Democrats choose trial lawyers over Silicon Valley

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As we are all pondering whether Reid deserves to lead the Democrats in the Senate, read this piece from the WSJ. For those who think the Democrats can do no wrong, you need to read this.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/gordon-crovitz-even-silicon-valley-tilts-republican-1414973099

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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.

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The biggest winners from patent reform will be startups. Of course some here may think those are evil as well.

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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.

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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.

Republicans will certainly pass their version. It remains to be seen if Obama and the Republicans can agree on a final bill. Or maybe Reid will filibuster it to death. We shall see.

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Good, good. Trial lawyers are much better people and more progressive.

Considering Silicon Valley has twice now been a key part of stopping a Republican wave from reaching the west coast, one would think you guys would be more gracious.

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Whoa...did he really say trial lawyers are MUCH BETTER than tech nerds?  Does he like used car salesmen, lobbyists and payday loan jackwads too?

It's lief. I hope he was just trolling.

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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.

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There's also the super-discriminatory and all-encompassing brogrammer culture, where job interviews are conducted more like fraternity rushes, and all manner of racism, sexism, and classism is justified with that magic phrase "culture fit".

Yeah, I thought so. You have no clue about what you are talking about. As someone who has multiple friends and family in the tech sector, including startups, that stereotype has no basis in reality.

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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.