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Former Disney IT Worker's Complaint To Congress: How Can You Allow This? (computerworld.com)
dcblogs writes: At a congressional hearing Thursday on the H-1B visa's impact on high-skilled workers, the first person to testify was Leo Perrero, a former Disney IT worker. He was overcome with emotion for parts of it, pausing to gather himself as he told the story of how he was replaced by a foreign visa holder. Perrero wondered how he would tell his family that "I would soon be living on unemployment." He paused. The hearing room was still as the audience waited for him to continue."Later that same day I remember very clearly going to the local church pumpkin sale and having to tell the kids that we could not buy any because my job was going over to a foreign worker," he said. But a person who made a case for access to foreign workers was Mark O'Neill, the CTO of Jackthreads, an online retailer. He argued that there is a need for more skilled workers. Competition is so fierce for developers "that my developers' starting salaries have risen by 50% in the last eight years," said O'Neill, and "senior positions command compensation that meets or exceeds even that of United States Senators."
will bring you both President Trump and this kind of misery. As well as more guns. And more shootings. Home of the brave, land of the free. Amurrica, yeah !
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Campaign donations. Lots and lots of campaign donations.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
If Mr O'Neill and the rest of these corporate leaders were actually so desperate for qualified tech people, perhaps they could consider starting extensive intern programs. If they failed to get adequate enrollment, they could work with high schools and/or community colleges, and even community outreach programs in economically suffering areas. Detroit comes to mind. Broad areas of the south do as well. They could provide valuable skills to people who wouldnt otherwise reach out to get them and reverse what these companies market as a shortage of talent and bloated wages.
Invest in Americans and quit acting the victim.
"But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it,..." - Nancy Pelosi
I don't disagree with the idea that there may be a requirement for H1B visas to fill positions where there are not enough skilled workers, but something doesn't add up when you bring in H1Bs to replace existing workers. You can't claim there aren't enough and displace the ones you have. That's like saying, "I only have 1 gallon of water, so I need to go get another gallon. But, I'm going to dump out my first gallon when I do." If there really is a shortage, the H1Bs should be added along side the existing employees. If there is a need to remove one of the two, there wasn't really the shortage that was claimed.
If A and B are members of the workforce and A isn't enough, you need A+B not B instead of A. If you are bringing in the workforce of B because you can use the H1B process and the individual's resident only because of employment status to keep their salary lower, you are abusing the purpose of the H1B process and the requests should be denied for violating the reason. In fact, one would think such actions are really a case of filing false federal paperwork to get the H1B applicants.
It's the free market at work. If these jobs keep paying better and better, more and more people will get the training to go into the field and balance it out. But that's not happening because...
I teach computer information science at a college. We have a hard time recruiting students into the program because they pretty much all say they don't want to spend years learning how to be a programmer when all of the jobs are being replaced by foreigners or outsourced overseas.
"We need to fire all our current workers to get unskilled workers from other countries and have our current workers train them until the new foreign workers become skilled."
Someone really argued that position with a straight face?
But a person who made a case for access to foreign workers was Mark O'Neill, the CTO of Jackthreads, an online retailer. He argued that there is a need for more skilled workers. Competition is so fierce for developers "that my developers' starting salaries have risen by 50% in the last eight years," said O'Neill, and "senior positions command compensation that meets or exceeds even that of United States Senators."
So... scarcity equals higher price which is bad for business, except when it's business taking advantage of that scarcity. Would Mr. O'Neill complain to congress that we should allow foreign companies to build more Disney knockoffs, because Disney makes more money than some countries? I doubt it.
Really ?, I have never been paid with a refrigerator full of money
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Competition is so fierce for developers "that my developers' starting salaries have risen by 50% in the last eight years," said O'Neill
Sounds a lot less if you run the numbers! That is only a moderate increase of 5.2% annually, compared to 2.8%-2.9% you need to adjust the budget by on average (!) for all salary increases.
If there is a demand for more skilled workers, then why are companies replacing existing skilled labor with foreign workers on the H1-B visa program? The CTO of Jackthreads makes no sense whatsoever. The H1-B visa program is all about trying to save corporations money at the expense of domestic skilled workers. The argument about a lack of skilled programmers is baloney.
If they don't want to follow the laws then just refuse to enforce the intellectual monopoly laws. Let's see how they like having all of their characters enter the public domain.
I love Jesus, except for his foreign policy.
Trump is playing a simple role, just like you said, he's playing into what people said they wanted. But the people who want his ideology in power are driven by a crippling fear for the future. Rest assured, no good will come from a leader who plays on fear, rather than quells it.
Disney sacks employees. Hires h1bs from india. Trains them up. Moves the jobs to india.
It's not difficult to understand. Same story in USA x 1000
How is this legal? It's my admittedly weak understanding of H1B law that it can only be used to fill a job position if there are no qualified domestic workers. It sounds very much like a case of Disney replacing a current employee with an H1B visa worker.
It's that lack, of a follow thru, which lands this bullshit journalism into the hands of sheeple. That's what you're pacing back & forth over. It isn't whether this worker can or cannot land a new job, its that the evil H-1B visa took it away. Disney hasn't created anything since the new millenium that isn't just recycled bullshit. They're solely surviving on their brand, which is burning like a pile of worn out tires. And that's where the journalistic focus should be. Let the companies who employ the H-1B visa tactic, fall. And may they fall swiftly.
I can't believe the bullshit logic.
"We're firing US workers and hiring H1B workers because we need more skilled workers and competition is fierce."
Uh. WHAT?
If they need MORE skilled workers, and the pool of US workers is too small, HIRE FROM THE H1B POOL AND KEEP YOUR EXISTING WORKERS!
But, again, we know this isn't truly about a dearth of talent in the worker pool.
It's actually about a race to the bottom for salaries and the money saved by paying pennies on the dollar to the equivalent of an IT sweat shop. Economizing US workers out of their livelihoods.
And it needs to stop...
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THANK GOD!!!
Mr. Jackthreads says that he pays senior developers $200k. Does anyone actually believe him? In Switzerland, where IT jobs are hard to fill, a good salary for a senior developer might reach at $150k. It's probably about the same in Silicon Valley - and in both cases, that's because the cost of living is pretty high. I want to see his accounts, because I don't believe he pays any of his developers that kind of salary. He's lying, and no one had the guts to call him on it.
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He says what he thinks.
Trump says what an uneducated idiot would say to his buddy in private company. He attacks detractors like a schoolyard bully with a foul mouth, and he is of zero substance.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
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I need to know who will bail the common worker out.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
You are not describing "capitalism" or "capitalist". Good grief go read the fucking books! The reason Capitalism works is because it's balanced on all ends. Workers work for what they get, business owners sell for what they can get, and consumers pay what they consider to be a fair price. For a good amount of US History we had Capitalism, or at least operated very close to those ideas.
