Joseph N. Wagar

@Tim_Walz Scam alert! MN shouldn't be getting any federal dollars at all.

The White House is cutting off $250 million for Minnesotans health care.

All the cancelation tools of the last decade, (deplatforming, debanking, service termination, etc) can be employed against illegal aliens. Everything that our institutions did to destroy conservatives over the last dozen years could be turned around and used against illegals. All of it. You just need the political willpower to make it happen.

@SanDiegoKnight In the immortal words of Afroman, "But I'm not a person and (they) are. I'm sorry for being a viticm. Let's talk about the predators."

I feel for families being separated I do But what about the American families displaced by H-1B and outsourcing? Lost their jobs Lost their homes Moved back in with parents Watched entire teams get replaced No headlines No urgency Just “that’s the market” Why is empathy one-sided? sfchronicle.com/politics/artic…

I have posted links showing USAA is a TOP HB-1 visa user and has multiple mass firings of U.S. employees… one round of terminations was during the holidays. 🎄

Outstanding!! Ohio has another real fighter in the arena on H1Bs. Let's get Kim to Columbus!

"And therein lies the rub." ✨️

@JBlunt1018 @smcroasters That sounds like something a cunt would say.

@smcroasters USAA hasn’t laid anyone off, if anything being a cunt may actually be a good thing because atleast I’m diving “deep” to read some fucking facts around it.

Perfect, now hire them and build your own business? I mean it’s not that difficult right?

@JBlunt1018 @RobProvince Must be pretty nice as an employer to hire people who don't have any labor rights! And then lecture the native labor pool for not competing hard enough!!

The anti–H-1B comments on my last post weren’t surprising. But the AUDACITY to pressure companies into hiring who you think they should hire? That’s not how this works. This is America. You don’t get to dictate someone else’s hiring decisions. Don’t like it? Build your own company. What I still don’t understand is the entitlement. It’s my company, I decide who to hire based on what’s best for the business. I’ll choose skill, work ethic, and value every single time. My responsibility is to the health of the company not someone else’s sense of entitlement. If that bothers you, compete.

This is a consideration of H-1B alone, not bulk anchor babies (from illegals that are the bulk of anchor babies). Just one 'temporary visa' program, 5M new people, 5M fewer opportunities for Americans so that FAANG gets cheap workers.

@uncledoomer They say that taste will be the ultimate differentiator in age of AI. You have nothing to fear my friend. Outstanding work!

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@g0lden8ge @JTLonsdale You'll never be a real American.

@JTLonsdale I ain't readin all that. USA already failed.

Balaji is a bright guy but he fled the USA and has set his mind totally against our future success. He lives in a world where US is losing and China is winning. This is his fixation. It’s dangerous, and it’s wrong. And this war has embarrassed China, destroyed their 100 cargo planes of war materials and their military ally, and frustrates them. It’s fair to disagree about the attack. But saying that its architects are guilty of any downside is childlike nonsense. They should be proud of their work and their courage to take on this evil. If you’re against the war, do you get credit for the last two decades of literal mass torture and mass rape and repression by this regime, and its terror funding and death around the region? Do you get credit for “supporting” the billions it spends on social media bots and information operations to polarize the US against ourselves, and weaken the west? Do you also get credit for what would have been the next twenty years of that? Are you, Balaji, responsible for that side of it? No? But if you are for it, you get zero credit for fixing any of that, but blamed for ALL the possible downsides? Total BS. The mullahs holding the region hostage shouldn’t get your help to blame others for the damage they do. Geopolitics and war is complex and there are risks on all sides. There is risk in acting, and in not acting. I’m really glad we are taking advantage of the massive innovation and competence gap that exists at this moment, and finally eliminating so much evil. I hope for freedom for the Iranian people and know that the situation is hard and complex, but either way it is good to stop the bad guys and eliminate so many of the worst groups, who have done so much damage, from history. Nobody should get away with what those bastards did for so long; this was long overdue.

If you grew up in the trenches, you already know this: The dumber the people around you are, the more aggression you must show to be respected. The smarter the people around you are, the less aggression you must show to be respected. This is an unwritten law of human hierarchy.

@AustinChronicle Illegal immigrants are not part of my community. Mask up, round 'em up, and send them all back home. It's a choice to frame this issue as targeting one big group, when the reality is that we have law abiding citizens on one hand and foreign criminals on the other.

