Posted on 09/25/2019 7:36:18 PM PDT by lone star annie
Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) now supports Sen. Mike Lee’s (R-UT) green card giveaway bill, which will allow investors to reward many more Indian graduates for taking middle-class jobs from American college graduates. Perdue’s decision to end his opposition to the bill clears the way for Lee to rush his bill through the Senate on Thursday. If no other senators object, Lee’s bill will move through the Senate, putting it much closer to becoming law.
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Cornyn is running again. He has two primary opponents so far.
National sovereignty is so passe...so 20th century :(
I called my DemoRAT senators...
When you emailed, what “subject category” did you use? I was not sure whether to use economy or immigration...
Maybe I should send again and use both!
And "well-being of the community" is abusably elastic - leftists are eager to put 'diversity' and other cr@p under this wide umbrella. Anti-H1B arguments based on "stakeholders" or "well-being of the community" prove far too much.
Senator Lee received donations from Google in exchange, it seems, for letting them build a data center in Utah. Now, he’s Google’s bitch. Utahns should primary his ass the first chance they get.
I don’t have a problem with skilled, Indian college graduates applying for residency permits (green cards) and eventually becoming U.S. citizens. As long as they give up their gendercidal ideology (preferring sons over daughters) and their cast system, it’s all good.
What I have a problem with is the corporate scum importing them on the temporary worker VISAs (H1-B, etc.) and paying them on the cheap, screwing the actual American and resident alien STEM graduates.
Die, corporate scum.
And no, that last sentence was not directed at you.
“Work your fingers to the bone, what do you get? Bony fingers! Bony fingers!”
Then state your argument (with which I agree) in plain terms of "societal prosperity," not abusably elastic terms like "stakeholders" or "well-being of the community." Don't hand rhetorical ammunition to the Left.
Well, it pays to read the article (sigh). Apparently, green cards ARE the name of the game here. So, I guess corporate scum want cheap Indian labor to be here permanently. I’m fine with 20,000 green cards to these graduates, but not 120,000 green cards (a six-fold increase).
We should dial total immigration back to around 250,000 a year, with country quotas, the way it was before the 1965 immigration bill, IMO.
I live in Maryland. I was gerrymandered out of any real representation by our previous governor, Martin O’Bongmaster.
Accounting has already flown the coup. You will be shocked to learn how much of accounting work is done off-shore via internet. If US salaries are higher than what outfits can off-shore then jobs in US will keep disappearing. It is how capitalism works.
What is better? Jobs sent abroad which loses income tax revenues, and money spent by workers stationed in US in the local economy goes away, buildings are downsized by employers due to less workers in US, which reduces local property taxes and building maintenance jobs (janitors, utility workers etc) —or— jobs kept in US using work visa’s.
As for nursing, they can’t off-shore nursing! So nurse’s salaries will certainly be affected if foreign nurses can come in with H1-B visa. This situation is not much different than computer programmers. If there is a surplus of cheap nurses abroad, hospitals will do everything possible to utilize that supply.
The whole thing boils down to which category of jobs the government should protect. I do not favor gov’t choosing certain jobs but not others.
Either we go full blown protectionism -or- full blown capitalism. Let the voters decide. The less bureaucrats power, the better.
This is the tricky part...BOTH PARTIES are supporting globalism with this bill.
Trump has a blind spot...wants “smart people” but H-1B Visa holders are not necessarily any smarter than US people they are not the Einsteins some people seem to think they are...
If H-1B visas were so smart, there would not be US tech workers training their H-1B Visa replacements. (I assume you are familiar with the Disney IT debacle a couple years ago...)
So why is “protectionism” (as you put it) OK for things like steel workers? Yet not for tech jobs—seems tech jobs have just as much importance to the national economy and security as steel workers...
This bill and the whole H-1B movement does not MAGA...
Tariffs are necessary to address UGLY TRADE DEFICITS, not as job protection for local workers. With artificial intelligence growing steel production will be done by very few workers.
Full-blown capitalism as you define it erodes the American middle class through salary depression, and thus saws off the branch on which it sits. It's not a viable long-term option for America. So *IF* full blown protectionism is the only other option as you say, them it's really the only option.
No Trump promised to protect US jobs...Steel workers jobs, coal workers jobs, etc...
There are Indian lobbies that have turned this into a race/nationalism-India issue...This bill will favor a certain group...over others...I don’t think that is even legal.
There is also the whole national security issue.
Sorry, but this affects many beyond IT and much beyond IT salaries...it affects local municipalities in terms of spending, etc...I don’t think it is MAGA to support Indian tech grads at expense of our own. It is not our job to support India’s middle class.
We are one of the few countries that sells our jobs to the lowest bidder.
I suspect you would feel differently if your kids were in STEM.
One of my 2 kids is working in STEM area. And she is doing really well right in the heart of India stronghold of silicon valley. Both my kids are American born citizens while I am just a naturalized US citizen from way back in 1970.
And by the way, if you have been reading my posts since before 2015, I am AGAINST race based quota’s, gender based quota’s, and nationality based favoritism. Everything should be based strictly on merit.
On the side issue, in a capitalist system such as ours, the corporations & the very rich have more power over politicians than the middle class. Because that class makes bigger political donations. This is why so many middle class manufacturing jobs were allowed to be exported to cheaper labor countries. Trump is the first president in my lifetime (nearing age 80) who is trying to reverse the process.
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