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Read until the very end...Vivek Ramaswamy slammed for suggesting American culture is bad and can’t produce top talent
X | RS ^ | December 26, 2024 | Mark Levin

Posted on 12/28/2024 6:39:57 PM PST by conservative98

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To: conservative98
The press secretary for DeSantis also suggested the problem isn’t American culture, but mass immigration and quoted Governor DeSantis:

Vivek isn’t wrong that we have a problem with American culture but it’s not what he suggests. It isn’t TV shows and movies that produce mediocrity. No, this has a lot to do with the breakdown of the family, with the inability or unwillingness of parents to push their children to excel academically instead of endlessly playing video games or sitting in front of a TV. Also many of our schools have big problems producing excellence as well. But I think it all starts with the breakdown of the family, ie. fatherless children and single mothers working multiple jobs to make ends meet while their children are at home doing whatever they want. And this is a product of the Godless left.

In Florida DeSantis had to fight Disney to keep sexual weirdo 'education out of grades K - third. It was what liberal idiots called the 'don't say gay Bill'. DeSantis won and Florida's keeping porn out of our schools. He's right about fatherless homes and all the other crap but a large part of the problem is our education system sucks. We spend more than any other first world country on educationg our kids and we're near the bottom of first world countries in results. Something's got to change.

121 posted on 12/28/2024 7:57:42 PM PST by GOPJ (Democratic Party lost.. because they've become the party of "uncommon nonsense".- CNNScott Jennings)
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To: nwrep

Thank you! We can at least agree on something.


122 posted on 12/28/2024 7:59:08 PM PST by kosciusko51
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To: JayGalt
A large % of HB1 workers are recruited for low skill jobs such as cashiers, truck drivers, low level clerks.

Your examples do not fulfill H-1B requirements. The H-1B program requires:

Possession of an advanced educational degree such as:
A 4 four year Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent degrees)
A Master’s or Doctoral Degree

Advanced training or vocational skills (examples include fashion models)

Qualify to work in research and development projects of the US Department of Defense or other government positions.

Examples of job positions might be:
IT specialists.
Architects.
Accountants.
Professors.
Doctors.
Lawyers, etc.

123 posted on 12/28/2024 7:59:10 PM PST by NautiNurse (With a cough and a sputter, the original lying dog-faced pony soldier is led out to pasture. )
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To: NautiNurse
Who cares? Berkeley is an elite computer science school, and their grads with 4.0s aren't even getting *interviews*.

Go watch Ticker Guy (Karl Denninger, IQ of 187, successful entrepreneur) on this.The BS Of H-1 Abuse *

Here, maybe you missed this one, on the other end of the "gifted and talented" scale.

So we apparently need visa workers to teach Americans ENGLISH.

What a joke.

But sure, H1B is about the “best and brightest!” pic.twitter.com/7VAjSa1pX4— Chief Trumpster (@ChiefTrumpster) December 28, 2024


124 posted on 12/28/2024 8:00:52 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: nwrep

The number of foreign workers in sensitive industries is very concerning. The Chinese have a history of embedding to gain proprietary information and to sabotage. This is especially true in the tech fields.
Allowing fronts for the Chinese government to own large swathes of farmland, especially farmland near our military bases, is criminal negligence on the part of the American government. Trump has that issue in his sights and hopefully the similar issue of embedded foreign workers in sensitive areas is similarly in mind. Your suggestion is very pertinent.


125 posted on 12/28/2024 8:03:56 PM PST by JayGalt (Fight! Fight! Fight!)
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To: DesertRhino

Von Braun had the vision, and was a great salesman, not unlike Musk. But both had/have access to the best talent in the US.


126 posted on 12/28/2024 8:04:00 PM PST by kosciusko51
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To: dgbrown

So sorry


127 posted on 12/28/2024 8:04:22 PM PST by combat_boots
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To: DesertRhino

“Yeah, that is what the propaganda of the era claims. He was a celebrity chef with a few ideas. But his main value was cold war propaganda.”
So say you and no one else with any actual knowledge of history. The NAZI’s didn’t make the man at such a young age their go-to guy for no reason. And, America didn’t highly value the man because he was a Celebrity Chef. Good God man. Get a Life!


128 posted on 12/28/2024 8:05:11 PM PST by ocrp1982
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To: kosciusko51
I would take graduates from the top 20 to 40 US engineering schools before any grad from the top university in India.

As well you should. The "top universities" in India are a joke. They're diploma mills and nothing more than that.

