Wilder: Cast Over Competance

John Wilder's latest, "Caste Over Competence: Globalism Is Economic Suicide," explains how selling off manufacturing and jobs to China and importing workers from India has destroyed this country and its prosperity. As John notes:

This [the chasing of the lowest cost labor] is a strategy for hollowing out the West’s economy, stripping our skills, and handing our jobs to foreigners who don’t play by our rules at all, transforming our country into Albania on the Atlantic.  Globalism is not just bad economics, it’s a betrayal of the West.  And politicians love it. 

Read the whole thing. 

Related: 

• "Data on How America Sold Out its Computer Science Graduates"--Kevin Lynn. At the same time as large corporations claim they need foreign programmers because of a shortage of American graduates, unemployment among programmers and computer science majors is well above the national unemployment rate. If you want to know why the unemployment rate among computer professionals is so high (bold in original):

In 2023, American colleges graduated 134,153 citizens or green card holders with bachelor's or master's degrees in computer science. That same year, our federal government handed out work permits to at least 110,098 foreign workers in computer occupations through just three major guest worker programs. That's equal to 82% of our graduating class who are guaranteed jobs even before any Americans walk across the stage for their diploma. 

As the author points out, "[t]his isn't competition. This is systematic displacement, dressed up in the language of diversity and global talent acquisition. And it's destroying the future we promised our own students." And our own kids. 

• "Data on Why American Engineering Graduates Are Losing Ground"--Kevin Lynn. Although not quite as bad as the situation for those with degrees in computer science, the outlook for engineering majors is not so good, with unemployment up and wages down. Lynn notes (bold in original): "In 2023, while America graduated 137,237 citizen engineers with bachelor's or master's degrees, the federal government simultaneously approved at least 33,836 foreign guest workers with engineering backgrounds through just three major guest worker programs."

• "US signals intention to rethink job H-1B lottery"--The Register. Will this help? I don't know. From the article:

    The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) intend to reevaluate how H-1B visas are issued, according to a regulatory filing.

    The notice, filed on Thursday with the US Office of Management and Budget's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), seeks the statutory review of a proposed rule titled "Weighted Selection Process for Registrants and Petitioners Seeking To File Cap-Subject H-1B Petitions."

    Once the review is complete, which could be a matter of days or weeks, the text of the rule is expected to be published in the US Federal Register.

    Based on the rule title, it appears the government intends to change the system for allocating H-1B visas the current lottery to some system that will favor applicants who meet specified criteria, possibly related to skills. 

The should just shut down the whole H1B program.  

• "Did Microsoft Outsource DoD Data To China?"--Battle Swarm Blog. Yes, yes they did. 
• "Microsoft’s Use Of China-Based Engineers Could Be Leaving Pentagon Tech Exposed To Hackers"--Daily Caller.