When the Businesses dictate everything the system is closer to the old and failed mercantilism which Capitalism replaced. You could also call it fascism, because it's pretty damn close to what Mussolini described as a Fascist economy. Which, by the way, works better than most people think because the US Government is no longer a Constitutional Republic. Except on paper.
You think Gates et.al are fighting for "education" in schools? If so, think again. Common Core was brought to you by Gates Foundation truckloads of cash. You can start there. Once you have a good grasp, really look at the code.org "education" and see what it does.
I think the definition of a candidate's attributes can be accurately gleaned from his behavior and his followers. Trump is a bully who's core support comes from disenfranchised xenophobes. He says what he thinks. Trump says what an uneducated idiot would say to his buddy in private company. He attacks detractors like a schoolyard bully with a foul mouth, and he is of zero substance.
And yet, he's still better than Clinton, who will never stand up to an ideological fight because theres a chance she might not win. At least with trump, we know what his agenda is. With Clinton, we just don't know what shes been paid to do, and you can bet its not in our best interests.
I'm particularly in favor of Sanders, as he not only understands the problems we are facing (as do most of the candidates), but is willing to stand up and fight for the right solutions even if it means loosing. Even a loosing fight is worth fighting sometimes. If Obama had had an ounce of real fight in him, we might not have a complete mess of a healthcare law, that failed to meet most of its objectives, and half the population hates.
The only way this election gets close for me is if Its Trump Vs Sanders. I would likely vote for Sanders, but failing that, Trump it is.
There are lots of people out there who think Trump and sanders are at the opposite ends of the spectrum, but they are the same in the truly important ways: Both are willing to take up the fights they believe in, consequences be damned. With Sanders, we know what his politics are about, and his ideas do not jibe with Wall-street, nor Washington, and hes the better man for it. With Trump, we don't know what many of his positions are because, like any real leader, he hasn't made up his mind about a great many issues because he hasn't had the time or the need to make a decision one way or the other.
The single biggest failing of democracy, is that most voters are too stupid to understand that a candidate that has all the answers right now, is far more likely to be dead wrong about most of them. Voters should stop looking for candidates who already know where they stand on everything, and start looking for candidates with a track record of making good decisions. Voters also have to realize that they themselves are not good at making decisions, and that finding a candidate that matches their views, prejudices against candidates who can make good impartial decisions.
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50% rise in eight years? That's only 1.5^0.125 = 5.2%/year. That's less than the rise in college tuition. For the extremes of the range, there is the ridiculously low CPI of 10% over eight years and the ridiculously high ShadowStats.com of 100% over eight years (view page source to see the hidden value). The geometric mean of those two extremes is sqrt(1.1*2.0)=48%.
Maybe 50% over eight years (5.2%/year) is in fact overstating actual inflation, but it's far from self-evident. By just stating the number and expecting people to be shocked, Mark O'Neill is, intentionally or not, advancing the wage-suppression-through-inflation scam.
as the donald would say: YOU'RE FIRED!!
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
I'd be fine with that. Alternately the government could remove the limit on H1Bs entirely, but levy a tax on them. Essentially a tariff on imported labor. You don't want the tariff set so high that there are zero H1Bs, but you also don't want employers to go nuts. If the average H1B costs $10k less than his domestic counterpart (taking into account all sources of cost, i.e. benefits, payroll taxes, etc.) then tax employers $8k/year for each H1B-employee-year equivalent.
Can we really afford to risk further devaluing international relations with a guy who might just say anything?
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
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I'm an Dev-Ops consultant to many large and well known companies in and out of the USA. I outsource all the time, it's what I do and what people seek me out for, it's an unwritten company rule. Everyone is doing it, everyone is going to do it, American's need to suck it up and choose a different career path OR get congress to change the rules and here is why. H1B* Visa's are a joke, you don't need them anymore. The rise of outsourcing shops in these places solve the H1B* issues, If we need to train them, we send someone over, it's that f**king easy, simple and CHEAP. Companies do not need to invest must into off shore infrastructures, most shops already have it in place, you just connect your corporate pipe, VPN system, done.
American
1. BS grad with avg or better GPA (American standard)
2. 5 years of corp experience with the latest fade languages, frameworks and apps
3. Works 1st shift only
4. Wants full benefits
5. Wants Hipster like benefits and perks
6. Has ideas and sometimes challenges ideas
7. Sometimes misses work, can quit during projects, not legally liable to finish work, hard to fire or work around in HRs.
8. Personal investment
9. OTE around $120,000 east coast - $150,000 west coast
India/Malaysia
1. BS grad with avg or better GPA (American influenced standard)
2. Most often a secondary or Masters degree
3. 5 years of corp experience via offshoring/outsourcing with any language, framework and apps you need
4. Works any shift
5. No additional perks
6. Does what is told or outlined in the ASK
7. No sick days, if a resource has to miss, they provide an stand in so no downtime is caused, are legally liable for unfinished work, contract based on SOWs.
8. No personal investment
9. OTE around $5,000 to $10,000 a head
Now, I'm sorry, but If I can put a skilled business analysis in front of an outsourced Dev-Ops team, I can reduce IT costs a ton and keep quality up. This is a Government thing, nothing you or your States can do. Can I will continue to make bank on this until then. Which means at some point someone like me, is coming for your job and it's just a matter of time. I tried to fight the system at first, you can't, no company in the USA sees IT as anything special, Technology people lost their chance. You all didn't stand up and be counted and weighed. Staying at the head of the Tech is just a fade for a few fade people, who get lucky with a fade company. To be honest, no CEO, VP respects an IT person, period.
You have 2 options in the IT world now.
1. Get a startup going from a fade idea and either go gold or get bought
2. Get into Management
3. Get what you can from a company while you can, but plan on being axed any day
This isn't restricted to software either, I just finished outsourcing all Net and Tech Operations for a company as well last year, you can thank The Cloud for that! Anything related to IT I can reduce by 75% while keeping quality negotiable range of +/- 10%.
But his replacements made no sacrifices? I hope you apply those words to yourself and that
you have no problem pulling up roots and dislocating your family to another place in the U.S.
But I'm sure if you were in Leo Perrero's position, you'd be saying something completely different.
The cool thing about the IoT, is that a astute /. reader can pick out the Disney plants on the site.
1. They post as A.C.
2. They always attack the victim and make it appear that it's a character defect with the victim.
To put all of the blame on his circumstances on him shows you have little compassion for him.
It's truly wonderful that you know so much about his position to suggest that if he has problems
relocating, it's his fault and failure as a person and willingness to make the "proper" sacrifice.
Craftily put and worded, by you, I might add.
Now, if Disney were closing that facility / going out of business, it'd be an entirely different story.
Or if his job description changed and he could not transition to a new role within the company.
But it's interesting that Disney's actions are directly reflected in their race-to-hell quality of their
media of late. It's very sad, very sad.
