Timothy Birdnow

Vivek Ramaswami has sparked a controversy on his views that we need more technically savvy aliens admitted to the U.S. via H1B visas, and this was seconded by Eon Musk.

I try to avoid weighing in on these sorts of internecine squabbles if I don't think one side is quite wrong,and unfortunately I have to weigh in on this one. 'Swami and the Muskrat are wrong, at least from a big picture perspective.

Their argument is that we need the top 1% of foreigners to be allowed in to do tech and science since America no longer values excellence but instead rewards mediocrity. I agree with that latter statement; we DO reward mediocrity, even failure, these days. But will we be served by bringingin these one percenters?

First, when we get the best of the rest of the world we often are getting people who are not eager to become Americans so much as advancing their economic interests and making a name for themselves. In some ways the laborers are more likely to become Americans than are the technical classes, who often see themselves as "citizens of the world" and espouse an internationalist philosophy. Becoming American means more than just living in America and enjoying what America offers; it means throwing yourself into it heart and soul. I rather suspect these H1B guys won't do that. Many will stay for jobs, but their hearts won't belong to America. They will never have experienced the totality of America, seen what itmeans to be American. It's like importing the Ruling Class from somewhere elese; the RC doesn't know America either. Barack Obama was a prime example.

I wrote about Obama once at Canada Free Press and cannot locate the article, alas. The thrust of it was Obama never knew America,never saw the interior, never experienced this country at the grass-roots level and so really didn't believe in it. I fear thatmay often be true of many of these H1B visa types.

Also, often these guys come in to take "jobs Americans just won't do" by displacing the people doing those jobs - the AMERICANS doing them - who are then forced to train their foreign replacements.

The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) dishes on this.

Do you ever wonder how so much of this Progressive stupidity reigns in America? In many instances it's because Americans aren't running America any longer but LEGAL immigrants who view us in a very different light.

There is a reason why the Democratic Party supports these visas, and it isn't because they care about the success of American business.

Ramaswami and Musk are looking at this purely from an economic perspective; they are missing the big picture.

The point is, yes, Americans won't work for less money, and you no doubt can get better workers for less if you import them. The point is that is equally true of migrant farm workers or maids or immigrant handimen too. Why should these big corporations be allowed to import labor when,say, a landscaping company isn't allowed?

And Americans won't LEARN anything if we import people to do "the jobs Americans just won't do". How do we change the cultural disfunction if we don't hire Americans and make them learn? Time was companies trained their own people; now they want them pre-trained and ready to go. Yes, that gives them an edge,but it ultimately only serves the corporations and helps them make higher profits, but it destroys the American work ethic. Kids don't work at McDonalds anymore to learn the basics. Their first jobs are usually when they are in their twenties, and they treat them as they treated their schooling,w hich taught them that everybody gets a trophy. We need to break them of that early but are failing to do that.

Yes, that is as much caused by minimum wage increases and other liberal programs which make it possible for kids to remain children far too long,but the companies out there can actually fix a lot of this if they would be willing to actually train employees and not just look for quick profits. H1B visas destroy the incentive these corporations have for fixing the American labor force.

The Old Tesament warned Israel that they would become second class citizens in their own country, borrowing from the immigrants and serving them, if they disobeyed His word. That is what is happening in America right now, and that will only accelerate if we continue to allow so much immigration, especially of the educated and capable. We are building our own replacements.

No nation can survive if too many alien ideas are allowed to come in. Bringing the creme-de-la-creme of foreign societies only brings in a host of alien ideas to be implemented in America. So America continues to dominate in technology or science? So what? If we lose the country in the process is it worth it?

When Odoacer was crowned king in the Western Roman empire the Byzantine Emperor sent him the trappings of Caesar. Odoacer sent a terse reply along with the cloak and staff and whatnot back with "no thanks". That was the end of Rome. It happened because Odcoacer and the German immigrants into Rome no longer saw any point in pretending they were Romans. Rome hadn't been conquered so much as simply erased by immigrants.

That's where we are headed if we don't wake up.

So I disagree with 'swami and Muskrat. I appreciate what they are trying to do but we need a complete moratorium on immigration of all sorts for at least twenty years so we can assimilate the ones we already have (and kick out those not allowed to remain.) After the big surge of immigration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries we had a moratorium on all immigration (the Johnson Reed Act of 1924) - until 1965 when Ted Kennedy revived it. (And look how much America changed in that span of time.)The immigration then was nothing compared to what it is now, and we need to HATE immigration as a threat to our way of life. (Not hate the immigrant but the whole procedure.) It is, you know. And it will remain a political football until Americans turn against the entire concept. That won't happen if we have a pathway to immigration of any sort. You can only breath in so much carbon dioxide before you die (10%).

We are now at 9.9% and rising.

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