What on Earth is the controversy? It is PAINFULLY obvious that the American education system has degraded the knowledge of generation after generation in every subject. It used to be that mainstream movies were calculated to attract mature adults (and I don't mean X-rated) on the basis of a plot with serious issues at stake, requiring a modicum of intelligence to appreciate. Now, entertainment seems to have lapsed into glorifications of comic books and fairy tales.
It is also painfully obvious that the H-1B visa program has been used to hire cheapskate labor (just as with illegal alien yeoman laborers). The unions had been vocal about this when I was an active member.
Two true things are not in contradiction.
As for education, there isn't much that wouldn't be fixed if we adjusted the curricula back about 70 or so years, to when it was the expectation that a high school education was the most that could be guaranteed, and therefore the schools poured as much into the students' skulls as they could manage. Obviously, update the history and science texts to keep currency.
As for H-1B, just eliminate it. Nothing seriously stops a foreign national from coming to America, working hard, and becoming naturalized. I met plenty of expert engineers from Great Britain, France, Iran, Germany, Italy, China, Croatia, Japan, India, and wherever. And objection to land of origin is really indistinguishable from the most ignorant racism. I had a general practitioner who I think was from Pakistan, and was the most incisive, direct, and methodical doctor I have ever met.
But don't misunderstand the situation in medical care. When Obamacare was implemented, all the doctors took a serious look at what it would do to their practice and maybe about half of them decided it was time to retire while the getting was good. The result of so many doctors leaving the market was that it became really hard to schedule visits with them. I think it was also coincident with medical corporate systems taking over most medical employment, absorbing entire hospitals and attendant physician practices. It was no longer a great field to go into, and I surmise the medical school production of graduates slumped. Same thing with nursing care and non-agency home care. The home care industry was able to pay only foreigners what they were willing to live on. No one else wanted the job. Or the people who might be suitable had an atrocious education (back to problem 1).
My problem with the H-1B situation is, if these people are simply cheap, does it show up in the quality of the product? It should. Does it? How do you find the evidence? To me, that should be a stronger argument against it, because the presumption is that you can hire cheap labor and still offer a quality product or service. If that is true---I would regard it as a miracle (and I don't believe in miracles like that).
What on Earth is the controversy? It is PAINFULLY obvious that the American education system has degraded the knowledge of generation after generation in every subject. It used to be that mainstream movies were calculated to attract mature adults (and I don't mean X-rated) on the basis of a plot with serious issues at stake, requiring a modicum of intelligence to appreciate. Now, entertainment seems to have lapsed into glorifications of comic books and fairy tales.
It is also painfully obvious that the H-1B visa program has been used to hire cheapskate labor (just as with illegal alien yeoman laborers). The unions had been vocal about this when I was an active member.
Two true things are not in contradiction.
As for education, there isn't much that wouldn't be fixed if we adjusted the curricula back about 70 or so years, to when it was the expectation that a high school education was the most that could be guaranteed, and therefore the schools poured as much into the students' skulls as they could manage. Obviously, update the history and science texts to keep currency.
As for H-1B, just eliminate it. Nothing seriously stops a foreign national from coming to America, working hard, and becoming naturalized. I met plenty of expert engineers from Great Britain, France, Iran, Germany, Italy, China, Croatia, Japan, India, and wherever. And objection to land of origin is really indistinguishable from the most ignorant racism. I had a general practitioner who I think was from Pakistan, and was the most incisive, direct, and methodical doctor I have ever met.
But don't misunderstand the situation in medical care. When Obamacare was implemented, all the doctors took a serious look at what it would do to their practice and maybe about half of them decided it was time to retire while the getting was good. The result of so many doctors leaving the market was that it became really hard to schedule visits with them. I think it was also coincident with medical corporate systems taking over most medical employment, absorbing entire hospitals and attendant physician practices. It was no longer a great field to go into, and I surmise the medical school production of graduates slumped. Same thing with nursing care and non-agency home care. The home care industry was able to pay only foreigners what they were willing to live on. No one else wanted the job. Or the people who might be suitable had an atrocious education (back to problem 1).
My problem with the H-1B situation is, if these people are simply cheap, does it show up in the quality of the product? It should. Does it? How do you find the evidence? To me, that should be a stronger argument against it, because the presumption is that you can hire cheap labor and still offer a quality product or service. If that is true---I would regard it as a miracle (and I don't believe in miracles like that).