Posted on 04/22/2017 9:31:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
No, we didn’t. He could have been replaced.
You don’t know him, I do.
The older I get the more I realize the importance of culture. Somebody asked about the huge disparity of Nobel Prize winners between Muslims and Jews. The answer, is culture.
When I was a kid in the sixties America was all about the space race. Every kid wanted to be an engineer or pilot, which is another skilled trade. American culture has been changing. Today parents and kids expect to have some internet or phone app idea and money will rain down upon them from the heavens; no work required. While they are waiting for this spectacular stroke of luck they work at Starbucks and live in their parent’s basement. They spend their time playing online and taking care of their man buns.
India and China would graduate more engineers and scientists simply because their populations are three or four times larger. But due to their culture, they are graduating them at an even greater rate than population size would guess. Meanwhile, the American youth of today are not taking courses that are difficult. Why should they? Money will rain down upon them if they can just get into the right circumstances.
If we don’t turn around our education system from manufacturing snowflakes and transgenders in fifty years we will all work for Indians and Chinese.
“I hold out hope that he’ll end the abuses of the H-1B program.”
We don’t need an H1B program. You can find an American engineer to do any job. The problem is not labor availability. Now, there are lots of problems, but not getting qualified people who are citizens isn’t among them.
There are lots of issues. One is welfare and unemployment payments. I have to admit I didn’t start searching in other states and countries for work until my unemployment ran out. There was no reason to. Somebody needs to sit down and work through the issues and resolve negative incentives. One issue is those incentives are at all different levels of county, state and federal governments. It’s a huge problem and there would be little desire from those various entities to change things. Any law or regulation develops its own constituency of people who benefit and will do anything to stop changes.
A lot of what you say is true but you are missing the target somewhat. The globalist that run the country now, both parties, decided to flood the USA with H-1b STEM workers at the top and legal/illegal stoop labor at the bottom. Do you think kids don't see that?
The baby boom generation which I am ashamedly part of,( the worst generation EVER) sold America out for buck; ruining job prospect, wages and making the USA ripe for socialism.. Now so called conservative blame the victim.
“The globalist that run the country now, both parties, decided to flood the USA with H-1b STEM workers at the top and legal/illegal stoop labor at the bottom. Do you think kids don’t see that? “
While that is true, it can be reversed. (I am a glass is half full guy.) But that reversal will take first recognizing the problem at the presidential level and then setting about a long term solution. Much of that long term solution will be training Americans into a better (now gone) culture. Enabling Christianity would be a huge help, but the government has set about with a vengeance to remove it from public life. I am not even slightly religious. I can, however, see clearly that the Christian culture creates a product that, on the whole, is eager to work and will not harm others. That combination made America the greatest military and economic power in human history. The globalists* have set about destroying that social, political and economic might for their own advantage.
* There are a lot more interests involved than just globalists. They are all inimical to American hegemony.
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