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In most parts of the English-speaking world, but not in America, the day after Christmas is called “Boxing Day.” For reasons that are not entirely clear, Doug Bruce Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk I decided to seize the opportunity to put on my boxing gloves and throw haymakers at native-born American workers.
What started with Musk saying on his social media platform mall.
Musk and Ramaswamy ignite a major war over skilled migration and American “middle capacity.”
Clearly, big tech companies need foreign workers because we are raising our children wrong.
Ramaswamy insisted to X that native-born families needed “more math lessons, fewer sleepovers. More science quizzes on the weekend, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less television.” More creativity, less “relaxation”, more extracurricular activities, less time spent in malls.”
Vivek Ramaswamy speaks in front of Republican presidential candidate, former US President Donald Trump, as he takes the stage at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden on October 27, 2024 in New York City. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
The former presidential candidate says he's just telling us “hard truths” by suggesting every family should emulate some South Asians, whom he points to as a shining example.
But guess what? The United States of America is a nation, not just a big-tech agricultural system. Incidentally, the reason China is stealing innovation from us, and not the other way around, is because our backwards attitudes create free thinkers, not drones. At least when we're not playing banjo on the porch.
Every native-born American child applying to college this year will compete against students from foreign lands, including Communist China, who will be rolled out a red carpet for use in the American educational system. When these American children graduate, they may find themselves passed over for entry-level jobs because of foreign competition.
Lawyers were awarded $345 million in legal fees related to a challenge to Elon Musk's compensation package (Getty Images)
Musk says American tech workers aren't good enough. Well, maybe we need to stop giving up thousands upon thousands of places in top schools and do a better job of teaching our own schools.
When I went to Springfield, Ohio, in September, I heard factory owners there claim that they needed 15,000 Haitian immigrants because, unlike Americans, they showed up on time, passed drug tests, and willingly worked overtime. It was an outright insult to American workers, but no more so than Musk and Ramaswamy's mockery of indigenous people and their cultural traditions.
It is no coincidence that big tech companies have the added advantage that workers brought in on H-1B visas lose their immigration status if they lose their jobs. That's a lot of leverage that tech bosses don't have over American workers.
Now, it appears that MAGA is fighting its first all-out civil war since Trump won the election nearly two months ago, but appearances can be deceiving. In fact, fortunately, both Ramaswamy and Musk are backing off from the ill-advised duo.
That's because outside of the New Right's sushi hotspots in Palo Alto, no one in Trump's America First coalition believes replacing American workers is a buffo concept.
This unfortunate moment was an unintentional mistake, but no serious damage was done. Sometimes mathematicians need a dose of the humanities, or at least a trip around the building.
The Department of Government Efficiency, which President-elect Donald Trump has entrusted to Musk and Ramaswamy, must understand that our country is not a corporation, or as Musk said, an NBA team looking to win.
The role of the United States government is to ensure the right of Americans to live as they see fit, not to serve as a cog in the machinations of genius billionaires, domestic or foreign. Americans have the right to ensure that the institutions they pay for actually develop Americans.
This is a teachable moment for two brilliant, brilliant, reckless stars who embrace the freedom to understand that life and freedom are the beating heart rate, not the end result.
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This unfortunate moment was an unintentional mistake, but no serious damage was done. Sometimes mathematicians need a dose of the humanities, or at least a trip around the building.
American college graduates deserve a fair shake; They should not compete with the H-1B visa competition, nor should any American train the cheaper H-1B alternative.
The Trump administration's first order of business is to close the border and deport criminals. Then, delicate negotiations on legal immigration can begin.
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But there must be one important caveat. The American worker must be treated with respect. Because without it we have no homeland.
Americans do not celebrate Boxing Day, nor do we celebrate the rich knocking down the working man. Hopefully, this easy mistake for Vivek Ramaswammy and Elon Musk will serve as a lesson learned.
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