Yes, the reason Mark Hamill said nothing in the latest Star Wars abortion wasn't that he had no
lines to say, but could not bring himself to further defame the original work he and his peers made.
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If jackthreads can't afford to pay the market rates for someone who puts together the infrastructure that *runs their business* then perhaps they can't afford to be in business.
Perhaps Jack-ass-threads (sorry: I *had* to get it out of my system) O'neil should be lobbying congress to reduce the financial debt someone gets to be able to accumulate the education required. Then *more* people capable of doing what they want will be available and the market rate will change.
Instead they all continually argue to erode the pool of skilled people who can do those things. Their short term thinking expects someone else to be on the paying end of capitalism which becomes their argument for more of these visa. I think that's called pissing into the fountain you are drinking from.
This would be an appropriate scenario for an IT Union looking after Professional IT worker's interests by lobbying at a political level about how appropriate H1B visas are in the community. It's the 21st century folks, it doesn't have to be about picket lines and strikes, it could be about an IT Union arguing which legal constructs are acceptable in the community and, which are not to a Senator. Who else do you expect to do it, because you certainly have an example of the type of people having these discussions *against* IT people's interests.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
d. do the disenfranchised really believe that once elected, he'd be interested in helping them?
"and he is of zero substance"
Look around, and his supporters. Substance is lacking nationwide, it's not just a problem of presidential candidacy.
Not by a long shot. You can sell pretty and you can sell cheap a lot easier than you can sell substance.
He shouldn't *have* to make sacrifices. What Disney did is illegal. Blatantly so. The H1B program is not meant to be a way to lower costs for companies. It's so that companies can import workers *when no local workers exist to do the job, regardless of the cost*. There were workers available. Disney hired a shady outsourcing company. Black and white, open and shut. If Disney is not reprimanded for this, then our entire legal system and government needs to be torn down and rebuilt because we're so corrupt it cannot be fixed without bloodshed. I'm not saying I condone it, but we're already seeing attacks on government from people who think we are already there.
Trump is a bully who's core support comes from disenfranchised xenophobes.
The only thing you're missing there is the "and he's an evil far-right-extremist..." then you could turn around and be best buddies with the governments of Europe(Germany, Norway, England, etc), who also shout the same garbage at the opposition because they're not listening to the public. And successfully drive more people to the opposition with their insane rhetoric.
Trump says what an uneducated idiot would say to his buddy in private company. He attacks detractors like a schoolyard bully with a foul mouth, and he is of zero substance.
In other words, he's saying stuff that people outside the beltway, those outside of the ivory hall of academia say, and what Bob and Doug are saying around the watercooler. And that resonates with people who aren't you, people that you think are "xenophobes" because their values are different, and they have different viewpoints. And instead of wondering why they have different viewpoints, and why what he says is resonating you resort to just another form of bullying.
Om, nomnomnom...
You are as clueless as most. STFU. He is a devout christian which is exactly the leadership we desperately need right now.
The problem is location. When you buy a house you become stuck in that area. You have kids and a partner who works you get stuck in a given area and moving becomes very very difficult. Even being single moving around for work is a pain in the ass. Make everywhere friends, find new things to do, live, supplies. Etc. not impossible but a pain.
With a family it isn't always possible to go where the jobs are. That is why the economy has taken so long to recover. The jobs are not where the people with skills are.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
Since every Presidential Candidate has lied to them since time immemorial, they might as well pick the lies they like the best.
"Competition is so fierce for developers "that my developers' starting salaries have risen by 50% in the last eight years," said O'Neill, and "senior positions command compensation that meets or exceeds even that of United States Senators.""
At the pretense that it's the unavailability of skilled workers has been stripped away. It is, and always has been, about the money.
your web site does well sri lanka? do you vacation there?
Disney IS cruel to its employees. I've worked there, I know. I'll just be glad when we can start replacing CEOs, CFOs etc. with H1B visa workers. Just think of how much money we could save on health care if we started replacing CEOs that earn $10,000,000 a year (plus stock options) with someone from, say India, that's willing to do the job for a fraction of that. Maybe then we wouldn't have to pass a law forcing people to buy their product. Sorry, but I have to call b/s on Mr. O'Neill's story too. If there really is a shortage, why FIRE one worker in favor of a cheaper one?
It's only fair. They're a bunch of Mouseketeers.
it's because you're stupid. it's called flooding the market. it drives prices down, artificially. then when competition is severely weakened, one can increase their prices. when other businesses do it to the u.s. they paid a fine, and continue on doing business. but when humans are involved, it's ok.
The key is that Bob and Jimbob are whispering these things to each other at the water cooler.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
The position and opportunity should be the incentive, not the paycheck
Theoretically, so that they don't compromise their principles in exchange for a payday. It's supposed to make them resistant to being bribed or vote selling.
I would vote for the American version of Silvio Berlusconi over Hillary - at least he's overt with this bullshit.
Not only are IT workers being replaced by foreign workers directly, they are typically part of a strategy to funnel work abroad to lower cost.
On the surface, this seems reasonable given that free enterprise is more fair than government meddling.
In fact its just bad public policy. These workers send wealth outside the US. While in theory they pay income tax, they do not pay the full range of social security and many cases state tax. Foreign workers are notorious for cheating on their taxes and claiming exemptions claiming double taxation that are not allowed. By the time the overworked IRS can address the tax cheats they've left the country.
Often these workers are a front for multinational IT companies that flagrantly disobey US law and basic morality. The leaders of these companies openly state that Americans are stupid. Short sighted US companies outsource their IT needs to these companies who make false promises. After mass layoffs and firings, the bottom lines look great for these short sighted companies for a year or two. The toxic C-level executives leap frog to the next larger opportunity bragging about the great job they did increasing profits for their last company, only to leave a smoking ruin behind them. Moreover instead of taking responsibility for their short term strategy, they further falsely aggrandize themselves by saying how things failed after they left because they are so indispensable. The foreign multinational company simply continues to drain its victim company shielded by a bad long term contract while providing at best mediocre service.
The guy from Jackthreads argues that IT salaries are unfairly high. Well that may be true in Silicon Valley, New York and other hot spots for very specific skill sets, the overall statistics just don't support that argument. My recommendation to the Jackthreads guy is to relocate his operations away from what is the most expensive places in the United States (856 Broadway, New York) and stop using the most expensive ephemeral technologies available.
Funneling wealth generated in your country abroad does not promote the welfare of a country's citizens.
The first sentence of the US Constitution obliges the government to promote the welfare of its people - not multinational corporations.
Greed is the root of all evil.
Trump is crazy, Putin is crazy, Clinton is ... who knows any more.
Over the last couple of years Putin has demonstrated that he's the most powerful man in the world. Maybe he's on to something. Having a crazy-like-a-fox leader has its benefits. At the very least, it makes the leaders on the other side very nervous because they somply can't predict what you're going to do. Clinton is VERY predictable.
