DAVID MARCUS: Big-brained Ramaswamy, Musk picks fight they can’t win

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

What started with Musk saying on his social media platform X, and not for the first time, that he needs more foreign-born geniuses to work for him, quickly turned into Ramasawamy dressing up American families to spoil their children with overnight stays and trips to the shopping center.

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Apparently big tech needs foreign labor because we are raising our children the wrong way.

Ramaswamy insisted on X that Native families need “more math lessons, less sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, less Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less ‘chillin’. More recreational activities, less ‘hanging out to the mall’.”

The former presidential candidate says he is just telling us “hard truths” by suggesting that every family should emulate some South Asians, who he points to as shining examples.

But guess what? The United States is a nation, not just a big-tech agricultural system. And by the way, the very reason China is stealing innovation from us, not the other way around, is because our backward, hayseed attitudes create freethinkers, not drones. At least when we’re not playing the banjo on the front porch.

All Native American children applying to college this year will be competing against students from foreign countries, including Communist China, who will be extended a red carpet to use the American education system. And when American kids graduate, they may find themselves passed over for entry-level jobs because of foreign competition.

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

When I went to Springfield, Ohio in September, I heard factory owners there claim that they need 15,000 Haitian migrants because, unlike Americans, they show up on time, pass their drug tests and are willing to work overtime. It was directly insulting to American workers, but no more so than Musk and Ramaswamy mocking the natives and their cultural traditions.

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

Now it looks like MAGA is having its first full-blown civil war since Trump won the election nearly two months ago, but looks can be deceiving. In fact, thankfully both Ramaswamy and Musk are going back on their bad duet.

That’s because, outside of nouveau-right sushi hotspots in Palo Alto, no one in the America First Trump coalition thinks replacing American workers is a boffo concept.

This unfortunate moment was an unforced error, but no serious injury occurred. Sometimes the math guys need a dose of the humanities, or at least a trip around the block.

The Department of Government Efficiency, which President-elect Donald Trump has entrusted to Musk and Ramaswamy, must understand that our country is not a corporation or, as Musk put it, an NBA team that wants to win.

The role of the United States government is to ensure the right of Americans to live as they see fit, not to fit in like a cog in the machinations of billionaire geniuses, domestic or foreign. And Americans have a right to ensure that the institutions they pay for are actually advancing Americans.

This is a teachable moment for two bright, brilliant and brave stars who embrace the freedom to understand that life and freedom is a pulsating pulse, not a bottom line.

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This unfortunate moment was an unforced error, but no serious injury occurred. Sometimes the math guys need a dose of the humanities, or at least a trip around the block.

American college students deserve a fair shake; They should not have to compete with H-1B visa competition and no American should train their cheaper H-1B replacement.

The first order of business for the Trump administration is to close the border and deport criminals. After that, the 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 or her we have no country.

Americans don’t celebrate Boxing Day, and we don’t celebrate rich people knocking over the working man. Hopefully this unforced error is a lesson to Vivek Ramaswammy and Elon Musk.

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