Radio Derb is on the air! There's a podcast, an mp3 file at Taki's Magazine [1], and a transcript [2].
In the antepenultimate segment of the broadcast I discuss the GOP's lamebrained STEM Jobs Act [3], formally the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Jobs Act.
I compare and contrast with Senator Chuck Schumer's BRAINS Act [4], formally the Benefits to Research and American Innovation through Nationality Statutes Act.
I then propose legislation of my own:
The whole message of immigration talk from both parties is that Americans are no good. Foreigners are so much brighter, more industrious, more entrepreneurial. Having priced low-skilled Americans out of the bottom part of the labor market by allowing illegal Mexicans to flood in, Congress is now hard at work pricing the skilled middle-class out of their jobs with insults like the STEM and BRAINS Acts.
Here's my comprehensive ─ yes!, comprehensive ─ solution, which I am sure will be enthusiastically received by both parties in Congress: the Systematically Crush America's Majority Act, known for short as the SCAM Act.
Question for discussion:
Which congressional practice is more obnoxious?
A. Naming Acts of Congress after winsome victims [5]? Or
B. Giving them contrived acronyms [6]?
Links:
[1] http://takimag.com/radioderb#axzz2EQIZSlJj
[2] http://www.johnderbyshire.com/Opinions/RadioDerb/2012-12-08.html
[3] http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/12/stem-jobs-act-next-step-for-high-skilled-immigration-reform
[4] http://dailycaller.com/2012/12/05/schumer-gop-bill-includes-anti-immigrant-language/
[5] http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/thomas
[6] http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:S3992: