Romney on Education and Immigration

During Debate #2, during the segment on Immigration, Romney stated flatly that students graduating college should have a Visa 'stapled' to their diploma.  He suggested, in effect, that we have an open door immigration policy to those non-Americans who graduate from our colleges and universities.

In Debate #3, Romney made note about the unemployment rate, and how terrible it was that half of the new college graduates couldn't find a job.  Which way do you want it Governor?  If you open the door and invite all those rich foreign students (and I say rich, because the have to have substantial money to come into the country to go to school) to stay and compete with American college graduates, you are going to make unemployment worse in this country, not better.

There's nothing wrong with opening the doors to our colleges and universities to foreign students, but Romney's position to offer them free access to our job markets, in direct competition with our own new graduates for jobs is shockingly bad.

Furthermore, it seems that Romney's only plan for Education in this country is his repeating over and over that he "Loves teachers".  I think Bob Schieffer said it best when he said "I think we can all agree that we all love teachers".  It's one thing to love teachers, but it's quite another to pay for them.  Governor Romney's budget plans involve cutting domestic 'discretionary' spending.  Since his math doesn't add up to pay for his tax cuts, and the discretionary domestic budget is already such a small part of the overall budget, you know that the 3rd thing to go (after PBS and Planned Parenthood) under a Romney plan will be Education funding.  Goodbye Pell grants and student loan programs.  You might love teachers, but apparently you don't want to help put students in front of them.