Despite High Unemployment, Millions of Job Openings

I BELEAVE THAT CHILDREN MUST TO GO TO SCHOOL

ASMA of AL 2:47PM October 21, 2011

This is such a complete lie meant to import more workers through H-1B visas and outsource American jobs - it's corporate and political BS.

I am tired of hearing about the "skills gap." Really, a skills gap with 22% real unemployment?With millions of American citizens with PhDs, MBAs, MSs, JDs, etc., out of work, we don't need more immigrants on H-1B visas or other visas, and we certainly don't need Congressmen looking to keep the unemployed Americans out of work. Those unemployed include vets, engineers who helped build Americas infrastructure, computer scientists and programmers who helped build Silicon Valley, etc., etc. Those 22% unemployed went to the same colleges and universities the foreigners want to attend (or are attending) so it's inconsistent to claim that Americans' education is somehow worse (but then logic never stopped Congress or CEOs) than foreigners' education. I guess the skills learned over in India or China or Vietnam are superior to those in the US? I guess FoxConn is the cutting edge of Chinese labor skills and education?

Come on, this is the same tired excuse that CEOs and other officers use, as "job creators," to create more jobs for lower-paid H-1B visa recipients. Why hire an American with a PhD when you can bring in a foreigner for 1/5 the pay - loyalty be damned (and CEOs are the first ones to say profit above all else, so don't expect anything else). And those jobs they cannot pay for here, they simply ship out overseas. So the American workers is screwed time and time again. But they keep telling the American workers to retrain, retrain, retrain, all at the workers' own expense. Why? If workers keep going into greater debt and won't get hired anyway, or will get hired only to retrain a foreigners here or overseas, what's the point? When American companies refuse to hire the unemployed from America, but will gladly hire someone from overseas with little relevant education or those who engage in visa fraud (Google H-1B visa fraud, US Attorneys' visa fraud cases, Infosys, HP, Microsoft, Cisco, etc. to understand the visa games), we have been SOLD OUT.

I think the CEOs and their paid-for Congressmen (like Bill Gates having private meetings with Senators spouting the H-1B lies to secure cheap labor at Americans' expense) should go out to the unemployment lines and spout their lies and propaganda. Maybe the veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan (with some of the highest unemployment in the USA) might disagree with the lies coming from CEOs, other corporate officers, the corporate media, and their paid-for Congressmen about what Americans can and cannot do. Corporate America - is destroying the middle class and shipping millions of jobs overseas to Communist and other countries while enriching yourselves "UNAMERICAN" or is that term only reserved for the Americans who dare say, "ENOUGH! Look out for the 99%'s interests for once in your lives."

We are the 99% and we are sick of the lies of TX 1:38PM October 13, 2011

Another thing you have to keep in mind is some of these job postings are not really meant to hire a person. Some are out there to see who applies. I know of a company who posts jobs with no intention of hiring anyone unless they are a unique skill set that is exactly what they want. They don't care if they hire anybody, but it would be a bonus if they found the right person. Kind of like fishing.

DD of AR 12:58PM October 06, 2011

Work night shifts at hospital. Pay starts in mid 30's per hour up to high 48 an hour for OT. We go short of staff on every floor nightly. Numerous openings but many people unwilling to work crazy hours. The work is out there, but people want normal 9 to 5 schedule. Those jobs are getting harder and harder to find. The jobs are there but people not willing to change.

frank of TX 7:15AM October 06, 2011