There’s not enough qualified Americans to do these jobs. That’s why this program exists. Math is too hard.

The 6-month unemployment rate for Americans with STEM degrees is 0.

HitNRun on December 1, 2012 at 1:43 PM

That is utter bullsh!t.

Congress is pandering to the big high tech companies, who don’t want to hire americans. Go to engineerjobs.com and click on the resume link under the employers tab. You will see the resumes of nearly 19,000 american engineers who are out of work, and are willing to relocate anywhere in the country.

Red Creek on December 1, 2012 at 1:59 PM

This.

Of course, they opposed it for purposes of saving a pet “diversity” program, but that doesn’t matter for purposes of attack ads.

We truly are in a bizzaro world, where the government’s solution to high American unemployment, is to continue to bring in foreign workers by the shipload.

Rebar on December 1, 2012 at 1:26 PM

There’s not enough qualified Americans to do these jobs. That’s why this program exists. Math is too hard.

The 6-month unemployment rate for Americans with STEM degrees is 0.

countries like saudi arabia, china, and india send their students to the US, pay for the education and costs to live, in order to gain the skills in these subjects to bring them back to their home countries. in the US, we look to other countries to find their best and brigthest.

kind of weird.

TheBlueSite on December 1, 2012 at 11:44 AM

That’s because students from the U.S. are majoring in X-Studies and Underwater Basketweaving instead of something useful, like the Foreign Students do.

Ref: See Occupy Wall Street for a complete and consise example of this.

Yeah, there’s no one to hire, let’s go overseas

entagor on December 1, 2012 at 1:02 PM

We truly are in a bizzaro world, where the government’s solution to high American unemployment, is to continue to bring in foreign workers by the shipload.

This is an appetizer. The GOP is taking baby steps, but they’re goal is immigration reform. They can’t take such a giant step as yet (the base might revolt). So start small, and within a few years, voila, immigration reform, a bipartisan deal with the progs. Watch for it.
tommy71 on December 1, 2012 at 12:18 PM

The Dems can pretend they hate it because it lacks racial quotas, but they will probably support it while publicizing the racial prejudice of the GOP.

Earlier in the year, Jennifer Wedel wanted Obama to find a job for her STEM husband. Obama asked for his resume and promised to help. Researching, I found this thread in DICE, 04-09-12:

Re: Any word on Jennifer Wedel’s Husband?

‎04-09-2012 10:03 AM
People forget, that Barack Obama made two commitments in that discussion. The first was to help Jennifer Wedel’s husband find a job. The second commitment was to “look into” the problem. That promise was unfulfilled too. Less than a week after making that commitment, Barack Obama created two new work visas WITHOUT CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL, the new L1B visa and expanding the scope of the H4 visa, making a work visa too.

People should look hard at the Democratic Party of today. It is no longer the party representing working people. While Barack Obama and Joe Biden were facing questions about the H1b visa and acting like they did not understand the injustice that it places on disenfranchised US STEM workers all across America, the two most powerful Democrats in the Senate, Chuck Schumer and Harry Reid, were conducting secret meetings in Manhattan with the owners of the most powerful Indian H1B body shops in the world, promising to expand the scope of the H1B visa to allow more replacement workers into the US from India, to replace even more US STEM workers. twins.fan

Anyone hear the GOP complaining?

I have a STEM family member in silicon valley. Used to overflow jobs. He got an engineer friend into his shop, at a huge pay cut, and the guy was so grateful. In relative’s company the world slowdown is cutting sales. Most engineers he knows got written up, demoted or took cuts to keep their jobs. Relative had to take 30 percent cut to hold on. Lives in the middle of the tech mecca but has to commute a hundred miles to keep a paycheck. Meanwhile has huge million dollar mortgage burden. (homes are priced high where the jobs are). Guy is a wizard, the one who solves the problems other engineers get stuck on. His resume is great. Replies are sparse. Yeah, there’s no one to hire, let’s go overseas

This STEM version would mean instead of 50,000 immigrants from all over the world, of all skill sets, we will be taking in less than half of that (?) from prominently Chinese and Indian grads.

Doesn’t seem very well thought.

The bill eliminates the diversity visa program and reallocates up to 55,000 new green cards – the document that establishes legal permanent U.S. residency, for foreign students who graduate from U.S. universities with advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering, and math fields.

Now there’s a comprehensive immigration reform that I can understand and support. What we have now is designed to import the needy and grow the dependent class. It is self-destructive nonsense.

If the GOP should had pushed STEM long ago, probably it wouldn’t have gotten beat up so bad on the immigration issue.