Posted on 05/22/2015 5:42:50 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Why Scott Walker FLip-Flopped.
One of the few intelligent and worthwhile things that John Maynard Keynes contributed to society is the following quote “When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?” Governor Scott Walker’s information has recently changed.
Remember that Governor Walker had the guts to back down the Progressive Establishment in The Democratic Party of Wisconsin. It thus comes as no surprise that he also has the guts to take on the increasingly progressive and less pro-American pro-immigration caucus in the GOP. Walker explains his qualms concerning this headlong rush to replace domestic American workers below.
Walker said Monday in an interview with Glenn Beck that the first priority in considering legal immigration policy should be the wages and jobs of American workers. “In terms of legal immigration… it is a fundamentally lost issue by many in elected positions today, is what is this doing for American workers looking for jobs, what is this doing to wages,” he said, according to Breitbart News.
Why would Governor Walker become so xenophobic and perform such an 180-degree Olympic flip-flop? Well here’s what the Congressional Research Service found when examining data on immigration and cost of labor.
Wages and share of income for the bottom 90 percent of American wage-earners declined over the past 40 years, as the foreign-born population increased dramatically, data requested by the Senate Judiciary Committee shows. Since 1970, the foreign-born population of the U.S. increased 325 percent, the Congressional Research Service found, while wages for the bottom 90 percent of earners decreased by 8 percent and their share of income by 16 percent.
But isn’t correlation insufficient proof of causation? Don’t we all enjoy gains from trade in labor, just like we would any other commodity openly hawked in unrestrained trade? This is what Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post had to say in a recent assault against Governor Walker’s proposal to examine immigration policy based on how it impacts the earning power of American labor. Anything other than the unlimited opening of the borders to immigration is now “nativist” you see.
“It’s not clear whether he understands that immigration is one way to boost economic growth,” Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin wrote condescendingly. “(There is replete evidence that immigration boosts revenue, growth and does not take jobs away from native-born workers.)” “We have remarked that the temptation in the GOP primary is to play to the loudest voices and the staunchest segment of the party, even though they do not represent a majority of voters in the party, let alone in the general electorate,” Rubin added.
And this should come as no surprise. The weight of “enlightened” opinion falls heavily on the American IT professionals being replaced by H1B Visas. Particularly in Florida, the home state of Presidential Contender Marco Rubio. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) responds to the misery being inflicted on intelligent, hard-working Floridians in the IT field as follows.
Rubio’s “I-squared” bill would triple the number of temporary guest workers businesses could bring into the country every year, and allow for a virtually unlimited number of university-based green cards. The big businesses backing this bill and clamoring for more guest workers insist they can’t find enough Americans willing or able to fill certain “high-skilled” jobs. Rubio obviously agrees and has argued more guest workers and immigration generally will result in more jobs for Americans.
And that hard-charging, tea-party ultra-conservative Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) He’s no ally of the American Citizen either on the H1B Visa issue. Senator Cruz wants to increase the H1B Visa cap by 500%.
Cruz, who announced his presidential bid this morning, once proposed an immediate increase in the base H-1B cap from 65,000 to 325,000. Cruz offered the H-1B increase as an amendment in 2013 to the Senate’s comprehensive immigration bill. Cruz’s amendment was defeated by the Senate’s Judiciary Committee, which approved an 180,000 H-1B cap increase in the comprehensive immigration bill. The House never acted on this legislation.
Here was how our Tea Party Hero fought to protect American-born STEM workers.
So if you’re at Disney and you’re sitting next to your replacement worker training him right now, you can listen once again to that flowery oratory from Senator Cruz about how we just can’t find enough qualified engineers, mathematicians and IT guys to keep our modern economy humming. It just must make you proud to be an American – if there is such a thing anymore. Oh, and like Disney CEO Bob Iger ordered, you’d better keep a nice, sunny attitude going while you train that replacement worker.
As I’ve said since he originally made this statement, this position will make him President of the United States.
So is Ted Cruz. Regardless of what you think.
Amen to that one.
I don't care to put Rubio on that list, but I'll try to restrain myself......:-).
I do think it's important to keep the savaging down, going after some of our best future helpers, such as Carly or Dr Ben does not help us. They will be great allies when one of the conservatives wins and has to run against the evil of the MSM/dem death star machine.
We need to stabilize the US population, by sending invaders (legal and illegal) to their homelands and letting next to no one move here. Otherwise, the chaos erupting from within will overwhelm the US.
Walker/RandPaul might set a real good tone with disgusted US citizens.
