It’s an unfortunate Civil War, and this whole issue of the H-1B visas is a problem, but everyone is missing the real point on the matter. I don’t think the issue of looking for skilled immigrant labor over domestic skilled labor because they are cheaper is the issue. That might be the fear of the labor unions and this is the danger of bringing people into the Republican Party who aren’t really conservative. And we know Elon Musk was a Democrat for most of his life and was converted because of Trump. And the people demanding only using domestic labor have more of a labor union view of the world on this issue. The real issue isn’t financial; the quality of people available is the real problem. You might want to hire domestic people for some enterprise, but there is a reason foreign labor is so attractive, and it’s not money. Nor is it regional. It’s value-based. At least, that’s my experience. And to cover the point, I think we need to reframe the premise a bit, which is an issue that has come up for me more and more: a personal story about my son-in-law that gets on my nerves often these days. I have terrific kids, but that’s not by accident. There was a lot of hard work that went into raising them, and there isn’t much in society that rewards good parenting the way it should. All you get is seeing your kids grow up and becoming something good. But social recognition is almost entirely nonexistent. And worse, and this is the case every New Year, people who were very critical of how I raised my kids go way out of their way to surround themselves with them because they are such good people. Not to get too personal about it, but it is such an unusual story these days; many of those same critics from over a decade ago are now the people who want to be the best friends of my oldest daughter and her husband, who married young, have stayed married for over 15 years, and have only ever dated each other. As a result, they are raising a very nice family that everyone wants to emulate. And the efforts lately have gotten in my way of having a schedule to enjoy my family, which gets on my nerves. But is a story worth telling.
I also got married at a very young age because I found the right woman. But she was a very pretty young woman, and for men who get into those kinds of relationships, you understand what I mean by every male in the world who looks at a woman like that, wants to take her from you. And when you are young, you don’t have much in life yet to fend them off but violence and tenacity. Needless to say, I often saw the ugly side of human beings in ways that explain why that recent social media woman on TikTok slept with over 100 men in a day and that it was a story of fascination focused on the morality of the young woman. But my issue would be with the men; how are there that many men not already committed to a relationship and would have sex with her right after some other dude had done the deed? Yuk. And to go at such a pace to do 100 men in a single day, there are only 24 hours in a day, so the math portrays a pretty cheap and loser woman and a bunch of disgusting men as a statistical sample addicted to a pornographic and destructive lifestyle. So when you have a pretty wife who, of course, is going to produce pretty kids, you have a dramatic portion of society that is plotting and scheming continuously to stick stuff in them for their personal pleasure. And when it comes to my family, this is a question that came up to me recently as I was talking about Lot from the Bible offering up his daughters to the mob to rape, to save his home guests, a couple of angels……I’m not Lot. What would I do if I were Lot? Well, I’ve been there, and many people know exactly what I’d do, I’d fight them. And I’d fight them all to win, no matter how many of them there were.
That left me with an unusual problem once my daughters started coming into their teens and wanted to date boys. I’m sure there are nice young men on a farm in Iowa milking cows at 5 AM every morning and going to church on Sunday for their entire lives who might have been decent people for my daughters to date. I hear success stories here and there where good men marry into a family and live happily ever after. But the truth of the matter, which most women will tell you, is that the quality of men just isn’t very good. They have bad parents and immoral lifestyles, and they certainly aren’t going to grow up with good leadership skills to make good husbands and fathers to my future grandchildren. So, I was a hard no on the dating experience. I instead advocated foreign relationships with online boys my kids found in England because they were polite kids from a polite culture. And in one case, my future son-in-law had a very nice, traditional family with great values. The other kid’s broken family eventually fell apart and didn’t work out, despite the best intentions. But in one case, it worked great and continues to work wonderfully.
During this process, I received many criticisms that still exist today. People didn’t get why I wouldn’t let my kids date some boy down the road. Why did I think my stuff didn’t stink, and why did I think my daughters were so lofty that some average boy shouldn’t or couldn’t have access to her? I feel so strongly about all this that I even wrote a book dealing with this issue called The Symposium of Justice, which is a very defined commitment for me. So when some of those same critics want to think it was by some accident that my oldest daughter and her husband are such good and intact people, it makes me pretty furious. It wasn’t an accident. It was a good policy from me, and I turned out to be right about everything, as I usually am. The rest of the world was wrong. Dreadfully wrong. I was never going to be Lot kicking my daughters out into the street to the mob that just wanted to rape them for personal pleasure. And you don’t want to think of people having such low lives. But when it comes to sex, they often are. The quality of people is revealed very quickly, and because of my experience raising daughters, I can say that the quality of people out there is very low. So now that I often said as they were growing up, I didn’t think any boys in America could date my daughters these days. Maybe during the World War II generation. But certainly not now.
So, it was very controversial for me to only allow my kids to date boys from other countries. And it wasn’t from some third-world nation like India or China because of cheap labor. It’s because they had at least found one with whom they could date and build a family. To further clarify, I don’t go to bachelor parties when other people get married. My family invited my wife to a bachelorette party once, which caused a rift in our family that persists to this day and probably always will. I’m rigid hardcore on this morality issue; I’m probably more conservative than Amish people are on this matter. If you approach a marriage with such scandal in your mind from the beginning, you can’t expect it to last over the generations, and family building is impossible. So people laughed and giggled about my approach, but they aren’t laughing so much these days. As I said, I turned out to be right about everything. I’d rather destroy the mob than turn my daughters over to their disgusting lust. And I feel the same way about the workforce. I think everyone has a chance to show that they are high-quality people. But they don’t grow on trees, and America has been the target of attack by those wanting to destroy it person by person through the education system for decades now, and that has left our workforce a long way from the Right Stuff. Being a good person and husband or wife takes a good thought process. Or to raise good kids. You can’t cheat it. You can’t create a policy that makes it that way within a human resource department. You either have good people, or you don’t. And using the Bible reference, you are either the people in the mob trying to rape Lot and his home guests, or you are trying to defend something precious from the angry mob. And knowing all that, you have to Make America Great Again somehow. But it will take more than cheap talk about marriage. All the while, people see strippers at a bachelor party and giggle like a bunch of idiots under the desecration of value in front of an entire family. Those aren’t the foundations of a good marriage. And they certainly don’t make good workers, not to the way I think of things. And when you are looking for workers who get married, stay married, show up on time, and can put their skills to good use, not just to have them, but to work hard enough to use them, often you find that the people you need for those positions are not produced by the culture you are recruiting from. It might break your heart to be so discriminatory. However, discretion often leads to much better decisions and more successful enterprises. And to have a good society, you have to have good people in it. And to make good people, you need good families. And we just don’t have enough of those these days for all kinds of reasons.
Rich Hoffman

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