EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
CHARGE TO THE COMMITTEE
The National Academies was asked by Senator
Lamar Alexander and Senator Jeff Bingaman of the
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, with
endorsement by Representative Sherwood Boehlert and
Representative Bart Gordon of the House Committee on
Science, to respond to the following questions:
What are the top 10 actions, in priority order, that
federal policymakers could take to enhance the sci-
ence and technology enterprise so that the United
States can successfully compete, prosper, and be
secure in the global community of the 21st centu-
ry? What strategy, with several concrete steps,
could be used to implement each of those actions?
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BEST AND BRIGHTEST [where have we heard that before? Google it.]
IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING HIGHER EDUCATION
RECOMMENDATION C: Make the United States the
most attractive setting in which to study and perform
research so that we can develop, recruit, and retain the
best and brightest students, scientists, and engineers
from within the United States and <large>throughout the world.</large>
Implementation Actions
Action C-4: Continue to improve visa processing for
international students and scholars to provide less
complex procedures and continue to make improve-
ments on such issues as visa categories and duration,
travel for scientific meetings, the technology alert list,
<large>reciprocity agreements</large>, and changes in status.
Reciprocity agreements: This means NAFTA, SAFTA, CAFTA, and all the other Administrative FASTTRACK trade agreements with nations that put them on a "level playing field" with the U.S. This means bottom of the barrel labor costs, cheap foreign labor, no environmental costs, no U.S. taxes, offshore costs paid by EXIM Bank and OPIC (your tax dollars), and flush those lofty American salaries, health and retirement benefits. Do you think a third world nation could compete on a "level playing field" with those costs?
Action C-5: Provide a 1-year automatic visa exten-
sion to international students who receive doctor-
ates or the equivalent [3 years working =
1 year in college – it’s the law] in science, technology,
engineering, mathematics, or other fields of national
need at qualified US institutions to remain in the
United States to seek employment. If these students
are offered jobs by US-based employers and pass a
security screening test, they should be provided
automatic work permits and expedited residence
status. If students are unable to obtain employment
within 1 year, their visas would expire.
Action C-6: Institute a new skills-based, preferential
immigration option. Doctoral-level education and science
and engineering skills would substantially raise an appli-
cant’s chances and priority in obtaining US citizenship. In
the interim, the number of H-1B visas should be
increase by 10,000, and the additional visas should be
available for industry to hire science and engineering
applicants with doctorates from US universities.
This report from such a prestigious(?) source is a major doctrine in support of unlimited expansion of H-1B high-tech visas and expedited infiltration of the job market by over TWO MILLION guest workers and foreign students per year. Right now, mass layoffs of citizen high tech workers, engineers, and professionals of all occupations are occurring across the country – nearly every industry in American is downsizing and offshoring their business functions – the same companies that are begging Congress for more cheap foreign labor. These are not just call center operations; they are every facet of business operation from manufacturing to accounting to legal to HR and management. Your tax returns and credit card transactions are being administrated in foreign countries. Workmen’s compensation and aid to dependent children programs are developed by foreign companies.
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There are three major bills before Congress right now to turn US immigration programs into slave trade – the Specter "amnesty" bill S.2611, the Cornyn SKIL Bill S.2691, and the Shadegg counterpart in the House H.R.5744. All three have stipulations to expand the H-1B and student work visas to infinity. Additionally, Senate and House budget bills are currently being padded with H-1B visa expansion amendments. Surprisingly, last week’s attempt to smuggle legislation past the public eye was derailed by Edward Kennedy and Hilary Clinton, staunch advocates of the replacement of American citizens by cheap foreign labor.
JUST IN:Senator Edward Kennedy intends to launch his own major immigration legislation this week to implement illegal alien amnesty to 30 million and unlimited foreign labor insurgence. These latest Open Borders regulations have been developed by the Essential Worker Immigration Coalition, the US Chamber of Commerce, the ACLU, the National Immigration Law Center, La Raza, and the Service Employees International Union.
American students are dropping out of science and engineering studies by the tens of thousands because there are no jobs that will recoup their tuitions. Our tax dollars pay for foreign student enrollments. This amounts to a gigantic federal labor subsidy to international corporations.
Since the report was released, the committee has learned that the
Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2005, signed into law on December 8,
2004, exempts individuals that have received a master’s or higher education
degree from a US university from the statutory cap (up to 20,000). The bill
also raised the H-1B fee and allocated funds to train American workers. The
committee believes that this provision is sufficient to respond to its recom-
mendation—even though the 10,000 additional visas recommended is
specifically for science and engineering doctoral candidates from US uni-
versities, which is a narrower subgroup.
