Where is Trump when Working Americans Need Him?
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cryptoflovecraft — 1 year ago(January 05, 2025 09:42 PM)
The betrayal begins.
Paul Craig Roberts
January 5, 2025
Divisions are already appearing in MAGA ranks. President-elect Trump and Elon Musk have aligned with the H-1B work visas that allow foreigners to be brought in to fill American jobs. This disappoints the Trump working class that believed making America great again meant they were going to get their jobs back.
American corporations, universities, and non-profit organizations like H-1B work visas for a variety of reasons. A H-1B visa recipient is an indentured servant. He or she is paid substantially less but cannot leave the employer for higher pay as the visa is tied to the specific employer. This also has the result of denying the indentured servant employment or protest rights as the indentured servant’s presence in the US is tied to the visa that is tied to the employer. For example, a H-1B visa holder cannot file a discrimination complaint.
As Senator Bernie Sanders puts it:
“The main function of the H-1B visa program is not to hire ‘the best and the brightest,’ but rather to replace good-paying American jobs with low-wage indentured servants from abroad. The cheaper the labor they hire, the more money the billionaires make.”
https://www.rt.com/news/610400-bernie-sanders-elon-musk-visas/
The case for H-1B visas is fraudulent. The claim is that America’s huge numbers of universities are incapable of producing enough American graduates to meet America’s need for “highly educated individuals with skills critical to our country’s economic future,” to use the words of Todd Schulte, president of an immigrant advocacy organization with ties to big tech. Or as Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas disguised the scam, “American businesses rely on the H-1B visa program for the recruitment of highly-skilled talent, benefitting communities across the country.”
Imagine, the United States relies on the Third World, not on its many world prestigious universities, to supply its need for “highly-skilled talent.” The communities are not benefitting. The American residents are losing the jobs. Wages and salaries are being paid to foreigners who have displaced Americans. The difference between the US wage and the H-1B wage goes to corporate profits and executive “performance bonuses.”
I pointed all of this out years ago and summarized it 12 years ago in my book, The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Disintegration of the West,(Clarity Press,
https://www.claritypress.com/product/the-failure-of-laissez-faire-capitalism/
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It is a fairy tale told by shills to enhance corporate profits and executive bonuses that Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Cornell, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, MIT, Cal Tech, Georgia Tech, University of California, University of Chicago, and the large numbers of private and state universities cannot turn out enough educated people to fill the economy’s needs.
If Americans are not studying for careers in high tech it is because they know the jobs will be given to foreigners on visas. Moreover, Americans who prepare for these careers are hit again by the offshoring of many of the jobs.
During the early years of the 21st century when the “skills shortage” was being concocted to serve corporate profits, Business Week reported a 12.7% decline in computer science pay, a 12%decline in computer engineering pay, a 10.2% decline in electrical engineering pay. Professor Norm Matloff at the University of California, Davis, found that between 2001 and 2005 starting pay for master degrees in computer science, computer engineering and electrical engineering fell 6.6%, 13.7%, and 9.4% respectively.
As I wrote at the time, “Obviously, if these skills were in short supply, as corporations [and their economist shills] allege, the shortage would result in rising salaries as employers bid for scarce human resources.” How can economics account for a shortage of skills and a fall in pay?
H-1B visas have a statutory cap of 85,000 annually. The number consists of 65,000 visas plus 20,000 for foreigners who have an advanced degree from a US university. Over ten years, that comes to 850,000 foreigners brought into the US to take Americans’ jobs. These visas are sought by foreign students studying in America, because it is a way of staying in the country. At the end of the visa, H-1B holders can apply for a green card or permanent residence.
As few of the 85,000 per year return home to their countries, the obvious consequence is that some American occupations are being de-Americanized. This is also true of university faculties where H-1B visas are used to meet DEI quotas while large numbers of Americans with Ph.D. degrees are denied an academic career“`. Recently the Biden regime expanded or removed the limit on H-1B visas for universities and non-profits. Soon a student will be able to have the same professors at Harvard as he would have if he went to university in India. What does Harvard care? It trades on its name.