BTTT!
Walker never had a position on amnesty. He was asked by reporters when he was a commissioner, I think, and also when he was a new governor. He responded ad lib to a reporters question, and he went with what he was aware of at the time from media coverage. Immigration isn’t a big problem in Wisconsin.
He said when he became a presidential candidate that he traveled to the border states, spoke with the border governors and law enforcement agencies, and then he formulated an opinion based on fact.
The position you see is his first position on the subject ever.
H1B scabs come here on planes with visas. To end that you just stop granting the visas. That’s the plan, no doublespeak
H1B scabs bump.
No thanks! We've been doing that for years, and all it has done is push the Republican party further to the left. Are you left wondering why we have such liberal leadership in the GOP? It's because we keep trying to turn democrats into republicans! We may accomplish this on some levels, but there are factions, such as the socially liberal, who maintain those socially liberal views despite the fact that they vote Republican. So, they are going to vote for the Republican who best supports social liberal issues, such as gay marriage. Instead, it's time to shore up the base and solidify Conservative values across the board.
Does the author prefer Walker’s flip flops on Amnesty?
Get behind Cruz!
No other candidate comes close to giving Conservatives 95% of what we want.
No other candidate can fight the way Cruz will.
Ditto. The GOP needs to grasp the concept, and do so real quick like, that if they put anyone but Cruz forward in 2016, it's gonna be a Hitlery administration, plain and simple.
He was “for it before he was against it”, so apparently his thinking “has evolved”. Seems to me we have been fighting tooth and nail against this very thing for some time now, but all of a sudden it’s ok because it’s our guy? I don’t think so.
I agree with you regarding both Cruz and Walker. I lived and worked in Wisconsin (contractor to state governemnt, no less!), and I know what Walker put up with and his ability to keep his cool and move the ball forward. He’s the Bill Parcell’s Giants, Cruz is the Mike Martz (1999) Rams.
I am in IT, and the abuses of the H1B program are LEGION and flagrant. The businesses do not use it honestly, but use it only to get low cost labor, which is NOT what it was supposed to do.
Check what Walker did as soon as he was elected Gov in 2011 (Post #5). And since you (and some others who are so insistent on using this "amnesty" slam on Walker) need to be educated a bit, I'll add this:
"....“We need to focus where there’s agreement: securing the border and improving legal immigration,” [Sen. Ted Cruz] said. “And once we demonstrate we can secure the borders, I think then we can have a conversation about people who are here illegally.” Cruz added that he tried unsuccessfully to pass an amendment to the bipartisan immigration bill that passed the Senate in 2013 that would have barred undocumented immigrants from receiving citizenship but still allowed them to obtain permits to live and work in America. Its failure, he said, showed Democrats were unwilling to compromise on citizenship at all costs.
Cruz’s anecdote again left things open to interpretation. At the time he offered his citizenship amendment, The New York Times described it as Cruz seeking a “middle ground” between full citizenship and mass deportation in which undocumented immigrants could still work legally in America.
On Wednesday, however, a spokesman for Cruz, Brian Phillips, clarified to msnbc on Twitter that this interpretation was incorrect and Cruz merely offered the amendment as an exercise to prove Democrats’ obstinacy on citizenship. It was not an endorsement of the work permit component of the bill that his amendment left intact.
“Cruz’s amendment had nothing to do with that issue,” Phillips said.
Cruz offered an unambiguous defense of greater legal immigration, where he boasted that he had offered to expand an annual cap on H1B visas for high-tech workers “fivefold” in order to attract more talent to the United States...." Ted Cruz tiptoes around immigration at Hispanic business event
P.S.
Wisconsin is the ONLY state to ever revoke instate tuition for illegals.
Scott Walker on his changing positions on Amnesty:
"Years ago, when I was asked more than about a decade ago when I was a county official about something and giving a quick momentary reaction to that versus in a comment a few years ago as a governor asking a question about it versus actually looking at this issue and saying what is my policy. "
I hope the GOP can quickly get to the point where we’ve narrowed the field to where we have only Walker and Cruz to choose between.
This is a populist message but there is no inconsistency between this populist message and true conservatism. Reform of a government policy is not "populist" in the pejorative sense if it restores balance. It is not a leftist position to undo the harm done by government.
He is the first one to say that there are hundreds of thousands of IT workers being laid off, we don't need more IT workers, we have plenty of them.
BTW where are most of the foreign born IT workers schooled? In Mexico, India, China, or the USA?
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