Trump Won Alright, But Now It's Time to Fight (And Win!)

“We’ve only just begun.” – The Carpenters

For the past six years, Republicans in Congress have tried to bend and weave against the liberal juggernaut, but without landing a punch on Obama. They felt that they were supposed to “govern,” which they internalized to mean “offer as little resistance as possible and fund the bulk of Obama’s agenda.” This approach is all wrong. Don’t compromise with people who tell us lies and call it truth. A leader who is driving his country down is no leader at all, and certainly not one any of us should 

respect.

Once in a while, Republicans showed incredible backbone, and even then, the boldness came from members within the Freedom Caucus or outspoken conservatives unafraid to ruffle Establishment feathers. Rep. Mark Meadows of North Carolina pushed back against the caucus leadership to retain his subcommittee chairmanship. He in turn issued the discharge petition which brought down former Speaker John Boehner. The long-time Ohio Congressman had mocked his colleagues for refusing to buckle on immigration “reform.” He finally got to squeal: “Oooh! Don’t make me do this! It’s too hard!”

Too bad! Too late!

Rep. Tom Huelskamp of Kansas refused to expand food stamps, did not vote for Boehner as Speaker of the House. He was kicked of the Agricultural committee. Later he was restored to the House Study Committee. But the voters in the Big First tossed him out in the primary for a pro-business, pro-government subsidy replacement. Lesson learned: stay alert until you run unopposed or you win your next election. At least Mitch McConnell managed to block the appointment of Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland. With Donald Trump officially installed as President of the United States in two weeks, Republicans are breaking out the wish list.

But the fight has just begun.

Republican members who were pushing an unthinking ethics reform had to back off, but at least they got busy with the agenda we expect them to work on. On the opposing side (with dwindld numbers for the long haul), the Democrats have learned nothing from their latest failures, especially if  they live in California, unless they live in a swing district. The jungle primary in California did succeed in knocking out one incumbent, Mike Honda of Fremont, California. His replacement, Ro Khanna, is an Obama acolyte who is starting to stray from the arrogant yet wavering progressive narrative. He opposes the Trans Pacific Partnership, which is all but dead now since Speaker Ryan dispatched his primary challenger and stood with President-Elect Donald Trump. Democrat Scott Peters of San Diego is joining with Rep. Darrell Issa (who survived the closest race of his political career) to pass an “Americans First” bill. HR 170 will fix the H-1B abuses like the ones which forced hard-working 

Disney Southern California Edison employees and to train lower-paid, lower-skilled replacements.

Republicans have initiated repeal of Obamacare, too, and reconciliation to end this terrible piece of legislation should be coming down the pike very soon. But the Democrats will continue to fight. They will never see the light. They are convinced that they are right, and their stance on any issue has always been the gross expansion of political power, while closing the nexus of liberty which men and women were designed to operate in.

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer has announced that Trump and the Republican Party want to “Make America Sick Again.” Really? We the People are sick and tired of Obamacare. Working people who didn’t pay attention to politics, and who probably didn’t know who was the Vice-President of the United States, absolutely despise this law. People who didn’t care what their elected officials were doing, now care.

Democrats who still hold sway in three (or four) states in the country have vowed to double down and thwart Trump at every turn. California’s Democratic desperation is so acute, they retained the counsel of former Attorney General Eric Holder. Hold the applause, and start laughing out loud. This former lackey for the Clinton Administration had helped coordinate one of the most corrupt bargains of campaign cash for pardons in modern history. He was running guns under the aegis of the Department of Justice with Operation Fast-and-Furious. The scandal which killed American federal law enforcers ended badly for Holder. He was found in contempt of Congress (a ruling which is still outstanding, isn’t it?). As Oversight Committee Chairman, Rep. Issa blasted his incompetent deputies (check out his video for a thrilling example). Now contemptible Holder will counsel one of the most corrupt, incompetent, and bankrupt states in the union, and on my dime. Please, Mr. Trump, take them down a notch or two!

We the People won't stop fighting!

No one should be surprised by Sacramento’s penchant for legal protections for the lawless while preying on the law-abiding. California lawmakers have already allowed illegal aliens to hold law licenses. This insensate disregard for the rule of law and citizenship is no joke. Two illegal aliens still sit on city commissions in “Little TJ” Huntington Park, but the arrogant city council is feeling the heat for their egregious flouting of federal law. Felons can vote in California prisons, and the state legislature decriminalized child prostitution. When the District Attorney of Alameda County, one of the bluest regions in the state decries this felony stupid maneuver, you know that the Democratic Party has hit rock bottom.

