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CRUZ or LOSE!
Posted on 05/01/2015 10:23:30 AM PDT by entropy12
Watch below from around 44:00 to 50:00 and then again at 1:29:00 to 1:36:00. In 13 or so minutes, wages don’t come up. On the contrary, Cruz’s emphasis is on the fact that he wants more legal immigration, at least among better educated immigrants who might qualify for an H-1B visa.
It’s interesting that a guy known for having his finger on the pulse of grassroots conservative/tea party sentiment isn’t following Walker’s lead but rather stressing his own relative moderation on the issue. There are obvious political reasons for that — he’s addressing the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce here
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What we do not need is boat loads of low skilled or unskilled immigrants who become a burden on taxpayers for welfare.
When they take your job and give to an H1-B, maybe you’ll understand.
If my job is so easy to be replaced by a cheap foreign worker as you say, then I need to learn a different skill. I worked for 40 years in American industry, as a mechanical engineer and developer of expert engineering and manufacturing software, and never once faced competition from a H1-B visa worker.
Ted Cruz Ping! Why do you believe that? What is the basis of that belief?
Are you in the tech business?
The more I learn about senator Cruz’s agenda, the better I like him. I am still a Walker fan, but Cruz is rising in my book.
It’s only logical to see if we can OFFLOAD first. In the meantime there are jihad filled engineering schools nationwide.
Because the companies which hire H-1B visa workers benefit on the bottom line. When companies benefit, they pay more taxes. And they retain core business workers. If your skill is so easily replaceable by a foreign workers, I am afraid you need to acquire better skills and a different profession.
Majority of H-1B visa workers are computer programmers. And that skill is available dirt cheap by the millions in foreign countries. On the other hand there are many engineering jobs go unfilled due to lack of qualified and skilled workers.
In my 40 years in engineering field, 99% of foreign engineers were from either China or India. Both are not particularly jihadist countries.
That's because their number were always constrained.
Those constraints are about to be completely removed.
Entire IT Enterprises to be outsourced....outsourcing the outsourcers.
American IT workers accustomed to $50+/hr will be working at the same rate as their Indian and Chinese counterparts...$20/hr.
When they can find a job.
How is this good for America and Americans?
Obviously you do not believe in open market capitalism. If programmers are available for $20/hr, then it is obviously not a skill which requires $50/hr paychecks.
In the meanwhile new chemical engineering graduates are being offered $50/hr as a starting salary!
No. Foreigners are cheaper to hire, and companies are FIRING Americans and hiring H-1B holders instead. We have enough skilled workers in America, and the ability and population to produce more if there is a shortage in any particular field.
Every H-1B holder than takes a job, is taking a job away from a skilled American, AND driving down the overall market salary for skilled jobs because these foreigners are willing to work for peanuts.
And don't tell me "it's what the market will bear." When the market is being artificially influenced by a deliberate influx of foreigners...That is just a travesty.
What you are advocating is PROTECTIONISM. It has never helped create more prosperity for any country. Are you aware that an average American family saves $10,000 per year due to Chinese imports? Do you want to institute tariffs on Chinese imports? That will instantly reduce standard of living in USA by $10,000 for an average family. That is a huge dent in the life of average people.
I haven't either. But, I work directly for customers, and I've seen entire departments wiped out and replaced with H1B visa holders. They are large telecommunications and financial companies that you would recognize.
I can also tell you that as a group, the quality is much lower. While there are good people, there are many that simply don't have the problem-solving and analytical skills that are necessary to be effective.
If I had been the hiring manager, I wouldn't have hired them. If I had interviewed them, I would have explicitly said: no, they aren't qualified.
I'll leave it to you to guess why they were hired anyway.
If my job is so easy to be replaced by a cheap foreign worker as you say, then I need to learn a different skill.
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Everyone isn’t born with the same potential level. How about an American citizen who has peaked out as a programmer? Is it right that we allow the company to bring in an immigrant for half the wages? And do you trust the government enough to think that the immigrant will not receive some kind of entitlement? Reality tells me emphatically, “NO”!
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