Pat Buchanan: "Whose country is this?"

[jms62]

Originally Posted by Riot

Are you against an American company hiring American workers, and making a profit because they can keep salaries low?

If I can hire Americans that can do the job at a lesser wage, I'm quite happy to take that business profit.

Do you have any justification for your position that the legal immigrants over the past couple of years are working for less? My impression from the news over this time has been that most of these are tech jobs, and these legal immigrants are better educated and simply more qualified than resident Americans.

So would you go to Goldman Sachs to get a report on the values of buying CDO's? Did it ever occur to you that those companies publishing the news that you are taking as gospel have an agenda? Is it remotely possible that they are outsourcing and are loaded up with H1B's? What would you expect them to say vis a vis the skillset? Bottom line is those jobs leaving means less buying power to fuel our economy or at least less buying power for the masses. You can't have 99% of the wealth in the hands of 1% of the people. FWIW my wife and are are in the top 95% of income but I am not blind that this country is in a death spiral. Read up on Norman Matloff a University of Cal professor and what he has to say about qualified US workers.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by jms62

So would you go to Goldman Sachs to get a report on the values of buying CDO's? Did it ever occur to you that those companies publishing the news that you are taking as gospel have an agenda? Is it remotely possible that they are outsourcing and are loaded up with H1B's? What would you expect them to say vis a vis the skillset? Bottom line is those jobs leaving means less buying power to fuel our economy or at least less buying power for the masses. You can't have 99% of the wealth in the hands of 1% of the people. FWIW my wife and are are in the top 95% of income but I am not blind that this country is in a death spiral. Read up on Norman Matloff a University of Cal professor and what he has to say about qualified US workers.

Wow. That's quite a mishmash of broad, generalized assumption and multiple tangents. So your position is that Pat Buchannan's statement:

Last year, while Americans were losing a net of 5 million jobs, the U.S. government – Bush and Obama both – issued 1,131,000 green cards to legal immigrants to come and take the jobs that did open up, a flood of immigrants equaled in only four other years in our history.

... isn't even true to start with.

And by the way - I give myself a base income, I take increasing percentages of profit as gross production increases, and I take 100% of all profit over certain levels. So I am speaking from the point of view of a greedy corporate CEO, I guess, who doesn't give that profit back to my employees.