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Categories - Shopping - Free Online Business Help - Telecommunications Services Articles: Business - The Myth of Foreign Workers As susceptible members of Congress and the Senate, under pressure from corporate lobbyists who claim that there is just not enough skilled manpower in the U.S. workforce, attempt to find a way, any way, to drastically increase the number of skilled foreign workers allowed to come into the country, one thing is very clear. We have lost our way. Not many people realize that this started back in the late 1970s when corporate managers and human resources people were told to raid the educational sector. They scheduled free career days for students and collected the names and phone numbers of talented teachers in the process. Somewhere along the same time, governments began to look at education as a free benefit for the people instead of an investment in the future of the country. Budgets were squeezed and teacher salaries were not allowed to keep pace with industry in order to attract the most gifted employees. This lack of foresight has come back to bite us today.
In the American way, we also began to issue student visas and assist foreign students in their attempts to get educations. Our thought was that, if we helped to provide developing countries with enough talent in their work force, we would help them advance and become prosperous. Today, we are, instead, allowing American corporations to rob the world of its talent dooming other countries to futures of economic inferiority and human exploitation.
The culture of consumerism that corporations sought to create has also contributed to this as more and more money has been created to finance it. This had led to inflation and companies are not able to meet resulting wage requirements and satisfy the calls for their stockholders to become ever more profitable and issue increasing dividends. Companies are responding by bring in foreign workers who will work for less.
If we object to this, we are called racists and said to be cold hearted in our absence of willingness to help others. Surely, we can let a few poor people in who are only trying to better themselves, they say. The truth is, that by doing so, we are preventing more from becoming prosperous and creating more poor people.
Even today, as our economy flounders, people like Pelosi, Feinstein, Mendez, and Reid continue to attempt to bring massive numbers of foreign workers into the country under a stimulus bill. After saying that the economic problems is because the population is too large, Nancy attempted to strip the bill of its E-verify provisions and allow illegal immigrants to file tax returns without a social security number. Once they file, even if they don't pay taxes, they will be eligible for a stimulus check that we will pay for.
What led to all of this was the federal government’s migration away from the citizen protection business and into the regulation business. As the government began to regulate, it became more and more susceptible to every special interest in the world. It now issues regulations to support business rather than to temper its exploitation and gives away billions of its citizens’ money under the guise of foreign aid when it is really only aiding the exploitation of human beings worldwide.
These things will also come back to haunt us, our companies, and the rich who seek their profits. If we continue to allow American corporations to flood our work force with the desperate who will suffer indignities, soon, there will be no one with money to buy our products. The economy will catch up to the lower wages, and they too will demand more. The people responsible will shake their heads in disbelief as they view the squalor they have created.
If there are not the people to man the companies, let the companies go where the people are. This would be much better for everyone. Economies would quickly improve in other countries and new companies would emerge to take advantage of the labor forces left idle. Companies that didn’t want to move could solve their talent problems by investing in their future and contributing to education and training. We can’t continue to allow them to rape the planet. This is the way it was and the way we need to get back to.
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