My response to a comment that I received by email on my recent article Obamas Unintended Consequences that I wrote for the MCGOP newsletter at campaign.r20.constantcontact/render?ca=5277ee58-aa18-4ee4-b376-82d38601e97f&c=b5ab2070-3160-11e4-aec1-d4ae52754007&ch=b5bb9b30-3160-11e4-aec2-d4ae52754007 . Please see the original comment under the comment section below. Thank you for your comment. Though we may not agree, I always value feedback. While I believe that Mitt Romney would have been a huge improvement over the President, this appears to be an area in which I disagree with both of them. In my experience in the Biomedical research field here in Montgomery county, Science Corridor , there are not enough jobs to meet even the current high skill workers. During my recent career in a US army research laboratory, 2008-2011, I personally had to go over around 100 of resumes of highly skilled (with many years of experience) and very well qualified US residents applicants with advanced degrees just to fill one basic entry level position such as research assistant positions that pays around $35,500 per year. Research is expensive and doesn’t hire many people. That applies to biomedical, physical/ engineering laboratories and pharmaceutical companies(many manufacturing processes are automated). The small businesses do not have that capacity to conduct research, manufacture medicine, write on large scale computer programs. All the science jobs goes to academia (limited positions), government, /government contractors (also limited positions) and a few US corporations. In your email, you stated that “Microsoft’s Bill Gates explained in a Washington Post op-ed that “Demand for specialized technical skills has long exceeded the supply of native-born workers with advanced degrees, and scientists and engineers from other countries fill this gap.” He went on to say “Computer science employment is growing by nearly 100,000 jobs annually. But at the same time…there is a dramatic decline in the number of students graduating with computer science degrees.” But large corporations are responsible for only a small percentage of jobs in the US and account only for 13% of tax revenue. In contrast, small businesses are the driving force of job creation and they account of 46% of entire US tax revenue. Large corporations such as Microsoft (Bill Gates) and Facebook (Mr. Zuckerberg) that are the biggest advocates (whose leaders shill for Obama) shouldn’t drive immigration policy. As of 2014, Microsoft has only 128 thousand of employees worldwide statista/statistics/273475/number-of-employees-at-the-microsoft-corporation-since-2005/ . Facebook employees only 8,348 employees worldwide as of September 30, 2014 newsroom.fb/company-info/ Google only employs 46,170 employees worldwide bits.blogs.nytimes/2014/05/28/google-releases-employee-data-illustrating-techs-diversity-challenge/?_r=0 Most of the Microsoft job vacancies that are advertised to public are in in financing, marketing and customer support. https://careers.microsoft/search.aspx#&&page=0 . Currently, we have close to 1 million international students that most of them in the STEM (science, technology, math and computer science) field at American universities. That most of them will get a “green card” stapled to their degree and will compete for limited number of positions driving down wages. That’s good for Facebook and Microsoft, but not everybody else. Furthermore, these corporations in technical field already got a streamlined immigration process for bringing more high skill workers from other countries under Obama’s executive action. Mr. Gates’s op-ed is wrong. For example, GWU enrollment of students to Computer Science program has surged to new highs gwhatchet/2013/02/14/computer-science-program-enrollment-surges/ . Computer Science is in such a high demand among college students that they many universities had to impose Limed Enrollment Program (LEP) that includes our local UMD https://cmns.umd.edu/undergraduate/admissions/how-apply/faqs-limited-enrollment-programs-internal-and-external-transfer . Massive enrollment increase in Computer Science at Princeton university has also lead to rise of plagiarism in computer programs dailyprincetonian/news/2014/03/convictions-of-plagiarism-in-computer-science-courses-on-the-rise/ . The University of Illinois reports surge of students in Computer Science major networkworld/article/2244991/infrastructure-management/want-a-job--get-a-computer-science-degree.html the list goes on. Prior to Obama’s executive immigration action, companies were given 85,000 H-1 work visas. So, the US corporations that specialize in computer/ technical fields started using it to replace US employees with foreign workers that they brought to the US on H-1 visas to do exactly the same job as the US worker computerworld/article/2490610/it-outsourcing/this-it-worker-had-to-train-an-h-1b-replacement.html . usatoday/story/money/business/2014/07/06/backlash-stirs-in-us-against-foreign-worker-visas/12266783/ etc. Currently, at any giving time we have at least 600,00 H-1B holders are in the U.S.. With new Obama’s immigration order we will also streamline high-skill workers on top new yearly graduates of STEM international student (with green cards stapled to their diplomas), we have our own US graduates and existing workforce. Currently, the U.S. economy is continuing to struggle with a high unemployment rate of 9. 6% (official rate + discouraged workers not seeking employment). Even taking only the official unemployment rate of 5.9% compared to the jobs that are created (there are 2.1 job seekers for every job opening).
Posted on: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 19:24:58 +0000
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