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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Few H-1Bs are skilled.
I know evidence has been presented at times, but still the tech companies feed the same self-serving tales of woe to our esteemed members of Congress and usually get what they want.
Trump and all those who believe there is no shortage need to find a strategy to drown out the tech companies and the immigration advocates and get the facts before everyone involved.
“More baloney from National Review. Buckley would NEVER recognize it.”
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Buckley wouldn’t recognize the whole damned country.
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My roots in America go back 70 years ... am I American enough for you?
No.
It’s a war of managerialism-look it up on Wikipedia - vs skill and competence.
So the Union slogan look for the Union Label, Buy American was nonsense?
He is also known as a steaming pile of David Horseshyti.
More from the open border, export your nations wealth (and pad our pockets in the process) under the guise of “free” trade globalists....
You are correct. They are educated which means they have no skills yet.
Even that has been called into question; some say their diplomas aren't worth the paper they're printed on.
I know for a fact that it is just not a claim. I have worked for companies on projects where I am the only American on the team or have been refused promotion or even growth in the company because I was the only American on the team. These companies had projects on the continental United States for large and small corporations. They find loop holes such as student visas and place them into jobs. I have worked with foreign workers who claim 7 years experience and barely had one. I have been told how to doctor my resume and have even been told the company would doctor it for me once I took their training. The H1B visa program is a shambles and I lost a good friend over it. I against and he is for it because that is how his family makes money in India.
More baloney from National Review. Buckley would NEVER recognize it.
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Exactly what I was thinking.
Milton Friedman,and Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises would AGREE with You Sir. heh heh, along with Thomas Sowell and Pres. Trump...
Yep. What made America great was that we had leaders who looked out for the interests of America. Today we have traitors who think they are “globalists”.
Oh, wahhhh! Destructive legislation!
I ran into H1B hell in Rockville, MD the other day. Three Indians, who I’ll call Mo, Larry and Curly, couldn’t figure their way out of a paper bag, and yet they were running some sort of ‘cyber intelligence’ outfit for their off-site boss. They couldn’t function without calling their boss for directions. I couldn’t even get them to SIGN a document with their own name! had to call their boss for his authorization and then signed HIS NAME!
Rockville is overrun with these types. And they have practically taken over the county. I’m sure H1B had MUCH to do with it.
” It’s a program that’s most popular with the tech industry, owing to a shortage of Americans trained in science and engineering.”
At that point you stop reading.
There is no shortage of American engineers and scientists. They have been pushed out of their jobs for the cheaper, indentured foreigners who are nowhere near as proficient as the Americans.
This clown is another one of those National Review writers who never had a real job, talking about things of which they have not a clue.
International Screw Online can KMA.
It appears the USA needs to implement huge H-1B quotas for economists, economy journalists and CEO’s.
Tech and IT wages have been flat for 15 years. That is proof right there.
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