129 posted on 12/28/2024 8:08:39 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: RckyRaCoCo

Indian doctors: that is a great example of a very smart person who is really bad at actually being a doctor and caring for a patient. My neurologist, a little guy from India, walks around me muttering, never talks to me but talks at me. I have absolutely no idea what is wrong with me because he never actually tells me. It’s like 15-minute speed dating and then he moves on. Smart doesn’t equate to good.


130 posted on 12/28/2024 8:09:21 PM PST by heylady
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To: conservative98

Look at what colleges are producing nowadays not kids who can achieve greatness but instead lil activists who are woke, praise Hamas and hate Jews so yeah in this respect Vivek is right


131 posted on 12/28/2024 8:10:14 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: conservative98

American culture is bad, but that doesn’t prevent it from producing great scientists and engineers. It’s not hard to encourage more if we really want to. Also, if we compare popular culture, are India and China better than the US? Parents, schools and the state in those countries demand that young people work hard, but are the movies that they make and the movies that young people there like really much better than the ones made here?


132 posted on 12/28/2024 8:10:39 PM PST by x
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To: NautiNurse

What is “required” is not the state of affairs. As I noted the HB1 database is searchable & being search.
I post one such link
https://x.com/Scotchjake/status/1872865764291822018

Truck drivers
https://x.com/realtimsharp/status/1872951166835077277

Here is the federal database for incoming & requested H-1B workers.
Browse for your own location
For your favorite companies
For your careers - ie pharmacist, fashion designer - via the ‘Industry Code.
https://uscis.gov/tools/reports-and-studies/h-1b-employer-data-hub


133 posted on 12/28/2024 8:12:02 PM PST by JayGalt (Fight! Fight! Fight!)
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To: conservative98

I can agree with one thing and one only, this nation’s shallow society celebrates mediocrity and the superfluous at every turn. Sports, entertainment, Hollyweird, pop culture icons and more silliness are elevated far out of rational reason. Whole blocks of our news and culture give way to people and things that are simply meaningless drivel. Our children have been influenced to admire and emulate figures that can’t assemble a cogent sentence, are slovenly and ill groomed and without sports or something else would hardly rate as a big muscled, weak minded common laborer which we need fewer and fewer of each day. As an example I give you the stars of Friday night lights and the local newspaper sports section where the highest point of the lives of many is reported. Hardly even passing notice is given to intellectual success. In large part we are now a nation of dolts who appear to revel and wallow in mass ignorance and even far less than mediocre. Merit and celebration of the extrodinary, the gifted and the dogged determination of those who will not give in and will not be defeated have given way to misplaced emotion and the need for succor by the losers and the lazy and the unfortunate. We have violated the natural law of survival of the fittest and have become weak because of it. The H1b is not the solution either. The ghetto thug and the redneck rube must become ashamed and made to become extinct. Nobody equal to or behind anyone else has ever motivated them to do more than they thought possible.


134 posted on 12/28/2024 8:12:02 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (Donald John Trump. First man to be Elected to the Presidency THREE times since FDR.)
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To: usconservative

“As well you should. The ‘top universities’ in India are a joke. They’re diploma mills and nothing more than that.”

Which show that the US can and does still produce top talent, whether US citizens or foreign. Which is in opposition to Vivek’s arguments.


135 posted on 12/28/2024 8:12:07 PM PST by kosciusko51
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To: wildcard_redneck

You again!


136 posted on 12/28/2024 8:12:40 PM PST by antceecee ( )
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To: Hamiltonian

Disagree. Getting a graduate engineering degree (which I did) taught me how to do research, how to think, and be curious about how the world works.

There are plenty of math and OR majors where I work that aren’t worth a warm bucket of spit. Incurious people besides.


137 posted on 12/28/2024 8:13:41 PM PST by sauropod ("You didn't take a country. You only won a football game!" - Dan Dakich Ne supra crepidam)
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To: heylady

His horrible patient interaction is due to his ethnicity?

He could just be a weird person.

Ever met a weird white doctor?


138 posted on 12/28/2024 8:14:12 PM PST by Fuzz
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To: antceecee
"You again!"
139 posted on 12/28/2024 8:15:00 PM PST by wildcard_redneck
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To: Bobbyvotes

They may be in business, but they are failing. Computer updates that freeze, planes that fall out of the sky because of foreign code programming. Car map updates that send people into lakes. The list is long.


140 posted on 12/28/2024 8:17:22 PM PST by battletank
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