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about the topic. My old view, my old view prior to Biden, and it's now changed because of Biden, but my old view is that you want to keep everybody smart. So if somebody wants to come in and they've got a high education in some valuable field or even if they just want to be an optometrist or make money, that the country is better off every time you bring in somebody who's going to add to the tax b…
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So can we all agree on the following statement of assumptions? Our current systems are wholly inadequate to getting what you want as a citizen of the United States. They do seem to work in the favor of quite a number of corporations. And the corporations are the ones who argue for keeping the current completely broken and corrupt system because it works for them. It just doesn't work for workers, for example American workers. So I think we can all agree on the fact that the current system is broken.
Now what is Trump's take on this? I actually don't know, which is the weirdest thing about this conversation. I don't know where Trump's at. At one point he was at where I was at. One point he agreed with my old view that as long as they're additive, yes, yes, everybody additive, everybody additive. So that used to be his view as well. But after he's watched this whole brouhaha and after Biden let in everybody, I feel like he may have adjusted his own views but I haven't seen it yet. So that's the most fascinating thing about the story is that the base was having this heated argument yesterday all over social media. Of course Trump was watching. Of course he was. And it's helping him, I'm sure helping him come up with his statement on the thing.
But there are a number of things that come up. The other thing that we can agree on is that big companies like Google and Apple have the resources to put people in another country and really, really vet the top engineers. But that's not going to work for a small company. Somebody said my opinions were invalid because I never tried to hire foreign engineers. Well I've actually tried hiring India-based programmers at least twice for side pro
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jects I was doing and it's a nightmare if you're not Google and Apple and you want to get somebody who can do a good job. So you find somebody in India who says oh yeah just tell us what you want, we'll give you a price, we'll assign some programmers and we'll write that code for you. Absolutely none of that worked because I talked to somebody smart who would make the sale but then they would assi…
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