The headline reads 'Skilled immigrants leaving in record numbers for better opportunities in their home countries' I say good riddance and good bye!

The gist of this news flash is that immigrants are leaving the US in record numbers for their countries of origin. As their countries develop there are opportunities there for them, not necessarily as good as the positions they have held here but they are closer to their families and friends, and they say, the quality of life is better even though they make considerably less than here, sound logic I guess if you believe that bull s_ _t is really the truth, personally I don't. The writer goes on to say that we may suffer from a talent vacuum by letting these people go and implies that we should try to get these people to stay. Now the writer admitted that the economy is one of the primary reasons that many of these people are leaving, one of my guesses is that our marketplace may be a little to competitive for many of these people and they see themselves climbing the career ladder easier in their own countries where competition is significantly less.

The primary groups cited in the article are Indians and Chinese, and realizing that these two groups have strong family ties it is understandable that they would have a degree of homesickness. Please don't get me wrong for so much as a second, I am one of those who strongly believes that cohesive family units are the backbone of great nations. Breakdown and weaken the family and you will eventually become a second rate country/power. The article also went on to discuss the fact that the vast majority of these immigrants who were leaving, originally came here on student visas and were educated in our Universities on our dime, that means we the taxpayers paid for it. Now, I think it's a good and noble cause that we help other countries by educating their youth but I don't agree with it when it's done at the expense of ours. Large percentages of these 'immigrants' graduate college and go to post graduate schools for advanced degrees which in itself is good but there's a catch to all of this.

Our own students don't get any of the breaks that the immigrant groups do. We don't get preferential placement in the University system, don't get free education, free room and board and we don't get any special considerations' when it comes to finding and securing employment. When it comes to hiring, majority Americans are at a distinct disadvantage because of failed government entitlement and quota programs. So what does this all have to do with immigrants leaving, well here's what I think. Give preference to Americans, any Americans will do but include white Americans into the mix for the first time in years. Subsidize the educational system just like it is done for foreign students and open the slots in the Colleges and Universities for our students. When it comes to hiring after education give our young people the advantage for a change and I think you will find that there won't be a talent 'vacuum' at all.

True, some very innovative companies have been started in recent years by immigrants, but innovative companies have also, been started by Americans who by the way rarely get the same credit and accolades as do their foreign counterparts. We are being conditioned by the government and media to believe we are second rate when nothing could be further from the truth. We have always been and will always continue to be the most innovative and productive country in the history of the world if only our people are allowed to be.

Thanks for reading,

"Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance the gospel of envy"
Winston Churchill (A quote by Churchill in 1948)
1874 - 1965

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