Good day all. I guess the question here is, How can we miss you George, if you and your minions won’t go away?” Recently, the “George W. Bush Presidential Center” came out with statement that demonstrates the utter and complete contempt for the American workers that the old Establishment Republicans have had for a long time.
As you know, if you actually pay attention, the unemployment rate for Americans has been plummeting to levels not seen in decades. This includes Americans of recent African Decent and those who came here lawfully, or their ancestors, from south of the border, groups historically “Left behind” when the economy picks up. Well, it seems that the Director of Economic Growth isn’t happy with the changes. She wants to throw thousands of Americans out of a job in favor of Foreign Nationals. Here are the details from Breitbart:
President George W. Bush’s presidential center and other business groups are denouncing a pending regulation by President Donald Trump that would open tens of thousands of U.S. jobs to young American graduates.
Trump’s reform will hurt “employers that have benefited … for the last few years,” complained Laura Collins, the director of the economic growth program at the George W. Bush Presidential Center.
And what is this major policy change that has Laura Collins panties in a bunch? It seems that President Trump wants to change the H1B visa program.
Trump’s pending regulation reportedly would end the policy of giving bonus work permits to wives of foreign workers who have H-1B visas, and would, therefore, shift jobs and salaries from foreign temporary workers to American graduates.
The H-1B program allows foreign visa-workers — but not spouses — to take middle-class jobs from Americans. But the H-1B salaries are very low, so the bonus program allows the spouses to supplement the family income. The extra income encourages the lower wage H-1B workers to stay in the United States instead of returning home after several years.
Here’s the thing about the H1B program. It really took off during the ramp up for the Y2K mess when it was discovered that older computer code didn’t understand the date system we use now. Instead of a 4 digit space, it had only 2 digits. This could cause a computer to think that January 1, 2000 was actually January 1, 1900.
There were not enough programmers available to do the massive fixes required, plus those who did have that knowledge were demanding very high pay checks. There was even talk back then of conscripting programmers and other I.T. workers into the military, forcing them to work on pain of court martial and paying them $50 a month. Realizing how dangerously dumb that idea would be, they ramp’ed up the H1B program instead.
People coming to America on an H1B visa were supposed to be paid the same as American workers. That turned out to be a massive joke. Since 2000, H1B workers have been used to replace Americans. President Trump, as one of his promises, said he would do something about this, and now he’s about to.
Roughly 100,000 bonus work permits have been issued via the program, which is dubbed the “H4EAD” program.
This bonus program was created by former President Barack Obama — without any approval by Congress — because many H-1B workers from India are leaving the United States. The Indians are leaving because they know they have to work and wait many years to get the real payoff for their low-wage H-1B work — a green card which would allow them and their extended families to move to the United States.
Obama, why am I not surprised? That scumbag hates all things about America, and was the first, and I hope last, anti-American president to be elected.
But each Indian H-1B who leaves opens up a middle-class job for an American graduate, marking another success for Trump’s Inauguration Day promise of “Hire American.”
Trump’s Hire American promise, however, is a financial problem for companies because Americans must be paid in dollars, not with government-supplied green cards.
Obama’s bonus program should be preserved because the extra labor helps companies and because it expands the economy, said Collins, director of the economic growth program at the Bush center.”If we remove their work authorization, we will only hurt them,” she said on February 22, adding: “We will also hurt the economy and the employers that have benefited from their work and skills for the last few years”:
Collins’ statement emphasized growth in the economy, not growth in wages or living standards or even growth in Americans’ productivity.
Her emphasis on national “economic growth” echoes the pro-migration pitch investors made to legislators. In general, economic growth via immigration creates more jobs, more business sales, higher real estate values, more stock value for Wall Street, and some additional taxes to government coffers. But that process also ensures that many working-class and middle-class Americans lose jobs and wages to cheap imported workers.
“At the Bush Institute, we believe immigration is important to a growing economy,” Collins said, adding, “We really need to promote policies on immigration that help meet the needs of our vibrant, growing, 21st Century economy. … These [work permit recipients] are investing in their communities, helping their families and really helping grow our economy.”
