tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post3396990877121860950..comments2023-10-22T18:25:39.688+08:00Comments on The View from Taiwan: Taiwanese entrepreneurs leaving US for China?Michael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-79927886886830205452012-11-13T06:20:44.790+08:002012-11-13T06:20:44.790+08:00You could further increase revenues, but of course...<b>You could further increase revenues, but of course that would come at the expense of freedom. And it it usually economically unwise to have the government rather than the private sector control more money because the government is not subject to the discipline of the marketplace.</b><br /><br />The deeper we go, the deeper we get into these nonsense ideological constructs. I'm going to stop here.<br /><br />MichaelMichael Turtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-69386225238865452762012-11-12T23:01:06.528+08:002012-11-12T23:01:06.528+08:00Key quote from the article: "The bill would a...Key quote from the article: "The bill would abolish a lottery run each year that distributes the <b>same number</b> of green cards". The Republican plan was to keep immigration levels constant while pulling making the immigrants more highly educated. The Democrats didn't like the fact that such a plan would reduce the number of future so they killed it.<br /><br /><br />You could further increase revenues, but of course that would come at the expense of freedom. And it it usually economically unwise to have the government rather than the private sector control more money because the government is not subject to the discipline of the marketplace.<br /><br />Yes I realize that raising taxes is an option, it's just not a good option. Readinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-90434491223572805082012-11-12T13:55:00.738+08:002012-11-12T13:55:00.738+08:00So it is simple math. If you increase one category...<b>So it is simple math. If you increase one category of immigration without an offsetting decrease in another category, then immigration increases.</b><br /><br />The Republican proposal was not an "offsetting" decrease. It was the deletion of a large existing program in exchange for a few thousand persons under the skill program. The Dem proposal did not delete an existing program -- and the offset, if you felt one was necessary -- could be done merely by minor reductions in the immigrant visas granted under the extant program (or some other program). There is no dichotomy here, and the fact that you think there is shows how ideological your conception of the proposals is. <br /><br /><b>(The same math applies to the budget, if you increase spending somewhere without decreasing it somewhere else, the debt increases.)</b><br /><br />Or you could increase revenues. See the problem? It's that dichotomous thinking. Dichotomies are signal of bad analysis and ideological constructs, Readin.<br /><br />MichaelMichael Turtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-26128044714611938752012-11-12T11:53:24.883+08:002012-11-12T11:53:24.883+08:00So it is simple math. If you increase one categor...So it is simple math. If you increase one category of immigration without an offsetting decrease in another category, then immigration increases. <br /><br />(The same math applies to the budget, if you increase spending somewhere without decreasing it somewhere else, the debt increases.)Readinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-32666021111986569712012-11-11T22:54:37.401+08:002012-11-11T22:54:37.401+08:00make long term, substantial efforts to develop and...<b>make long term, substantial efforts to develop and grow technology, manufacturing and education.</b><br /><br />That would be wonderful. But instead, we get perpetual war, security state, no job programs, rising income inequality, and Wall Street running the nation. <br /><br />Michael Turtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-6692453299124895262012-11-11T22:52:48.180+08:002012-11-11T22:52:48.180+08:00he Democrats refused saying they couldn't allo...<b>he Democrats refused saying they couldn't allow high skilled workers to stay unless the bill also raised immigration levels to increase Democratic-leaning demographics."</b><br /><br />The Dem bill didn't "raise" immigration levels. it just didn't delete a currently existing program as the Republican bill did. A few thousand skilled workers hardly constitute a drop in the bucket, immigration-wise. <br /><br />Those groups used to vote Republican. This kind of ideologically slanted representation of reality is one of the reasons those traditionally Republican groups are beginning to switch sides. <br /><br />MichaelMichael Turtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-24662886122793466692012-11-09T13:00:38.800+08:002012-11-09T13:00:38.800+08:00Yes, that's what I said. The Democrats were u...Yes, that's what I said. The Democrats were unwilling to consider a bill that kept immigration levels constant. I wrote "The Republican bill would have kept immigration levels constant. The Democrats refused saying they couldn't allow high skilled workers to stay unless the bill also raised immigration levels to increase Democratic-leaning demographics."Readinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-23358317858742249092012-11-09T10:35:56.050+08:002012-11-09T10:35:56.050+08:00This is not new news. I work in high tech and mid...This is not new news. I work in high tech and mid tech engineering and manufacturing support and we began to see a this early in the year with the current administrations (and congresse's) race to the bottom in terms of all the issues noted in the article you quoted above.<br /><br />I do no see an immediate change in view unless the obama regime choses to think outside the washington beltway, how to get elected in two year mentality and make long term, substantial efforts to develop and grow technology, manufacturing and education.<br /><br />It is very disheartening when this trend actually becomes pronounced enough to be in a major financial publication.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-52333062428631758782012-11-09T06:40:23.565+08:002012-11-09T06:40:23.565+08:00Readin, the problem was that it ended the lottery ...Readin, the problem was that it ended the lottery and didn't increase immigration numbers. So Dems introduced the same bill but without ending the lottery. as the paper notes, there is broad bipartisan support for the idea of getting tech types to immigrate to the US.<br /><br /><b>On Tuesday, Charles E. Schumer of New York, the Democrat who is chairman of the Senate Judiciary immigration subcommittee, introduced a bill that was close to Ms. Lofgren’s measure, creating a two-year pilot program to give 55,000 new green cards each year to foreign graduates.<br /><br />Democrats in both houses, especially Hispanic and black lawmakers, are reluctant to end the lottery without some compromise, for example giving additional green cards to family members of legal immigrants already here. Many winners of the lottery, which was created in 1990, come from African countries.<br /><br />Behind the partisan maneuvering over details, there was notable bipartisan accord — rare in this polarized Congress — on the broad goals of the legislation: to offer visas so science and technology graduates could remain here and start businesses to create jobs.</b>Michael Turtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-87289949728955255352012-11-09T05:51:23.898+08:002012-11-09T05:51:23.898+08:00leave Afghanistan to the Chinese
If the US and IS...<i>leave Afghanistan to the Chinese</i><br /><br />If the US and ISAF pulls out early, China would lose as well. They're not going to send one soldier in to help the country.Rajnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-71359255867013947822012-11-09T03:20:02.129+08:002012-11-09T03:20:02.129+08:00Forgot the link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/1...Forgot the link:<br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/us/republicans-push-bill-to-help-foreign-science-graduates-stay.html?_r=0Readinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-40729816530783481502012-11-09T03:19:19.433+08:002012-11-09T03:19:19.433+08:00A couple months ago, the Congressional Republicans...A couple months ago, the Congressional Republicans introduced a bill to give 50,000 visas a year away from the lottery system to give them to that graduates holding Master's degrees and PhD's from American Universities so they could stay in America and do things like starting new high tech businesses. As one would expect the Democrats blocked it.<br /><br />The Republican bill would have kept immigration levels constant. The Democrats refused saying they couldn't allow high skilled workers to stay unless the bill also raised immigration levels to increase Democratic-leaning demographics.Readinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-20462092505093435722012-11-08T09:51:51.347+08:002012-11-08T09:51:51.347+08:00>>"Taiwanese entrepreneurs leaving US f...>>"Taiwanese entrepreneurs leaving US for China?"<br /><br />By reading the text and the context, I have the impression that your title should be "Taiwanese entrepreneurs leaving US for <i>Taiwan</i>?"<br /><br />Have I read wrong?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com