Category Archives: Labor

Obama Jobs = More Debt

Business, Debt, Economy, Government, Inflation, Labor

GOVERNMENT JOBS ought to be recorded as an increase in the nation’s debt; not as an addition to the country’s payroll. These jobs are financed through taxes, if the country is solvent; through more deficit spending and debt in the case of the USA.

How did government jobs ever make their way into the Labor Department’s jobs reports? Stupid question, the answer to which lies in the purpose and nature of state-generated statistics. Said jobs are nothing but debt and inflation.

Thus, when President Barack Obama declared, after the jobs report of May came out on Friday, “that the economy is getting stronger,” this meant that of 431,000 jobs “created,” 411,000 were temporary workers for the census. Only 41,000 were private-sector jobs. The latter is a meager ten percent of the former. (Don’t ask me how the 431,000 was arrived at.)

“Despite the improvement,” parrots the WSJ, “the persistently high unemployment rate is a reminder of how much more is needed to fix the job market.”

WRONG: it is a reminded of how much less is needed to fix the job market—less government.

H-1B Hogs Swindling ‘Average’ Americans

Business, IMMIGRATION, Labor, Multiculturalism

The following is taken from my new column, “H-1B Hogs Swindling ‘Average’ Americans,” now on WND.COM:

“The other day, John Miano of the Center for Immigration Studies pointed to the duplicity of ‘Microsoft’s attempts to downplay layoffs while calling on newly elected President Obama to provide more foreign labor.’ Naturally, the man with the reverse-Midas touch can’t make labor materialize magically, but he could issue more H-1B visas.

Touted as a means of trawling for the best and the brightest, the H-1B swindle is anything but. ‘Ordinary talent doing ordinary work’ is Professor Norm Matloff’s overall assessment of the H-1B crop. …

The 65,000 yearly recipients of H-1B visas are mostly ‘average workers.’ …

The primary H-1B hogs—Infosys (and another eight, sister Indian firms), Microsoft, and Intel—are forever claiming that they are desperate for talent. But, in reality, they have unlimited access to individuals with unique abilities through the open-ended O-1 visa program, that is if they really wanted it. …

Theoretically, the H-1B program could be abolished and all needed Einsteins (and pin-up girls) imported through the O-1 program. They just need to demonstrate ‘extraordinary ability.’

But industry lobbyists never suggest this. Funny that…”

The complete column is “H-1B Hogs Swindling ‘Average’ Americans.”

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Updated: ‘M’ Is For Moratorium (& Moron)

Economy, IMMIGRATION, Labor, Uncategorized

Any policy maker not a moron or a traitor will know what to do with respect to immigration, at a time of record unemployment among Americans. Since our representatives are almost all morons and certainly no patriots, the reality is that “Legal Immigration has Increased (YES—INCREASED!) During The Recession”:

“Any sane policy would reduce immigration as American unemployment rises. But Washington is not doing it. In the post-Crash year of 2009, the U.S. issued 1,130,818 green cards—an increase, from 1,107,126 in 2008 and 1,052,415 in 2007. In contrast, during the Great Depression from 1930-1939, we issued only 699,375 during the entire decade.

The 2009 total is the fourth highest number of green cards issued since 1914—behind 1990, 1991, and 2006. (And it is worth noting the bulk of the green cards issued in 1990 and 1991 were not given to new legal immigrants but to illegal aliens granted amnesty in 1986—so in terms of new arrivals, 2009 was actually higher.)

But most immigrant workers only create economic growth in so far as they lower labor costs for employers, possibly causing them to further invest. This effect is always much smaller than the jobs and wages immigrants take from Americans, to say nothing of the government services spent on them. However, with our record unemployment, even these marginal economic benefits disappear.

And in 2009, as always, most of the legal immigrants are low-skilled. Immigrants of exceptional ability, with advanced degrees, or investors make up a measly 8% of all immigrants combined. No doubt this has much to do with the system’s ongoing bias toward Third World immigrants through its ‘family reunification’ mechanism. Only 9.3% of all new green cards went to Europeans. In contrast, 14.6% went to Mexicans alone.

The obvious solution: a moratorium on immigration. …”

[SNIP]

To dilate on the last point about exceptional-abilities visas, read my VDARE article, “Why Aren’t The H1-B Hogs Satisfied With The O-1 “Extraordinary Ability” Visa? Oh, Wait A Minute…”

Update (April 22): Vrye Denker’s point is well taken. Refugee status or some other compassion-based visa should apply to all ethnic white South Africans. Farmers are certainly needed here. Farm workers too. However, US immigration policies—the family unification aspect—privilege Third-World “minorities.”

Updated: 'M' Is For Moratorium (& Moron)

IMMIGRATION, Labor, Uncategorized

Any policy maker not a moron or a traitor will know what to do with respect to immigration, at a time of record unemployment among Americans. Since our representatives are almost all morons and certainly no patriots, the reality is that “Legal Immigration has Increased (YES—INCREASED!) During The Recession”:

“Any sane policy would reduce immigration as American unemployment rises. But Washington is not doing it. In the post-Crash year of 2009, the U.S. issued 1,130,818 green cards—an increase, from 1,107,126 in 2008 and 1,052,415 in 2007. In contrast, during the Great Depression from 1930-1939, we issued only 699,375 during the entire decade.

The 2009 total is the fourth highest number of green cards issued since 1914—behind 1990, 1991, and 2006. (And it is worth noting the bulk of the green cards issued in 1990 and 1991 were not given to new legal immigrants but to illegal aliens granted amnesty in 1986—so in terms of new arrivals, 2009 was actually higher.)

But most immigrant workers only create economic growth in so far as they lower labor costs for employers, possibly causing them to further invest. This effect is always much smaller than the jobs and wages immigrants take from Americans, to say nothing of the government services spent on them. However, with our record unemployment, even these marginal economic benefits disappear.

And in 2009, as always, most of the legal immigrants are low-skilled. Immigrants of exceptional ability, with advanced degrees, or investors make up a measly 8% of all immigrants combined. No doubt this has much to do with the system’s ongoing bias toward Third World immigrants through its ‘family reunification’ mechanism. Only 9.3% of all new green cards went to Europeans. In contrast, 14.6% went to Mexicans alone.

The obvious solution: a moratorium on immigration. …”

[SNIP]

To dilate on the last point about exceptional-abilities visas, read my VDARE article, “Why Aren’t The H1-B Hogs Satisfied With The O-1 “Extraordinary Ability” Visa? Oh, Wait A Minute…”

Update (April 22): Vrye Denker’s point is well taken. Refugee status or some other compassion-based visa should apply to all ethnic white South Africans. Farmers are certainly needed here. Farm workers too. However, US immigration policies—the family unification aspect—privilege Third-World “minorities.”