April 07, 2009 NOTE: PLEASE say if you DON'T want your name and/or email address published when sending VDARE email. A Displaced Texas Programmer Analyzes The Pattern Of Low Salaries And Immigration That Leads To American Job Loss
From:
Virgil Bierschwale (e-mail
him) Re: Edwin S.
Rubenstein’s Blog:
March Jobs: Eight Years Of American Gains Wiped Out by
Immigrants Rubenstein may have overlooked a key point in his otherwise fine analysis. I spent over thirty years traveling
around America doing
software contract work. During that time, few
Hispanics worked along side me. But I did notice that
Hispanics held many
low paying jobs nationwide. To fully understand the impact of
immigration, the jobs must be broken down by salary
levels, as I have
done on
my website. For instance, in the report that I
linked to above, I document how American businesses
eliminated over 1,200,000 jobs that paid an average of
$96,000 each and replaced them with jobs that paid
only in the
$34,000 range. The transfer of wealth, perpetrated
by corporations that prefer
immigrant labor, is the actual cause of our economic
crisis.
Bierschwale was a contract programmer from 1988 until
2002 when he “found out the hard way” that
American work was being sent offshore.
He is the founder of
Keepamericaatwork.com
Edwin S. Rubenstein comments:
Virgil has a point: the displacement of non-Hispanics in
the U.S. labor force is motivated by economics. But this
is the very point that I have
belabored for years regarding immigration.
Corporate America values low-wage,
unskilled immigrants more than well-educated natives.
Cheap labor boosts profits, reduces tax liabilities, and
eliminates the need to invest in expensive plant and
equipment. The latter point is especially relevant in
these times of
credit stringency. |
