America First? Not so fast. Elon Musk and Donald Trump support investing in foreign workers to work high-tech industry jobs but vowing to close the Dept. of Education, won't invest in educating Americans to gain the skills needed to work these jobs. www.newsweek.com/donald-trump... - ThreadSky

resolutesquare.bsky.social • 64 days ago

America First? Not so fast. Elon Musk and Donald Trump support investing in foreign workers to work high-tech industry jobs but vowing to close the Dept. of Education, won't invest in educating Americans to gain the skills needed to work these jobs. https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-h-1b-visas-maga-immigration-2006948

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gc613.bsky.social•64 days ago

Contrary to what he used to say before Musk became President

loboricua.bsky.social•64 days ago

Living in Silicon Valley it seems really odd to me that they need to import engineers when there are so many unemployed engineers here. I guess American engineers must be asking for too much money. Not a profit maker for Tech Bros? 🤔

j105.bsky.social•63 days ago

How about role models for Americans? Where do psychotic liars running the country fit into excellence. Where do morals or the lack of any moral compass fit into the pursuit of excellence. Where does fraud, exaggeration, & cowardliness fit into the picture Americans have of themselves?

kdhero.bsky.social•64 days ago

bkshep.bsky.social•64 days ago

Only on day 1.

bluinok.bsky.social•64 days ago

If Americans are actually educated, MAGATS can’t get elected and people would rectory should be paid a living wage.

theglobalvc.bsky.social•64 days ago

Excellent point. They have no coherent plan. Just cut taxes for the rich, and cut benefits for the rest of us.

reggierink.bsky.social•64 days ago

They want their workers to be dependent on them. Workers on visas won't organize and unionize.

napagirl65.bsky.social•64 days ago

There’s those foreigners taking American jobs…🙄

virginiahall32.bsky.social•64 days ago

That SOB is screwing Americans out of good jobs. Fuck whoever voted for him!!

policestolemycar.bsky.social•64 days ago

They care more about making money than creating a good life for Americans..

chrissielinnit.bsky.social•64 days ago

The challenge is not to share thus with like minded followers but to get this sort of revelation into the heads and the hearts of the MAGA voters who put the incoming administration into power!
Is anyone working on that?

maryinmt.bsky.social•64 days ago

Trump said in support that he employs H1B workers at his properties. I wasn’t aware that working at “properties“ constituted a high tech industry.

totallydaft.bsky.social•64 days ago

I asked this somewhere else: At what point did it become universally accepted that American trained engineers and tech professionals were substandard? I’ve been hearing this for some time now. Or is it a pay rate issue in disguise?

olliepollie2021.bsky.social•64 days ago

17% of US physicians are on H1B. They make upwards of 300K. FAANG engineers make upwards of 500K with stock options.

totallydaft.bsky.social•64 days ago

Interesting.

poohbearcorner.bsky.social•64 days ago

I doubt American engineers are much different to German or Chinese engineers.There are problems with the engineering business environment - is #Boeing going wrong because of its business model: probably. The American car industry is now making obsolete fossil products= wrong engineering jobs.

poohbearcorner.bsky.social•64 days ago

Probably, #Trump & definitely #MAGA are romantic about old school men's 'engineering jobs': steel & tyres(tires). Interestingly the REAL experts in fossil car engineering, the Germans, are in trouble. VW is in trouble. Nissan is in trouble. Looking back to the future is hopeless.

poohbearcorner.bsky.social•64 days ago

America was and is a great innovative country. It is not clear that the Trump regime will nuture creativity, science & engineering. They are very anti- science ( #vaccines) & anti- expert ( #elites). The scism between technocrat #MAGA ( #Musk) & lunatic #MAGA ( #Loomer) goes to the core.

poohbearcorner.bsky.social•64 days ago

One of the funny things about #Trump is that his tax cutting agenda for his chummy #Oligarchs will mean that George #Soros will get a big tax cut. This will drive #MAGA nuts.