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An incorrect number was provided for the graduate student stipend in the
original October 12, 2005 edition of the Executive Summary and has now
been corrected.
Recent lawsuits have just won the right for American engineers and computer systems workers who have been layed off by the hundreds of thousands due to cheap foreign labor and offshoring of jobs to be eligible for training in the programs afforded by the H-1B training funds. These funds and resources have been denied to American telecom and computer systems workers since implementation in the late 1990’s. Congress refused to believe that Americans were being fired and replaced by foreign workers. Notwithstanding the recent court victory, Congress still believes that engineering, computer science, nursing, teaching, and accounting are jobs Americans won’t do.
US ECONOMY
• The United States is today a net importer of
high-technology products. Its trade balance in
high-technology manufactured goods shifted
from plus $54 billion in 1990 to negative $50 bil-
lion in 2001.
The statistics on real trade imbalance are quite current. I wonder why this 7-year old statistic was quoted? This blurb is meant to shock readers into thinking that we are falling behind in high-technology because of the lack of foreign talent. 3 million American manufacturing workers were sent to the unemployment lines in the aftermath of NAFTA. Here are some more current numbers for you to think about. I have included reference:
http://www.census.gov/...
The 2005 deficit with Canada ($76.5 billion), exports to Canada ($211.3 billion),
and imports from Canada ($287.9 billion) were records.
The 2005 deficit with Mexico ($50.1 billion), exports to Mexico ($120.0 billion)
and imports from Mexico ($170.2 billion) were records.
The 2005 deficit with the European Union ($122.4 billion), exports to the European Union ($186.3 billion), and imports from the European Union ($308.8 billion) were records.
The 2005 deficit with China ($201.6 billion), exports to China ($41.8 billion),
and imports from China ($243.5 billion) were records.
The 2005 deficit with Japan ($82.7 billion) was a record and 2005 imports from Japan
($138.1 billion) were the highest since 2000 ($146.5 billion).
The 2005 deficit with South/Central America ($50.7 billion), exports to South/Central
America ($72.2 billion), and imports from South/Central America ($122.8 billion) were
records.
The 2005 deficit with OPEC ($92.7 billion), exports to OPEC ($32.0 billion) and imports
from OPEC ($124.8 billion) were records.
The 2005 deficit in advanced technology products ($44.4 billion) and imports of advanced technology products ($260.0 billion) were records.
The 2005 exports in advanced technology products ($215.6 billion) were the second highest on record. The record occurred in 2000 ($227.4 billion).
The 2005 import average price per barrel of crude oil ($46.78) was a record.
The 2005 import value of crude petroleum ($175.6 billion) was a record.
The 2005 surplus in agricultural products ($5.5 billion) decreased $5.2 billion from the 2004 surplus in agricultural products of $9.1 billion.
NAFTA and CAFTA are responsible for the war on the American farmer. We pay the price in e-coli and salmonella poisoning. The FDA announced last week that half of all food testing laboratories will be closed immediately.
http://www.epinet.org/
The Economic Policy Institute estimates that every $1 billion
in net trade deficits destroys between 11,000 and 20,000 jobs.
$721 Billion deficit * 15,000 = 10,815,000 American Jobs Destroyed in 2005
Back to the story:
• US scheduled airlines currently outsource por-
tions of their aircraft maintenance to China and
El Salvador.
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• IBM recently sold its personal computer business
to an entity in China.
• In 2005, American investors put more new
money in foreign stock funds than in domestic
stock portfolios.
• The United States is one of the few countries in
which industry plays a major role in providing
health care for its employees and their families.
You can kiss that goodbye.
COMPARATIVE ECONOMICS
• Chemical companies closed 70 facilities in the
United States in 2004 and tagged 40 more for
shutdown. Of 120 chemical plants being built
around the world with price tags of $1 billion or
more, one is in the United States and 50 are in
China. No new refineries have been built in the
United States since 1976.
Who cares? American chemical companies and refineries have not been primarily staffed with American employees since the mid-1980’s. They still can’t compete. The only hope for the idiots running these companies is monopolization and abject slavery.
• The United States is said to have 7 million illegal
immigrants,
There are 7 million illegal immigrants in Texas. My identity has been stolen by three illegals in Houston in separate incidents. There is nothing the government can do but give me a new identity.
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• When asked in Spring 2005 what is the most
attractive place in the world in which to "lead a
good life", respondents in only one (India) of the
16 countries polled indicated the United States.
The Indians were deceived. Now that they are here they face the same degradation as US citizens.
