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Congressmen raise concerns over SoCal Edison replacing 500 IT workers with H1-B visa holders

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D vs. R (Score: 0)

by fishybell@pipedot.org on 2015-02-09 21:16 (#2WZV)

I've never been sure why republicans are the ones against this (maybe old fashioned protectionism?) and why the democrats are against it (maybe they really do hate America?), because it always seemed to me to be opposite of their respective platforms: the republicans always tout their business friendliness and the democrats always seem to portray themselves as the protector of the little-guy. Obviously I'm not so naive to think that party platforms and party policy are the same, but it seems like both parties are going out of their way to be hypocritical on this issue.

I'm mostly just hoping for a day when the bipartisan support for exporting American jobs is replaced by bipartisan support for encouraging businesses to stop the brain drain. First we lost manufacturing and just now starting to bring it back, and now we're exporting (and in this case semi-exporting via remittances) high-tech and service jobs. At point do we just say "let Americans compete in a fair way?"

Re: D vs. R (Score: 1, Insightful)

by Anonymous Coward on 2015-02-11 04:38 (#2X05)

The mindset of a typical Democrat is more in alignment with concepts like "citizen of the world", "all cultures (except our own) are valuable", "they are just like us", "one world government", and "absolutely unlimited immigration".

The mindset of a typical Democrat is more in alignment with concepts like "serve your country", "don't change what isn't broken", "stay safe", "better safe than sorry", and "responsibility for your own life situation".

It's a matter of optimism and pessimism. It's a matter of wanting variety or wanting safety. It's a matter of being a risk taker or being risk-averse.

oops, correction (Score: 1, Informative)

by Anonymous Coward on 2015-02-11 04:39 (#2X06)

2nd one should read "Republican"

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