July unemployment came in at 10.2 percent, still above the 10 percent high in the 2007-2009 recession. Now more than ever, post-pandemic and social unrest, every effort should be made to create and keep jobs for Americans across all professions to ensure that our country rights itself. That includes those professions that are, mistakenly, perceived to be recession-proof.
Media coverage in recent few months has bemoaned that some doctors on visas might have to leave the U.S., or not be allowed to enter the country with pandemic travel restrictions. But there’s been scant attention paid to the thousands of recent American graduates of medical schools who remain unlicensed, and thus unable to practice medicine. Why? One factor is that U.S. taxpayer-funded medical residencies have gone to doctors from other countries – more than 4,200 just this year – those that media is so concerned about.
At the same time – as doctors and nurses work 12-hour shifts, nearly dropping from exhaustion and with no pandemic end in sight – there is another long-ignored conversation. That is the prolonged U.S. doctor “shortage.” That we would have a doctor shortage when we have thousands of newly minted doctors not working is certainly confusing. An obvious solution to what’s being consistently reported as too few doctors is to put our own talented, dedicated doctors to work and to eagerly recruit and encourage others to enter medicine, rather than pilfer, hijack and steal the physicians from other nations.
We as a nation hold the embarrassing 52nd spot in the world in our doctor-to-patient ratio, far behind dozens of other nations, including some developing countries. Armenia, Azerbaijan and Andorra outrank America. Cuba, with 8.19 doctors per 1,000 patients, has the highest doctor/patient ratio and contrasts to our 2.59 doctors per 1,000 patients.
We cannot continue to invest taxpayer and other dollars in training doctors only to then push them aside, effectively saying, “Although you thought you had reasonable, fair and equitable expectations when you graduated from medical school, you were wrong. Fooled you! We increasingly prefer foreign nationals to the greatest extent possible.” It’s completely unsustainable, as has been our approach in other areas, including technology.
In the last decade, more than 36,000 non-U.S. citizen students and graduates of international medical schools have been granted U.S. residencies (remember, they’re taxpayer-funded), and in each of the last ten years, the number has gone up, from 2,721 to 4,222 this year. All this is happening as our U.S. citizen doctors may be left driving Uber, with eight years of education that doesn’t easily transfer to another profession, and perhaps as much as half a million dollars in student loan debt.
By every ethical and moral standard, we are violating our social contract with our own citizens. It is nothing less than immoral and unethical to have medical students – students accepted into highly competitive schools – rise to meet brutal academic requirements and, in most cases, take on a huge debt load for their educations, all in the hopes of serving others, only to be shut out of the whole system. “Sorry! We’ve decided to hire the doctors from other countries instead.”
This is a most brutal and unacknowledged form of discrimination.
The powerful American Medical Association, which has lobbied for more H-1B and J-1 visas to bring in foreign doctors, has a lot of explaining to do, as does the Association of American Medical Colleges. Ditto our elected officials in the House and Senate.
The Menai Strait between Wales and the the Isle of Anglesey is a nasty bit of sea where many a vessel has met its doom one of which happened on Dec. 5, 1664 in which the only survivor out of 81 passengers was a Hugh Williams. On Dec. 5, 1785 a ship with 60 aboard sank with but one survivor. Hs name was Hugh Williams. On Aug. 5, 1820, a vessel with 25 aboard was lost. The only survivor was a Hugh Williams. And on July 10, 1940 a British trawler was destroyed by a German mine. This time there were two survivors: Hugh Williams and his nephew. The nephew’s name was, wait for it, Hugh Williams.
Biden Would Destroy Burbs — America’s suburbs would become unrecognizable if Joe Biden becomes president says The Federalist.
The Obama administration issued a regulation known as Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) in 2015. It claimed the rule would combat “housing segregation” in suburbs, despite the Fair Housing Act of 1968 outlawing such practice and despite the suburbs experiencing a natural and healthy integration.
AFFH would have required the municipalities of places like Delaware County to scrap zoning, build bigger water and sewer lines to support high-density living, expand schools and social services and add mass transit. It would have been a federal takeover of local government.
The Trump administration killed it.
If Biden wins, he — or his handlers — will bring it back on steroids.
Biden backs a proposal by Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., that would withhold federal transportation grants unless communities sign on to AFFH. It would be almost impossible for many communities to decline this funding, and the feds would effectively usurp local government.
Life in Delco, Montco, Chesco and Bucks would change for the worse. Open space will disappear, taxes will rise and those the minorities who move to the burbs seek to escape, will be empowered to follow along.
We do know want this man or his enabler as president
Yes, crime will rise. No, it is not about skin color but character.
A far better solution would be to suburbanized the cities. Give the Philadelphia neighborhoods the power to set their own zoning and hire their own police and start volunteer fire departments. It sure would complicate life for the party bosses and their flunkies who get rich off centralized power.
Ostriches don’t bury their heads in the sand to hide or for anything else for that matter. It’s a myth than can be traced to Pliny the Elder (23-79AD) the author of Naturalis Historia, which is an attempt to cover all the knowledge to be found in the Roman Empire. In Book 10, Chapter 1, Pliny says “(Ostriches) imagine, when they have thrust their head and neck into a bush, that the whole of their body is concealed”.
