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IT Workers Training Their Foreign Replacements 'Troubling,' Says White House
dcblogs writes: A top White House official told House lawmakers this week that the replacement of U.S. workers by H-1B visa holders is 'troubling' and not supposed to happen. That answer came in response to a question from U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) that referenced Disney workers who had to train their temporary visa holding replacements (the layoffs were later canceled. Jeh Johnson, the secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said if H-1B workers are being used to replace U.S. workers, then "it's a very serious failing of the H-1B program." But Johnson also told lawmakers that they may not be able to stop it, based on current law. Ron Hira, an associate professor of public policy at Howard University who has testified before Congress multiple times on H-1B visa use, sees that as a "bizarre interpretation" of the law.
deliberately understate it
he may be completely clueless
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Obama has absolutely refused to use the bully pulpit to stand up for principles and what is right.
Because I think he assumes that everyone is dealing in good faith and that somehow giving away the store at the beginning of a debate is good compromising. Or something. I don't know. I don't care anymore.
He's only slightly better than W and not the effin' disaster we would have had with Romney.
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Speaking of which, is there not a single Republican left with any principles at all that aren't straight out of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead and Anton LaVey's COS? Trump seems to have gotten his philosophy from the Three Stooges.
I'm not looking forward to a Hillary presidency but at this rate the Republicans are just going to hand it to her if she doesn't lose to Bernie in the primaries because she took her position for granted.
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There are republicans with other principles. Unfortunately they take them from the parts of the bible with lots of thou shalt nots and mentions of stoning and punishment. They make the rest look good.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
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He's only slightly better than W and not the effin' disaster we would have had with Romney.
FTFY.
Events keep proving Romney was right on many policy areas that Obama and his administration has gotten wrong, often repeatedly. I don't know where you get your news from, but maybe you should take in more sources and views. It looks like what you're taking in doesn't cut it.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
Interesting, but nonsense. There is little chance we would have had "boots on the ground" in Tehran, but sanctions would probably still be on, and we wouldn't have such a likely disaster of a "deal" with Iran.
"Perpetual war" driven by business is a load of bull. That is just another poor idea to badly explain the world in a way that is not particularly valid but little questioned by the people that repeat it. New equipment is going to be sold for upgrades and replacement one way or another. The world isn't static.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell