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President-elect Donald Trump realized early in his campaign that U.S. IT workers were angry over training foreign visa-holding replacements. He knew this anger was volcanic.
Trump is the first major U.S. presidential candidate in this race -- or any previous presidential race -- to focus on the use of the H-1B visa to displace IT workers. He asked former Disney IT employees, upset over having to train foreign replacements, to speak at his rallies.
"The fact is that Americans are losing their jobs to foreigners," said Dena Moore, a former Disney IT worker at a Trump rally in Alabama in February. "I believe Mr. Trump is for Americans first."
Yes, US nerds were angry about training H-1B replacements, but how much could they have helped put him over the top?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @10:04PM
That's the free market & capitalism at work right there, buddy... I thought the republicans were in favor of that (and don't give me any crap about how trump is not a republican. A large part of his electorate voted for him because he's 'their' guy, namely the guy from 'their' party)
(Score: 4, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday November 10 2016, @10:23PM
You ain't paid much attention this election cycle, have you? Like, none at all. Trump voters did the exact opposite of what you just said. They told their party to fuck right off and brought in an outsider.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 11 2016, @12:42AM
Nah, only about 4% of Trump voters were previously non-voters.
The rest were same-old same-old republicans just voting for the guy with an (R) like they always do.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday November 11 2016, @01:45AM
Yeah, that's utterly not what I said. Trump was a shot of piss in the eye to the Republican politicians. A vote of utter lack of confidence.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 11 2016, @02:08AM
If something you year doesn't line up with your world view, you really just go full-on retard, don't you?
(Score: 3, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday November 11 2016, @03:41AM
I reply in kind to the relative intelligence of the post I'm replying to. Dickmunch.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 11 2016, @03:55AM
> Trump was a shot of piss in the eye to the Republican politicians. A vote of utter lack of confidence.
Except that down-ballot incumbent republicans out-performed Trump.
In other words, even more people voted for status-quo republicans than voted for Trump. [dailywire.com]
But what do I know? I'm just a dickmunch. Munch... munch... munch. Hmmm so good!
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday November 11 2016, @10:58AM
Yup, it's a shame they couldn't all come together to form Voltron. Then they might have won. I would have voted for Voltron at least.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 11 2016, @02:36PM
No, it's not. Free market and capitalism would be Indians coming to the U.S., becoming U.S. citizens, and consequently being paid like U.S. citizens with whatever particular qualifications they have.
In contrast, the H1-B system has a limited pool of seats which you won't get access to unless you're a large corporation that's donated to political campaigns (cronyism); you need to show that there aren't qualified domestic workers, but you can put a bunch of stupid BS in the job requirements and never get called out on it as long as you're big and donated to political campaigns (again, cronyism); if you're a small business that can't afford to piss away money on lobbying, the only way you're getting a cheap H1-B is by contracting with Tata or Infosys or whoever, and they'll take a cut of the pay since they're big enough to lobby regulators to look the other way (more cronyism); the H1-B workers themselves are pretty much slaves and if they get laid off or fired they're going to be deported immediately by DHS, despite supposedly having time to look for another job (government idiocy); and, to top it all off, these same H1-B-abusing companies are busy getting tons of government money thrown at getting more Comp-Sci students by bitching to the government about not having enough workers--I guess they know all too well the government will pick up the tab for their training expenses like has been happening for the last few decades.
The H1-B system is pretty much the antithesis of anything resembling free market capitalism. I'm sure you already know that, but hey, feel free to keep repeating the same lie over and over again in an effort to make it true. That sure worked out great for you Dems in the election this year, didn't it?