Posted on 12/27/2024 10:05:09 AM PST by SoConPubbie
Six months ago, I was asked my opinion of the Silicon Valley alignment with MAGA. I said at the time I thought it would last around 18 months and finally climax with a large fracture in the political movement around 2026. I had no idea at the time, the group of technocrats would begin publicly advocating for replacing American workers before Trump took office.
For the past several days I have watched Vivek Ramaswamy, David Sacks, Elon Musk and his big tech influencers debating with their followers about the importance for them to continue expanding H-1b visas for foreign tech workers. It is stunning to see this crew double, triple and quadruple down on advocacy, while defining American workers as inadequate for their Silicon Valley needs.
Alas, it is what it is. Within the argument Musk, Ramaswamy, Sacks and group have presented multiple justifications for their foreign worker assistance programs, while advocating for expanded immigration support therein.
Within the tone of their argument, they essentially say the American worker is (1) not intellectual enough; (2) doesn’t have the right work ethic; and the latest point of justification is that (3) American culture is to blame for their need to import foreign workers.
As Vivek Ramaswamy recently said, “Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.” Thus, as the narrative is sold, American workers need to be replaced with more culturally appropriate Indian tech workers.
When the Indian-American starts saying Indian culture is more adequate at creating workers for the American tech industry, he loses me completely.
If the Indian culture is the holy grail breeding ground for software engineers, then why isn’t New Delhi replacing Silicon Valley?
Considering that factually the Indian culture is entirely based on a caste system, the argument is even more absurd.
What we need are training and recruitment centers for American students. However, the larger issue within the billionaire tech team advocacy is an issue of self-interest.
What we see in the justifications and arguments of the Ramaswamy, Musk and Sacks group is a very specific point of immigration policy for their subset within a singular sector of the American economy. Perhaps this would not be such a big issue, if these points of advocacy were coming from outside government interest groups. However, with this tech team going into the administration, the influence becomes something a little bigger.
The part the Tech Group do not understand is the core of the American DNA, “Liberty“…
It is only from the position of liberty, intellectualism actualized in freedom form, that the working culture of America, the ingenuity part, can be understood.
If you attempt to quantify Americanism with math and algorithms, the translated outcome always fails.
Dear Vivek Ramaswamy, my counter take…
Several years ago, Florida Power and Light won the prestigious international Edward Demming Award for excellence in multi-platform engineering, efficiency superiority and total quality in the process of energy management.
However, the scruffy rednecks did not blow every PhD intellectual out of the water with slide rules, CAD programs, articulated and quantified quality improvement processes and engineering acumen. They did it with hard hats and dirty fingernails.
Because they lost the award, the jaw-agape Japanese spent 6 months visiting and reviewing FPL and later published a 1,000-page study essentially saying FPL “wasn’t really good, they were just lucky.”
You see, the reviewers couldn’t actually quantify the reason why the Florida-based energy company was so successful. In response the FPL field leadership laughed, took out magic markers and wrote on the back of their hard hats: “WE’RE NOT GOOD, WE’RE RUCKY.”
A few years later, every single Kuwaiti oil field was blown up by Saddam Hussein. Global analysts and think-tanks proclaimed it would take 5 years to cap them all off and restart the Kuwait oil pumping industry. Well, the Kuwaiti’s and Saudi’s called Texans, who had them all capped and back in working order in 6 months.
We are a nation that knows how to get shit done.
A few more years pass, and the Northern Chile mine workers were trapped two miles underground. The eyes of the world began to tear as the word spread. Most began to whisper no one could save them. Who did they call for help? A bunch of hick miners from USA coal country who went down there, worked on the fly, engineered the rescue equipment on site, and saved every one of them.
Yup, that’s our America. Ingenuity born from freedom.
Across the pond a half-breed Islamic whack job, armed with an AK-47 and a goal to meet his virgins, began opening fire on a train in France. The scruffneck Americans on board didn’t run to the nearest safe room and hide themselves amid baguettes and brie. They said, “let’s go”, and beat the stuffing out of that little nut with a death wish.
