[bobman0330]

This irritates me. There are ALREADY laws that prevent companies from hiring the most qualified employee if that worker happens to be foreign-born. We've got these laws that make companies blow money on lawyers and jump through dumb hoops. And now we have propaganda pieces like this that demonize companies for complying with the law and doing their best to find the most qualified, most suitable worker.

Give me a break. Exactly how many advantages does the noble American worker need to compete with some poor disadvantaged guy from India or China? If American workers are losing their jobs to more qualified employees, how about they get their act together and develop some marketable skills? But that's not even a consideration. Go right to the government and demand a handout. More onerous laws to prevent companies from hiring the deserving candidates. Gigantic walls along the Rio Grande. Anything to prevent foreign workers from being able to compete fairly.

Disgraceful. If these losers can't hack it in the world economy, maybe we should set up a special welfare program for them. (Or maybe they should cut up some of their credit cards and start living within the means their limited skills can provide them.) But it makes me [censored] sick when all these whining rent-seekers try to clothe themselves in the mythology of the American Working Man. American industry became great because of competition, innovation, and hard work. The real American Working Man of legend was a productive, disciplined worker who just happened to be American. To hear people today, you'd think that it's a divinely-ordained law that every worthless drone born in Ohio or Illinois must have a cushy union job that pays him far out of proportion to the value of his labor. That sort of attitude is the real threat to the economic future of this country, not globalization.