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In reply to the discussion: KRUGMAN: The Fake Skills Shortage [View all]lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)In what kind of rational world would his views be considered fringe?
If skills are in shortage, the pay for those skills would increase as well as demand for those seeking the training. Interest rates are zero... fucking zero... and have been for years. We should borrow heavily during this opportunity to invest in the next phase of economic growth. Why are these views controversial?
This country doesn't need hundreds of thousands of H1b visas nor do we need 4x as many education visas issued as we did in 1990.
The owners of this country aren't running it in your interests. They're running it in the interests of global capital, but they're doing it badly without realizing that even the global capitalists would be better off if they were to run it for citizens benefit.