Quote :

"There has always been a cap on H-1B visas, and most employers (especially small business owners) agree that the market for low-skilled workers is no where near saturation. In fact there is a long ongoing debate to increase the cap on H-1Bs. "

This brings us back to my previous point: is the market actually saturated, or has the recruiting pool increase changed the definition of "qualified" in the eyes of employers? Talk to a recruiter and ask them how many applicants they receive per position.

[Edited on January 31, 2017 at 4:26 PM. Reason : .]

1/31/2017 4:23:36 PM

Quote :

"recruiting pool increase changed the definition of "qualified" in the eyes of employers?"

Of course the definition of qualified has changed. That will occur with a labor market more dependent on high skilled workers, and labor pool saturated with advanced education.

1/31/2017 4:31:04 PM

Quote :

"In general, not only does globalization decrease the price of everyday goods, but it also increases the standard of living for ALL parties involved"

Woah, you totally missed what I meant because my response was clunky. This is exactly what I meant. That part of the response was meant as a knock on protectionist policy.

Though I'm curious why you disagree with me that in theory an increase in globalization will potentially lead to more inequality (until skills are learned) which a society would need to compensate for the net benefit to occur.

[Edited on January 31, 2017 at 4:40 PM. Reason : X]

1/31/2017 4:34:32 PM

On protectionism
https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/826538110297141248

1/31/2017 4:35:39 PM

^^^
So the job market is only saturated because it's cheaper to hire non-citizens rather than hire and train citizens.

How is that good for the US workforce?

[Edited on January 31, 2017 at 4:36 PM. Reason : .]

1/31/2017 4:36:09 PM

Rumor mill says Trump is going to weed out immigrants based on whether they're likely to end up on welfare.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-administration-circulates-more-draft-immigration-restrictions-focusing-on-protecting-us-jobs/2017/01/31/38529236-e741-11e6-80c2-30e57e57e05d_story.html?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_eoimmigration-120pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.acfcaf05cfa7

1/31/2017 5:27:30 PM

Quote :

"So the job market is only saturated because it's cheaper to hire non-citizens rather than hire and train citizens."

Do you mean over-saturated? In general, additional supply to a specific workforce (say computer programmers) will drive down salaries for that workforce. But, you need to remember that our economy isnt a 1:1 economy. As more people participate, the economy grows, so more people can benefit from an economy. So, studies have shown that even though salaries might* decrease in the short term, there is a net benefit in job growth (for example, a new job for managers who speak the language of the computer programmers).

*An important caveat to this is that the elasticity of demand for a specific workforce isn't so simple as a straight lined supply and demand curve.

[Edited on January 31, 2017 at 5:57 PM. Reason : 1]

1/31/2017 5:56:43 PM

Sounds like a pyramid scheme to me

1/31/2017 6:18:37 PM

Quote :

"Rumor mill says Trump is going to weed out immigrants based on whether they're likely to end up on welfare."

the bottom of the article you linked says that's been a federal provision of immigration for over 100 years now. This would target Mexico hard, as 73% of Mexican immigrants receive some form of welfare. Comparatively, East Asians, Europeans, and South Asians use welfare at a rate similar to or lower than natives to this country.

http://cis.org/Welfare-Use-Immigrant-Native-Households

1/31/2017 6:21:07 PM

^ I'm not sure what you're referring to. The bottom of the article mentions an existing federal law preventing recent immigrants from getting welfare for 5 years. That's a wholly different concept from stopping immigrants from entering the country because the administration thinks they might end up on welfare. Let's be honest here... who the government thinks might end up on welfare will be a purely subjective measure .

1/31/2017 7:31:58 PM

Obstructing this is such an easy win for Democrats. They would have overwhelming public support at this moment, and will likely be dealing with a new president before midterms. And they wouldn't be replacing a Scalia with another Scalia.


They won't do it, though




Also, wrong thread

[Edited on January 31, 2017 at 9:04 PM. Reason : ]

1/31/2017 9:04:17 PM

Wouldn't they then be stuck with Vice President Pence's pick (assuming that this one isn't already it)?

1/31/2017 9:49:06 PM

I'm not sure if obstructing is the best option, but it will be what democrats do.

Trump is basically attacking the GOP in congress now, so it will look like Dems/GOP in congress being petty with each other and Trump is the "outsider".

Dems should stall the nomination for a few months, but not indefinitely. They should definitely stall the cabinet picks because they are terrible picks. But a blanket, indefinite obstruction is counterproductive.

1/31/2017 10:56:54 PM

Can't confirm but if InfoWars is allowed in to WH press room as they claim.. - a lot for willingly propagating fake (not biased but fake) news.

[Edited on February 1, 2017 at 9:22 AM. Reason : Whatever you think of CNN what the admin doing is a dangerous precedent. Obama was wrong with FNC to]

2/1/2017 9:17:04 AM

+1000 Credibility for textualist SCOTUS pick (assuming he doesn't pull a John Roberts and shit the bed 20 years from now)

2/1/2017 10:04:56 AM

-100 for turning the whole nomination into a prime-time reality show production.

