Posted on 02/07/2019 6:19:12 PM PST by Zhang Fei
President Donald Trump suggested that he is ready to ditch his Inauguration Day promise of a “Hire American” economic policy — even though thousands of auto workers are being laid off, millions of Americans do not have jobs, and many millions of Americans cannot get better-paying jobs.
The huge policy shift in favor of employers and investors is emerging after Congress blocked his border wall and his border security reforms, and after the GOP-led Congress passed Trump’s tax cut.
“It is fair to say that the President is abandoning his Hire American policy,” said Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies.
One of the draft visa-worker expansions is dubbed “country caps.” It would remove diversity provisions in immigration law to allow employers to offer citizenship to roughly 100,000 Indian outsourcing workers each year if they agree to cheaply replace the American graduates who are now working in well-paid software, accounting, design, engineering, medicine, and education careers. The panel is expected to draft their plan by February 15.
On Wednesday, Trump reaffirmed the pro-migration statement when he was asked by a reporter “So, you’re changing your policy officially, then? You want more legal immigration?”
Trump answered “I need people coming in because we need people to run the factories and plants and companies that are moving back in. We need people.”
“Our unemployment numbers are so low,” Trump said.
On February 1, the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed the unemployment rate was at 4 percent. But it also showed that 12.5 million Americans are either unemployed or want to get jobs. In the 1960s, roughly 97 percent of men aged 25 to 54 worked — but that percentage dropped to 80 percent in 2009 and was still only at 86.2 percent in December 2018.
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Bingo. They only meet with big employer corruptocrats—and then buy the Chamber of Commerce type claims of our needing to import so many cheap workers.
No doubt!
I almost every single case, successful people do not have to be "GIVEN THE CHANCE".
A successful person seizes the chance all on his own. If you are waiting for someone to give you the chance, that ship has sailed long ago and you are destined to be a low-level employee or unemployed...
“Whatever the case, mass immigration, even if it’s all legal, is a Democrat-importing policy. There is no way around that.”
California was the real world test proving that.
A lot of people focus only on Illegal Immigration.
But Illegals only vote in small numbers.
Legal Immigrants can all vote. And most do. And the 3rd world votes left, even when they are highly successful.
The tsunami of legal 3rd world immigration is what transformed California from Reagan Country into Obama Orc Land.
The GOP Establishment knows this. They don’t care.
I HATE IVANKA AND JARED MORE THAN YOU.
I almost every single case, successful people do not have to be “GIVEN THE CHANCE”.
A successful person seizes the chance all on his own. If you are waiting for someone to give you the chance, that ship has sailed long ago and you are destined to be a low-level employee or unemployed...
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Brother, you know absolutely NOTHING about me nor do you know anything of the people I have hired (solely based upon their evident potential) and GIVEN A CHANCE. With few exceptions, they did not disappoint me.
So spare me your IGNORANT judgment while I hire Americans. Feel free to hire H-1B drones if that is your wont.
You are uninformed.
We need a lot less Indians here to get the economy booming again - not more.
“Does anyone believe there are 100,000 unemployed American IT people out there who are ready to take all those jobs mentioned in the article? “
Yes, there are.
“Anyone who has dealt with recent U.S. college graduates will tell you that this country simply can’t educate enough capable, responsible people to keep our economy running on all cylinders. “
As a professor, I know we have the people. To say otherwise is insulting to Americans and showing stupidity far greater than the people you are trying to insult.
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Thank you so much for challenging the misinformation that continues to be posted...
For anyone following this issue,
1. They must have forgotten that Disney IT workers as well as COM Ed and others had to retrain cheap labor replacements...
2. It is not just new grads who are facing cheap labor hiring preference (I am sure you are aware of the Oracle lawsuit).
3. There are many older tech workers who have been replaced by cheap H-1B Visa workers from mainly India but also China. They are not even counted in the numbers because they have been looking for work for YEARS.
I am well aware of the full spectrum of this issue as it relates to US workers as I have 4 STEM graduates/workers in my nuclear family who have been impacted competing for seats in US-tax-supported payer universities (Univ. of IL/China), grad assistantships, Silicon Valley wages, and older displaced worker competing against cheap labor and ageism...
Ironically, I suspect all those cheering the increasing of cheap labor are also Freepers who endorsed tariffs to protect steel workers’ and coal workers’ jobs...in the name of national security. Sadly, they have no problem allowing endless supply of Indian and Chinese foreign workers take jobs and US intellectual property.
Seems to me that there are a lot of conflicts of interest regarding this issue. More importantly, it does not MAGA to allow job market to be flooded by cheap foreign labor until US workers have had chance to get up to bat.
Thanks again!
The ones I hire are all US citizens. But, I sign their paychecks on the front, and have been meeting payroll every week for decades.
This is what qualifies me to talk about the requirements for success.
“As recently as the 90s, a business hiring a foreigner had to explain why they could not hire an American for the job.”
...there were dozens of ways that rule was circumvented, saw it happen, did NOT even get a t-shirt.
[...there were dozens of ways that rule was circumvented, saw it happen, did NOT even get a t-shirt.]
Blah blah blah...more concern troll fodder.
So in 15 and 16, the baby boomer curve was already well underway if it just peaked. Yet never heard a peep about those retirements during that time. Just that the rate was falling. It’s been basically static since Jan of 17 except for the last few months.
“Furthermore, the pillars of MAGA have essentially crumbled.”
I’m not sure how you choose to perceive what you see or how you choose what you have faith in - but God is the main Pillar supporting MAGA. He hasn’t crumbled.
You would have heard it from me here on FR -- on any threads where the labor participation rate was being discussed.
I was really surprised to learn that in the official measure of labor participation rates, an 80 year-old man who is retired, plays golf every day, and has no interest in working is counted the same way as a 40-something man who would be considered a "discouraged" worked not actively seeking a job.
But when the unemployment rate began to fall during Obama, many conservatives grabbed hold of labor force participation as proof the real rate was still high and getting worse. I often asked what the rate should be. Never got an answer. Just that the rate was proof that the unemployment numbers weren't really looking all that good.
Like you, I too was surprised at who and what made up the stat. Basically if you're over a certain age (16 I believe) until you're no longer fogging a mirror, you're in the stat. And yes, for the last 4,5 years or more boomers have been moving out of the labor market with increased velocity. But prior to Jan of 17 you seldom saw that as a factor in the falling or stagnant labor force participation rate.
Such confusion. You’re talking politics. I am not. I am talking economics. Not the same thing. The distinction between economics and politics is critical.
When will you and your ilk get it straight that economic freedom is NOT political Global Totalitarian Government?
The Free Market Economy in NO WAY threatens our Political National Sovereignty.
If so many on FR are confused about this, it’s hard to image the how confused the average Joe on the street is.
Freedom and socialism - two opposites that somehow have been fused, or in this case CONfused. Hard to image really.
Such confusion. You’re talking politics. I am not. I am talking economics. Not the same thing. The distinction between economics and politics is critical.
When will you and your ilk get it straight that economic freedom is NOT political Global Totalitarian Government?
The Free Market Economy in NO WAY threatens our Political National Sovereignty.
If so many on FR are confused about this, it’s hard to image the how confused the average Joe on the street is.
Freedom and socialism - two opposites that somehow have been fused, or in this case CONfused. Hard to image really.
Sometimes you have to wade through a pile of politically biased B.S. even among conservatives here on FR. LOL.
I'm often wrong, but I think I'm a decent "honest broker" because I recognize these things and discuss them objectively.
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