>>Trying to force American businesses to rely on an inferior workforce put out by the piss-poor American education system with kids so entitled that they have a piss-poor work ethic, and trying to force America to rely on this very flawed resource pool to provide innovative entrepreneurs, is guaranteed to make America WEAKER.<<
First of all, let me say that I’m sympathetic to your argument.
That said, however, the above rationale reminds me very much of the way liberals have moved the country closer and closer to nationalized healthcare. First, you mess with the markets and the providers and the insurance system, and then you come in and “fix it” with an even worse system.
In this case, first we let liberals destroy the domestic labor pool, or a good share of it, by meddling in education, family, welfare, etc., and then you fix the problem by letting the domestic labor pool rot at home on subsistence welfare payments while replacing them with immigrants.
You might be right that it’s the only way to regain what we’ve lost economically, but in doing so you abandon those we’ve already mistreated with a crappy system. I think Walker will have a great deal to say on this as the campaign progresses, but we’ll see.
And, as I said at the outset, I agree in principle with your statement on legal immigrants; they’ve served the country well over the years.
Banning better skilled, better educated immigrants from other countries who seek to become American citizens, is tampering with the labor markets, a form of government protectionism. Say we put an embargo on such immigrants, and for the next 20 years America's talent pool is by government decree limited to the folks here. They don't have to be their best because they're protected. Our education system is lousy and minimum wage (among other things) has created a piss-poor work ethic in our youths. You want to limit America's future to THAT?
Cruz wants to repeal ObamaCare, as well as Common Cause. Repealing and replacing are two different things. Repealing it IS the "fix," and restoring States and individual rights in health care and keeping the Federal government far away the solution. Any Republican candidate who offers a replacement "fix" is only calling for more different government meddling, and my vote will go elsewhere.
Cruz is consistent right down the line. Allowing for the same kind of legal immigration that we always have instead of enlisting the Federal government to offer "protection" against its own "high-skilled workforce" by refusing to allow the same other countries to immigrate here and adopt America as their country the way most of our parents, grandparents, etc., did, is very far removed from the same rationale that caused Obamacare.
The principle is simple: LIMIT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.