1- the poor that don't want their government benefits touched but support firing federal employees (who get taxpayers money to actually do work) are the demonstration of how low income people can be selfish jerks too, and I suspect they are the type of low income voters who shifted to Trump
2-as someone who works in tech and went through all kinds of visas, it's absolutely true that there's a big shortage of skilled americans in certain areas (being from Italy where there's the opposite issue, underemployment of engineers, I suspect it has to do in part with the cost of college). Also the real problem of immigration (which explains the massive amount of illegal immigrants) are THE LAWS, which are absurdly restrictive, arbitrary and unfair. Every American I talked to thinks coming and staying legally in the US is 100 times easier than it really is, I don't blame them for the ignorance since immigration laws are the ONLY type of laws that Americans don't have to deal with. That's the issue with Democrats, instead of focusing on changing the laws, their immigration policies are either "Trump is racist" or chasing the right on securing the border, which is bad for everyone, legal immigrants, illegal immigrants and US citizens.
It's tempting, I think, to laugh and/or engage in schadenfreude over these kinds of stories, but this portends darkness to me. This chaos will inevitably spill over to us and we'll have to clean up the messes.
What I see coming in the next two years is a Republican inspired wave diminishing the actual economic benefits afforded middle and lower economic level Americans and a shift of thise benefits to the wealthy.
So far, that has been made possible by the culture war allegiance of the lower lovel economic strata to the Republican agenda. This culture war has led tousands to vote aginst their own economic interests in allegiance to the message of the culture war.
That will reverse when those who so voted finally wake up and realize that they have been screwing themselves.
The next two years are going to be very interesting, especially for the Republican upper crust that has created and benefitted from this cynical program.
"You can fool some of the people all of the time; you can fool all of the people some of the time; but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time".
I really don't find this surprising. In fact, when I was reading loomer's comments, all I could think to myself was "do you fucking get it now?" Of course, she and people like her don't (and likely never will) get it because they're a bunch of racist dum dums.
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1- the poor that don't want their government benefits touched but support firing federal employees (who get taxpayers money to actually do work) are the demonstration of how low income people can be selfish jerks too, and I suspect they are the type of low income voters who shifted to Trump
2-as someone who works in tech and went through all kinds of visas, it's absolutely true that there's a big shortage of skilled americans in certain areas (being from Italy where there's the opposite issue, underemployment of engineers, I suspect it has to do in part with the cost of college). Also the real problem of immigration (which explains the massive amount of illegal immigrants) are THE LAWS, which are absurdly restrictive, arbitrary and unfair. Every American I talked to thinks coming and staying legally in the US is 100 times easier than it really is, I don't blame them for the ignorance since immigration laws are the ONLY type of laws that Americans don't have to deal with. That's the issue with Democrats, instead of focusing on changing the laws, their immigration policies are either "Trump is racist" or chasing the right on securing the border, which is bad for everyone, legal immigrants, illegal immigrants and US citizens.
> [Musk] A former H1-B visa holder himself
Is this really true? I thought he made fraudulent use of a student visa?
He had both at different points, I believe
It's tempting, I think, to laugh and/or engage in schadenfreude over these kinds of stories, but this portends darkness to me. This chaos will inevitably spill over to us and we'll have to clean up the messes.
Not really looking forward to that...
Yes, I think Trump will invent new scapegoats and new marginalized targets, preventing any eye-opening awareness from catching on overtime.
Once the far right owned the Supreme Court, the rest is a years long tedious endgame of mopping up details.
It would be nice to have some good humor and jokes About these things. Sigh.
What I see coming in the next two years is a Republican inspired wave diminishing the actual economic benefits afforded middle and lower economic level Americans and a shift of thise benefits to the wealthy.
So far, that has been made possible by the culture war allegiance of the lower lovel economic strata to the Republican agenda. This culture war has led tousands to vote aginst their own economic interests in allegiance to the message of the culture war.
That will reverse when those who so voted finally wake up and realize that they have been screwing themselves.
The next two years are going to be very interesting, especially for the Republican upper crust that has created and benefitted from this cynical program.
"You can fool some of the people all of the time; you can fool all of the people some of the time; but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time".
"Whether H-1B visas actually result in lower wages for domestic workers has long been debated"
https://www.epi.org/publication/new-evidence-widespread-wage-theft-in-the-h-1b-program/
I really don't find this surprising. In fact, when I was reading loomer's comments, all I could think to myself was "do you fucking get it now?" Of course, she and people like her don't (and likely never will) get it because they're a bunch of racist dum dums.