Cruz: Trump ‘enormously beneficial’ for my campaign

As for the visa issue, that’s a problem and I won’t deny that. I have expressed my frustration with him on that issue. Still, I ultimately have less of a problem with legal immigration of skilled workers

H-1Bs are no longer "skilled" when the time comes to pay them:

H-1B Is Designed to Allow Employers to Pay Foreign Workers Extremely Low Wages:

Notice there is no requirement that the employer pay the H-1B worker at his skill level. Even if there were such a requirement, it would be unenforceable because skill is a subjective measure.

Under this system, employers classify

52 percent of H-1B workers at the lowest skill level, where they command a wage at the 17th percentile for the occupation and location.
30 percent at the next lowest skill level, where they command a wage at the 34th percentile.
12 percent at the next skill level, where they command the median (or actual prevailing wage).
6 percent at the highest skill level, where they command a wage at the 67th percentile.

Notice that H-1B workers are "highly skilled" when industry wants more of them, but those very same workers become low-skilled when determining what they have to be paid.

You can pretty up the language all you want to. I don’t see “healthcare” as a right that the government guarantees its citizenry. Not on a state level and certainly not on a federal level. As far as charity, you know, that’s fine. What private entities or individuals do for others is their business. I don’t want tax dollars going to pay for Jane’s contraception or Jim’s sex change hormones, which is what we mean by healthcare in 2015, let’s be honest. Maybe there was a time when healthcare actually meant healthcare as opposed to subsidizing pharmaceutical companies by drugging up grandpa with 50 different medications... but that time is gone. It’s not the state’s role to be my doctor. I want it as far removed from my healthcare as possible.

It’s a broken system. It needs to be fixed, obviously.

That said, we’re talking years ago RE: Cruz on H-1B. At this same time, Trump was chastising Romney for being too harsh on immigration, so, you know, let’s not use this to act like Trump is somehow “better” on immigration or anything crazy like that.

we’re talking years ago RE: Cruz on H-1B.

He reiterated his pro-H-1B-expansion stand this July: “Cruz: ‘Proud to Defend’ Trump, Expand H-1B Visas For ‘Educated,’ ‘Talented’ Job Creators” - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3309118/posts

At this same time, Trump was chastising Romney for being too harsh on immigration, so, you know, let’s not use this to act like Trump is somehow “better” on immigration or anything crazy like that.

Trump's conservatism is as wet behind the ears as Romney's was when he ran; Trump is currently saying the right things, which is more than any other candidate has the sense to do.

“I don’t want tax dollars going to pay for Jane’s contraception or Jim’s sex change hormones, which is what we mean by healthcare in 2015, let’s be honest.”

I agree with that, but hopefully society is not so far gone into irrationality that it can’t be redirected.

For example, since transgenders, as as a numerical part of society, are statistically nonexistent, that has got to be a feint for some other agenda.

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