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• A company can hire nine factory workers in
Mexico for the cost of one in America. A compa-
ny can hire eight young professional engineers in
India for the cost of one in America.
Is that plain enough for you? Don’t you think this is incentive for corporate penny pinchers Labor is usually 5% or less of the cost of a product or service. Executive salaries, though, can be larger.
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• The share of leading-edge semiconductor manu-
facturing capacity owned or partly owned by US
companies today is half what it was as recently
as 2001.
This number will be lower next year.
• During 2004, China overtook the United States
to become the leading exporter of information-
technology products, according to the OECD.
During 2006, China overtook the United States and become the world’s leading exporter (period). Venture a guess on who was their major market? Investors in China made some big bucks. Americans lost their careers, futures, homes and lives.
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HIGHER EDUCATION
• In South Korea, 38% of all undergraduates
receive their degrees in natural science or engi-
neering. In France, the figure is 47%, in China,
50%, and in Singapore 67%. In the United States,
the corresponding figure is 15%.
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• Some 34% percent of doctoral degrees in natural
sciences (including the physical, biological, earth,
ocean, and atmospheric sciences) and 56% of
engineering PhDs in the United States are
awarded to foreign-born students.
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• In the US science and technology workforce in
2000, 38% of PhDs were foreign-born.
I wonder why. Could it be that one statistic leads to the other. Does anyone want to chase this chicken and egg dichotomy? Besides, PHDs make salaries lower that BS and MS. Everyone knows that Daddy paid for the PHD to spend half his productive life in school. Such job candidates don’t have the bend and kiss aptitude required by corporate and industrial employers.
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• Estimates of the number of engineers, computer
scientists, and information technology students
who obtain 2-, 3-, or 4-year degrees vary. One
estimate is that in 2004, China graduated about
350,000 engineers, computer scientists, and infor-
mation technologists with 4-year degrees, while
the United States graduated about 140,000.
China also graduated about 290,000 with 3-year
degrees in these same fields, while the United
States graduated about 85,000 with 2- or 3-year
degrees.
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Over the past 3 years alone, both
China
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and India
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have doubled their production
of 3- and 4-year degrees in these fields, while the
US
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production of engineers is stagnant and the
rate of production of computer scientists and
information technologists doubled.
<large>• About one-third of US students intending to major
in engineering switch majors before graduating.</large>
Is it any wonder that US students, who have taken the most rigorous and challenging curricula, choose to drop out and opt for another career? There are no engineering or computer jobs worthy of Americans. Offshoring, outsourcing, cheap foreign labor, and the slow collapse of American industry has destroyed the future for our most important national resources – our engineers, technicians, and scientists.
The recent history of trade agreements and offshore migration of business functions and jobs has lined the pockets of a very few, cost millions of dollars to most companies following this insane exodus, and destroyed the lives of millions of Americans. Companies most heavily engaged in these anti-American activities are losing money and going bankrupt. The majority of capital investment has, for the first time in American history, gone offshore. Our trade deficits are surging and we are enriching our enemies. European and Asian implementation of technology is a decade beyond ours. America is becoming a third-world country.
All of this has occurred because of the type of people elected to Congress. As long as the pubic views Congressional elections as an episode of Survivor or votes "straight ticket" we will continue to degrade and dismantle our lives and futures. We have tried the Republicrats, now we are being sold out by the Demopubs. This idiotic flip-flop has been recurring for 90 years. When will you get the message? Only Ralph Nader has a patriotic and sound platform for cleaning and weaning the government, but no one will vote for him because he is not Survivor material. In 2008, the most vitally important task will be to defeat Cheney. Clinton will need every vote. Unfortunately, their legislative and strategic policies are the same, but that does not matter. You will be voting for women, open borders, gays, Iraq, and healthcare when America needs a quadruple bypass in Congress.
You need to understand how the upper class thinks. They are typically brain dead and propose only one-sided policies of theft, control, and secrecy. They outwardly show contempt for government, but seldom pay taxes, get huge tax benefits, shelters, subsidies and personal legislation. They own the government. They own you and I, more so now than any period since the Civil War. Congress is paid by these people to do their bidding. Your votes to Dems and Pubs support this tyranny.
I would have more confidence in children running the country than upper class weasels.
So, when you vote for the next wave of lawyers and corporate executives to control the nation, at least do it with an understanding of the suicidally stupid motive of following the crowd of your fellow lemmings.
One word sums up the philosophy and strategy of this entire drama. It is a word you hear several times per day. You hear it from all of the people I have been writing about. You always hear it in positive illumination. You never hear anyone say anything negative about it.
Hello world!
Globalization