Miller-McCune magazine has an article titled, The Real Science Gap, that discusses how Americans are being driven out of advanced science and math careers by cheap foreign labor and shameful university practices.
Yet, the business and institutional lobbyists keep claiming there is an "education gap" that causes American students to avoid STEM careers (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). This is a bunch of malarkey. First they gutted agriculture, then manufacturing, and now STEM and our research backbone.
It all starts out when lobbyists claim there is a "shortage" of Americans to do a particular kind of job in order to justify the hiring of non-citizens or off-shoring the work. This is all so that they can pay out lower wages for the same work. The lobbyists' shortage story is usually a lie, and objective studies usually prove them wrong.
I've personally witnessed abuses of the H-1B visa program whereby American citizens are passed over for foreign "guest" workers (see side-bar). Thus, this strikes close to home.
How are we going to have all those wonderful war machines that conservatives love so much if only our enemies know how to make them? The endless search for cheaper labor is going to bite us in the.
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