2/1/2017 10:11:09 AM

^^
it happens to all judges, something about thinking deeply about issues makes you more liberal, imagine that...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/supreme-court-justices-get-more-liberal-as-they-get-older/

2/1/2017 10:55:02 AM

https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/826822342961745922

I wish there was an easier way to post the actual transcript. I think SNL may have wrote this parody but even they couldn't create a caricature as good as the man himself.

2/1/2017 11:38:28 AM

I'd bet money he needed to have someone on his staff research and tell him who Frederick Douglass was.

2/1/2017 11:48:30 AM

^yea wtf? I'm still surprised that I can be surprised at how vapid he is.

2/1/2017 11:51:25 AM

i'm inspired that someone with such severe ADD can become a billionaire president

2/1/2017 11:55:01 AM

Quote :

"it happens to all judges, something about thinking deeply about issues makes you more liberal, imagine that..."

Or it could have something to do with the left applying political pressure to the supreme court, like Obama did to Roberts as WikiLeaks exposed.

But yea, a graph that represents conservative/liberal ideology on an X/Y axis, nice pseudoscience. I guess that is the kind of thinking you need when you have to justify twisting the meaning of the constitution to turn our country into a socialist hell hole.

Hopefully Gorsuch can help stop more leftist disasters like the unaffordable care act before they ever take place.

2/1/2017 1:03:35 PM

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/jan/30/donald-trump/why-comparing-trumps-and-obamas-immigration-restri/

Quote :

"In 2011, there was a specific threat First, Obama’s suspension was in direct response to a failed plot by Iraqi nationals living in Bowling Green, Ky., to send money, explosives and weapons to al-Qaida. The two men were arrested by the FBI in May 2011 for actions committed in Iraq and trying to assist overseas terrorist groups. Both had entered the United States as refugees after lying about their past terrorism ties on paperwork. One man worked as a bombmaker in Iraq, and the FBI even matched his fingerprints to an unexploded IED discovered in 2005 in Iraq, raising questions about the thoroughness of the vetting process. Trump’s ban, meanwhile, is more preemptive. As PolitiFact reported, no refugee or immigrant from any of the seven countries targeted by the ban has been implicated in any fatal terrorist attack in the United States, though perpetrators of at least three non-deadly cases were connected to Iran or Somalia. Obama’s order was narrower in scope Second, the scope of the two policies is slightly different. Obama’s 2011 order put a pause on refugee processing, whereas Trump’s halt in entries applies to all non-U.S. visitors. It should also be noted that Iraqi refugees were still admitted to the United States every month in 2011, though there was a significant drop after May of that year. Here’s a chart with data from the state department: "

Quote :

"The seven countries on Trump’s list While not necessarily part of this fact-check, Trump’s suggestion that he selected the seven countries as a continuation of Obama’s policy is imprecise. According to the executive order, Trump’s action applies to "countries designated pursuant to Division O, Title II, Section 203 of the 2016 consolidated Appropriations Act." That refers to a 2015 act, signed into law by Obama, revising the United States’ visa waiver program. The visa waiver program allows citizens from 38 countries to enter the United States without a visa for up to 90 days. Under the legislation, citizens of those 38 countries who had traveled to Iraq, Syria, Iran, and Sudan after March 2011 were no longer eligible for the visa waiver. Libya, Yemen, and Somalia were later added to the list. In other words, Obama’s actions dealt with people who had visited Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen, not citizens of those countries, and it did not prohibit them from entering the United States."

2/1/2017 1:07:51 PM

2/1/2017 1:08:00 PM

me, me, me, me, me!

2/1/2017 1:46:10 PM

that is way less distracted and all over the place than his actual statement though

2/1/2017 1:50:23 PM

You know, every elementary school student across the country, with maybe Vermont as an exception, could list the achievements of Tubman, Parks, Douglas, King. I'm surprised he didn't mention our most revered peanut farmer, George Washington Carver. How bout digging deeper than that and pointing out some modern pioneers in medicine, science, and education that happen to be African American.

I swear that speech could have been written by a fifth grader.

2/1/2017 3:47:44 PM

IT was probably an essay about Black History month written by Barron...media parts ad-libbed by Donald though.

2/1/2017 3:51:15 PM

^^ a 5th grader wouldn't have made it about themself

2/1/2017 4:00:49 PM

Trump mentions press attacking him while he is commenting on Black History Month.

Press attacks him for it.

The irony is lost on the SJWs, but not I

2/1/2017 5:23:33 PM

A) If you could read you'd know at around half of that speech is related to him and the media

B) You clearly have no idea what irony is

2/1/2017 5:28:58 PM

Trump lacks personal responsibility.

