Facebook Honcho Mark Zuckerberg - Callow amnesty huckster with a philanthropic façade
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Here in Northern California, cheers (and a few complaints) were heard after the late May announcement from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that he would donate $120 million to public schools in the San Francisco Bay Area over the next five years. The donation followed a similar infusion to Newark schools of $100 million to promote classroom technology, charter schools, and performance pay for teachers — an effort with mixed results. (On the complainer side: teachers, unions, and other bureaucrats attached to the current system criticized Zuckerberg’s intended reforms as too business-based.)
It is curious that Zuckerberg would promote American education as one of his top philanthropic initiatives when he has promoted the hiring of cheap immigrants for his own business. Perhaps he is following in the footsteps of robber barons like Andrew Carnegie who used a fortune made by underpaying his employees to leave a legacy of elite good works like museums and libraries.
Zuckerberg didn’t just dump a pile of money into anti-sovereignty lobbying efforts; in April 2013 he became the de facto tech leader of amnesty when he founded FWD.us . For the new group, he rounded up like-minded supporters among his billionaire tech pals like Bill Gates (who testified before Congress in 2007 that H-1B visas should be unlimited).
The group swung into action by running television ads to pressure House Republicans to pass amnesty and double legal immigration. One early video spouted the obvious lie: “Reforming our immigration system would dramatically reduce our nation’s debt, grow the economy by 5.4 percent, and take bold steps to secure our borders.” In fact, providing government services for decades to millions of poorly educated third worlders would add trillions of dollars to the cost of legalizing the foreigners, and the CBO reported last year that the Senate bill would reduce average wages in America for 12 years, increase unemployment for 7 years, and reduce per capita GNP growth over 25 years.
You would think that billionaires could mislead more cleverly. ...
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