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Comment: American has bought into the H-1B propaganda (Score 2) 226

by jfern (#40342429) Attached to: Too Many Biomedical Graduate Students, Not Enough Jobs

There are clearly too few jobs for the STEM field majors who graduate, but those who want cheaper labor have a much louder mouthpiece for their viewpoint. The media loves to compare the scores of every single 12th grader in the US to those select few in other countries who are going on to an engineering school, and then talk about how terrible we are doing in math. The comparisons are ridiculous.

Comment: The powers that be are massively anti-worker (Score 1) 375

by jfern (#39370645) Attached to: Reversing the Loss of Science and Engineering Careers

For example, when we were losing 500,000 per month during this recession (October 2008), Meg Whitman calls for 500,000 new H1Bs a year (they are typically for several years, so this would mean millions of new H1Bs). Instead of being ostracized for being so blatently anti-worker, the California Republican party actually nominated her for governor in 2010, along with Carly offshore Fiornia for Senator.
