> Studies by the US Labor Department and others predict serious shortages of skilled labor (everything from scientists and managers to technicians and typists) as the educational system deteriorates, part of the collapse of infrastructure accelerated by #Reaganite social and economic policies. The tendency may be mitigated by modification of immigration laws to encourage a brain drain, but that is not likely to prove adequate.
#NoamChomsky in #DeterringDemocracy for #H1Bvisa context #uspol
> boasting proudly to the business world that #Reagan had “granted more import relief to #USIndustry than any of his predecessors in more than half a century”; in fact, more than all predecessors combined, as they led “the sustained assault on [#FreeTrade] principle”.. deplored in a scholarly review by #GATT secretariat economist #PatrickLow, who estimates the restrictive effects of #Reaganite measures at about three times those of other leading industrial countries.
https://chomsky.info/199705__/
The Passion for Free Markets

The Noam Chomsky Website.