rogerbarncat.bsky.social•64 days ago

Yup. Spend some time abroad. US universities are the gold standard. But, Trump needs landscapers -i.e. less educated. Musk places a higher priority on low cost than high expertise. If he can make MIT grads compete with people from India, it keeps cost down even if the quality is not the same.

bigladydragon.art•64 days ago

its pay rate, Elon and Vivek don't want to say they can get some guy from India to come over to work for $20 thousand a year vs paying an American $60 thousand a year. This idea they can't find workers is a load of crap, they just can't find Americans to work for below living wages for Stem jobs

justiceforamerica.bsky.social•64 days ago

Yep

vajeedali.bsky.social•64 days ago

Shit is going hot the fan.. all the shit is going rain down on the MAGA cult crowd.

It’s a basic for and against question.. you are either for it or against it! The orang was clear! He was always for the visas.. so the idiots who voted for and blindly sided the Moron now have a first revelation.

spryaf.bsky.social•63 days ago

I appreciate the information but is there any way to provide it without my having to see that shithead's face? At least pixelate it for godsake. Or is it god's sake? Or, sake... or Sake... mmmmmm.

rnstokes49.bsky.social•64 days ago

The liar and convicted felon privately loathes and despises working Americans.

irish-norgie.bsky.social•64 days ago

Dumpty, himself, could never pass a technical test. Not even algebra. This is a good time to release his grades and school records. Talking mind skills, education, etc.

lauriesus.bsky.social•64 days ago

Why can't MAGAs see this?

pingl.bsky.social•64 days ago

Trump’s MAGA recipe for democracy. Americans can vote so keep them uneducated as much as possible and import educated foreigner for highly skilled jobs, they can’t vote , they are cheaper and you have full control over them. A winning situation for the Oligarchs.

cleanqueenjane.bsky.social•64 days ago

The new slaves. One hiring company in India stole MILLIONS by underpaying the H1-B workers.

davidnewman.bsky.social•64 days ago

The right-wing war on public education represents the worst tax of all, affecting all Americans.

battybr00ke.bsky.social•64 days ago

I have a daughter in STEM. This is not great news for her.

djsubterrain.bsky.social•64 days ago

Of course, he wants uneducated drones following his every word. Although this should be his last term so why would it matter to him unless he intends to change the constitution and extend his presidency, becoming one of the dictators he admires so much.

arpadg.bsky.social•64 days ago

Educated workers from abroad will not speak truth to power since they might lose their visa if they do. Temporarily import brains, keep your citizens uneducated. Interesting strategy...

dodocrna.bsky.social•64 days ago

Of course he is ! Who would work in his POS hotels . He needs the immigrants as long as it's for him

waltersmith.bsky.social•64 days ago

I love it when their words evince their true motive — more for themselves and less for others.

annmiller.bsky.social•64 days ago

It’s not really about skill level - it’s about who is willing to work themselves to death. It is not ridiculous to think that these bloated oligarchs will not be satisfied till all workers rights are gone and workers are picked daily - back to 1824!

fharriman.bsky.social•64 days ago

Now they've started the 'chasing their tails' portion of our program

kamtbm.bsky.social•64 days ago

One of the things that crosses my mind is that I have PCP and 4 specialists that are all Indian. I don’t know where they were trained. I don’t see much of them because I’m scheduled with NP. Why wouldn’t we want more American doctors? Is healthcare high-tech industry?

veritatemamo.bsky.social•64 days ago

The MAGA faithful must be devastated knowing that all those STEM jobs they thought they were getting are going to immigrants.

jturyn.bsky.social•64 days ago

When are his bro fans going to realize his is a liar

elliottlusztig.bsky.social•64 days ago

Can’t spell America without ME

exetermason.bsky.social•64 days ago

Where’s MAGA Marg when they need her ?

buckscojack.bsky.social•64 days ago

Both are total scam artists

speedie20.bsky.social•64 days ago

The American people don’t pay him enough… so he sold us to the highest bidder

dag44.bsky.social•64 days ago

Trust me. They don’t want American voters educated at all!

