Democrats choose trial lawyers over Silicon Valley

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If there's one thing America needs, it's more foreign competition for American jobs

[memphis]

If there's one thing America needs, it's more foreign competition for American jobs

What does this have to do with patent law?

As for immigration reform, what is your opinion on all the low skilled laborers who are streaming across the border? Wonder why the Democrats don't have any problems with that but once you start talking about immigrants who will make enough money to pay taxes and not use social services, they start aping the minutemen. Someone needs some votes.

The issue of foreign workers was addressed in your article. I'm not afraid to admit I'm not well versed in the specifics of patent law, so I'll pass of addressing that topic. In any case, low paying jobs don't need much protection. They are as numerous as the stars in the sky. Any fool can walk into a minimum wage job without any trouble. Good paying jobs, on the other hand, are extremely scarce, and importing labor only drives down wages.  Our national policies should reflect that.

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Making sure immigrant workers are paid the same as native born workers, and most importantly, that these "immigrants" aren't just being trained here only to be shipped back to their country in a couple of years are the most important things to be done to reform immigration as it relates to high tech/highly skilled workers. That could easily be a part of immigration reform, and my guess is that it will.

Did you miss the election last night? The Republicans won. There's not going to be any immigration reform.

[memphis]

Making sure immigrant workers are paid the same as native born workers, and most importantly, that these "immigrants" aren't just being trained here only to be shipped back to their country in a couple of years are the most important things to be done to reform immigration as it relates to high tech/highly skilled workers. That could easily be a part of immigration reform, and my guess is that it will.

Did you miss the election last night? The Republicans won. There's not going to be any immigration reform.

Republicans will certainly pass their version.

I doubt this very much.

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When has Silicon Valley complained about taxation? People across Silicon Valley, including the richers (look up precinct data), voted for Obama twice even though he wanted to raise taxes on families making more than $250,000.

The number of people with adjusted gross income (after all deductions) greater than $250,000 is pretty damn small even in places where you might think otherwise. All those people in California are deducting an enormous amount of mortgage interest, student loan interest, 401(k) contributions and so on.

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I agree there is ageism in Silicon Valley, but it's present in many other industries as well. As for the low number of blacks and hispanics, that shows a problem with our education system. Perhaps with our society as well but it's unfair to blame it on tech companies. And startups with sh**tty cultures do exist but that doesn't mean all places are the same.

The problem with our education system is that blacks and hispanics (not all of them, but a disproportionate number, and we are speaking in statistics not in absolutes) refuse to make the slightest effort to apply themselves in school and are instead often not just disruptive but outright hostile. The schools aren't failing these kids. These kids are failing the schools. Every teacher in America goes out of her way to help and accommodate these kids anyway because that's part of the job, but you can't fault business, especially ultra competitive information driven business for not doing the same. It's not part of their job.