I guess I would ask this, I am 41 and have voted Republican my entire life and my entire life I have heard your same arguments used to shut down these conversations. I have used them myself. So what do you think is being helped by bringing in people? "We need the jobs filled and the skills to do them and these are the only people available." Is that true, or are employers demanding degrees for jobs that don't need them? Setting up financial barriers to employment. Skills? Maybe it is because employers will not hire and train people to do the job. Hey, instead of bringing in foreign labor or forcing you to pay to learn that trade, I am going to hire you and pay you while you get on the job training.
Employers are looking at their local pool of applicants and saying, this is not ideal or optimal. There is an obvious cost for them to "sponsor" someone and it's a hassle, so let's not pretend like that is what employers prefer.
There are many reasons people can be resistant to career changes. It cost me over $20k to go back to school for a masters several years ago so I could do just that. We expect a coal miner to go into that kind of debt to switch to a $40k/yr job or else we bring on the Indians and Chinese. Corporate America expects all this shit from Americans and doesn't want to give anything back. They already have one of the most worked and under benefitted set of employees in the developed world and that still is not enough.
This is a horrendous attempt at an analogy. Retraining people does not mean they need a Master's degree or that they should go into debt. I've always been a proponent of using Unemployment to fund training/retraining of workers.
So great that Wall Street does well, that is awesome, my retirement thanks it. You know what would be more awesome for the country though? Having a bunch of these people that are embittered about systemic racism actually being offered a way into the system. Having a job does that. And yes, it does start at home, but you know what helps set up functional homes? Money to support them. And not a hand out, but something they truly worked for. The ownership culture creates conservativish people IMO.
Again, another terrible conclusion you reach. We had the lowest unemployment in history, every store and restaurant was hiring (I still see hiring signs). If people didn't find a job it's because they didn't put in effort or display basic human character traits that are the minimum requirement to be employed.