2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Why I don't Trust Hillary Clinton! [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)... and EXPANDING the quota on it. Did you listen to it? You aren't in the field obviously. So many would LAUGH at you for claiming that we "need" H-1B visa people to fill jobs that Americans "aren't qualified" for. Until you talk to real experts on this, you are just listening to lobbyist marketing BS and swallowing it whole. That is what will lose for Clinton in the GE if not the primary.
Yes she offers the EXCUSE that are the talking points that Americans need more training, but that is just the BS used to justify putting this program in place.
Did you know that Indians get FREE subsidized bachelor degree educations in their country? And our students have huge college debt with our overpriced educations, and you expect them to try and compete with those that live at a 10th of the cost of living there than we do here, and who come here temporarily to work for far less than American workers need to support themselves and a family HERE rather than having our families located in India where they can live on a lot lower salaries. Add to that and they come here just to pay for graduate degrees, where our kids can barely afford getting a bachelor's degree, and the smart ones are probably more apt to get a law degree or a degree in medicine if they want to enter a field where they can get a job to pay back their college debt, unlike the tech fields and job environment of today.
She can BS as much as she wants about increasing our education in STEM, but it was Bernie that took the lead this time around and offered to give our kids free education that neither Obama or Hillary mentioned back then, which MIGHT have been some way of backing up those BS talking points.
You can live in your own world of UNreality on this matter. It is areas like this where the American people in general are starting to see BS for what it is, and that is why even Republicans this time around are speaking up against the actions of their own party as well (Orrin Hatch is a big part of that H-1B Visa crap too), and you have many like Trump, etc. speaking against it, even if they are feeding the more xenophobic attitudes of their base in this area too.
But the fact is, American workers are getting pushed out of work by this program, and there are many other better ways than doing what Indian outsourcing companies are paying someone like Clinton to push that don't work for us as the 99% here.