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Trump Gives Displaced IT Workers Attention, and He's Not Alone (computerworld.com)
dcblogs writes: The H-1B visa issue is getting more attention than it has ever received before. Donald Trump has invited laid-off Disney workers to speak at his rallies, and has posed in photos with them. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), held a press conference this week to complain that visa workers are being hired instead of U.S. workers. Legislation to reform the visa program has been introduced, and discrimination complaints are being filed with federal agencies and in the courts. But these efforts may have little impact. If visa restrictions arrive, IT services firms may increase reliance on web-based "knowledge transfer" to avoid having visa workers at an employer's site. There have also been reports of U.S. workers traveling overseas to train replacements on foreign soil. [Even with all the political and legal efforts,] there's no certainty any action will derail the forces moving IT jobs overseas.
US foreign aid to Mexico, currently $560 million a year.
Wall cost, from $4 billion to $20 billion (John Oliver's inflated number). so between 8 and 40 years foreign aid to Mexico cut and you pay for wall. Reduce welfare given to illegals from Mexico and wall is paid for sooner. That is not raising taxes on US citizens a single cent, and making Mexico "pay for it". Typically budgeting at Federal level is done over 10 year period, so that gives Trump about $5.6 billion for a wall using GAO numbers, and a bit more if he can estimate welfare costs for them as well.
Mexico can go fuck themselves if they think the US protecting its own border is a bad thing. Their presidents talking that way on US television just makes the majority agree with the wall more.
Let's go with the assumption posited so frequently by the press that Donald Trump called women Bimbos and Pigs. He never said 'All women are bimbos and pigs'. He said 'Rosie O'Donnel is a pig' and 'Megyn Kelly is a bimbo'. By this same logic, it could be said that Bill Clinton thinks all women want a cigar up their coochie, which explains a lot really.
Same thing with illegal immigrants. Trump never said 'All illegal immigrants are murderers, rapists and drug dealers'. Maybe that is what you heard, but in reality that is what he said Mexico is sending us. Along with some good people. There were good Nazis and good Communists and good Anarchists, Chumbawamba and Noam Chomsky I guess, but none of that matters. Being a nation of immigrants doesn't mean we have no system of immigration. We have had varying levels of control through out our history. Until now, where there is a system that is being completely ignored and subverted by Presidential decree.
The H1B stuff is more of the same. There is direct evidence of companies violating key provisions and except for social media and the press, not much is being done.
If nothing else, Trump running means the Democrats and about 1/2 the Republicans will never again be able to offer amnesty for a promise to build the wall. That ship has sailed.
Let's be clear: I voted for Ron Paul in 2008, and Barrack Obama in 2012.
I'm voting for Trump in 2016 because:
A) I think he is hilarious and don't want the comedy to stop
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B) because I want to watch the Republican party burn to the ground after the way they treated Ron Paul in 2012.
If it were up to me: Hillary Clinton would nominate Ted Cruz as her VP and Donald Trump would Nominate Bernie Sanders and we could rebrand the Republican Party the "Antiestablishment Party" and the Republicrats would have a unity ticket called the "Establishment Party".
When liberals misconstrue my intentions as being "passions that have been inflamed by casual racism": they disarm themselves of their ability to counter my influence by fundamentally misunderstanding my motivations.
I don't support Trump because I hate muslims or black people... I'm on the #trumptrain because I want to see the world burn and I think Trump is crazy enough to light the match. Once you stop confusing my fatalist intent for ignorance, you'll be better equipped to dissuade me. I'm letting you in on the joke because it makes the inevitable punchline that much funnier if you saw the ground rushing up at you and were unable to stop it.
Until then, your trite assumption that my political preferences are born from ignorance or bigotry just further fans the flames of my conviction. It's a shame that Bernie is wasting his time on the Democrats. He would make a powerful ally.
You need to dig deeper into the politically correct thing as many of the stories are later retracted or turn out to be fabrications.
Good example: Student win of track race retracted after he makes a gesture thanking god... reality... later the parents and the student both retracted their statements and admitted that he had made taunting gestures to the other team.
Don't get me wrong-- I think the left does suppress free speach and does do the political correctness thing.
But the right has played into that and used it to their advantage to make it seem much more outrageous than it really is.
The teacher who was fired for giving her personal bible to a student... turns out she gave lots of personal bibles to lots of students.
And so on.
One of the main reasons I left the republican party was because they passed the normal level of lying by politicians. They turned strongly to "the ends justify the means"
They abandoned the political tradition required to make this country function: Argue in chambers and then go to dinner together afterwards. Negotiate and compromise. They just don't do that any more since GW Bush Jr's 1st term. And they became the party of "NO" in 2009. At that point, I stopped voting for them entirely. Even local offices.
It's not good behavior for the country.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
Trump IS the establishment and has been in it since birth so I really don't get why people think he's an "outsider". He used his party connections four times to escape from consequences of bankruptcy. Also this is not his first tilt at President so he's got a very firm grip on the party machinery.
Because I didn't say something about Trump being a saint I'm sure some loser will irrelevantly bring up Hillary. Personally I think Trump is about the only choice from the last fifty years of Republican history that would make Hillary look good in comparison (even Nixon and Ford look better, and I'm still pissed off with Ford taking a bribe from Indonesia in 1975).
It's really a poverty problem and US politics is about the top end of town. Trying to fix racism issues without fixing poverty issues does not get a lot done.