Posted on 04/21/2017 12:18:23 PM PDT by Trump20162020
Protectionism is becoming a bipartisan fad.
We dont 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, dont level the playing field.
When few things are going your way in politics, though, its 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 Im 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. Its a program thats most popular with the tech industry, owing to a shortage of Americans trained in science and engineering. I suppose its 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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We can see how buying foreign and America last worked out for us. Why would we want to change? Maybe so some people could a job above minimum wage?
Proof enough for you and proof enough for me, but more details are needed with which to beat the tech employers and their bought and paid for congress critters over the head. They'll lie and deny and squirm out of it until they've been beaten over the head with hard, specific data several times.
They've had their way for years and won't change easily.
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