Here’s the thing. As Collins stated, she only cares for economic growth. However, the last 20 years, when H1B’s were coming in by the boat load didn’t do much for economic growth. Oh it did help the bottom line of corporations, since they didn’t have to pay the going rate or any benefits. Additionally, the H1B’s were virtual wage slaves.
They can’t just look for another job that pays better. They are locked to the company that sponsored their visa. They corporations also had the benefit that if the H1B’s got “uppity” they could fire them and they would literally be on the next plane back to India. American workers flat out wouldn’t put up with the garbage H1B’s do.
In 1990, President George H.W. Bush signed an immigration deal that roughly tripled the legal immigration rate, shifted wealth from wage earners to investors, and spiked stock market values. In 2006 and 2007, President George W. Bush pushed for a massive amnesty and expansion of immigration.
The Bush’s have never been ones to shy away from their Globalist, elitist views. The amnesty G.W. Bush pushed for literally blew up in his face. It wasn’t just American citizens who were breaking out the tar and feathers, it was all the legal Resident Aliens who were ready to break out the pitchforks and torches.
Bush Jr. totally misread how people felt about about criminals, which is what illegal aliens are, being jumped to the front of the line. In my case, I was working with the former Mrs. Webmaster to get her the 10 year green card she had earned. If the Bush amnesty had gone through, she would never have gotten it before her 2 year card expired.
In 2013 and 2014, George W. Bush also endorsed Obama’s “Gang of Eight” legislation, which also shifted future income from employees to investors, according to a 2013 report by the Congressional Budget Office. In 2016, Jeb Bush campaigned against Trump on a platform calling for more immigration to spur economic growth.
And how did that work out for your Jeb? Did you have to cancel your appointment to choose new drapes for the Oval office?
Unsurprisingly, Trump won the 2016 election with a promise to aid Americans by reforming the migration and visa-worker programs.
Trump’s pro-American reform is also being denounced by FWD.us, a pro-migration group created by West Coast technology investors, including Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates:
100,000 H-4 visa holders are at very serious risk as the Trump administration continues to do everything it can to strip away their work authorization.
These idiots literally can’t see how bad this looks. They are so greedy, (And there is nothing wrong with being greedy), that don’t understand that the people they want to be their customers now hate them with a passion. In the worst case scenario, this could lead to violence. (Something we do NOT want to see) As it is now, Zuckerbergs arrogance is probably going to end up costing him a fortune, and potentially, his freedom.
Most establishment media outlets ignore the Americans who lose jobs and salaries to the visa-worker programs, and, instead, champion the foreign visa workers, often by incorrectly touting them as “immigrants.”
This isn’t any real surprise. The Mostly Stupid Media went full Anti-American back in the 60’s and 70’s. Anything that hurts Americans, they support, and this is the problem with far to many American based corporations. They’ve forgotten that is America that let them get started. Take Microsoft…Please!
I recall years ago that they made a threat to move out of the United States if they didn’t get a big increase in H1B slaves. (This may have been under G.W. Bush, but could have been Obama) The Globalist politicians promptly caved and gave them pretty much what they wanted. Only one small thing. Those H1B’s didn’t supplement the Americans working for Microsoft, (And other companies), they supplanted them.
One of the mantra’s the CommuNazis liked to throw around when Obama was wrecking the coal industry was to tell the coal miners to “Learn to code!” Of course, even if they did, where would they work? Being Americans, they were basically being blackballed from the very jobs they were supposed to be training for. This is one of the many reasons Donald Trump won. He puts Americans first and has no problem landing on these Progressive, elitist CEO’s that put the rest of the world ahead of the nation that literally gave them everything.
As far as I’m concerned, cancel the whole H1B program and ship all the H1B Visa holders out. I want to let in skilled people who want to stay here and eventually become Americans themselves. They will bring the best they have to offer and leave the garbage of the “Old Country” on the other side of the border. They will work to assimilate and become good new Americans and I will welcome them with open arms.
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