If you can't have Sanders (and you can be sure the Dems won't allow that) then you're better off with Trump. Screw the H1Bs, don't ratify the TPP and TTIP free trade deals that are the perfect way for corporations to both avoid taxes and push a rush to the bottom wrt workers.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
We do not have Capitalism in the United States of America any longer
This is a common misconception due to not understanding all the terms involved. Capitalism refers to private ownership of production, which, yes we do still have in the US. What we have less and less of is free and efficient marketplace being replaced by increasingly regulated marketplace.
Devout? He's been married three times! What happened to 'til death do us part"?
If he's what you consider to be a devout Christian, it's no wonder he's happy morons are voting for him
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Can we really afford to risk further devaluing international relations with a guy who might just say anything?
We did get through Bush, Jr. twice. Sort of.
Fortunately for us, the Universe seems to have a sense of humor.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Trump is a bully who's core support comes from disenfranchised xenophobes.
The only thing you're missing there is the "and he's an evil far-right-extremist..." then you could turn around and be best buddies with the governments of Europe(Germany, Norway, England, etc), who also shout the same garbage at the opposition because they're not listening to the public. And successfully drive more people to the opposition with their insane rhetoric.
Trump says what an uneducated idiot would say to his buddy in private company. He attacks detractors like a schoolyard bully with a foul mouth, and he is of zero substance.
In other words, he's saying stuff that people outside the beltway, those outside of the ivory hall of academia say, and what Bob and Doug are saying around the watercooler. And that resonates with people who aren't you, people that you think are "xenophobes" because their values are different, and they have different viewpoints. And instead of wondering why they have different viewpoints, and why what he says is resonating you resort to just another form of bullying.
“Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider!”
- George Carlin
And some percentage of those people are going to resonate very well with Mr. Trump.
blindly antisocialist = antisocial
I think that Trump's agenda is to become President of the US and then take it from there. I don't think his plans are worth the disk they're stored on.
Trump IS the corporations/ Or more to the point, represents the class that tell the corporations what to want so they can buy up politicians and give them their orders.
I don't know why more people don't realize this. Trump was a Democrat up until 1999. Now, maybe my tinfoil's on too tight, but I can't help but to wonder if The Donald is more of a Trojan horse intent on handling Clinton the oval office in November.
At any rate, this season of reality television hit The Candidate has been entertaining so far. I can't wait for the season finale!
Exactly. If these H1-B's were so much more qualified, why did they need training by the less-qualified workers?
Well, he certainly owns a couple of Senators that I could name. Probably others, but I only really pay attention to the ones I might vote for.
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
They're supposed to be paid well so that they aren't easy to bribe. Somehow that plan doesn't seem to have worked out well.
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
...or any of his campaign promises. But looking at all politicians' campaign promises, is there really anything to be gained by picking a more deferential liar?
There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, General Electric, and Exxon
His supporters have been lied to by the same type of "safe", establishment politicians for decades. What do they gain by voting another Hillary Clinton or Marco Rubio? Isn't the definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over, and expecting different results?
There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, General Electric, and Exxon
And do you think Putin the Powerful is any good for his people? With the international sanctions, the crash of the oil price and the tumbling Ruble, the Russian economy is going down the drain while Putin is playing power politics in the Ukraine and Syria, investing what little money he has left in tanks and submarines.
Once I thought Putin was an intelligent leader, but it is becoming more and more obvious that he is a backwards thinking narcissist and nationalist who is only concerned with his standing in the world.
You can vote Trump if you so much desire another "strong leader" for the US.
The only thing you're missing there is the "and he's an evil far-right-extremist..."
He just announced that he wants to sue journalists who criticize him. He despises freedom of the press and has no problem with using the law to silence critics, which is a defining hallmark of fascists like Trump.
And that resonates with people who aren't you, people that you think are "xenophobes" because their values are different.
I am proud to call myself intolerant of fascist values. Not all "values" are equally valid, and I'm nauseated to see people like you stepping up to defend American fascism as if it's just a "different set of values". Trump is toxic to the values my nation was founded upon, and his supporters are as bad or worse.
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If Disney is not reprimanded for this, then our entire legal system and government needs to be torn down and rebuilt because we're so corrupt it cannot be fixed without bloodshed.
You didn't see a problem with the gov't and legal system when banking companies were selling subprime mortgages to utterly financially unqualified homeowners, and then bundle them into securities called derivatives, lie about their value, and sell them to "suckers" like retirement and pension funds? Meanwhile, getting around Glass-Steagall with the invention of derivatives, to subvert the very regulation that made investments "safe"? I am in 100% agreement with you, but I already knew that Disney was going to get away with it, just like serial rapist.
There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, General Electric, and Exxon
He's trolling you dude. Here's a guy talking about Trump being a devout Christian when he's so obviously nothing of the sort that even a blithering idiot knows that's not true. Then there's the Shut The Fuck Up acronym. That's not coming from a real Bible thumper.
Probably not. But they do know the other lying mother fuckers in the race aren't interested in helping them. The entire establishment that's been fucking them hates Trump so it's kind of an enemy of my enemy thing. If you've noticed, the more the elite in the Republican party band together against The Donald the more support he gathers. Yeah, Donald ain't all that but then they're pretty sure the other guys are going to keep on fucking them just like they have for the past few decades.
I bet that there are a lot of programmers who would be more than happy to be trained to replace him at half of his salary.
Sometimes boldness is in fashion. Sometimes only the brave will be bold.
So ... you support a culture of fear, of chilling effects that cause most people to discuss what most people believe in a whisper? Only ideas you agree with should be spoken out loud?
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
Bingo. One of the inherent inequalities that is the source of economic inequality between investors and workers, why "R>G".
Capital can move as easily as an "mv" command on a Unix command line; work can only move with tremendous effort and expense. If the two compete for which gets the larger share of the global economic pie, capital vs labour is like the supersonic air force vs hapless duckfoot soldiers slogging through the mud.
Bernie is a political hack? I'm a conservative and not really a fan of Bernie's politics but I've always viewed him as one of the very few politicians in Washington with any sort of integrity at all. Frankly I would take him over Hillary any day despite her so called "centrist" policies. The former Senator from Goldman Sachs is hardly going to be a friend to the "people."
Clinton is very predictable. She's going to do what her masters pay her to do. That's why despite everything I believe she'll be President. Even if Bernie's plane has to malfunction.
When are you going to learn? stop replying to Anonymous Cowards.
Jack of all trades,master of none
A google led to a claim that Jackthreads starting salary is $100K. And that US Senators make $174K.
That doesn't actually sound crazy. I saw an article the other day about garbage workers in NYC making $100K. Was this some result of horrible unionized public-sector runaway overcompensation? No. It was a private company. You have to work at 4AM in any weather. You have to pick up friggin' garbage. People don't want the job. No kid dreams of it. You have to pay $100K these days...in New York where they have high living expenses.
