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Blue America's Family Values - Blue families in big cities, evangelicals selling out singles, and more in this week's digest
Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸
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Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸
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The human, cultural, and institutional foundations of American flourishing during a time of transition: aaronrenn.com
- I have direct, personal experience with how H-1Bs work in the real world. I was "in the room where it happened." We were told we could not hire American unless we showed that we could not use an H-1B. Much of people tell you about H-1Bs is a lie.
- You’ll notice that the pictures used for these kinds of posts are usually taken on a winter day (snowless so it doesn’t immediately code winter), often cloudy, and with poor color saturation. The framing also largely hides that these houses are surrounded by mature trees. ThisThis shouldn’t be the American dream.
- People don't realize how big TPUSA is. Their budget is comparable to AEI or Heritage. This was an assassination of the founder and leader of one of the most important conservative political organizations in the country.
- Reminder: At least 90% of the H-1B program is about replacing US citizen workers with cheaper and more easily exploitable foreigners. That’s it, basically.
- Congestion pricing is actually a conservative, market based approach. A Nobel Prize winning economist came up with the idea. The problem is that the GOP is too often just an “anti” party that is against things. What’s Duffy’s forward looking plan for NYC transport?New York’s congestion pricing scheme was an abusive shakedown of working-class Americans. That’s why I shut it down today.
00:00 - The panic over a bit of fall in the stock market shows why it's basically politically impossible to bring down housing prices. Imagine what an across the board 20% fall in the price of homes would do politically, not to mention to people's finances.
- Reminder: the purpose of the vast majority of H1-B workers in the country is nothing more than to replace American citizens in their jobs with someone who will work for less and is all but forced to be more compliant with employer demands.
- Bad idea. Conservatives should not be supporting inhumane farming practices.Today Trump's USDA nominee, Brooke Rollins, told Congress that she will force states to allow the sale of pork from crated pigs. States banned these sales to stop animal cruelty. The conservative Supreme Court upheld those bans. Only pork industry lobbyists want this change.
- The thing is, it does. As Americans, we have expansive access to federal land to hike, camp, hunt, fish, etc. There are even grazing and mining concessions. If you sell the land off to billionaires for private ranches, mining cos., etc, our citizens lose that.Federal land should benefit Americans Congress has a chance to make that happen
- Let me tell you about one of my biggest mistakes in life, courtesy of @tylercowen. Cowen says one mark of talent is knowing the right status hierarchies to climb. I chose the wrong status hierarchies, though hopefully some of that was not entirely my fault. As a Midwest "farm
- A perfect example of two tier America. All uninsured depositors in Silicon Valley Bank were made 100% whole immediately. Uninsured depositors at a small bank in Oklahoma are taking haircuts. In a sane country, this kind of behavior by regulators would be criminal.KGOU: Federal agency closes First National Bank of Lindsay in South Central Oklahoma kgou.org/business-and-e…
- Although the press were not admitted, Meghan Markle’s appearance at the Women’s Fund of Central Indiana drew numerous international press mentions of Indy. It was a great PR coup for the city.
- "Last year, the top 30 H-1B visa employers laid off 84,556 people at the same time as they sought 34,414 new H1-B foreign workers"Lee Fang: The MAGA battle over foreign workers unherd.com/2024/12/the-ma…
