Thread: U.S. Chamber Says Nation Faces Worker Shortage.....

One possible reason Washington is turning a blind eye to illegals....

AP
U.S. Faces Severe Worker Shortage in Future
Wednesday January 4, 1:42 pm ET
By Jim Abrams, Associated Press Writer
U.S. Chamber Says Nation Faces Worker Shortage, Requires Immigration, Education Changes


WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States faces a severe worker shortage in the near future, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said Wednesday in advocating better education for Americans and changes in immigration law to allow in more foreign workers.
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Chamber President and CEO Thomas Donohue, at a news conference outlining business prospects in 2006, said the country is ill-prepared to deal with the impending retirement of 77 million baby boomers.

"We have yet to secure an adequate supply of working taxpayers to run a growing economy and support an explosion of retirees," he said in his organization's report on the state of U.S. business.

Donohue said that working to pass new immigration law that includes a guest worker program will be among the Chamber's top legislative priorities in the new year. He said the Chamber opposed a bill passed by the House in December, which tightens border security and requires employers to verify the legal status of workers but does not address the guest worker issue.

He dismissed as a "crummy argument" criticisms that the business community wants a guest worker program to secure access to cheap labor. "What American companies want is labor, and we are going to be significantly without it," Donohue said.

The Senate is expected to take up the immigration issue next month, and Donohue said his group will be "working to obtain a bill that provides the workers and is in keeping without our legacy as a welcoming nation."

Donohue said the Chamber has traditionally stayed out of school reform at the state and local level, but has changed its thinking in a global environment where China graduates eight times, and India five times, as many engineers as the United States.

He said the Chamber plans to measure and rank the performance of state school systems, with the aim of helping businesses decide where to locate. The Chamber is also working with other business organizations to double the number of math, science and engineering graduates by 2015.

Donohue said that among the business group's other legislative goals this year will be passing legislation to shore up pension plans, finding a solution to the asbestos litigation crisis, promoting health savings accounts and other new approaches to reducing the number of those without health insurance, and opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the Outer Continental Shelf to environmentally sound oil and gas exploration.

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Chamber President and CEO Thomas Donohue, at a news conference outlining business prospects in 2006, said the country is ill-prepared to deal with the impending retirement of 77 million baby boomers.

Well, "Thomas", the last time I checked social security is a personal individual program and doesn't concern the US Chamber or your members. So, tell your business members that the people to whom the retirement system belongs will deal with our retirement system. The last time I checked none of us want your Traitorous Globalist Butts messing in our social security; our labor laws; or our immigration laws. All we want you to do is comply with our laws and pay whatever we decide to bill you. See, "Thomas", when the US Chamber of Commerce lobbied for Free Trade Agreements, you and your members let the sun shine on your globalist "tendencies". So we know now that you've been selling out our country for a buck. So, if you think any of US now care what you think, you need to think again.

What you need to do "Thomas" is shut down your organization and take an "early retirement" before we start chasing you and your members of the country with sticks.

One question, if Social Security is such a big concern, then WHY are we giving it to non-citizens of this country? I read an article a while back that said people get legal status so they can get Social Security for their elderly parents and then once it is set up they go back down to Mexico and draw a 900.00 check that is deposited directly into an account that they can access from anywhere.