Whatever happened to the dogs and fire hoses?
Community organizers.
Whatever happened to the dogs and fire hoses?
So your stance is that Kelly didn't lie? So can you screen cap me from his website where it says the line she is quoting? Not to mention you've still failed to show what he was changing from.
You said Trump hasn't flipflopped. I showed you where he had. And then you deflect with THAT? WTF? You strain a gnat and swallow a camel!
I'm pretty sure you know how to read. You're on INGO. Read the exchange. Kelly read a quote that she attributed to his website. Trump didn't dispute the wording of her quote. He went on to say he's changing his position on H-1B's. I image that the website probably said what she said it said at the time she referenced it. If you have some evidence that prove's it's never said it, then we can say she lied. But even if she lied about that one little gnat, you still have to deal with the camel.
I mean, c'mon dude. It's okay if your god bleeds. If you say, "so what, so he flipflops, I don't care. He's my middle finger. I'm voting for him because I want to blow this **** up."
Okay, fine. I don't agree with it, but I can at least respect that. At least that's intellectually honest. But irrationally defending him against the facts, man, that's just nuts.
I bothered to go to the Trump website just now, and I can't find anything about the H1B Visa issue? All I see is stuff about China and WTO.
I bothered to go to the Trump website just now, and I can't find anything about the H1B Visa issue? All I see is stuff about China and WTO.
Without knowing more, I suspect we may be getting into an issue of nuance on the H1B issue. I read a fascinating article a while back about the Disney initiative to have some of their data-entry people train workers from India to do their jobs. I was left a little fuzzy on whether the long-term plan was to just have Indians performing the work here, or have them learn the job here, then eventually offshore the entire job function to a shop in India.
What I did get from that article, however, is that these people were not high-skill workers. They were performing a fairly ordinary function. Now you can have an argument about whether that kind of job can/should be an aspiration for Americans. But the point was, the H1B program was supposed to be a program for finding "special" skills outside our borders, that do not exist here. Not simply taking jobs for which an abundance of Americans are available, and re-sourcing those jobs to someone cheaper from abroad.
So without knowing Trump's actual position on this issue (I couldn't find it), I can see room for nuance here. I can see how you'd be in _favor_ of using H1Bs for their intended purpose, which is procuring "special" skills; but _not_ in favor of mis-using them for unintended purposes, namely, cheapening wage scales of ordinary jobs for which plenty of applicants already exist. If that were the case here, then I would not consider that a "flip-flop" on Trump's part.
Another interesting tidbit I got from that article, was that the majority of these Visas are not being "reserved" by individuals. They're being reserved by what amount to hiring firms. Not that that's inherently underhanded or anything, but...I'm just amazed at the number of companies which exist for the purpose of seemingly "third-worlding" America. The hotels in California that cater to wealthy Chinese who want to drop babies here, thereby securing for their offspring the valuable commodity of a US citizenship. The companies that specialize in refugee resettlement. The companies who reserve work Visas, then go hunt for the people to fill them. If I had to guess where these corporations come down on the issue of the "GOP Establishment," I'd be willing to bet relations are pretty warm between them and the "Jeb wing" of the Party.
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/immigration-reform
Open this page, press ctrl+f and type in H-1B, it will take you directly to it.
So the Trumpster hasn't been on the wrong side of an issue? Interesting to note. Your original post listed positions that Fiorina had and then flip flopped on, just like the Trump. I don't care who you are supporting, just don't pretend "your guy" is something he isn't. He says everything is negotiable. He says he is a deal maker. As I understand it, his book on the Deal says to take far out positions to try to move your opposition further in your direction. I don't think we are going to see any real change if he gets in, just more of the same.
[video=youtube;NglssDgZ-yE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NglssDgZ-yE[/video]
He promises to build a significant piece of infrastructure across multiple parcels of private property, but have not heard him once say anything about compensating the owners. Is there insight there?
Makes perfect sense to keep Trump from getting the nomination. The goal is [STRIKE]convention[/STRIKE] to retain control.
Tell me the rules of the game, and I will play the game. Rubio and Kasich have no hope of getting the nomination unless there is a contested convention. The rules of the convention are that if no candidate wins on the first ballot, then they start the process of moving delegates from one candidate to another. They hope that they will be the one to get those delegates to move to them. Suddenly it becomes important who those delegates are and how solid they are for their nominee. Cruz still hopes that after Ohio and Florida that the other two get out and he can try to win the further contests down the line. I have already opined on what I think it will do to the party if it goes to a contested convention and Trump is the vote leader but does not get the nomination. That does not appear to be a consideration of anyone in the party leadership though.
As evidenced by his clothing line being made in America.
I went back and reviewed the footage from that debate.
I don't know, I'm still looking for where he said something he'd have to change from, or soften, to be able to be considered to be flip-flopping. His website's policy does not claim to end the H1-B program, and I haven't heard him say as such anywhere.
I think something got lost in communication somewhere.
when he can't get one of his colleagues to endorse his candidacy