Too many worry that allowing more immigrants "would just displace American workers, but that's just a doggone joke," [Sen. Orrin] Hatch told a forum sponsored by FWD.us, a political advocacy group formed by such high-tech leaders as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. (Source: Salt Lake Tribune)
Of course, Hatch and the high-tech billionaires conveniently ignore the fact that:
- The official U.S. unemployment rate currently stands at 7.4 percent.
- A broader measure shows that unemployment is closer to 23 percent of the eligible workforce.
- Part-time jobs account for most recent employment gains.
- Millions of American workers have dropped out of the labor force.
- Wages have stagnated when they should have increased if there were truly a labor shortage.
- A record number of Americans are receiving food stamps.
Therefore, given the above and with so many American workers available, why are Sen. Hatch (R-Utah) and the high-tech billionaires behind FWD.us pushing for more foreign workers at all wage levels, including the legalization of millions of low skilled workers?
- Is it because Americans are too lazy to do manual and high-skilled work, making it necessary for billionaires to replace unproductive Americans with hard-working foreign nationals?
- Is it because Americans are too dumb to do high-tech work, thereby forcing billionaires to import highly educated people from other countries rather than helping Americans gain the skills required to do these jobs?
- Is it because senators and billionaires insist on sacrificing Americans for still-higher campaign contributions and profits (offshoring jobs, hiring illegal labor, demanding more access to foreign labor to keep wages low)?
- Is it because senators and billionaires have no choice but to throw Americans overboard if the United States is to compete globally?
- Is it because billionaires are not willing to invest in educating and training Americans?
- Is it because senators and billionaires have lost touch with average Americans and feel no civic responsibility to their fellow citizens or to America?
- Is it because billionaires are able to market their goods globally and no longer need a strong American middle class to purchase their products?
- Is it because senators and billionaires have shifted their loyalty to the global economy and no longer hold any affection for the United States and/or for current and future generations of Americans?
- Is it because senators and billionaires are defeatists who have lost the optimism that allowed Americans to put a man on the moon even though the United States originally had a huge high-tech gap when compared to the Soviets?
- Or is it because senators and billionaires are promoters of an expanding welfare state as long as it is funded by debt and the billionaires can protect themselves by banking much of their fortune overseas and transferring their operations to foreign countries once the United States can no longer meet its obligations?
It kind of makes you wonder what Hatch and the high-tech billionaires have against Americans. What did we ever do to make them so scornful of us?
