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🗓️ 4 January 2025
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0:00.0 | Well, a civil war has ripped the Maga movement in half, and it lasted all of three days and casualties are apparently zero. |
0:07.0 | Hi everybody, I'm Bill Wittle here with Steve Green and Scott Ott, and I'm speaking of course about the kerfuffle about the H-1B visa. |
0:15.0 | That story is pretty much over as we record this, but there's something that, two aspects of this that I find really interesting one of them is oh by the way I'm Bill Whittle here with Steve Green |
0:23.5 | and Scott out one of the things guys that I found interesting about this was how |
0:27.5 | how people went into this fight and how they immediately ramped up the emotion |
0:35.7 | because they were looking at the same thing |
0:38.0 | from different sides. That to me is, it was, I'm more, like I said, the story essentially is over, |
0:43.2 | but the lessons that we can learn from it, I think, are really fresh. So, Scott, let's start with you. |
0:52.1 | The people that saw the H-1B visa as a means to increase America's brain power and to make up deficiencies in our own education |
1:01.9 | and make sure that we stay on top of the world technologically in terms of that kind of advance, |
1:08.1 | see the H-1B visa as a positive good. |
1:11.6 | And so when the subject came up, they went rushing into that. |
1:14.6 | Alon Musk was leading this charge. |
1:16.6 | We absolutely have to have it. |
1:18.6 | It's an absolute necessity, you know, this is a hill I'm going to die on |
1:21.6 | and immediately turn the emotions up to 11 because they feel very strongly. |
1:25.6 | It's a good thing. |
1:26.6 | On the other hand, there are people that look at the H1B misuse of the visa and say, no, all it is is a way for businesses to bring in tech workers that can be found in America and get them to work at a third the price. It's just a giant scam. It's just a rip-off and more government, you know, keeping us away from the free market. |
1:49.1 | And they're also right. Both sides are right. And they went up to 11. And so these two things |
1:54.1 | collided at the top. But what seemed to me to happen, which is, I think is just really wonderful, |
1:58.5 | is that once this thing actually reached ahead, like I say, |
2:01.9 | the Civil War that the left was hoping for so much and so dearly seemed to last about two or |
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