US High Tech Workers Replaced by 3rd World
by Jeff Davis
It is a commonly understood if seldom voiced truth about America’s wide-open borders immigration policy, that Mexicans are being brought in to replace blacks as manual labor while Asians, including Hindus, Indonesians and Bangladeshis are being brought in to replace white professionals. Nowhere is this trend more clearly manifest than in the fields of engineering and information technology (IT). Call centers and customer service jobs aren’t the only American jobs being outsourced to India; American engineering and IT jobs are following at a rapid rate.
If Third World engineers were as intelligent and professional as Americans or Europeans, then why haven’t the one billion people in India produced one useful product that Americans are willing to buy? The nation of Sweden with only fifteen million people has two successful car companies that export their autos all over the world. There is a gigantic difference in technical competency from the technically advanced world to the Third World. The Third World is a hopeless backwater, that only seems able to produce cheap plastic and electronic products under slave-labor conditions.
The main problem with big corporations employing American IT workers is that Americans want decent pay, medical insurance, job security and respect from their employers. Multi-national corporations have discovered they don’t have to provide any of these things in the Third World. Given the choice between really investing in human resources and hiring a competent, skilled, intelligent and talented White American workforce, or hiring Asian “engineers” or “systems analysts” with useless degrees from Vindaloo U. for little more pay than a 7-11 clerk, the multinationals go for brown and cheap every time. American big business plans MAYBE ten minutes ahead on a good day. The desire to outsource is pursued with a religious fanaticism.
One huge problem is that modern-day Americans are not allowed to speak candidly about non-Whites. We have been so bludgeoned by political correctness, that any criticism of Third World labor is quickly branded as “racist”. Even individual criticism of just one inept Third Worlder can run into a charge of racism. The Third Worlder himself will often scream “racism” when his incompetence is pointed out in a desperate attempt to save his butt. If Americans could speak honestly, at least they could make some intelligent generalizations such as 90 percent of Indians are not competent, 100 percent of Bangladeshis, etc. This way they could hire from the more “competent” Third World nations. Most American companies don’t realize that they should be laying off nine out of ten Third Worlders to find the one semi-competent individual. The situation is the complete reverse from what would be expected with American workers.
According to a recent news article, “In 2001, India graduated almost a million more students from college than the United States. China graduates twice as many students with bachelor’s degrees as the United States, and they have six times as many graduates majoring in engineering. The U.S. versus the world higher education score has worsened every year since 2001….This pool of college educated foreign talent [sic], which includes hundreds of millions of people in China and India alone, earn a fraction of what American professionals and scientists earn. This is because the standard of living in China and India combined with favorable currency exchange rates make what would seem like a pauper’s salary in the U.S. a highly attractive living wage in those countries.”
In other words, high-tech companies are either outsourcing American jobs or what is worse, bringing unqualified and incompetent Third World engineers and computer people into this country who have shoddy degrees from equally shoddy (or in some cases simply non-existent) universities that come nowhere near American standards. These unqualified Third World “professionals” are gradually undermining American engineering. The results will be a collapsed bridge here, a crumpled building there and a new generation of planes that crash as often as they fly.
The American auto industry tried hiring cheap engineers and designers. They loaded up with quota-hires, Middle Easterners and Indians. The result has been the complete failure of Ford and General Motors to compete with German and Japanese auto companies. Both GM and Ford are carrying out mass lay offs as they plummet toward bankruptcy. Now our aerospace industry is making the same exact mistake even to the point of hiring some of the very same Indian and other Third World engineers, who just destroyed Ford and GM with their incompetence.
The Op Ed piece goes on to state, “….Today, the U.S government appears to be working closely with industry and universities to discourage their citizens from obtaining four year and advanced college degrees in math and the sciences. State and Federal governments are slashing support for both universities and students. U.S. students must increasingly borrow large sums of money to finance their college educations…. according to the Higher Education Project, the volume of college loans has increased 60 percent since 1998. The average college student’s debt at graduation was about $17,500 before the GOP controlled congress cut an additional $12 billion from student aid programs last winter. That $12 billion reduction in student aid translates to as much as $5,800 added on to the already substantial $17,500 average student loan amount…while government and industry are taking away college access with one hand, they are just as busy taking away technology jobs with the other hand by giving those jobs to foreign workers.”
The result is that a whole generation of American IT graduates who were turned out by the truckload in the 1990s in order to meet the demands of the Microsoft and internet explosion are now largely unemployed and saddled with huge student loans many of them will never pay off, courtesy of capitalism’s insensate lust for cheap labor at any cost to quality, safety or reliability of products. Another one of those quiet, unsung little tragedies of ruined lives which lurks behind the scenes of George W. Bush’s Amurrica.