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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: 5, Interesting) by jmorris on Friday November 11 2016, @01:30AM
he made term limits a priority
That is one of the positions I disagree with Trump on, but I know it is a crowd pleaser and don't yell about it a lot. Hopefully calmer heads will explain it to him when the time comes, he has a lot of really good folks around him.
The problem with term limits is that it is an attempt to treat a symptom that will only make the actual problem worse. The problem is so much power is concentrated in DC that having one of those seats in Congress is worth hundreds of millions of dollars. To make America Great Again we should make DC a backwater again. Crash the real estate market in DC by eliminating most of the power concentrated there and send it back to the States where it belongs. What term limits would do is make the office holder merely a face who would be there and gone before ever really learning how the machine even works. The Congressman's Chief of Staff would be inherited (barring a flip in Party control of the seat of course) because who would have time to replace the whole staff when you are only going to be there a few years and who else actually knows what is going on? See the problem? The elected officials really would become Swiftian non-entities and the flappers who move his/her/its lips the actual power. Soon enough the media would formalize it, they would stop bothering to interview the elected official and instead invite the Chief of Staff of the committee chair to do the Sunday talking head circuit. Congress has already surrendered too much authority to the eternal machinery, term limits would only make it worse.
In short, term limits is a trap. Progressives adore the concept of rule by self appointed experts (generally educated in elite institutions far beyond their intelligence but proven Party Men), they would love it if the people we got to elect were demoted to placeholders with no actual authority so long as they could maintain the illusion to keep the masses pacified.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by fliptop on Friday November 11 2016, @02:00PM
The problem is you don't need them b/c you can vote for the challenger.
Ever had a belch so satisfying you have to blow your nose afterward?
(Score: 2) by rondon on Friday November 11 2016, @02:21PM
This is important, and I really want to emphasize what jmorris has said - we need to address the root of the problem, and term limits doesn't do that.
Now, he and I probably disagree on how to fix the root (superficially at least, I'm sure) but we absolutely agree that term limits are the lipstick for the pig we have in DC.