Bernie Sanders
In reply to the discussion: What would you want to see in a deal between Sanders and Hillary? [View all]Baobab
(4,667 posts)They are very different. H1-B relatively speaking has minimal protections, L-1 has none- and is likely I think to be much worse. And everything is legal so dont expect Mr. Trump to be against it Quite the opposite, he uses them.
No necessity tests- None..
No necessity tests, no economic means tests, no wage parity requirements, it may not even be necessary to pay foreign professionals US minimum wages.
Wage parity (as in paying foreign "professionals" minimum wage is actually controversial - some other countries dont want that because they see "high" US minimum wages as being erected as a trade barrier in anticipation of the pending deal and likely erected intentionally to keep their firms out. Rich countries such as the US are supposed to (in the ideological system that we ourselves set up- during the Clinton years, especially) Subsidies of all kinds, price controls, and even minimum wage like things, I suspect minimum wages are framed as a crutch that only the poorest countries need, since we are rich we dont need them, what we are framed as needing is more workers, since we're doing so well,
Similarly with public health care and education, they are framed as a crutch that only he poor nations need. If those nations want to be prosperous like us they need to ditch them, privatize and join the club, which excludes nations that have non-market economy provisions like state owned enterrises in education health care etc. In the US's ideology, they are evil. We blame everything on them.
Google "progressive liberalisation" "economic integration" AND GATS ...
Go to web sites for groups like CUTS-Geneva and South Centre and read the stuff there on trade in services.
The thing is, their wages should rise, our should not be the ones that fall.
This is why I am making a fool of myself here. Its not some little thing. Our election is relatively little. Compared to these huge lies which are being perpetuated in our names with BIG LIES.