Posted on 02/14/2019 5:08:40 AM PST by central_va
President Trump’s hint that he will increase legal immigration levels and a pending automation doomsday that lawmakers have yet to regulate threatens millions of America’s working and middle class workers.
This week, Trump reiterated for the third time in a few weeks that he believes the U.S. should be increasing already historic levels of legal immigration — where more than 1.2 million legal immigrants are admitted every year at the expense of American taxpayers who are forced to subsidize the scheme through depressed wages and fewer job prospects
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Peddling the Karl Rove talking points .
Have this crowd interview an American who lost there American job to a foreign invader that they had to train too .
You can’ judge greatness from salaries in a few fields of work. What makes a country great is good GDP growth, more people with jobs, more spending on military, less people on food stamps, lower income taxes, fighting unbalanced foreign trade, etc etc.
We don’t measure how great a country is by the level of salaries for computer programmers.
This was fast and lose by the author. Trying to prove what isn’t true
Yes, but what is worse is that it is written by a really stupid person, or maybe a completely dishonest never Trump.
So a question. Is it better to bring the brains over here and make the product here and with the manufacturing facilities here, create jobs for working people?
Or is it better to have the manufacturing process go overseas because we do not have the right people here?
As for automation ruining the job market, that is total and complete BS.
The same thing was said about automobiles starving out the poor farmer who grew hay and grain, the buggy maker and the farrier.
Automation will create more jobs and allow people who have good minds but not so strong bodies to get employment.
President Trump has made it clear that he is not against immigration but he is against illegal immigration.
We must set standards for those who come to this country and we must have the means to enforce those standards.
And if the standards are what they should be, those who come here will make us more prosperous.
I would love to hire only Americans. Over my career, that's generally been the case. But I refuse to lower my standards, no matter what the circumstances may be.
You’ll never find me sitting here on Free Republic defending the business practices of any major corporations in the U.S. They’re almost as bad as governments when it comes to idiocy, bureaucracy, and inefficiency.
America should invest in Americans. I’ve heard the BS that we need to import more foreigners for 30+ years.
Sounds like a winning platform? Rove would like it.
There it is; a tacit confirmation that H-1Bs are not imported super scientists with rare and exotic skills. They are imported like chattel indentured servants to take normal jobs Americans are doing. Thanks.
After the awful employment conditions after 2008, people in my industry are very, very reluctant to leave a stable position for a new one that comes with a lot of uncertainty.
Bunk, Pay more. You deny the laws of supply and demand. Are all capitalists like you, i.e. ignorant hypocrites?
American workers first, then immigrant labor if and as needed.
Or automate. Or hire contractors. Or relocate. Or turn away customers and/or abandon some lines of business.
One of the negative consequences of an information-age economy is that we end up with skilled, educated workers who have the same outlook on the world as a bunch of union steelworkers trudging into a faded Rust Belt steel mill that currently employs no more than 10% of its peak post-WW2 work force.
The US worker shouldn't be forced to vote against their own self interest. The Uniparty offers the worker nothing but H-1b, massive legal immigration, no tariffs and offshoring and malaise.
Relocate inside the USA and I am good with that. Contractors are great but just pay the going rate. Automaton? Only a Luddite would be against that.
Ted Crz had a bill to suspend H1-B visas indefinitely. This would basically force an “America first” labor policy.
And if there are enough Americans to fill, say, 99 percent of the slots in a particular field, I don’t mind bringing in the other 1 percent — AFTER the Americans have been taken care of.
Is this really true? If so then Ted Cruz needs to run for President. I am going to call his office and find out.
... a pending automation doomsday that lawmakers have yet to regulate threatens millions of America’s working and middle class workers.
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Marxist economics. We have been automating ever since machines were invented; so, under this theory, we should all be unemployed. The reason why this hasn’t happened is that there will always be work to do and needs to be met, and free markets — if they are allowed to function — will provide work for people. Note: my response is not an argument for open borders — just an answer to Marxist fear of automation.
The Luddite thing is weird.
Trump NEVER once promised to INCREASE illegal immigration during the campaign. As a matter of fact, during the SOTU he said he wants legals in “the largest numbers ever.” A reporter asked him if that was a reversal of previous positions, including Trump’s support of the RAISE Act.
Trump said “Yes.”
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