When bankers make $100 million a year, they blithely say it's just the cost of doing business, what you gotta pay to find the right guy, and we made ten billion last year, for which I guess he gets all the credit.
The simple fact that there are many very well run companies (increasingly only in other countries) where the top executives only make a few hundred thousand per year, seems to make no impression on this belief. When Lloyd Blankfein, overseer of then-some-700B in assets for Goldman-Sachs, griped about being forced for one year to make only $10M instead of $100M, his opposite number at the Bank of Canada, with 600B in assets, was Gordon Nixon. Bank of Canada needed no bailouts that year...and Gordon Nixon got a huge bonus for his good stewardship: $10M on top of his regular $1.5M salary. For one year. So if BoC can get good governance for $1.5M a year, why is G/S paying $100M ? Weren't they supposed to be financial geniuses?
I hate the "People vs the Robber Barons" narrative of economic policy; you'd think we could get past 19th-century Labour Movement view of the economy. But guys like Mr. Jackthreads make it hard to break the habit. I'm sure he thinks it's just inherent and "natural" that guys like himself walk away with millions because their ineffable wisdom. It's also completely "unnatural" that anybody else make over $100K per year. When this "unnatural" situation occurs, due to the completely natural process of supply and demand, the "unnaturalness" must be countered by going outside the market to bring in an unbalancing force.
It's impossible not to be reminded of the age of Kings and Princes when one could listen to lectures delivered with a straight face about the Natural Order of Things being the leadership of Natural Leaders designated by divine right over the inherently lowborn people who should know their place.
> At least with trump, we know what his agenda is.
I thought the opposite was true. I thought Trump is always lying and is not ashamed of lying. So we have no idea what he wants. Could be anything. The only thing he is honest about is that politicians are lying, himself included.
Some still doubt he is even serious about running for president. He could be lying about that, too. I always thought he is bidding for building a barrier between Mexico and the US. That is a huge contract.
> what Bob and Doug are saying
You shouldn't accuse Bob and Doug of racism. Most people aren't that racist anymore. Maybe some parts of the Republican party still are, which makes Trump so successful, but that is about it, I think.
If you have the right skill at the right time, you can indeed demand a lot of pay. However, a lot of that is luck, and you can't just teach yourself the "in" skill or tool because companies want paid experience in it. It's the old catch-22 that you can't get experience until you've had experience.
MANY things in the new economy are like that: if you are at the top, you seem to get even toppier (at least for a while), while the rest get outsourced, replaced by machines, or stagnate.
Table-ized A.I.
> Having a crazy-like-a-fox leader has its benefits.
For whom? Winning something abroad (like a war) benefits who, exactly? The veterans? Putin plays the nationalistic card. Nationalism has become somewhat of a religion, I suppose.
> At the very least, it makes the leaders on the other side very nervous because they somply can't predict what you're going to do. Clinton is VERY predictable.
Predictability is good. Countries want to know where they and everyone else stands. Political stability has more benefits than political instability.
> Screw the H1Bs, don't ratify the TPP and TTIP free trade deals that are the perfect way for corporations to both avoid taxes and push a rush to the bottom wrt workers.
Trump is a billionaire who benefits from things like TPP, TTIP, free trade deals and H1Bs, why would he fight those? He says he is in it for his own interest, doesn't he?
Trump is playing a simple role, just like you said, he's playing into what people said they wanted. But the people who want his ideology in power are driven by a crippling fear for the future. Rest assured, no good will come from a leader who plays on fear, rather than quells it.
Not really. They are mostly driven by the experience of being shafted by the politicians who have lied to them for the most of their lives. It's pay-back for what the Republican party has done to their dwindling supporters. It's the hens of dishonest politics, the political consultant class, and the media pundits coming home to roost.
"Somebody has to do something. It's just incredibly pathetic it has to be us."
--- Jerry Garcia
Yeah, I think you've got it backwards...vis a vis Hillary or Trump.
She despises freedom of the press and has no problem with using a bullet to silence critics, which is a defining hallmark of fascists like Hillary.
I am proud to call myself intolerant of fascist values. Not all "values" are equally valid, and I'm nauseated to see people like you stepping up to defend American fascism as if it's just a "different set of values". Hillary is toxic to the values my nation was founded upon, and her supporters are as bad or worse.
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Jesis fucking Christ, Trump doesn't need to sell out to big money, he *is* big money.
Which gives rise to another not inconsequential benefit of seeing him elected as president - he will owe no one a cushy prestigious position in his administration. Instead, he will put leaders in place the same way he does in his businesses: solely based on merit. Best qualified to do the job instead of political operatives and fundraising "bundlers".
Having the chance to place actually competent people in charge of the Federal administrations and agencies should be something everyone supports. And something that has been sorely lacking for quite some time.
"Somebody has to do something. It's just incredibly pathetic it has to be us."
--- Jerry Garcia
If he wants the highest skilled workers then why do they pay the h1s less wages? He saying they are more skilled.This is all about profit margins. I have no dought what so ever that the Our US government pays part of that H1s wages and healthcare.We don't see the prices slowing or going down for Disney products so where are the saving going? The same place the money they once spend on workers healthcare in their pockets.
Jack of all trades,master of none
Probably not. But they do know the other lying mother fuckers in the race aren't interested in helping them. The entire establishment that's been fucking them hates Trump so it's kind of an enemy of my enemy thing. If you've noticed, the more the elite in the Republican party band together against The Donald the more support he gathers. Yeah, Donald ain't all that but then they're pretty sure the other guys are going to keep on fucking them just like they have for the past few decades.
Perfectly stated. Mod parent up!
"Somebody has to do something. It's just incredibly pathetic it has to be us."
--- Jerry Garcia
And do you think Putin the Powerful is any good for his people?
That has as much to do with my original point as asking if I think any other ruler is any good for their people. He is, as I said, the most powerful ruler in the world, able to the the US and NATO to back down over Syria's Bashar al Assad, and invade and annex part of the Ukraine, all the while having an economy that is shot.
only concerned with his standing in the world.
... as opposed to so many others whose main, or even sole, consideration is their standing in line getting money from lobbyists.
You can vote Trump if you so much desire another "strong leader" for the US
No I can't vote for Trump - I live in a saner country where anyone trying the crap that the republican candidates, or Hillary, would be given the boot. It would be Sanders or the Greenies.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
I saw that movie. Canada and the US merge, a Canadian is elected, plane sabotaged, US vice-president becomes president.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
We can proudly get behind Sanders, you know.
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
More people vote on God, guns and gays than outsourcing. And as long as big companies pay politicians to help them get re-elected, this - and many other issues like it - fall by the wayside.
That's why they allow it.
