It's the same old, same old: It's an old story that somehow too many powerful people in the US Federal Government want to do 'US national technical manpower ma

It's the same old, same old: It's an old story that somehow too many powerful people in the US Federal Government want to do 'US national technical manpower management'. E.g., when Sputnik went up, the Feds via the NSF flooded US high school and college education with money, scholarships, summer programs, etc. to get more US citizens into STEM fields. During the Cold War and the Space Race, STEM students were paid nearly well enough to buy a house; then the powers that be got really scared. But, with the stimulus, soon the supply exceeded the demand; US citizens who walked into a college STEM course saw the TA and half of the students from Asia or India, turned, and walked out. So, right: Joe and Mary paid taxes to support public education K-college and graduate school. For their children they struggled to meet college expenses. And when their children went to college, somehow they found lots of students there from India and Asia. How come? These students were from families with annual incomes less than $10,000 yet somehow got their children into the college supported by the taxes of Joe and Mary when Joe and Mary had to struggle to pay for their children in that college? Bummer. Sure: The students from India and China were there on various scholarships, indirectly paid for by Joe and Mary. Bummer. Ripoff. During the Viet Nam war, the head of the Selective Service system was old General Louis B. Hershey with the remark that "The US Selective Service System has national manpower management responsibilities far exceeding staffing the armed forces." by which he meant that US young men had two, just two, options, (1) do well in college or graduate school in STEM fields or (2) go to Viet Nam. Of course, that 'responsibility' was only in his egotistical imagination; still he executed on his delusion. Later much of the US 'military industrial complex' concluded that there was a US STEM shortage. So, the powers that be got the NSF to set up a team of economists to calculate, with essentially supply and demand curves, how much 'stimulus' would be needed to increase the labor supply. The stimulus didn't work well for US citizens, so the plan was to write into research grants in US research universities that with the grant money so many students had to be supported and that, hint, hint, there were plenty of willing students from India and Asia, hint, hint. Then there got to be the H1B scam, mostly just a new version of 'indentured servitude' or 'slave labor'. Basically, anytime STEM worker bees get paid well enough to buy a house, big forces in the US move to flood the market with STEM graduates. It's dirt simple: It's capital versus labor. Capital has power and wants cheap labor. These US powers that be are just seeking more money and power and, net, are seriously hurting the basic strength of the US. The solution is for US voters to become informed and come together and vote for the US for the US as a whole and not just for the 1% richest capitalists. Of course there's more at Prof. Norm Matloff's http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/h1b.html