Why Employers Want More H1-B Employees When Half of U.S.College Grads Are Un- and Underemployed

A new report, ironically conducted by university researchers, indicates that more than half of employers are unhappy with today's crop of U.S.college graduates, for example, that many are seriously lacking in thinking skills, writing, etc.

That's no surprise because the vast majority of our 1,500 four-year (a misnomer) colleges, are 98.6 schools: virtually all you need to get in is normal body temperature--Have you tried to engage in an intelligent conversation with the typical undergraduate at, say, Middle Tennessee State University?

So, except at the small percentage of elite institutions, professors have been forced to dumb-down classes. leaving the bright bored and the slow still bewildered. Indeed, other studies, notably this major nationwide study show almost half of college students grow little or not at all in writing and thinking skills.

As a result, an American college degree, despite taking years and costing a true fortune, no longer signifies competence in reading, writing thinking, etc. It more likely signifies that the student has been liberalized or radicalized, which may demotivate them as employees. Indeed the aforementioned new study speaks of employers frustrated with the today's American college graduates' lack of work ethic.

Is it any wonder why 53.6 percent of college graduates are un- or underemployed at the same time as companies are urging expansion of the H1-B visa program so they can hire more foreigners?

And if that's the state of U.S.college graduates, imagine what the 46 percent of freshmen are like who, even if given six years, don't graduate?

Macbeth concluded that life is "full of sound and fury and signifying nothing." Might that increasingly be applied to American undergraduate education?