OPINION: Council Member Vanessa Fuentes on protecting our immigrant communities. austinchronicle.com/columns/opinio…

Replacing Americans with foreigners isn't good for America. When it comes to the H1B, these roles could easily be filled by Americans, and the economic impact would be the same. There's nothing magical about H1B labor! But when you replace an American with an H1B, now you have to account the increase in benefits (unemployment, SNAP) the American will recieve as part of that exchange. These H1Bs are just not worth it.

"what you've got on H1Bs in STEM being good for America" literally what you asked for. For AMERICA. A bunch of immigrants who - come legally - highly educated - earn way more than avg income - not on welfare - negligible crime rate - create billion $ startups - pay FICA even though they're not citizens Like what else do you want? All of these stats are good for America.

H-1B suffers from several big shortcomings: random visa allocation, mobility restrictions, inadequate scale, pointless red tape. And yet in spite of those flaws, the program is a huge net fiscal boost to our country. Just imagine if we replaced it with a well-designed program!

@BinaryBit01 @LettieriDC @SpeakSamuel Please see below regarding the misleading @InnovateEconomy report:

@TheNileDesign @LettieriDC @SpeakSamuel x.com/i/status/20338…

@uncledoomer He's just like me for real.

there really is a "fix everything right now" button for buying a printer and its been the same for 20 years

@JackChambersGB At the ready.

Any patriots in Austin??

This is a perfect example of how numbers get used to tell a very incomplete story. Yes, you can show a positive tax contribution snapshot. But what’s missing: 🔍 The biggest holes in that $30,050 claim 1. It’s a static snapshot, not reality over time They’re measuring a moment in time, not lifecycle impact. Even pro-immigration fiscal research admits: •fiscal impact varies heavily by age, education, and lifecycle •benefits like Social Security, Medicare, and dependents hit later 👉 Translation: They’re counting prime earning years, not full cost over time. 2. It assumes current income = long-term contribution H-1B workers skew: •younger •dual earners That inflates short-term tax contribution. But fiscal impact depends on: •longevity •dependents •long-term public costs Even friendly studies show huge variance by cohort 👉 They’re presenting a best-case slice as a universal truth. 3. It ignores labor market displacement effects This is the biggest omission. Research shows: •additional H-1Bs can crowd out other workers •can reduce average wages •increase firm profits instead 👉 So even if tax revenue rises per H-1B household: You’re not asking: what happened to the American worker who didn’t get that job? 4. It treats “household contribution” as net economic benefit This is a classic framing trick. They’re saying: “this household pays $30K more in taxes than it receives” But that ignores: •wage suppression effects •job substitution •outsourcing multiplier effects 👉 Government revenue ≠ economic benefit to citizens. 5. It ignores who dominates H-1B usage Even reform-oriented reports admit: •H-1B is heavily concentrated among a small number of firms •outsourcing firms play a major role 👉 The question isn’t just “what do they pay in taxes” It’s: what is the system incentivizing at scale? 6. It assumes no behavioral response Reality: •firms optimize around labor cost •use visa structures strategically •shift hiring models based on policy Even EIG’s own work admits companies will route around rules and use alternative visa paths 👉 Static models break when incentives change. 7. It sidesteps fraud, abuse, and enforcement gaps Even government reports have found: •meaningful rates of fraud / violations in H-1B filings 👉 A model assuming “clean system inputs” ≠ real-world outcomes.

Kensyian globalists when you tell them their cohort of 3rd world labor doesn't add any additional value to the economy, and in fact, takes opportunities away from natives:

The labor market requirement is there for companies who are considered "H1B dependant", like Meta. Therefore the actual number of H1B visas that get approved within that 85k allotment are dependant on the local labor markets of the sponsoring employer. I get that there is a long list of applications from employers for these visas, so maybe the number stays at 85k in aggregate despite increased "labor market test churn" for specific H1B dependant orgs like Meta. But still, this variable must be factored in if we want to understand how the program is being run and the impact that it's having on our economy.

@TheNileDesign @SpeakSamuel It's not though. The number issued each year is capped at 85,000 and that quota was set back decades ago, when the US economy was much smaller. Also no requirement for employers to do a labor market test

Sam's up to his old tricks again! 🤣 Remember this anytime someone says H1Bs are an economic benefit to this country: A $130k tech worker in Austin or the Bay Area pays roughly the same income/payroll/sales/property taxes and uses roughly the same public services wether they were born in India or Indiana. They only thing they do is take our jobs.