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
They make some points but we need to realize that so many of the foreign tech workers here are here stealing our technology.
I need to hear more, but my gut tells me this is all a play from the left to divide Trump from Elon and Vivek and perhaps the rest of us.
In short, the left seizes on an opportunity to try to throw a monkey wrench into MAGA in whatever way they believe they can, especially before Jan. 20.
I admit on the surface it sounds a bit tone-deaf, but I would invite Elon and Vivek to explain and further elaborate on the subject. Perhaps the devil is in the details, and in all honesty, I hesitate to hand the leftists any sort of a victory of any kind.
Being a really accomplished computer professional is no more difficult or notable than being an excellent building contractor or dentist. The “whiz kid” myth is pure media created bullshit. The “whiz kid” from India, even more so. Information technology really is not that complicated. It is just another way to sell advertising. They hire Indians so a handful of lucky tech people can have a 200 foot yacht rather than a 100 foot one.
They wont tell you, I just did.
The alternative is to utilize foreign workers online. You don’t want to do that. You want them HERE.
Wow. The left made Vivek say what he did on X?
Wow an Indian fella wants more Indians to come here ?
Wow a foreigner doesn’t care about the make up of America’s society but only cares about his company’s bottom line ?
I am very surprised lol
Sorry, I can’t type anymore, laughing TOO hard 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
But there’s this:
Apple pays $25 million to settle suit over favoring foreign hires and making it so hard for U.S. workers to apply that few or none did for certain jobs
https://fortune.com/2023/11/09/apple-settles-discriminated-case-us-foreign-workers/
But there’s this:
Apple pays $25 million to settle suit over favoring foreign hires and making it so hard for U.S. workers to apply that few or none did for certain jobs
https://fortune.com/2023/11/09/apple-settles-discriminated-case-us-foreign-workers/
The real cause of this is the DEI BS that has blocked white males from tech ed. So the rats/MSM will pounce on this when they caused the problem as usual.
This FOREIGN WORKERS business is a weak spot with Trump… sadly it always has been and may well end up destroying his MAGA dreams.
Wrong, America First is for Americans not Indians.
” The left made Vivek say what he did on X?”
Vivek is pro India.
No. Not saying the left made him say what he said. I’m just saying the left seizes upon any and every opportunity to try to derail Trump, and we have to be vigilant against their efforts to do so.
After four years of anti-MAGA from the left and its media lapdogs, the skeptic in me almost automatically dismiss out-of-hand anything negative against Trump or the men and women he has surrounded himself with until I have a chance to dig deep and hear them fully explain their positions.
In short: I know what Vivek said, but I smell a rat.
Stop importing H-1B invaders and Americans will flock to the stem degrees because employers faced with a shortage will start paying more money in salariesnto Americans. Rising technicalities will incentivize young Americans to pursue STEM degrees. The reason why we have so many lawyers in this country is because lawyers don’t have to compete with foreigners and they are still paid well.
If you cut off the importation of programmers and engineers wages will rise and more Americans will pursue those careers. Supply and demand is pretty simple.
The Trump Administration must to honor its MAGA promises or go the way of the Tories in the U.K.. The time for abandoning political promises to Americans is over.
If Trump falls on this issue he and the GOP can go to hell.
All the Republicans have to do is live up to their promises and they will have a lock on the majority for at least a generation. Are they smart enough? I doubt it.
Agreed.
Importing cheap labor is only making the situation worse by depressing wages and opportunities in the industry.
Stripping human capital from developing nations is also immoral.
Buy how could they exploit what he said if he didn’t sat it?
Elon Musk is an example of foreign talent we should be working hard to attract to the USA. Musk has created one of a kind technologies no one else has been able to do.
He is the genius of our age. Without Elon Musk’s acquisition of twitter (now X) we would have lost the republic.
Then there’s this?
60 Minutes segment on how the H-1B visa program was used to import cheaper IT workers from India to displace American workers. American workers had to train their foreign replacements if they wanted to receive a severance.
https://x.com/USTechWorkers/status/1402290338119577604
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