid off without a chance for returning. Yet the temporary workers (mostly mexican) still have their jobs. Why because they work for low wages and they don''t have to insure them.
It''s a shame our own citizens have to be laid off to provide a non citizen with a job.

[jmurrieta1]

"There''''s not enough "skilled" workers in this country so the big tech giants like Microsoft keep petitioning the govt to expand H1 visas. What does that tell you about American workers "--Posted by sly_64



That total Bushit! There are more than enough skilled workers, but the tech giants don''t want to pay what their degrees are worth.

They want to pay coolie wages to coolies on the H1B program.

Also, that let them train all the Asians they need to send those industry sectors to Asia completely.

The word for that is TREASON!

[sly_64]

There''s not enough "skilled" workers in this country so the big tech giants like Microsoft keep petitioning the govt to expand H1 visas. What does that tell you about American workers ?

[missingamerica]

At least acknowledge that there is a problem.

Posted by azure11 at 12:47 PM : Aug 28, 2008

You ask too much, azure.

The essence of today''s Republicans is the ability to ignore all outside influences beyond the amount of money they are taking in and whether they perceive any societal trends that may threaten either their ability to accumulate more wealth or protect the wealth they have accumulated.

Their vision encompasses "self", and then it drops off like a cliff.

[marshall_nee]

and while you worry about history, you sit there and do nothing about your future

Posted by jamesm12341 at 12:32 PM : Aug 28, 2008

Gold...Canned food...Plenty of ammmo...bottled water and toiletries. Yep I think that''ll get me through the next year or so, unless WWIII breaks out.

[missingamerica]

Ditto for iBsteve2u who thinks it''''s all funny.

Posted by hypnotoad72 at 12:37 PM : Aug 28, 2008

No, I think you right-wing posters are funny.

As far as I can tell, you are all either:

a) little rich kids, who the headmaster in your private school has told to spend their lunch hours and study halls preaching against the Democrats "lest they tax your mommy and daddy so much you have to go to...shudder...public schools!"

or

b) Evidence that the Neanderthals, in fact, did not die out - they just became Republicans...

[sly_64]

I wonder if anyone remembers the 50,000 + foreign workers that Bill Clinton let into this country 1 month before leaving office ?

[missingamerica]

Well I benefited from Affirmative Action... Just like Barack and Michelle Obama..

Posted by Gilprice at 12:34 PM : Aug 28, 2008

lollll...what, if Obama and Michelle were caucasian, and had never benefited from Affirmative Action (and neither one of us knows if they actually have, ya know), you''d love ''em?

lolll..probably...an awful lot of the anti-Obama posters I see have the dark corruption of racism oozing out of their hearts....they have a hard time stopping themselves from saying more than mumbling about "Affirmative Action"....

[hypnotoad72]

hould open your *** eyes.

Posted by azure11
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And then do what? Come on. Be butch. Tell us what to do. We love you.

Ditto for iBsteve2u who thinks it''s all funny.

[marshall_nee]

But the economy is meant to be growing at over 3%.

[missingamerica]

and while you worry about history, you sit there and do nothing about your future

Posted by jamesm12341 at 12:32 PM : Aug 28, 2008

Now how do you know that? For all you know, he is learning to speak Chinese or Hindu, so he can move to where the Republicans and the "free traders" sent our jobs...

[sistatee-2009]

Americans are now doing the jobs Mexicans won''t do.