Import robotic bed pan changers and hand holders from Japan? Good idea.

h:

Americans aren't anti-human.

My wife is a nurse. They do mandatory overtime pretty regularly because they are short-staffed. There are always job openings and the hospital is our county's largest employer.

In NYC, most nurses are immigrants from Ireland or the Phillipines even at the best hospitals. It would seem a simple matter to import even physicians from the CIS countries, who make $300/month now to do even low level nursing jobs. Many of these folks already know English.

You already know don't you that should we target nurses or other caregivers for preferred immigration we will be roundly criticized by the left for causing shortages of these same workers in their native countries?

The local hospital's CEO told me the other day thet the hospital's new dialysis center isn't able to hit the break-even point yet on number of paitents undergoing treatment because they're waiting for the INS to approve travel permits and working papers for several more nurses from the Philippines to meet staffing requirements for the facility. They took that step because they were unable to obtain enough nurses domestically to meet the state's paitent/caregiver ratio standards, and also had to get the doctor in charge of the facility from India, via residency in NYC, for the same reason.

C'mon - according to NRO, Tancredo, Buchanan the immigrants are taking all the US jobs and must be shipped out. Therefore this article must be wrong. (sarcasm off)

"Americans aren't anti-human"

Neither are Japanese. (then again in the case of Americans, you haven't met my mother-in-law)

(the original post was meant as a joke by the way)

And my apologies for inappropriate remarks in the above thread regarding Norway. I should have said they are a mighty dagger ready to strike the Shetland islands.

h:

then why don't they have any children?

Actually the Japanese have internalized the incessant harping from westerners, that the island is overpopulated and that Asians are nothing more than "ants" multiplying like the plague.

I made that up. I don't know the answer to your question, but as I have said before, rising standards of living seem to effect ALL populations in that manner, including Catholic Italy, Catholic Mexico, India, China (though I agree they seem to be rather crude on the subject), Europe, and even South American countries.

It seems to me that the California law demonstrates the folly of the California Legislature. I just wonder how loud the cries would be if the hospitals began turning away the sick and injured because they didn't have enough nurses to meet some stone-engraved caregiver to patient ratio.

If hospitals offered better wages and working conditions, ther would be no shortage. Dito for other jobs.