Vivek Ramaswamy created one bad problem for Donald Trump with this ugly accusation
Vivek Ramaswamy was one of Donald Trump’s closest allies during the campaign.
But Donald Trump is now facing some serious questions about Ramaswamy’s loyalty.
And Vivek Ramaswamy created one bad problem for Donald Trump with this ugly accusation.
Big tech abuses the H1-B visa program to impose cheap labor from India and Communist China.
Because tech firms can pay foreign workers half as much as native workers, Americans who spend their lives studying to be engineers and computer scientists get left out in the cold without a job.
Elon Musk and other Trump supporters from the tech world tried to argue in favor of the H1-B visa program, falsely claiming this was about bringing the best minds to America.
Vivek Ramaswamy went one further and posted on X that the real problem was that Americans were soft, entitled, lazy losers that just want to play sports and watch TV with their friends as opposed to studying in STEM fields.
“A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.
A culture that venerates Cory from Boy Meets World, or Zach & Slater over Screech in Saved by the Bell, or Stefan over Steve Urkel in Family Matters, will not produce the best engineers,” Ramaswamy wrote on X.
The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if…
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) December 26, 2024
Ramaswamy faced massive backlash from conservatives.
“The Woodstock generation managed to build out aerospace, the one before went to the moon, America was doing great. Underlying your post is that we were all living in squalor until being rescued by H-1B’s. Then why did everyone want to come here?” Trump supporter Mike Cernovich wrote in response.
“I’m sorry but nobody wants to live in an America defined by soulless utilitarianism where every facet of life is geared towards maximizing GDP and corporate profits over living a meaningful and fulfilling life. If you want the former, go to China. Nobody voted to make the ‘Revenge of the Nerd’ schtick the new national psyche,” New York Young Republican Club President Gavin Wax replied.
Over on CNN Scott Jennings slammed Ramaswamy as sounding like someone who got stuffed in a locker in high school with his arrogant and disrespectful attack on American culture and work ethic.
“Look, I think there’s a way to solve this and talk about this that doesn’t denigrate all of American culture. I mean, I’m now understanding more and more how he got 100 votes in Iowa or whatever it was he got during the Iowa caucus,” Johnson added.
Jennings noted that Musk clarified his position to mean that he only supported work visas for the elite of the elite and not a grab bag giveaway for big tech to smuggle cheap foreign labor into America.
“The reality is, and Elon, by the way, clarified or further explained his position later and was talking about saying, I want to bring in the top 0.1% of engineering talent from around the world. It’s like bringing in a Jokic or a Wemby’s to help your whole team. If you want to make a comparison to the NBA,” Jennings added.
Jennings said that Ramaswamy missed the mark, as there is a way to craft an immigration system that works on behalf of the interests of the American people while still allowing the best minds from around the world to come to the United States.
“So I think, I think we can bring in the absolute top talent from around the world, and at the same time, not insult the rest of the United States of America and our culture and the way we do things here, and also lift up the American students who have the talent and who have the interest and put them in the right educational opportunities,” Jennings continued.
Donald Trump named Ramaswamy the co-chair of the Department of Government Efficiency.
Jennings noted that Ramaswamy’s intemperate remarks now are a political problem for Donald Trump, since some will assume that Ramaswamy is speaking on behalf of the incoming president.
“I think what [Ramaswamy] did today was to over talk it. A lot of MAGA people are not happy. A lot of Republicans are not happy. And this is why Donald Trump is in the oval office,” Jennings concluded.