2/1/2017 5:34:28 PM

He talked about Omarosa.

In a speech.

About black history month.

2/1/2017 5:46:58 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLFe-cDxGxY

Always a world of difference between actually watching something, rather than reading it through the leftist spin.

Everytime Trump insults the media, +1000 credibility

2/1/2017 5:59:56 PM

His cred is yuge

2/1/2017 6:08:35 PM

Quote :

"rather than reading it through the leftist spin"

I didn't watch because I'm at work, but I read the transcript which had zero spin, just what he said. It read like jumbled nonsense.

To not mention Jews in his Holocaust Memorial Day speech and then have no clear understanding of black American accomplishments beyond MLK in a Black History Month speech... how much cred could he possibly have left?

2/1/2017 6:42:43 PM

Quote :

"The Trump administration wants to revamp and rename a U.S. government program designed to counter all violent ideologies so that it focuses solely on Islamist extremism, five people briefed on the matter told Reuters. The program, "Countering Violent Extremism," or CVE, would be changed to "Countering Islamic Extremism" or "Countering Radical Islamic Extremism," the sources said, and would no longer target groups such as white supremacists who have also carried out bombings and shootings in the United States."

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN15G5VO

Interesting the priority is to marginalize the bigger threat of rightwing extremists.

2/1/2017 7:48:21 PM

Haven't seen any other verification, but this is what actual thought policing looks like:
https://twitter.com/maasalan/status/826918755162796034

2/1/2017 7:57:10 PM

If this shit had happened to the Italians and Irish think about how much crime would have been prevented!!!

I wouldnt exist but ya know...USA

[Edited on February 2, 2017 at 7:16 AM. Reason : Edits]

2/2/2017 7:02:24 AM

^^ If true, that's fucked up. Would be interested to see if that can be verified or if more people experiencing this will come forward.

2/2/2017 7:24:11 AM

Why do his supporters allow his outright lies? I don't get this.

Like you can say you don't like the Iran deal but you can't just blatantly lie about the money they got. I don't understand how we got here..

And it isn't partisan. If X is empirically true and you say Y, you are lying. No both sides. No opinion. Just a lie.

[Edited on February 2, 2017 at 10:29 AM. Reason : X]

2/2/2017 10:28:34 AM

You're not taking the alternative facts into account, dumbass.

2/2/2017 10:31:04 AM

What is the alleged "lie" this time? You have to be specific with these accusations, part of the reason Trump could get away with a lie is because the leftist media has so many baseless accusations of Trump lying that nobody takes it seriously

2/2/2017 10:31:06 AM

Or because he lies/exaggerates/alternative facts so often no one can keep up any more.

2/2/2017 10:32:28 AM

So for anyone who argues that Trump is not 100% about "me," he took the National Prayer Breakfast to highlight how Celebrity Apprentice's ratings have gone down the tubes since he left.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/02/politics/donald-trump-national-prayer-breakfast/index.html

At an event that is supposed to highlight faith. He even swore. In a religious event.

Why does he have to turn everything that he touches into excrement? He's like King Midas, except what he touches turns to shit, not gold.

2/2/2017 10:39:44 AM

It's a ploy to drive ratings. Arnold literally responded to it within an hour. Trump is still a producer for the show and still gets compensated.

Take it in. The president of the United States used a national prayer breakfast to get publicity for his show. That is where we are.

[Edited on February 2, 2017 at 10:43 AM. Reason : It's kind of funny actually if you accept that the man is a joke and have no expectations ]

2/2/2017 10:43:13 AM

Oh, I'm taking it in, unfortunately.

Our president, the producer of a tv show, is hocking his tv show at a religious event.

2/2/2017 10:45:51 AM

Wake me up when he loses the support of evangelicals.

2/2/2017 11:22:18 AM

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/5rl2w0/us_military_officials_trumpordered_raid_in_yemen/

I dismissed the Yemen raid story earlier because shit happens.

But it's looking like this was a complete boondoggle in an attempt to make a domestic political statement, and they may have went around Mattis' back to make it happen.

It's sort of like what Fox News would always pretend Benghazi was.

2/2/2017 11:34:58 AM

Holy shit, the leftist spin. You brainwashed hacks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvqBtR_J31c

Relevant part starts at 50:00

Mark Burnett was a keynote speaker at the event last year. He is also the producer of the Apprentice, and a friend of Trump. He introduced Trump this year, and made a few jokes about Trump and reality TV. Trump acknowledged this and made jokes too before getting to the serious part of his speech.

CNN = No context, all spin. TRUMP uses national day of prayer to talk about his TV SHOW!!!! literally less than 1% of the event.

^ Ah yes, a Reddit thread. That is some hard hitting evidence, moron. Also not surprised you completely don't understand the point about the Benghazi scandal.

[Edited on February 2, 2017 at 11:50 AM. Reason : typical]

2/2/2017 11:47:15 AM