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In reply to the discussion: High-skill green cards get lame-duck push in Congress [View all]harmonicon
(12,008 posts)44. We're not going to get there if you and others don't want it.
I want it.
Would you make a pro-racist argument because others are still racist? Are you ok with the US still having the death penalty, because Saudi Arabia and China still do? Would it be unfair for us to have equal pay for women, because other countries don't? We don't want a couple migrating here and - heaven forbid - BOTH getting jobs. That would be like a double-whammy, huh?
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We already have a problem with grad schools in engineering being filled with foreign students
pnwmom
Nov 2012
#24
The CEO is just another man in the machine. The chairman of the board is who you're after.
Selatius
Nov 2012
#13
It's not helpful to US students, who find it too difficult to get accepted into US grad schools
pnwmom
Nov 2012
#26
I'm not blaming the students. Where do you think I did that? I'm blaming govt. policies,
pnwmom
Nov 2012
#37
The purpose of competition in the labor market is to lower wages and/or increase productivity.
harmonicon
Nov 2012
#38
People DO have different rights because of where they were born. For us to ignore our
pnwmom
Nov 2012
#41
No, but if you have benefited from our nation's universities admission of many
amandabeech
Nov 2012
#20