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POLITICAL THREAD

How will they rule ??!

  • YES - Qualified

    Votes: 41 82.0%
  • NO - Disqualified

    Votes: 9 18.0%

  • Total voters
    50
  • Poll closed .
Ironic that you guys spent the last 4 years shitting on colleges saying they’re too woke and don’t produce good students anymore (which was never true). Now you expect these companies to hire American students from schools you’ve been bashing? Which is it?

Of course none of the bashing you did was valid. Oh sure, I’ll bet there was a professor or 2 that did something stupid. And I didn’t like the dump protests over Palestine either. But I never shit on the schools like you guys did. We still pump out extremely bright kids. And I agree that the big companies here should be looking to hire inwards first also. Are you surprised companies are willing to hire cheaper labor from elsewhere though? All they care about is making money.
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Interesting since “greed” is what I’ve been bashing grocery stores over since they jacked prices up during COVID, along with a ton of other industries. Wish they were all like you.
Grocery stores have around a 2% profit margin you nut. Their profits went up because 2% of a much larger number is still a larger number.
 
Bottom line, our border needs to be closed to illegal crossers. Illegal aliens need to be deported. Birthright citizenship needs to end.


We can talk about H1Bs later.

Spend the political capital on cutting taxes.
Agreed. But I know people who trained their replacement in an IT job. One guy had been with the company for 15 years and was one of their first IT guys. They brought in a foreigner and once he was trained up they fired the American and gave his job to a 22 yo Asian kid. Paid him about half the money. That is the kind of stuff I am against. They didn't "need" a qualified worker.
 
Thats not accurate at all. There’s a cap on H-1B that can be brought in but you’re saying so many are being brought in by companies that the graduating population of this country just stopped trying to be EEs? Come on man.

Agree on corporate “greed” though and just so I’m clear. So you’re good with the government stepping in here and stopping these practices of hiring cheaper labor that are clearly just to boost profits? Sounds like it. And I agree. Now let’s take that thought into other industries. Any problem regulating industries like grocery chains, fast food, etc that clearly raised prices for no reason other than corporate greed? Or is that idea too far out there? And if so, why? To me, raising prices on groceries because they could get away with it during a pandemic is pure evil and crushed a lot of families.
How many years in a row have we brought in more than the cap?
 
Memory refresher....

To become a teacher, I'm assuming at SOME point you were introduced to the Scientific Method and the concept of causality. If so, you need to repeat, because they didn't take the first time.
 
Agreed. But I know people who trained their replacement in an IT job. One guy had been with the company for 15 years and was one of their first IT guys. They brought in a foreigner and once he was trained up they fired the American and gave his job to a 22 yo Asian kid. Paid him about half the money. That is the kind of stuff I am against. They didn't "need" a qualified worker.

I saw entire departments have to do that, willingly of of course after a nice severance. It happens when companies offshore. Thats getting mixed up with the h1b visa which is totally different.

Offshoring absolutely needs stopped. That definitely cuts into wages.
 
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Nice story from Trump's first term:






"In the run-up to Christmas, TVA fired these 200 Americans - and had them train their foreign replacements on the way out.

They did this despite the fact that TVA is (1) a government agency; (2) founded to improve the material station of poor Americans, and (3) manages critical energy infrastructure for a large swath of the country.


My team and I proposed a plan to President Trump to reinstate the terminated American workers. Because the President of TVA cannot be fired by the President of the United States we thought President Trump should hold the TVA board members responsible - the highly-compensated decision-makers who had orchestrated the H1B worker swap. The President agreed.

He started firing TVA board members one at a time, with a demand to reinstate the Americans to their jobs. It didn’t take long before the TVA president and the remaining Board members agreed to reinstate the American workers.

At the time, some skeptical commentators said it was meaningless because it was “only” 200 jobs. But it was an important moment for two reasons. First, these 200 jobs mattered to 200 American families, especially with Christmas approaching. Second, it set an outer boundary for what short-term labor visas (which is ultimately what the H1B visa is) should NOT be used for: to replace competent American workers in a critical industry with temporary foreign visa workers just to save a buck.

There is broad agreement on the right about what H1B visas - or any other visa - should NOT be used for. The TVA showdown is an example of that. Agreeing on this common understanding is the right starting place for this incoming administration."
 
Agreed. But I know people who trained their replacement in an IT job. One guy had been with the company for 15 years and was one of their first IT guys. They brought in a foreigner and once he was trained up they fired the American and gave his job to a 22 yo Asian kid. Paid him about half the money. That is the kind of stuff I am against. They didn't "need" a qualified worker.
This shit infuriates me. Luckily, I’m in an IT environment that requires a clearance, so that doesn’t apply to me.
 
To become a teacher, I'm assuming at SOME point you were introduced to the Scientific Method and the concept of causality. If so, you need to repeat, because they didn't take the first time.
Ilogic 101 with Professor HymanKaplan....
Blame Biden for things out of his control like the economic issues resulting from post Covid supply chain issues, post Covid inflation and Ukraine?
But Trump gets a full pass on all things out of his control like China sending us the modern plague and all the economic impacts of Covid?
 
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Interesting since “greed” is what I’ve been bashing grocery stores over since they jacked prices up during COVID, along with a ton of other industries. Wish they were all like you.
Have you noticed that your world view is that anytime anything goes wrong with democrats or someone you don't like does anything it's supposedly bc of money or greed?

Do you think grocery stores just go, you know what, mark that up 2 bucks?

You are 100% a government employee.

It's basic economics. Stores have extremely thin margins...like barely 2%. You know all that stuff in them? It doesn't magically manifest in the store. The vendor, say farmer, has higher labor costs, higher costs for materials, equipment, the fuel they use to harvest. Do you know how mich fertilizer is now? That's passed on. Those magic inventions called trucks, aka freight, don't run on feelings, they run on fuel. It costs to bring them there. It's passed on. The shelf life of perishable food is short, you have an expense and if you dont sell it, it's a loss. The store itself isn't utility free, they have air and heating, electricity.

Have you ever considered you live in a fantasy reality?
 
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In order for stores/chains to have price gouged they would have had to collectively engaged in antitrust violations. And if they did, as sam and others seem to think, then that looks even worse for the Biden administration, because they didn't bring the hammer down on them via the Federal Trade Commission and the DOJ.

But, they didn't, just as the retailers didn't gouge.

Instead, the administration just deflected blame by mindlessly blathering on about shrinkflation, "Big Food", and how this was, in defiance of all logic, somehow Trump's fault. 🤣
 
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