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Trump is planning on signing an executive order on Tuesday that will cause a review of the H1-B program. It is just a review, and undoubtedly business interests will step up the pressure, but there are some interesting ideas:
"If you change that current system that awards visas randomly, without regard or skill or wage, to a skill-based awarding, it makes it extremely difficult to use the visa to replace or undercut American workers, because you're not bringing in workers at beneath the market wage," the official said. "So it's a very elegant way of solving systemic problems in the H-1B guest worker visa."
Breitbart of course has an article out (though it reads like they need to hire some native speaking editors) -- still, recent college grads face a huge hurdle:
The federal government releases little data on the many different guest-worker programs, but the available evidence says the national population of white-collar contract workers is up to 1.5 million. That population is roughly twice the population of 800,000 Americans who graduate from college with skilled degrees each year.
And finally, lest people forget that progressives also have issues with H1-B visas, here is Bernie Sanders (a decade ago of course) attacking this ploy to make sure money only trickles up by ensuring low wages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR9QdQIKqMc
[Ed Note: Trump did sign the executive order at a photo op in Wisconsin.]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday April 19 2017, @05:07PM (8 children)
That's my read as well. There are only so many times in a historically short span of time that you can vote for a complete change of government, seeking fundamental change, and not get it, repeatedly, before the reality you're pointing out sinks in.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @06:34PM (7 children)
That's my read as well.
Yours are the fantasies of pampered little shits who have never lived through government collapse.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday April 19 2017, @06:39PM (3 children)
The last thing I want to see in my lifetime is a government collapse. I simply believe it will come and is unavoidable. Fifteen years ago I realized the government was hopelessly corrupt, but believed it could be fixed. Now I no longer believe it is possible to fix.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @10:02PM (2 children)
I simply believe it will come and is unavoidable.
You've heard the term, "self-fullfilling prophecy?"
Government is fundamentally nothing more than a shared belief. If enough people believe it will collapse, then due to their inaction in response to actual crises for fear of "throwing good after bad," it will collapse. Nihilism like yours is the primary enabler of collapse.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @03:19AM
ohh nooooeeeessss! what would we do without career thieves to try to steal from us everything that makes us human! fuck those parasites. all the chicken shits who fund them are the problem.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday April 20 2017, @03:09PM
It's not self fulfilling prophecy. I think Phoenix666 (552) above said it best:
Obama: Change we need
Trump: Make America Great Again
Two big changes mandated by the people, in different directions. Yet the people seem to perceive their problems are not being fixed. I'm sure the 1% behind the scenes are laughing themselves silly as the people are deeply divided, the politicians are deeply divided, and everyone is fighting each other while they make out like bandits on the back of everyone else.
I don't have to do anything to make it all collapse. I simply have an opinion that it will. I don't want it to. But I am able to not let what I want (or what I don't want) to affect my evaluation.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @08:24PM (2 children)
No where does he say he wants to go through a collapse. We're all scared shitless of a collapse, but we're also fed up with being serfs in a rigged game that is only getting worse every year. Also, some of us would like our planet to remain inhabitable in the long term. We have so much human capital, so many potentially talented people who could be given useful projects, but we're hamstrung by greed and the focus on capitalistic profits. No no, nothing wrong with the idea of capitalism, only with applying it 100% to society.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @09:08PM (1 child)
You either have the resources to live the way you want, or you do not. It's that simple.
The word "profit" doesn't just mean "bank balance"; money is but one way to measure profit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @11:18PM
Highschool economics is not enough for you to enter this discussion.