Posted by Tina
Microsoft just announced layoffs, 18 thousand jobs, and Senator Sessions wants to know why Democrats and hot shot tech giants keep saying we need to import more technical people:
“So today I’m going to issue a challenge to Majority Leader Reid and every single one of our 55 Senate Democrats who voted unanimously for this Gang-of-Eight bill,” Sessions said, emphasizing that the bill would double the number of guest-worker visas that are awarded. “With Microsoft laying off 18,000 workers, come down to the Senate floor and tell me that there’s a shortage of qualified Americans to fill STEM jobs. Come down and tell us: Do you stand with Mr. Gates or do you stand with our American constituents?”
Gates, along with Sheldon Adelson and Warren Buffett, advocated in a joint New York Times op-ed last week for removing “the worldwide cap on the number of visas that could be awarded to legal immigrants who had earned a graduate degree in science, technology, engineering or mathematics from an accredited institution of higher education in the United States.”
They did, Sessions said, even though all of the evidence points to a surplus – not a shortage – of American high-tech workers. He said Gates, Adelson, and Buffett wanted to “share the wisdom from on high” and “tell Congress how to do our business” and “conduct immigration reform that they think should be pleasing to them.”
The article points to studies that show we have a surplus of graduates:
The facts do not support their assertions, as Sessions noted. There are twice as many STEM graduates as jobs. And numerous nonpartisan scholars and studies have determined that there is a surplus – not a shortage – of American high-tech workers.
Seems like a good challenge to me. I knowthe people that have graduated after all that work and can’t find jobs would like an answer.
Long ago, our labor unions succeeded in pricing the U.S. right out of the world labor market. Jobs went overseas in search of cheap labor. Now, they have found a way to bring the cheap(er) labor here, and to hell with those who graduated here. Follow the money.
When Americans were sold it was ok to send our jobs to a communist country so the shareholders and CEO’s got a pay raise what did we get?
Every time you buy a product made in a Communist country… think about it
So now we are as Americans to compete with communist workers at pennies a day so some CEO can make more?
So lets get real
Explain how the trade agreements are so good..
How about one start looking at our real economic situation and have a conversation?
Anyone who relies on a Politician for information is a fool… they are handed down their info…
LOL How many times have we seen them make idiots of themselves because they have not a clue… they are assistant managers to their donors… Puppets!
Microsoft? Why are they laying off?
http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/14/the-nokia-microsoft-deal-is-still-a-go-for-q1/
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/business/tech-biz/07/17/14/microsoft-cut-18000-jobs-year-it-trims-nokia
RHT447 you’re right, every business has to be aware of the bottom line and big business has to answer to its stock holders too. It doesn’t help our economy or job prospects that the current administration is maintaining very high tax and regulatory expenses for companies…the highest in the world. The Obamacare tax on medical devices is causing a number of companies to merge with others in Ireland so they can headquarter in a more friendly atmosphere.
This administration take the prize for most hostile to both business and employees. I keep wondering…who do they serve? Certainly not the American people!
Dewey as long as you refuse to accept the fact that employees have to compete with workers all across the globe now you will never be satisfied. People are not guaranteed a job, they have to make themselves valuable in the marketplace.
Unions made very bad decisions and pushed too hard for big compensation packages for their workers…they got greedy. When workers in other countries said, “We will do the job as well for less,” the companies had good reason to abandon their overpriced American employees who were constantly threatening to shut down the business to force higher wages. Greed knows lots of names, my friend.
Businesses are in business to make money. American workers would better help their own chances for good jobs if they would wise up and demand lower tax rates and more sensible regulations so that businesses would find America attractive again and so our economy would take off. (Instead you foolishly back liberals who don’t know HOW to attract business or grow an economy)
Trade agreements are about opening up business to new markets. If done right they benefit both (all) countries involved and help emerging nations to improve their economies, a long range gold that would help stabilize the world. In the past five years the rest of the world has engaged in making trade agreements while the US sat on the sidelines…once again America is missing out on all of the customers in those countries…and all of the work (JOBS) those customers would provide to our workers!
Companies like Nokia and Microsoft are merging because the business of software is being left in the dust if it isn’t connected to internet content… video…movies. They are also merging because our government’s economic policies stifle the economy and make it difficult to do business. Companies were buying back stock as a means of surviving; now they are buying other companies. The government needs to step back, get out of the way and give companies a safer space to take risks. If they don’t we will never get beyond this stagnant condition.
I wonder if the states withdrawing from Common Core is one of the factors for the layoffs?
How Bill Gates pulled off the swift Common Core revolution:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-bill-gates-pulled-off-the-swift-common-core-revolution/2014/06/07/a830e32e-ec34-11e3-9f5c-9075d5508f0a_story.html
How Microsoft will make money from Common Core (despite what Bill Gates said):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/07/12/how-microsoft-will-make-money-from-common-core-despite-what-bill-gates-said/
High cost of Common Core has states rethinking the national education standards:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/02/05/number-states-backing-out-common-core-testing-maryland-schools-low-on-funding/
The control of our children’s education belongs with the parents, not the government:
http://www.commoncoreie.org/the-exodus-states-not-participating-in-common-core.html
Sheesh, another incoherent, lunatic ramble from Dewey. Do we really deserve this? At least Tina has the patience of a saint. To me Dewey is a completely lost cause who does belong in a rubber room.
Harry Reid doesn’t need to prove anything, he imagines he is capable of performing Jedi mind tricks by merely making a statement, no matter how unfounded, unsupportable, or ridiculous.
He also tried this just the other day. It is a pattern with him.
“The border is secure.”
— Harry Reid, July 15, 2014
Sheesh, another incoherent, lunatic ramble from Dewey. Do we really deserve this? At least Tina has the patience of a saint. To me Dewey is a completely lost cause who does belong in a rubber room. –
Pie back at ya…
FYI this is America…. freedom of speech and the right to disagree…. There is no Libertarian Dictatorship yet
Hate and name calling use to be frowned upon… kind of a middle east hate thang… Funny
Bullying, lies, propaganda will bring out voters in 2014….. you know that 60% that was not going to show?
Well People like me will show up at the polls just to spite the hate groups in this country
Cheers!
No repeat of 2010!
Tea party run on your own and highlight your candidates as a party! Stop hiding in our republican party!
Also Pie the TPP will make “Buy American” banned so that will make you happy.
Re #8 The Moron: “FYI this is America…. freedom of speech and the right to disagree…. There is no Libertarian Dictatorship yet”
FYI we ALL here, including an supremely idiotic ingrate like you, post comments at the courtesy of Jack and Tina. They are not obligated to do so. Contrast that to your incoherent idiot spiritual peers and mentors in the other blogs you frequent.
By the way “Libertarian Dictatorship” was a particularly dim witted oxymoron (emphasis on “moron”). Congratulations.
I don’t know, Pie, this comment by Dewey:
…is much more humorous to me. Dewey claims the Tea party is “owned” by the Koch’s. The Kocks own a conglomerate of American companies. Why, therefore, would the Tea Party “ban” buy America?
The boy is cornfused, I say, I say, “cornfused, son”