"Skill Shortage" Racket Driving Americans From Science And Engineering
"Integrity is so lacking in America that the shortage myth serves the interests of universities, funding agencies, employers, and immigration attorneys at the expense of American students who naively pursue professions in which their prospects are dim. Initially it was blue-collar factory workers who were abandoned by US corporations and politicians. Now it is white-collar employees and Americans trained in science and technology. Princeton University economist Alan Blinder estimates that there are 30 to 40 million American high end service jobs that ultimately face offshoring.As I predict, and as BLS payroll jobs data indicate, in 20 years the US will have a Third World work force engaged in domestic nontradable services." Download entire article by Paul Craig Roberts, in PDF format.