dameofdestiny.bsky.social•64 days ago

They want us & our children to serve in the jobs currently held by uneducated immigrants. MAGA states have been lowering the minimum age for employment as a start. Project 2025 insists women should breed new workers all their fertile years.

dameofdestiny.bsky.social•64 days ago

Thus, education is not needed or advisable. The more ignorant the work force, the easier to control & the more dominant their masters can be.

debgt.bsky.social•64 days ago

Trump has said he uses work visas to staff his properties - I doubt those are high-tech jobs.

policestolemycar.bsky.social•64 days ago

1lesscar.bsky.social•64 days ago

Keep destroying education at home, especially in The South.

esme011.bsky.social•63 days ago

Apparently MAGA Right worried about the wrong color brown

nictastic.bsky.social•64 days ago

Conman did not support it in 2016.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/statement-donald-j-trump-position-visas

girl1veteran.bsky.social•62 days ago

They are ok with taking away education from everyone. Then no one will be able to tell them they’re dumb🙄 Being smart is not in the constitution or bill of rights 😒 America was built for Rich white men. 2 out 3 should count for something 😒 it did before… hence MAGA

johnnydoey14.bsky.social•64 days ago

guyhenry.bsky.social•64 days ago

Trump hires at his properties are likely H2B. He’s probably confusing H2B because he's a fucking dope who doesn't know anything.

H2b is temp non ag low skilled workers.
@lincolnproject.us

comen-tator.bsky.social•64 days ago

SOS Trump also wants H-1B visas so he can maintain the workforce at Mar-a-Lago, by threatening to remove them from his slave-labor gardeners and waiters and waitresses if they don't smile and bow and scrape enough for his ego!

pupmom6.bsky.social•64 days ago

You get what you vote for

used2balawyer.bsky.social•64 days ago

Only LIES ever come out of his pie hole.

okkiet.bsky.social•64 days ago

It will still be next to impossible to get american workers for these jobs, even if the department of education can function perfectly. It is impossible to get the needed skills if the student does not belief in Science.

chillchi49.bsky.social•63 days ago

Donald Trump told you immigrants were taking black jobs.
Turns out they were taking white jobs....or was it east Indian jobs🤔
It's hilarious.
You magas make me laugh, and if Matrix was here, he'd laugh too. 🤣😂😅

esme011.bsky.social•63 days ago

Apparently MAGA Right worried about the wrong color brown

autiebea.bsky.social•64 days ago

what happened to "they're taking your jobs"?

jamelle33.bsky.social•64 days ago

at this point, I have only one response ..🤮

dwg15.bsky.social•64 days ago

It doesn't matter what he says. It could be different tomorrow if someone gets in his ear at dinner at Mar a lago tonight that H1Bs are bad.

cactus297.bsky.social•64 days ago

He doesn't need his voters anymore. Maga is in the rear view mirror. He's got billionaires he needs to pay back for their "donations ".

lemarcdesruisseaux.bsky.social•64 days ago

Keep MAGA followers uneducated has been the plan all along. This lame duck whatsoever is in for a rough 4 years.

badgalahad.bsky.social•64 days ago

American skilled labor is too expensive to hire. So, Americans, lower your skills, or your income expectations and you're in 😁

avirginian1.bsky.social•64 days ago

Their real policy: Elon First, Donald Second, America Last.

dontfwmothernature.bsky.social•64 days ago

retarded?
Didn't Elon say something about workers being retarted?

busdrivermi.bsky.social•64 days ago

Isn't that how he meet 2 of his 3 wives 😂😂😂

strongciandra.bsky.social•64 days ago

@bobbie71.bsky.social it’s criminal to not invest in K12 and cultivate people who can work in tech.

bobbie71.bsky.social•64 days ago

totally agree

strongciandra.bsky.social•64 days ago

Plus workers from other countries will be exploited. Get paid $70k for a $200k job! And if they lose their job, they can’t stay in the US.

itsdarkbird.bsky.social•64 days ago

Elon will win because Don loves money

Don used nationalism as his ruse and the sheep fell for it

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