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.
That not going to make him very popular with the Caste’s elite.
Scott Walker = NWO
June 27, 2011: Walker Revokes In-state Tuition For Undocumented Students Attending Univ And Colleges In Wisconsin"- On Sunday, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) signed his two-year 2011-2013 budget, which included ending in-state tuition for undocumented students attending public universities and colleges. In-state tuition for undocumented students was approved two years ago by former Governor Jim Doyle (D) after the Hispanic community struggled for 10 years to pass it."...
March 2015: “We strongly dispute this account. Governor Walker has been very clear that he does not support amnesty and believes that border security must be established and the rule of law must be followed. His position has not changed, he does not support citizenship for illegal immigrants, and this story line is false,” she announced in an email to journalists Thursday afternoon.”
“I made it clear that for me, if somebody wants to be a citizen, they need to go back to their country of origin, get in line, no preferential treatment,” Walker said. “In terms of what to do beyond that, again, that’s something we got to work with Congress on.”
I am equally concerned with Cruz’s votes to support Obama’s secret Iran deal as well as Obama’s secret Trans Pacific Trade Authority....both pet projects if the US Chamber.
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.
I put Cruz ahead of the rest of the field in every area except legal immigration. I applaud Walker for going against the Republican establishment/Chamber of Corruption on the continued flooding of our country with mass legal immigration.
Every one of the candidates, Republicans and Dims. need to face intense grilling on this—and other immigration issues, and not be allowed to hide behind platitudes. The low information voters need to be educated on this issue.
Flooding our country with third-worlders, whether legal or illegal, is the number one danger facing us as we try to maintain a constitutional republic, much more so than ObummerCare, Common Core, or any other issue.
Thanks for posting.
Born November 2, 1967 in Colorado. (Meets the Jus Soli Requirement)
Parents were
Liewellyn Scott Walker, born in IL
Patricia Ann Fitch, born in IL
Both parents were US Citizens at the time of his birth (Meets the Jus Sanguinis Requirement)
Scott Kevin Walker is a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN
I have contacted the Cruz campaign to suggest that Cruz is wrong on these visas and should follow the lead of Senator Sessions. My contact assured me that they would pass that along. I accepted that.
Any immigration should be based on the American job market with the exception of truly endangered refugees.
ANY immigrant should go through the entire immigration process with application made through standard channels.
When is he going to declare that he is a candidate for POTUS?
Things are slipping at the Office of Cruz Contingent.
Once the 2015-17 Wisconsin Budget bill is hammered out and signed (deadline for that is the end of June).
I do think Walker's position is the better one right now, I hope you get a response from them and hope he has the good sense to make a change here.
It's the right thing to do.
I predict he will declare when he decides it is the optimum time.
I’ll stick with Cruz, although Walker comes in a respectable no. 2.
It's political, I get it, but he's offering no solution by his actions
should he become POTUS. He's not pinning himself down.
I'm tired of the doublespeak.
If I hear further from them, I’ll let you know. Both Cruz and Walker need to be protected from ‘circular firing squad’ conservatives. I would add Rubio to that list...probably Perry, although I think Perry’s ship sailed the last time around.
Fiorini is not a conservative, but she’s not been a politician either, so I’m giving her a temporary pass.
Bush and Christie know better. Christie is out of it. He’s not going anyplace.
Kasich, my governor, is a case study in a truly independent person, but his liberal side and his conservative side are in conflict even within him. He gives a fun speech, though. Not the standard pablum. He’s not a great speaker, just a thoughtful one. You’d think he was teaching a theology class or something.
I prefer a little context here (and nothing against what you said).
This is a Red State article by Repair Man Jack that cites Cruz’ chief error in the H1B topic sourced by Patrick Thibodeau who wrote for Computerworld on the day Cruz announced his candidacy (March 23, 2015) which cited the 2013 H1B amendment stuff. A long trail of connections, isn’t it
Besides being a Computerworld author he is evidently an ardent opponent of H1Bs at all, especially with regard to anything IT. He has a twitter feed here.
I guess if I had the time, I could dig back through all the arguments and threads here at FR about Walker and what some say, flip flops on immigration (illegal) which were as equally or better sourced of two years ago, too. But I’ve said here on the Walker Chronicles Threads, I’m not going to trash him. I hear his position now and I’ll accept that and not trash him. I’d like to think that Cruz would get the same courtesy.
I am past that; I’d hope we here would be past it too, especially for the two candidates I see that are really conservative (Walker and Cruz) and who would most likely follow the will of the people, unlike so,so many Dem and Rep Presidents past have not.
While I am for Cruz, I think that bashing Walker or Cruz is wrong because they are the only ones to me worth a vote from me. I prefer to let them get out there, talk to the people and get the recognition and support they deserve so that each (or their supporters) won’t consume the other and let this nomination fall to Jeb Bush, or Rubio, or the others we KNOW won’t be on our side.
Walker was for amnesty. Now, he is opposed to it.
Mr. Flip-Flop.
I will vote for Cruz and no one else!
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