People, Personas, and Politics 16 – US Brain Drain
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): People, Personas, and Politics
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/04/04
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Rick Rosner: Trump also says that Obamacare will fall apart and the democrats will come to him to fix it. It’s not really—wat may happen is Obamacare has problems and the Republicans try to exacerbate the problems by refusing to extend Medicare. Trump cancelled advertising that reminded people that the deadline for signing up for this year was like January 31st this year, which led to 4% fewer signups than had been estimated because people tend to wait until the last minute to sign up.
Obamacare will continue to have some issues. But he may be willing to work to address those issues and he – with the democrats – will sell it as the democrats have a broken thing and then they came crawling to me. The democrats will think he is an asshole and will say things in an asshole way, but if we can fix things then we can afford to eat some shit about it. All of this is
assuming Trump survives for 4 years as a president and may have another shot at another 4 years as president.
Which would be bad, he would make it a less pleasant place for the world’s smart people to come and work. He is making it easier for other countries to begin to remove us from our place of technological dominance.
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Canada is taking advantage of this.
RR: You’re sucking up all of our smart people that want to come to America.
SDJ: Not necessarily, but possibly, I saw some mainstream discussion in Canada to adapt mainstream programs to take advantage of the brain drain from American.
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