Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bentway who wrote (32371)	9/2/2017 11:02:20 PM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 364201

"That isn't Arkansas." What's wrong with you? Why knock Arkansas? As for STEM workers, it appears again that you and I are reading different things. I read about STEM graduates who haven't been able to find job openings. At least for the last 5 or years. Things are changing now, I'm guessing. Actually Arkansas may even be a good place for STEM grads. I have a niece who heads up an IT dept. at J.B. Hunt. A few months back, she commented on how many job openings there were in her department. My guess is that corporate greed spun the tale of too few qualified STEM graduates, and most people just fell into line. No one asked for proof. It became one more baseless media meme that allowed them to lower unit labor costs.

To: bentway who wrote (32371)	9/3/2017 12:05:45 AM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 364201

While visiting the Houston area on Saturday to meet with survivors of Hurricane Harvey, President Donald Trump told reporters that he is seeing "a lot of happiness," Talking Points Memo reported. "It's been really nice," Trump said of the visit. "It’s been a wonderful thing. As tough as this was, it’s been a wonderful thing, I think even for the country to watch it and for the world to watch. It’s been beautiful." According to the Associated Press, 43 people have died so far as a result of the hurricane — which scientists believe is the worst rainfall disaster in US history — and dozens more were injured. Several toxic waste storage sites have also flooded since Harvey hit, posing possible health risks to people and wildlife in the area, according to an AP investigation. When Trump was asked about the flooding, he replied, "The flooding? Oh, yeah, yeah, there’s a lot of water, but it’s leaving pretty quickly. But there’s a lot of water, a lot of water, but it’s moving out." Hollow Man= Trump

To: bentway who wrote (32371)	9/3/2017 2:32:44 AM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Recommended By Katelew Respond to of 364201

>>If we want that to change, we need to educate many more workers in STEM to a level where they can be productive. The key is in understanding that traditional university education is a loser. Much more targeted stuff is available online for a fraction of the money. Diverse fields, great courses and teachers. If I were hiring anyone in a STEM field that's where I'd be looking now.

To: bentway who wrote (32371)	9/3/2017 5:43:27 PM
From: Katelew	Respond to of 364201

There's been no shortage of STEM graduates. Corporations want the H-1B immigrants because they can legally be paid less. Also they typically want to stay in this country so bad that they will work longer hours and accept poor working conditions that American workers might complain about. In essence, they become indentured servants. Any politician or voter who supports this program has fallen into a "plantation" mentality. Unwittingly fallen into it, to be sure, but the argument is the same as that made by slave owners before the Civil War. Slave owners wanted the freedom to buy (hire) anyone they wanted, and pay them less than a white field worker would command. Then if the slave didn't work satisfactorily, the slave holder could beat them, run them off, sell them off--whatever. H-1B workers that don't work out satisfactorily can be deported. usnews.com Sep 15, 2014 - Oddly, a small contrarian group of academics claims that not only is there no shortage of STEM talent, but the U.S. actually has too many ... Type in any variation of the question "does the US have a shortage of American STEM workers" and you will google up a long list of contrarian articles published by reputable outlets--The Atlantic, The Yale Review, even a Harvard paper taking issue with Bill Gates. The notion of a shortage is a falsehood propagated by the corporate world. Even the notion that H-1B should exist so that companies can hire the best of the best has been undermined by closer analysis by some studies.