Cruz is on record as being for an annual 500,000 quota increase in H-1b visas. A lot of us are screwed either way. Vote for Cruz and be washed out of the economy or don’t vote and let socialist bleed us dry.
Cruz is on record as being for an annual 500,000 quota increase in H-1b visas. A lot of us are screwed either way. Vote for Cruz and be washed out of the economy or don’t vote and let socialist bleed us dry."Washed out of the economy"? We are already doing a great job washing ourselves out of the economy through our lower interest in the sciences than the foreigners.
H-1b's are high-tech sciences in Bio, Med, computer/I.T., etc. right? We either start finding/recruiting interested American students and graduating them with skills like other countries are doing -or- we have to attract immigrant & non-immigrant resources to fill the ever increasing high-tech jobs. Take your pick.
Now, I'm not saying an H-1b increase is AT ALL desireable (it is not!), but an inbound H-1b requires a job with an employer to keep that H-1b visa. They can't just show up and hang out. The demand is there and the market is clamoring for it and America is not able to fill that demand. That's does not mean we *can't*, it tends to indicate the up & coming workers aren't as interested in pursuing the fields.
Maybe the govt should do something (state or federal) to incentivize American students to seek those degrees, instead of "Womyn's Studies", "Non-Profit Clothing Design", or whatever other politically correct, bull-butter degrees we are churning out. But until we start sowing those high-tech seeds and reaping that harvest, the workers have to come from somewhere. My understanding is that America is behind the curve producing those skilled workers. Whatever number we are turning out *still* isn't enough to meet the demand. That's *OUR* bad and we need to fix it.
So let's mark this particular issue down in the "unlikeables" column when scoring Cruz. We don't like it. But politicians like Cruz have other constituents that are *begging* him to increase H-1b's and they have apparently won the argument with him. He still has (my opinion) more "likeables" than "unlikeables". I think that there is no perfect candidate anywhere to be found. It is an exercise in complete frustration to expect perfection in any political candidate -- even if you wonder why it's so hard to find a candidate as "perfect" as (past-politician, pundit, philosopher, yourself, whoever). Newsflash - they weren't perfect either.
But maybe you have a better candidate in mind. At this early point I'm still looking around to see if there is someone to bump Cruz off the top of my list. Weighing "likeables" vs "unlikeables" in the crop of imperfect Presidential contenders, who is your preferred candidate over Cruz?