"No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems -- of which getting elected and re-elected are No. 1 and No. 2. Whatever is No. 3 is far behind". -- Thomas Sowell
He's already said that he doesn't want H1Bs, or TPP, or TIPP. Maybe he realizes that the better off Americans are, the more money they'll spend at his casinos, golf courses, and hotels? I comparison, shipping jobs overseas doesn't put as much money in his pocket. It also negatively impacts the value of his personal holdings ...
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
"senior positions command compensation that meets or exceeds even that of United States Senators."
Wow, I didn't realize we had such an issue with payroll in Congress.
Perhaps the easiest way for our elected representatives to see this problem is to fucking replace them with H-1B workers as well.
See how they feel when others elect to feed the bottom line as the priority while listening to bullshit excuses as to how it's anything but.
"He was overcome with emotion for parts of it, pausing to gather himself as he told the story of how he was replaced by a foreign visa holder."
A job is not an entitlement; it's an economic transaction. Just as you have every right to seek out the best deal you can find when you purchase a home, or a car, or the services of a plumber, tax preparer, or attorney, employers also have every right to seek out the best deal they can find when they purchase services from individuals.
Essentially, this guy is whining about how someone else out-competed him in the marketplace by offering a better deal.
I don't know why more people don't realize this. Trump was a Democrat up until 1999. Now, maybe my tinfoil's on too tight, but I can't help but to wonder if The Donald is more of a Trojan horse intent on handling Clinton the oval office in November.
Plenty of people - usually the kind that follow politics fairly closely - also wonder the same thing. Maybe there's something to it.
But, frankly, I think even Trump was taken aback by the success he has had. No one really expected it, even Trump. You can kind of see it in the way his attitude seems to have changed once it started to look like he may actually pull off the nomination. So, that kind of makes any sort of plan to be an ineluctable Republican nominee to help Hillary gain the White House not really seem like a credible theory.
Another problem with the theory, as is is becoming clear right now, is that unless Trump does something to really turn off a majority of his current support (and consider that nothing he has said so far has done anything like that), he is likely to win in a contest with Hillary. And that's because, like all recent elections, this one will be close enough to come down to turn-out on election day. And Hillary is simply not going to be able to generate that turnout. Sure, all the Democrats that vote every election will come out, hold their nose and vote for Hillary. But she simply doesn't excite people. And she is hated enough that plenty of Democrat voters will simply stay home. In contrast, Trump is bringing out plenty of NEW and occasional voters. Every Republican primary and caucus has generated a much higher than usual turnout. And Trump is winning.
"Somebody has to do something. It's just incredibly pathetic it has to be us."
--- Jerry Garcia
How can you allow this? Mr. Perrero asked the Senate committee members.
And the senators replied, "Well... How much money have you donated to our campaigns Mr. Perrero and how much has Disney?"
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
The position and opportunity IS the incentive. $174K is peanuts to those guys, and they spend FAR more than that campaigning.
Please stand clear of the doors, por favor mantenganse alejado de las puertas
No, Bloomberg is big money (worth 8x as much as Trump; self-made instead of standing on grandpa's and daddy's shoulders; probably given away more money that Trump has; pilots his own helicopter, not just owns them; can speak coherently about issues rather than just retreating to "I'm smart"; has some political executive experience from being mayor of the nation's largest city for 12 years).
Trump had better hope that Bloomberg doesn't enter the race (I don't think he will unless it looks like Sanders has a good chance at the Democrat nomination and that is looking unlikely).
Why is there an "insightful" mod and why isn't it "-1"? If I wanted insight, I wouldn't be reading
There's a little more we need than willpower.. we need organization. If only there were organizations where employees could gather and fight for a common right. I remember in the distant past those were called 'unions'. Hasn't private industry used government effectively to neuter those! And yes I know all unions weren't perfect, but at least some were and by and large those are gone now.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
the problem is that they feel disenfranchised. Things are changing in ways they don't like and they don't feel like their opinions are getting considered fairly.
Whether the feelings are accurate is not really important; they do feel that way and they're going to act on that basis.
well, solely based on his assessment of whether they'll advance his goals - not quite the same thing.
well, solely based on his assessment of whether they'll advance his goals - not quite the same thing.
His stated goal - "Make America Great Again" - that is, to advance the cause of improving the country itself - I'd say it is the same thing.
"Somebody has to do something. It's just incredibly pathetic it has to be us."
--- Jerry Garcia
God forbid we have a commoner in there.
Commoners actually work and are productive. Sanders is no commoner. He's a leach.
"Somebody has to do something. It's just incredibly pathetic it has to be us."
--- Jerry Garcia
Well why would a gifted senior software developer do less than a US Senator ?
Of course I guess mr O'Neill is try to buy a couple of senators in order to correctly assess the relative value...
You're an idiot.
Terrific analysis! Kudos to you for such an original come-back. I'm humbled.
"Somebody has to do something. It's just incredibly pathetic it has to be us."
--- Jerry Garcia
$100K-$150K min wage (with COL adjustments) + benefits with do a lot to fix even more so for the outscoring places may end billing the end client $125-200K for the same worker.
Where do they think their bread is buttered? Let's find out.
Spoiler: Not Trump.
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms should be the name of a store, not a government agency.
Wanna fix it?
Get rid of a bunch of regulations, cut taxes on corporations, and make it a positive for a company to hire in the US rather than a burden to do so.
Works every time it's tried, as long as the economy isn't too badly damaged to recover. I reckon we're right on the raggedy edge myself.
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Name a candidate in recent times who didn't play the fear card. You can't.
Not trolling. It's called sarcasm and dry wit.
and yet, like those 'disenfranchised xenophobes' you speak of, you can't seem to argue without calling people names.
Can we really afford to risk further devaluing international relations with a guy who might just say anything?
Who cares? Leaders can't let the possibility of offending the spineless get in the way of making decisions, especially when those passive aggressives would love the opportunity to impose their own agenda on the US.
You sure do know how to spin.
So it's ok to stereotype southern, rural whites but not northern, urban blacks?
Oh, geeze, can you get any more pathetic with a response like that? That kind of response might have worked in kindergarten.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02...
Donald Trump to Foreign Workers for Florida Club: You're Hired
By CHARLES V. BAGLI and MEGAN TWOHEY
New York Times
FEB. 25, 2016
Donald J. Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., describes itself as "one of the most highly regarded private clubs in the world," and it is not just the very-well-to-do who want to get in.
Since 2010, nearly 300 United States residents have applied or been referred for jobs as waiters, waitresses, cooks and housekeepers there. But according to federal records, only 17 have been hired.
In all but a handful of cases, Mar-a-Lago sought to fill the jobs with hundreds of foreign guest workers from Romania and other countries.
In his quest for the Republican presidential nomination, Mr. Trump has stoked his crowds by promising to bring back jobs that have been snatched by illegal immigrants or outsourced by corporations, and voters worried about immigration have been his strongest backers.
