Earlier today , President Barack Obamatook part in a Google+ Hangout . You might think this was a brassy effort stunt . ( And it kind of was ! ) But a serious applied science employment question follow up , and the President flubbed it .
https://gizmodo.com/hang-out-with-gizmodo-and-president-obama-5880672
Jennifer Weddel , from Fort Worth , Texas asked the President why H1B visa are being still being issued and extended when American technology worker are still out of work . She said her husband is a semiconductor equipment engineer , who has been look for a full - time problem for three years .
The President expressed surprisal at this , say “ there ’s a vast demand around the rural area for locomotive engineer , ” and that “ what manufacture say me that they do n’t have enough highly - skilled engineers . ” He then require on the dot what form of engineer her husband was , and went on to state that “ the parole we ’re getting is that somebody in that kind of high tech athletic field , that kind of engineer , should be able to regain something right away . ”
Well , not exactly .
Not all technical school jobs are create equal , even in engineering science . And manufacturing jobs in applied science are moving abroad , or going aside altogether , just as surely as they are in other sphere . Moreover , the problem is , anecdotally at least , even harder for experient proletarian like Weddel ’s spouse .
In fact , the Bay Citizen had a tarradiddle about the struggles aged engineers are feature finding work just two twenty-four hour period ago . ( It also appeared in the Bay Area edition of the New York Times . ) The account call in out the semiconductor industry in peculiar , pointing out that the “ semiconductor sector , which used to be the lifeblood of the South Bay ’s economy , has lost 4,600 jobs since 2008 . ” And that ’s just a local news story .
Moreover , this is n’t a new thing . The National Science Foundationreports that domestic in high spirits technical school manufacturing job have turn down by 28 percentage since 2000 , some 687,000 job . Even R&D is progressively being performed oversea by large multinationals , notes the same account .
So yes . If you may build something for the World Wide Web , it may be easygoing to score a line at Facebook or Google or as an app developer . But for Americans who build something you may hold in your manus , like a semiconductor unit and the twist they enable , it ’s still problematic out there . President Obama , and the Washington establishment in general , ought to fuck that .
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