Legion d’Honneur or not, that’s us. WE ARE AMERICANS! That’s just how we roll.
In fact, Lady Liberty can stroll along the Champs-Elysées with a swagger befitting Mae West because without her arrival, they’d be speaking German in the Louvre. Yet, for the better part of the past decade, a group of intellectual leftists have been teaching our children that it’s better to be sitting around a campfire eating sustainable algae cakes and picking parasites off each other; because ‘save the planet’, or something similarly minded. It would appear, they hate the outcomes and inequities from freedom.
Warmest regards,
Americans First!
My BEST advice to @elonmusk @VivekGRamaswamy @DavidSacks and the Silicon Valley tech elites, is to keep talking. Just keep telling Americans how terrible they are and how they need to be replaced. Great Job.
Every time you guys open your typeset in public, @LauraLoomer grows a…
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) December 26, 2024
Troll.
Tell me all about how India did so much for Boeing with their $9/hr programmers.
Troll.
Troll.
Nobody needs ChatGPT.
It’s hype in search of applicability.
Read Karl Denninger on this.
Troll.
The lack of American talent is a result of around 25 yeats of replacement of Americans by others.
Hire back the white males that got fired to make Jack Welch’s (and others’) bonuses just a little bigger.
EVs are a grift based on the lie of anthropogenic global warming, renaned climate change.
Troll.
The employers—rather, the greedy exevutives—decided to distort the labor market to make themselves rich.
Americans noticed and left those fields.
It’s called, eating your own seed corn.
Today Elon called Americans who disagree with him on H-1B policy “subtards” and then later implied that American born workers are all retards, incapable of being trained.
But at least Elon contributed a lot towards President Trump’s victory, and has a lot of talent and assets which will be valuable to President Trump.
On the other hand, exactly what does Vivek Ramaswamy bring to the table, other than being a slick talker? He has exposed himself as arrogant and condescending, has proven to be a liar over the H-1B issue, and was already known to be a con man. He can easily be replaced.
I’d suggest taking Vivek off of DOGE and replacing him with Ron Paul, or someone else.
So he’s another University of Pennsylvania rich kid, like Luigi?
So you’re a dot?
You seem to be presrenting the idea that if something is credited to a dot, it could not have been, and would not have been, invented by an American.
Fail.
Send that to Donald Trump Jr.
You’re right.
Yeah, you wouldn’t.
(Gives raspberries)
What we need are training and recruitment centers for American students.
So till then, where do you expect to get the needed skilled IT personnel?
the U.S. unemployment rate is 4.2%. Where are the soup lines, Mr.Scrooge?
Wait until the honest unemployment numbers get posted as an attempt to stab Trump on the back, troll.
Americans noticed and left those fields.
It's called, eating your own seed corn.
America's decline is self inflicted wound verging on a suicidal death wish.
Unionism, decadence, laziness, entailment mentality, greed, taxation polices, product liability, government regulation, especially insane environmental regulation, anti business demagogic by politicians, destruction of our education system, attacks on on American culture and western civilization in general, the rise of the welfare state, negative impacts of demographic shift from baby boom generation to baby bust generation, massive misallocation of resources and a host of other issues all combined to kill the goose that laid the golden egg. Once the ball got rolling, companies had get in line with offshore manufacturing to compete with competitors who were pushing offshore manufacturing.
A generation of American investment in building up foreign competition with massive tech transfer and capitol investment in foreign factories while wiping out our domestic industrial base and we are well and truly screwed.
Our nation is now split between Americans who have a vested interest in the continued decline of America because they are fully invested in our foreign competiton so for them to win the other segment of America must lose.
If we do not execute on the MAGA agenda we are going to follow the same path and suffer the same fate as post WWII Great Britain
Yep, con man to the core. The sooner Trump sends him out to pasture the better
elon’s just a rocket scientist...what does he know that you don’t?...
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