But he has also pursued more than 500 visas for foreign workers at Mar-a-Lago since 2010, according to the United States Department of Labor, while hundreds of domestic applicants failed to get the same jobs....
http://www.nydailynews.com/new...
Marco Rubio brings up Donald Trump's Polish history, noting undocumented Polish immigrants helped build signature Trump Tower
BY Ginger Adams Otis, Denis Slattery
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
February 26, 2016
Now he wants a wall -- but 30 years ago, Donald Trump didnâ(TM)t worry about having illegal immigrants build his signature tower on Fifth Ave.
Confronted about his checkered past by GOP presidential rival Marco Rubio, Trump dismissed it as ancient history.
"He brings up something from 30 years ago," Trump whined. "It worked out very well. Everybody was happy." ...
At least all the page rapists, except Barney Frank, got kicked out of congress.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
You have a religious belief in the absurd. Nothing I say will change that. GL
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What do we want our country to be like? Do we bow down to our corporate overloads and let them do anything they want or do we stand up and have some pride for ourselves, and stand up for our families well being? Wasn't America about fighting for our way of life? We used to be fighting other nations, now we're fighting the way corporations want to operate. It's still fighting for our way of life.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
Tech companies, like Microsoft, have replaced *far* more US workers than Disney ever dreamed of replacing.
Glad the issue is getting some attention. Bizarre that this, very minor, incident at Disney is being singled out, as if this is the first time it ever happened.
Trump was able to fail in business over and over again because his friends supported him. It is reasonable to believe he'll pay back that debt while in office.
Given the House/Senate he had to work with (which was mostly due to Gerrymandering). He calmed Iran down when half our Senators were clamoring for war. He expanded medicare to millions (I've got a buddy with Type 1 Diabetes who owes his life to this) and he snuck a guy into the FCC who allowed net neutrality and open cable boxes.
There's a lot more good stuff he's done. Hilary I'm not so hot on. But I'll take her over Rubio any damn day of the week. She's might be indifferent to me, but Rubio's actively out to get me...
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Trump doesn't say what he thinks - he says what a very particular audience he is playing to wants to hear. If he said what he is probably thinking, he'd tell the crowd they are gullible fools.
Seriously. Besides Bernie he's the only candidate on Record who supports Universal Healthcare. He's pro tarrif and anti immigration, but vehemently pro corporate. and pro free trade. I can't tell what the heck he'd do if he was prez.
Hilary is just status quo with some more H1-Bs and we might get a few liberal SCOTUS folks when Tom & Ruth kick the bucket. Now Rubio, that somabictch scares the hell out of me. He's the one candidate I can honestly say wants to grind me bones and make soup. A Rubio presidency would be a nightmare...
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but I actually agree with Ted Cruz on something.
http://www.computerworld.com/a...
His H1B reform bill wants to set a minimum salary on H1B's to make sure it's used to fill vacancies and not cut costs, as well as outlawing "disparagement clauses" in severance agreements that prevent employees from saying anything bad about their ex-employer.
I am pro H1B in general, and the majority of companies in the Bay Area are not using it to replace US workers (there are hundreds of thousands of openings companies are trying to fill, and the starting salaries of many of those are easily in the 6 figures). But clearly there are some companies in the US that abuse the program and there are things that can be done to fix that without throwing it out altogether.
That may have been true in the distant past, but the median net worth of a US senator is now $2.9M.
Ironically the "poorest" member of Congress may be Rep. Alcee Hastings, who is millions of dollars in debt to law firms from fighting a bribery charge back when he was a Federal judge (also amazing is that he was impeached and removed of his judgeship by Congress, than later elected to it!)
Not really. They are mostly driven by the experience of being shafted by the politicians who have lied to them for the most of their lives.
Indeed. Trump gives the impression of being more honest, by being apparently straight talking and saying things that enough people feel are true, but are "politically incorrect", combined with his outright rudness. It feels and sounds like honesty, but it's a carefully cultivated act. He's just as dishonest as the rest of them but gives the impression of not being.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
You assume his stated goal is (and will remain) his real goal. Perhaps it is, perhaps not.
I don't really know anything about Sanders at all. It's not like I'll vote in this election and anyway, Trump occupies all the election news over here. It seems likely that Hilary will win, so I've not paid much attention beyond that.
Then he had a child out of wedlock.
So?
Desperate, he tried carpentry but could barely sink a nail. âoeHe was a shitty carpenter,â a friend told Politico Magazine. âoeHis carpentry was not going to support him, and didnâ(TM)t.â
So, he tried a job, wasn't good at it and moved on. I don't get the problem. Not everyone has to be good at everything.
Then he tried his hand freelancing for leftist rags, writing about âoemasturbation and rapeâ and other crudities for $50 a story. He drove around in a rusted-out, Bondo-covered VW bug with no working windshield wipers. Friends said he was âoealways poorâ and his âoeelectricity was turned off a lot.â
So he had a low paying job and was frugal. Seems OK to me.
They described him as a slob who kept a messy apartment â" and this is what his friends had to say about him.
Given that my friends would have said much the same about me, it would be a bit hypocritical of me to judge him on that. I have slobby tendencies. My accomodations have frequently been messy. I generally do better now, but a clean flat isn't the be-all and end-all of life. I'm a much better engineer than I am a cleaner.
In his 1971 bid for U.S. Senate, the local press said the 30-year-old âoeSanders describes himself as a carpenter who has worked with âdisturbed children.â(TM) â In other words, a real winner.
What's wrong with that?
He finally wormed his way into the Senate in 2006, where he still ranks as one of the poorest members of Congress. Save for a municipal pension, Sanders lists no assets in his name. All the assets provided in his financial disclosure form are his second wifeâ(TM)s. He does, however, have as much as $65,000 in credit-card debt.
So you don't have to be a multi-millionaire to be a senator? I'm actually rather heartened to hear that. It's good it's not just a rich man's game.
Sure, Sanders may not be a hypocrite, but this is nothing to brag about. His worthless background contrasts sharply with the successful careers of other âoeoutsidersâ in the race for the White House, including a billionaire developer, a world-renowned neurosurgeon and a Fortune 500 CEO.
Money and material wealth are not the only things of worth in this life.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
An unregulated market does not imply an efficient market, despite your attempts at equating them.
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"Then the problem becomes that the US companies hires one H1B foreign coordinator who then coordinates with many other foreign subbordinates."
That's a different problem though. That's off-shoring. I was trying to solve the problem of "so-and-so was replaced by a H1B worker". For various reasons, companies would much rather have a H1B "on site" than work with some remote guy in Hyderabad unless the word is extremely rote.
