US to hike H1B visas, merit will count for green cards

[HughBeaumont]

151. So let me see if I got this right: A country that's at 15% real unemployment . . .

. . . with citizens equipped with Bachelors and Masters degrees getting laid off and subsequently having no employment prospects for weeks and months,

with wages that haven't moved in real dollars since 1979 in the face of a cost of living that's never decreasing and production that rises but doesn't share the spoils,

with wealth inequality that sees CEOs making 354 times what a worker makes,

with a corporate environment that's free to exaggerate (due to our emploYERs market) job qualifications, no matter if the job needs these qualifications or not, to where they want someone with a master's degree to know eight different apps/languages/whatever and be expected to work for $12/hr with no immediate benefits,

with student loan debt skyrocketing to all-time highs, crippling the unwilling participant beyond their abilities to pay,

with almost each and every period of prosperity it's seen in the past 31 the result of a speculative bubble of some kind (S & L, credit, tech, housing, finance, etc),

. . . with all this . . . this backwards corporate-batshit country wants to make our unemployment situation worse and further exacerbate race-to-the-bottom, laissez-fail Pure Capitalism, the very system we need to move away from and fast?

And there are supposed DEMOCRATS on this board that support this fucking crap?

Yeah, you know what? That's no better than how Dubya Mitt Romney thinks. That's no better than how neo-libs like Thomas Friedman think. Must be easy to dictate that our economy is not a zero-sum game when you're not the one that will ever be affected by the practice of job offshoring/inshoring. Must be easy to spout boilerplate faith-based garbage when you never had to deal with the humiliation of training your own replacement, as several on this board have had to do.

We have a serious problem in this country. Our workers are not some shit disposable commodity that you can just toss in the goddamned garbage at your leisure and expect this economy to continue functioning. Our workers are the most important part of a company's, and this economy's, success. It's not fiduciary duty to the shareholders (a bogus ideology that's written NOwhere in corporate law), it's the WORKERS that will make or break this country's progress. As the past 20 years have dictated, taking money, taking spending power, taking wealth out of the hands of the people who most need it and have to spend it is precisely the LAST thing we should be doing.

From late 1999-2009, when free trade of white-collar jobs got underway after the unwarranted blue-collar job destruction in the 1990s, we've had the WORST decade-long job creation record in modern history. The average period of long term unemployment soared and has still not recovered. Sons and daughters are now making, in relative wages, HALF of what their parents started off at. We work longer hours than our 1970s counterparts did. Corporate America can now get Mom AND Dad for what they used to be able to get mom OR dad for.

I'm really all ears, free traitors: How does capitalism continue when the only jobs will be ones that older workers can't retire from, middle-aged workers can't leave or get fired from at any cost, and younger workers won't be able to get?

Offshoring or automation is fast eliminating entry level positions and offshoring or bean counting is eliminating mid-level positions. It requires years of expensive education, experience and luck to land management. Is there no place for non-extraordinary people who just want to work for a living anymore? How exactly are people supposed to make a living??? Do you know or do you just plain and simple not CARE???

Someone logically explain to me how is this going to pan out. PLEASE. TELL me how this bullshit is a win-win when history is clearly NOT on your side on this issue.