tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803385070922797451.post6857295647239119204..comments2024-03-27T12:56:38.992-07:00Comments on The Skeptical Bureaucrat: Sweetshop Labor On J-1 VisasTSBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02790614121966204073noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803385070922797451.post-39098038790863849272011-08-20T12:34:24.216-07:002011-08-20T12:34:24.216-07:00Good point. So far as I can see, the conditions ar...Good point. So far as I can see, the conditions are the same. <br /><br />But then there might not *be* any American workers if the first place, not if Hershey's subs can bring over cheaper and more tractable foreign students by means of this curious cultural exchange visa program. <br /><br />The J-1 scheme depresses wages for Americans who do the same work, adds to unemployment - what's our unemployment rate now? - and screws the foreign students out of the cultural exchange they thought they were supposed to get. <br /><br />It looks to me like the winners are Hershey, its subcontractors, and the middleman companies who bring these students over to haul boxes around a warehouse for $8 an hour minus living expenses. The losers are unemployed and underemployed local citizens, the foreign students who get shortchanged, and our foreign image after those students go back home hating America.<br /><br />If businesses like Hershey want to import cheap foreign labor to exploit, let them advocate openly for a guest worker program. Then we can have a public debate and make a politically responsible decision. Let's stop doing it in the guise of a cultural exchange program.TSBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02790614121966204073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803385070922797451.post-82351069641600211332011-08-20T09:52:53.232-07:002011-08-20T09:52:53.232-07:00Aren't these the same conditions for U.S. work...Aren't these the same conditions for U.S. workers?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803385070922797451.post-77669439578204705362011-08-19T01:00:50.063-07:002011-08-19T01:00:50.063-07:00TSB: I thought going to foreign countries by excha...TSB: I thought going to foreign countries by exchange students and then protesting against oppression was a tradition started by the Clintons. It's just a "phase" so you can go back home and become a great politician! gwbAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com