DAVID MARCUS: Big-brained Ramaswamy and Musk pick a fight they can't win

In much of the English-speaking world, but not America, Boxing Day is called Boxing Day. For reasons that are entirely unclear, DOGE brothers Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk decided to take the opportunity to don boxing gloves and throw haymakers at native-born American workers.

What started as Musk saying on his social media platform American families for treating their children to sleepovers and trips across the country. mall.

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Apparently big tech needs foreign workers because we're raising our kids the wrong way.

Ramaswamy insisted on X that native-born families need “more math classes, fewer sleepovers.” More science competitions on weekends, fewer cartoons on Saturday mornings. More books, less television. More creation, less “relaxation”. More extracurricular activities, less “hanging out at the mall.” »

Vivek Ramaswamy speaks as Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump, takes the stage during the campaign rally at Madison Square Garden on October 27, 2024 in New York. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

The former presidential candidate says he's just telling us “hard truths” by suggesting every family should emulate certain South Asians, whom he cites as a shining example.

But guess what? The United States of America is a nation, not just an agricultural system for big tech. And besides, the very reason China is stealing innovation from us, and not the other way around, is because our backward and backward attitudes create free thinkers, not drones. At least when we're not playing the banjo on the porch.

Every native-born American child who applies to college this year will compete with students from foreign countries, including communist China, who will be given a red carpet to use the American education system. And when these American children graduate, they risk finding themselves locked out of entry-level jobs due to foreign competition.

Lawyers were awarded $345 million in legal fees related to a challenge to Elon Musk's compensation package. (Getty Images)

Musk says American tech workers aren't good enough. Well, then maybe we should stop giving away thousands and thousands of places at the best schools and do a better job of teaching at our own.

When I went to Springfield, Ohio, in September, I heard factory owners say they needed 15,000 Haitian migrants because, unlike Americans, they arrive on time, pass their drug testing and voluntarily work overtime. It was downright insulting to American workers, but no more than Musk and Ramaswamy were making fun of native people and their cultural traditions.

And it’s not for nothing that big tech has the added benefit that workers brought in on an H-1B visa lose their immigration status if they lose their jobs. That represents a lot of influence that tech bosses don't have over American workers.

Today, it appears MAGA is experiencing its first full-fledged civil war since Trump won the election nearly two months ago, but appearances can be deceiving. In fact, Ramaswamy and Musk are, thankfully, returning to their ill-advised duo.

Indeed, outside of the New Right hotbeds in Palo Alto, no one in the America First Trump coalition thinks that replacing American workers is a boffo concept.

This unfortunate moment was an unforced error, but no serious damage was caused. Sometimes mathematicians need a dose of the humanities, or at least a trip around the block.

The Department of Government Effectiveness, which President-elect Donald Trump entrusted to Musk and Ramaswamy, needs to understand that our country is not a business or, as Musk said, an NBA team looking to win .

The role of the United States government is to guarantee the right of Americans to live as they choose, not to become a cog in the machinations of billionaire geniuses, domestic or foreign. And Americans have the right to ensure that the institutions they fund for are truly progressive Americans.

It's a learning moment for two bright, shining, brash stars who embrace freedom and understand that life and liberty are a pounding heartbeat, not a bottom line.

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This unfortunate moment was an unforced error, but no serious damage was caused. Sometimes mathematicians need a dose of the humanities, or at least a trip around the block.

America's college graduates deserve their fair share; They should not have to compete with H-1B visa competition, and no Americans should train their cheaper H-1B replacement.

The Trump administration's first priority is closing the border and deporting criminals. After that, nuanced negotiations on legal immigration can begin.

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But there must be an important caveat. The American worker must be treated with respect. Because without him, we have no country.

Americans don't celebrate Boxing Day, and we don't celebrate rich people beating up working people. Hopefully for Vivek Ramaswammy and Elon Musk, this unforced error is a lesson learned.

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