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MissMargoChanning — 1 year ago(January 05, 2025 09:55 PM)
Where is Trump when Working Americans Need Him?
Where have Biden and Harris been for the past four years?
You asked a pretty question; I've given you the ugly answer.
Fasten Your Seatbelts….
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MissMargoChanning — 1 year ago(January 06, 2025 12:12 AM)
I've heard. Nothing like making the transition easier, and keeping America safe.
We really did dodge the bullet in this election!
You asked a pretty question; I've given you the ugly answer.
Fasten Your Seatbelts….
It's Going To Be A Bumpy Night! -
Uncreative — 1 year ago(January 05, 2025 11:03 PM)
Fighting inflation that hit the whole world and beating it back down better than almost any other country, watching 15 million jobs get created, and restoring consumer protection rules that have been getting steadily gutted for the last 50 years?
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MissMargoChanning — 1 year ago(January 06, 2025 12:15 AM)
Good to know that they are finally getting to work in their final two weeks in office.
You asked a pretty question; I've given you the ugly answer.
Fasten Your Seatbelts….
It's Going To Be A Bumpy Night! -
Uncreative — 1 year ago(January 06, 2025 12:28 AM)
If you paid any attention to the news in the last 4 years you would have already seen it. I mean real news and not YouTube clickbait with titles like "You won't BELIEVE what Politician X just said about Issue Y"
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MissMargoChanning — 1 year ago(January 06, 2025 12:33 AM)
It's obvious that we don't see eye to eye on what we see going on in this country, so I am not about to go round and round with you.
I will simply agree to disagree rather than argue.
I do have a question though…
What do you consider real news?
You asked a pretty question; I've given you the ugly answer.
Fasten Your Seatbelts….
It's Going To Be A Bumpy Night! -
Uncreative — 1 year ago(January 06, 2025 01:04 AM)
Just reading the simple headlines on an AP report with the monthly unemployment or inflation rate is enough to keep you more informed than most people.
A survey earlier this year found that around half the population (wrongly) believed that we were in a recession, the economy was shrinking, the stock market was down, and I employment rates were at 50 year highs.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/22/poll-economy-recession-biden
But instead of reporting on that all we get is stuff like "AOC slams MTG on Twitter" or "Old man stutters during speech" and people base most of their opinions on those. -
MissMargoChanning — 1 year ago(January 06, 2025 02:19 AM)
Good. At least you aren't getting your news from the mainstream media.
I get my local news from our local newspaper on line. I also watch the local area news/weather on some of the TV affiliates.
I watch the nightly world news on PBS.
And yes…. I'm bracing myself for an onslaught of scorn, but I prefer Fox News over others that slant to the far left… been there, over and done.
As for Youtube Clickbait, I have no idea of where you got that idea. I may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I can sift through the **** that's out there. Common sense always prevails.
You asked a pretty question; I've given you the ugly answer.
Fasten Your Seatbelts….
It's Going To Be A Bumpy Night! -
Uncreative — 1 year ago(January 06, 2025 03:06 AM)
I can't read it and it doesn't have numbers then it's worthless to me. I know they don't always tell the whole story and they can be manipulated but it's still more than you get full most articles are any meme like the **** MMC posts and the murder of the week news articles.
The only thing I watch that can be considered news is John Oliver's show. Obviously he has his own biases but at least his team does a lot of research and covers a lot of detail about whatever the topic of the night is. Also I'm not sure how Fox isn't considered mainstream media. Of the cable news sources they're the biggest by far. Most of the top podcasters and AM radio shows are right wingers. They're not nearly as excluded as they claim to be. Even the NYT goes out of their way to add conservative voices to their editorials and CNN is trying to pivot to the right. MSNBC is really the only one that can be credibily called left leaning. -
WarrenPeace — 1 year ago(January 05, 2025 10:48 PM)
Didn't he wear a day glow green safety vest to a rally to relate to the working class?
And he said he did not want anything to do with Project 2025.
Man, he sure fooled his voters!
Lesson learned: Every time he talks he is lying.
"Please vote to preserve the unique character of Warren…" - Robert Duvall
Give him a chance before we start with this nonsense.