Anonymous wrote:Democrats have an opening

Pause H1xxB and OxxPT job outsourcing programs.

They could fight for America First and US Citizens first

would be a great step to redeem the party

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Anonymous wrote:It's like Vivek and Elon didn't pay attention to all the GOP rhetoric during Trump's campaign.

Yes, racism and dislike of immigrants is what the GOP is about right now.

They're billionaires. They haven't needed to consider the feelings and opinions of other people since they acquired that level wealth.

At this point, I'm sure it doesn't even occur to them to do so.

That makes sense. They've been hanging around in woke circles and seem to be surprised by the tank and file of the GOP.

Anonymous wrote:Democrats have an opening

Pause H1xxB and OxxPT job outsourcing programs.

They could fight for America First and US Citizens first

would be a great step to redeem the party

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Anonymous wrote:Just wait til all the MAGAs with giant weapons caches, like the one in Virginia, figure out what they really voted for.

It's a terrible thing. They may as well have just stayed home or voted Stein. Harris loved the program.

Some are questioning Ramaswamy's and Musk's loyalty to America, and it's no surprise that Harris would be the same. She too had parents from elsewhere. Her ties would be theoretically less strong than Ramaswamy's given that she spent years growing up in another country.

Which is precisely why she didn't inspire greater voter turnout.

The voters who turned out apparently don't want more immigrants, legal or illegal.

Yet that’s what they’re getting if President Musk has his way.

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Anonymous wrote:Just wait til all the MAGAs with giant weapons caches, like the one in Virginia, figure out what they really voted for.

It's a terrible thing. They may as well have just stayed home or voted Stein. Harris loved the program.

Some are questioning Ramaswamy's and Musk's loyalty to America, and it's no surprise that Harris would be the same. She too had parents from elsewhere. Her ties would be theoretically less strong than Ramaswamy's given that she spent years growing up in another country.

Which is precisely why she didn't inspire greater voter turnout.

The voters who turned out apparently don't want more immigrants, legal or illegal.

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Anonymous wrote:Just wait til all the MAGAs with giant weapons caches, like the one in Virginia, figure out what they really voted for.

It's a terrible thing. They may as well have just stayed home or voted Stein. Harris loved the program.

Some are questioning Ramaswamy's and Musk's loyalty to America, and it's no surprise that Harris would be the same. She too had parents from elsewhere. Her ties would be theoretically less strong than Ramaswamy's given that she spent years growing up in another country.

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Anonymous wrote:Isn't capitalism about increasing profit and keeping labor costs down? I thought MAGAs considered themselves capitalists.

Capitalism is about competition. Allowing defacto monopolies to control the labor market is not capitalism.

Corporations have the right to hire whoever they want to, barring discrimination against race, religion, gender.

Sorry, that's capitalism. MAGA

Then capitalism needs to be regulated better.

hahaha is this a joke? Rs would say regulation is the antithesis of capitalism.

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Anonymous wrote:The foreign workers who come in are also given housing. This affects rental rates. A two bedroom apartment in a high tech area is $6,000 plus. Corporations don’t blink but Americans being pushed out due to unaffordable rents sure do.

No. There are 2 things raising the rents in areas like SF:

1. Fixed property taxes and fixed rents so people stay in the area long after they would normally have moved on.

2. Rich foreign people - mostly from China - buy up properties in desirable areas of California and don’t even lease out the property, just let it sit there vacant (no hassles for them that way), to park their money away from the Chinese government.

Higher demand, lower supply means higher prices.

There are pharmaceutical and tech companies interspersed between massive apartment complexes in Cambridge. They are full of H1-B visa holders. They also have some subsidized units. Rents are average $6,000 per month with parking and other amenities. I know a lot of workers from Russia,China, Middle East. They don’t pay their rent so the greedy management companies charge ridiculous prices.

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Anonymous wrote:The foreign workers who come in are also given housing. This affects rental rates. A two bedroom apartment in a high tech area is $6,000 plus. Corporations don’t blink but Americans being pushed out due to unaffordable rents sure do.

No. There are 2 things raising the rents in areas like SF:

1. Fixed property taxes and fixed rents so people stay in the area long after they would normally have moved on.

2. Rich foreign people - mostly from China - buy up properties in desirable areas of California and don’t even lease out the property, just let it sit there vacant (no hassles for them that way), to park their money away from the Chinese government.

Higher demand, lower supply means higher prices.

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Anonymous wrote:The H1-B program is good for filling a few needed high skilled jobs but I don't think bring a bunch of Indians over here to do tech jobs is the answer. We need to focus more on these skills in our US schools to close the gap. Indians aren't inherently smarter than Americans. They just have a better focus for the .001% of their citizens that have the opportunity to get the education needed in the tech world.

If you are talking about gifted programs and advanced tracks in schools then I agree with you. We’re cutting gifted programs for equity reasons even though we should be expanding them. We should have advanced tracks at school for the “gifted” kids and then super advanced programs for those really special kids that you identified.

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Anonymous wrote:Isn't capitalism about increasing profit and keeping labor costs down? I thought MAGAs considered themselves capitalists.

Capitalism is about competition. Allowing defacto monopolies to control the labor market is not capitalism.

Corporations have the right to hire whoever they want to, barring discrimination against race, religion, gender.

Sorry, that's capitalism. MAGA

Then capitalism needs to be regulated better.

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Anonymous wrote:Just wait til all the MAGAs with giant weapons caches, like the one in Virginia, figure out what they really voted for.

It's a terrible thing. They may as well have just stayed home or voted Stein. Harris loved the program.

Some are questioning Ramaswamy's and Musk's loyalty to America, and it's no surprise that Harris would be the same. She too had parents from elsewhere. Her ties would be theoretically less strong than Ramaswamy's given that she spent years growing up in another country.

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Anonymous wrote:Isn't capitalism about increasing profit and keeping labor costs down? I thought MAGAs considered themselves capitalists.

Capitalism is about competition. Allowing defacto monopolies to control the labor market is not capitalism.

Corporations have the right to hire whoever they want to, barring discrimination against race, religion, gender.

Sorry, that's capitalism. MAGA

Anonymous wrote:Just wait til all the MAGAs with giant weapons caches, like the one in Virginia, figure out what they really voted for.