Posted on 04/21/2017 12:18:23 PM PDT by Trump20162020
Protectionism is becoming a bipartisan fad.
‘We don’t have a level playing field for our workers,” President Donald Trump told a group of workers in Kenosha, Wis., on Tuesday. Truth is, if we were to ever level the playing field with countries like Mexico and China, the average American worker would be making $3 an hour and spending his pittance on Third World health care and decrepit housing. Please, don’t level the playing field.
When few things are going your way in politics, though, it’s customary to return to rhetoric that made you successful. So, as Republicans have been unable to push forward on health-care reform or tax reform — or anything not named Neil Gorsuch, for that matter — it is unsurprising that Trump would turn to protectionism as a way to bolster his political fortunes.
On Tuesday, the president traveled to a tool-manufacturing company in Wisconsin and threw some nationalistic bromides at a blue-collar crowd (none of which included the words “I’m afraid some of your jobs will be taken by robots in the future”), and then signed an executive order ordering the White House to look into ways to curb guest-worker visa programs and require government agencies to buy more goods and services from American companies.
For the past two years, over 200,000 foreigners applied for open positions each year. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services holds a lottery and gives out 85,000 H-1B visas to high-skilled foreign workers. It’s a program that’s most popular with the tech industry, owing to a shortage of Americans trained in science and engineering. I suppose it’s a lot easier to stop talented immigrants from entering the country than to find ways to incentivize Americans to become math majors.
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In the protectionist’s universe, everyone with a Samsung cellphone or a Toyota Camry (both the best-selling brands in their categories) would be a traitor to the American worker.
Where does Mr. Harsanyi think that Camrys are made, and who does he think makes them?
It's true that is happening and it should be ended ASAP, but that is a fairly small part of the total employment picture for tech or STEM jobs. How many STEM workers are being allowed in through general, legal immigration and how many jobs are being outsourced to cheaper labor nations?
How many older, qualified US workers are being let go and what are actually the job prospects for US citizen grads in those fields?
For years, I think our honorable reps. and senators in Congress have been accepting the picture painted by tech employers and that needs to end.
Someone commits a crime and the responose is to deny funding? THROW THEM THE HELL IN TO JAIL!
Dangerous to who? The Chamber of Commerce wing of the GOP?
NRO is dangerous nonsense. Two things worth visiting for. Katherine Timf and the Michael Ramirez cartoon collection. VDH publishes elsewhere, so I don’t even have to visit there to read his wisdom.
“when few things are going your way in politics, though...”
Stopped right there. The author is delusional.
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Americans are being held back. There’s no doubt about that at all.
Do these things along with getting the feds back into their constitutional cage and the economy will soon be humming and growing all by itself and like never before.
What a bunch of scumbags the swamp are. They want to see America fail. You see bridges falling apart all over the place, the roads are a mess, lost jobs since 2000 to manufacture overseas(my company did it all, moved to China and since that time has hired ONLY foreigners. Me 5 years to go to retire) ruin our energy systems, bring the muslim brother hood into the WH and into the swamp.
Jeopady answer right there!
Oh geeze did not proof.
Jeopardy question right here.
Who is BHO
In fact, the opposite HAS been proved: there is no "shortage" of STEM-trained Americans, and the vast majority of H-1Bs are NOT "high-skilled." This article is contemptible shilling for the corporate welfare-seekers on the Cheap Labor Express.
Another globalist stooge purchased on the cheap preaching open borders from a rag-magazine.
Then why post it? We know NR hasn’t been conservative for a long time. This is not new or interesting.
Really just quit posting this crap
“Harsanyi identifies himself as Jewish[6] and an atheist[7] and believes that gay marriage neither undermines traditional marriage nor triggers societal instability.[8]” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Harsanyi
Oh boy, where to begin....
David Harsanyi,
a second generation immigrant Jewish/Atheist, i.e., Fake American,
a "Conservative" from the throughly corrupt National Review,
wants the immigration floodgates to remain open.
This is the intellectual foundation of the modern Conservative movement.
Is there any wonder why "Conservatism" gives most people a bad taste in their mouths, just as much as Liberalism?
First thing I did was to look up the writer's bio. lol
Whenever I see a comically foreign looking name on an article, I look up the writer's bio.
Almost every time, the writer has roots in America only back to around 20 - 50 years.
That test almost never lets me down.
Cuckservatives better wake the F up about their precious "immigrants" and their grand plans to "assimilate" them.
My roots in America go back 70 years ... am I American enough for you?
According to the DC Cartel, it is morally correct to steal skilled workers from foriegn countries. But demand that US schools and Colleges actually educate people, the horror.
If we get all the cheap labor express out of the jobs, wages will go up not go down to third world rates. Even legal foreign workers are rarely paid what citizens are paid.
“Truth is, if we were to ever level the playing field with countries like Mexico and China, the average American worker would be making $3 an hour and spending his pittance on Third World health care and decrepit housing. Please, don’t level the playing field.”
That is as far as anyone needs to read to ascertain that the ordure will be up to his eyeballs. Does this fool really, I mean really, think that Trump was calling for $3 wages per hour? Strange, I was just remembering how the liberals would twist and lie and spin during class discussions in college.
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