The knowledge to be found in the Roman Empire was not always right, but who are we to throw stones?
Ostriches don’t bury William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 8-12-20
For the last two months, the roiling immigration debate has centered around President Trump’s Executive Orders that slowed some legal migration and suspended until the end of 2020 most employment-based visas. During the period, President Trump scored a major victory over H-1B globalists when he forced Tennessee Valley Authority executives to turn back their outsourcing commitment that would cost high-skilled American workers their jobs.
Meantime, however, down on the still-porous Southwest border, illegal immigration – the contentious issue that propelled President Trump into the White House in 2016 – is worsening. Since April, and despite President Trump’s efforts to curb illegal immigration in light of the coronavirus pandemic, unlawful entry arrests have, according to Customs and Border Protection, soared 237 percent.
In March, pursuant to the urging from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, border officials turned back migrants including those who claimed asylum. For more than 90 percent of the migrants, the normal timeline for returning unlawful border crossers dropped from a period of several weeks to a mere hour and a half. The White House relied on the Public Health Safety Act’s Title 42 that permits temporarily barring the entry of persons into the United States “when doing so is required in the interest of the public health.”
In his compelling documentary, “They Come to America: the Politics of Immigration,” filmmaker Dennis Michael Lynch, in interviews with experts, gives an overview of the challenges that decades-long ineffective methods of slowing illegal entry present to the nation. Among them are drug smuggling, national security, environmental degradation and population growth.
But Lynch also focuses on illegal immigration as a labor variable that is especially harmful to low-skilled U.S. workers who have less than a college education. CBP acting Commissioner Mark A. Morgan acknowledged that, during the spring-time, surge jobs are illegal immigration’s biggest pull factor. Morgan said that “Single adult Mexican nationals, who are generally seeking economic opportunities, accounted for almost 80 percent of the encounters.” Based on the latest available federal statistics, Pew Researchestimated that 8 million illegal immigrants are in the labor force, mostly employed in agriculture but also in sectors that would present hiring possibilities for America’s under-employed like construction, hospitality, business services and manufacturing.
While there’s been much fanfare, both positive and negative, about President Trump’s “big beautiful wall,” Lynch makes clear that no structure can protect the nation’s waterways from illegal entrants. As an example, Lynch cites the CBP’s Miami sector that’s assigned to cover Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina.
The Miami sector consists of approximately 187,000 square miles and has 1,203 miles of Florida’s coastal borders along the Atlantic and Gulf shores. In his statement, Morgan advocated for President Trump’s wall. But as Lynch pointed out, a wall is meaningless with such a vast expanse of unprotected shores and waterways that migrant smugglers can easily penetrate. At the time Lynch’s documentary went into production, a mere 111 CBP agents, and only two with boats, were assigned to the Miami sector.
President Trump’s wall-blustering is empty talk. Even if a wall were erected, the effect of deterring illegal immigration would be, at best, minor, and a flat zero for water arrivals. While talking about migrants in search of “economic opportunities,” Morgan missed a chance to promote E-Verify which, since the program confirms individuals’ lawful authorization to work, is a proven illegal immigration deterrent.
U.S. ineptitude at immigration enforcement is known to prospective migrants worldwide. Lynch’s documentary featured a local CBS broadcaster who reported that the Miami sector alone had apprehended aliens from 64 nations.
Labor Day will mark the official kickoff for the 2020 presidential campaign. Voters will be subjected to a nearly unbearable torrent of speeches that promise more jobs for Americans. But just as reporters asked Democratic primary candidates if they supported open borders and Medicare for illegal immigrants, President Trump and challenger Joe Biden should face an equally probing question: Would you, if elected, demand that Congress pass mandatory E-Verify?
Joe Guzzardi is a Progressives for Immigration Reform analyst who has written about immigration for more than 30 years. Contact him at jguzzardi@pfirdc.org.
The Strangites were strange but that’s not how they got the name. It comes from James Jesse Strang, a Mormon who tried to take over as head of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints after Joseph Smith was tragically killed during a shoot-out in a jailbreak. Anyway Strang failed, and started his own branch which came to be known as the Strangites.
He moved his flock to Beaver Island, the largest island in Lake Michigan, created a theocratical monarchy, took five wives and declared himself king. He also won election to the Michigan legislature, which a tyrannical zealot can do when his constituents are zombie followers. Think Portland.
Two of the zombies, though, turned on him shooting him from ambush on June 16. 1856. He died from his injuries on July 9.
Amazingly enough, Strang’s denomination still has about 130 members.
Starboard comes from the German steuerbord which means steering board which was the rudder. In ancient times, this board was on the right side of the ship if you are facing the bow. Obviously, you would not put this side against the quay while in port. The side you would place against the quay while in port would be the port side.
Discipline your children William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 8-10-20
O qfck kwzz bsjsf ps o tozqcb.
Iyfowbowb Tczy Gomwbu
Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit puzzle: Discipline your children, and they will give you peace; they will bring you the delights you desire.
Proverbs 29:17
Discipline your children William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 8-10-20