California Republicans, from the Chairman down to the grassroots activists, are thrilled with Trump’s victory. We have a reason to get up in the morning and fight. His mere ascendance as Chief Executive is scaring illegal aliens and their enablers to adjust to a new reality: no more cheap labor at the expense of national security and American workers.

Trump’s got the fight in him, and that’s what helped him win. Across the country, even in the bluest of states, conservatives should learn from him and know that they face a bright future, with a narrow window of opportunity to change the course of their individual states too.

Making California Great Again: Congressman Issa (and Peters!) Ending H-1B Visa Abuses

H-1B visa abuse is becoming well-known.

Former engineers who worked for the Disney corporation reported the pain and shame of learning that they would be laid off, and that they would have to train their replacements. The company assured them that they would be hired into another department, but instead they got nothing.

Check out the video below:

Perrero and many others were terminated because of guest workers, whom they had trained!

Can you imagine having you job taken from you because the corporation could bring in a cheaper employee ... from overseas? Outrageous!

Apparently, Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) is taking action on this abuse.

From his House website:

Congressman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) today re-introduced legislation to help stop the outsourcing of American jobs and to reform the nation’s high-skilled immigration program. H.R. 170, the “Protect and Grow American Jobs Act,” makes important changes to the eligibility requirements for H1-B Visa exemptions that will help crack down on abuse and ensure these spots remain available for the best and brightest talent from around the world.

Congressman Issa’s bill is introduced with the support of fellow San Diego area Congressman Scott Peters (D-CA).

This is incredible. Even the liberal Democrat Scott Peters is coming on board.

But not everyone is happy with this reform to an abused program/

Tim Worstall in Forbes Magazine reports:

Rep. Darrell Issa is trying to change the H-1B visa program. OK, that's fine, that's what lawmakers are for, to propose and consider the law and possible changes in it. However, he's saying that he wants to change this law so as to remove the profit motive from it. Which sounds very odd indeed--for profit is a measure of how much value is being added by an activity.

How specifically is the "profit motive" being removed?

The Tribune of India put the pieces together, showing how corporations higher cheaper labor to save money and get the same work for a lower price:

"The legislation we're introducing today does both. It will ensure that our valuable high-skilled immigration spots are used by companies when the positions cannot be filled by the existing workforce," Issa said.

By raising the salary to a level more in-line with the average American salary for these positions, it would help cut down on abuse by removing the profit incentive and ensuring these positions remain available for companies who truly need them, a media release said.

If a company wants to bring in an H-1B employee, that person would still have to be paid the same wage as an American worker would receive if the company hired a citizen here.

"Curbing abuse of the H1B system will protect American jobs and help ensure that visas are available for innovators who need them to maintain a competitive workforce," Peters said.

The needs has been changed to ensure that hiring practices exhaust their search for talent in this country before going oversees.

But the Forbes writer does not like this proposal one bit:

The very point of an H-1B being that the work is not offshored, the labour (and the tax revenue, the spending of the amount earned and so on) is onshored. They're opposites, offshoring and immigration, even if only to work, visas. But it's this that really produces the head scratching.

Certainly the work is "onshored," but the work is done by a foreigner, not an American!

No wonder the elites got Election 2016 wrong! They are not considering the well-being and primary need for American citizens! They don't understand the flooding of the labor market in the United States, and how it impacts people in this country!

I know a lady who lost her job because she could not speak Spanish. She ended up homeless because this country would not enforce the immigration laws, and colluded with big business interests to allow the cheap labor in.

Whatever happened to our government respecting the interests of Americans? Why is this a crime or a marginal concern compared to the profit motives of private companies?

One of Worstall's readers commented:

Lijuan Li:

I believe what Issa is referring to is making a profit replacing US workers with cheaper foreign nationals. The point of the H1-B program is to import workers with special qualification where insufficient numbers exist, not to replace those already in existence or to keep salaries artificially low. Everyone makes profits (or should) as a result of their employees work. That is expected. But they shouldn’t make more than they would otherwise if they used existing US workers.

I could not have said it better myself.

This is a great idea, and reflects the changing attitudes across the country about immigration. The conflict over labor needs, national security, and an economic policy which benefits Americans has grabbed the attention of the average voter.

Now longer do people see the fight for enforcement as a mere political fight to prevent larger Democratic hordes vs. Republican chances to stay relevant in California or anywhere else across the country. Nor does anyone see the fight to crack down on H-1B abuses and illegal immigration as a nativist, xenophobic backlash to diverse communities within the United States or a subtle attack against the unique, patriotic heritage of this country.

Trump's campaign against illegal immigration is now a mainstream topic, and two Congressmen in the same state and on presumably opposite sides of every other ideological concern have found common ground to put Americans first.

Amazing! Trump is already making America Great Again!