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Edsall: Will Walker add the one piece of conservative populism he’s missing: anti-Wall Street, anti-big business? nyti.ms/1ODoQl9
Edsall: Will Walker add the one piece of conservative populism he’s missing: anti-Wall Street, anti-big business? nyti.ms/1ODoQl9
@kausmickey No. Too much $$$$$$$$$$$$$ at stake for that.
@kausmickey He better. Although, you’re right: why are the Koch brothers funding him?
[I posted this earlier to Edsall’s piece]
The media of left and right descended on Walker like screaming banshees over his fairly innocuous statement about protecting American workers, which he had said the week before to Hannity. I wonder if it was a panic reaction to this report in NYT:
‘Two people who attended the event said they heard Mr. Koch go even further, indicating that Mr. Walker should be the Republican nominee.’
The idea that the pro immigration ‘reform’ Kochs and their almost $1 billion could go to an immigration infidel may have unhinged some.
All billionaires are pro reform – they like cheap labor.
How is it for blacks on the street, who don’t have government jobs, competing with desperate undocumented immigrants? How much of the alienation felt in Baltimore and elsewhere is due to that? What gives our elite the right to ignore our laws and force low skilled Americans to compete with them? Is it contemptible to want to protect American workers?
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/oct/09/americas-front-lines/
‘The fraction of those who were called back—indicating they would be considered for a job—was 31 percent for white applicants, 25 percent for Hispanic applicants, and 15 percent for black applicants.’
OT: Speaking of anti Wall Street, socialist Bernie Sanders is very skeptical of guest worker programs, hopefully will put some heat on Hillary, ‘the senator from Punjab.’ (Obama)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/25/this-is-a-massive-effort-to-attract-cheap-labor-why-sen-bernie-sanders-is-skeptical-of-guest-workers/
‘The bottom line is that I feel, very much, that a lot of the initiative behind these guest workers programs, a very large expansion of guest worker programs — H2B visas would go up to as many as 195,000, H1B to as many as 205,000 a year — is coming from large corporations who want cheap labor from abroad. Absolutely, there is a need for foreign labor. I recognize that in agriculture and certain areas in the high tech industry, you need foreign labor. But this is a massive effort to attract cheap labor, a great disservice to American workers.’
@instapundit @TomColeOK04 Republican Populist Walker coming for banks, corporatists. http://t.co/JW23xgsfdz