An alternate approach (which would also boost wages at the low end) would be to subsidize domestic labor. Offer employers a tax credit for each person-year-equivalent that they employ a U.S. citizen. Basically pay them (in the form of a discount on their taxes) to hire domestic. Boost the employer portion of the payroll tax in order to remain revenue neutral.
People always bitch about H1Bs, ageism and offshoring, but I'm not sure I've *ever* been affected by any of them. And I'm not exactly a spring chicken anymore.
Excellent point! I was forwarded this information in a email from long-time friend. I had to dig to find the source, which was apparently an editorial from Investor Business Daily - Here is the link. There is no by-line.
"Somebody has to do something. It's just incredibly pathetic it has to be us."
--- Jerry Garcia
Trump was able to fail in business over and over again because his friends supported him. It is reasonable to believe he'll pay back that debt while in office.
That's actually not right. He had businesses that failed, and bankruptcy law saved his personal wealth. AFAIK he never got personal loans or special treatment from "friends". I can't tell where he owes anyone. People that work for him are very happy with having him as a boss. That includes his kids, who are all well-spoken, clearly well-adjusted, very well educated, and have productive careers. That says a lot.
"Somebody has to do something. It's just incredibly pathetic it has to be us."
--- Jerry Garcia
According to his LinkedIn account, Leo Perrero was an "Application Developer Specialist" at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, with his previous job being "Intel Systems Administrator" at IBM Global Services.
Based on his positions and skill recommendations, it looks like he was a SysAdmin mainly, and perhaps did some scripts that got him the "Application Developer Specialist" title.
I appreciate good SysAdmins, but most don't really need a college degree, and actually one of the best SysAdmins I ever met was a high school dropout.
In the upcoming virtualized, cloud world, SysAdmins could be based anywhere, and DevOps is going to reduce the number of admins per server.
Eh? Trump doesn't even know what his agenda is, he just spouts the first crap that comes out of his mouth without thinking, he's utterly ignorant and doesn't have much in the way of policies, some of what he's come out with is completely absurd and unworkable. Trump would f**k America up if he got his way.
You're trippin, Trump only believes in becoming more rich and powerful, he doesn't give a rats arse about most of what he talks about.
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If Disney is not reprimanded for this, then our entire legal system and government needs to be torn down and rebuilt because we're so corrupt it cannot be fixed without bloodshed.
Absolutely disagree. What we need to do is get money out of politics, and there are multiple ways of going about that before we have to resort to bloodshed. Check out wolf-pac.com, rootstrikers.org, or movetoamend.org. Give those guys your time, your money or both, and save the bloodshed for a situation where we have no other choice. As it stands, we will do more harm then good if we turn to violence. We can still solve the problems plaguing our nation through peaceful means, and it's up to all of us to lend a hand.
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You shouldn't accuse Bob and Doug of racism. Most people aren't that racist anymore. Maybe some parts of the Republican party still are, which makes Trump so successful, but that is about it, I think.
Here's a useful question to ask yourself if that's true. If "parts of the republican party still are" then why is it, that democrats and the democrat party are the first ones to spout garbage like the wage-gap that doesn't exist, but call it sexist. When people try to criticize someone's policy, they're labeled racists(which has happened a lot since Obama i.e. you don't like xyz thing because Obama is black) and so on. You want to know why Trump is so successful? Because he doesn't care about political correctness, and that resonates with a large segment of the american public.
Om, nomnomnom...
So the "worth" of a life is determined by financial success? Integrity counts for much more in my book.
The on-going criminal investigation into her handling of state secrets/classified material while at the same time running for office isn't a concern? It won't impact her chances of winning? Wow. Democrats demand that Republicans resign if merely 'accused' of a crime (hold ourselves to a higher standard is the explaination), yet after 1,818 examples of classified (confidential, secret or top secret) material were found in her 55,000 pages of emails (submitted to the State Department printed on paper to delay the review process!) Hillary remains the presumptive nominee because, well 'Don't you, at some point, want a woman President?'
Let us also not forget that percentages lie quite handily. Let's say you got a 5% raise every year for a decade.
Well, if you were making $150k/year, you'd be up to about $240k/year. Overall you've gone up nearly 100 grand per year. That's not too bad, and while you're not up with overall "inflation" one should keep in mind that a lot of those prices are loaded at the bottom end for things like groceries and gas, stuff that at $150k you're probably not going too bad for.
Now if you're making only $30k/year. Congratulations, after slugging it out you've not made it up to near 49k/year. You've got up about $19,000. Except at $49k, the cost of those student loans, groceries, mortgages and car payments still hurt *a lot*
Now the median US income is about $52,000. That's per household though, so you and your spouse would have had to nail those 5% raises each and every year to get from there to $81,500... an increase of $31,000. It's not bad, but you'd still better hope those loans were paid off early and you don't need a new car.
Realistically though, you didn't get those raises. The median household income 10 years ago was $46,000. Now it's about $52,000 so all those happy people got the rough equivalent of a yearly 1.1% raise over the last decade.
The good news is that if you saved up to buy a house now... *that* is possibly a bit cheaper than in 2006.
Of course if you bought 10 years ago, that was at the top of the bubble and you've lost value while paying a nice mortgage rate of 6.4% (4.45% after a 5yr renewal). That means on a $200k mortgage you would have paid nearly $100k in just interest alone already. Ouch
The on-going criminal investigation into her handling of state secrets/classified material while at the same time running for office isn't a concern?
Who said it's not a concern? I think it's likely she'll win the Deomcrat nomination, and given the awfulness of the Republican candidates, she'll probably sway the moderates. But then again everyone said the same as George W Bush, so...
It won't impact her chances of winning? Wow.
Probably will, but it's still chances. The Republicans fielding an even worse group of candidates than last time improves her chances. I still think she's odds on to win.
Democrats demand that Republicans resign if...
Yeah yeah, and the republicans impeached Bill Clinton over a blowjob, and Bush started a war on no evidence but nothing happened etc etc etc. If you want to find malfeascence on both sides you won't have to look very far.
I *still* think Hilary is going to win, and none of your "oh woe is us the Dems are worse really!" posturing actually has any bearing on my arguments or reasoning.
Hillary remains the presumptive nominee because, well 'Don't you, at some point, want a woman President?'
It would be something of a shame if the first female president would be Hilary, but there you go. That's what happens when the most electable out of a bunch of awful people happens to be female.
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Not really. They are mostly driven by the experience of being shafted by the politicians who have lied to them for the most of their lives.
And maybe Republican voters are sick of the stupid pro-religious, anti-abortion, anti-gay message that somehow hijacked the conservative agenda. Conservatism means not getting tied up with religion, and not interfering in peoples medical or sexual lives. Trump seems to steer well clear of all of these distractions and is focussing on the real threats, globalisation and immigration.
And yet, he's still better than Clinton, who will never stand up to an ideological fight because theres a chance she might not win.
I know there's a lot of Clinton haters out there, but I'm telling you now she is going to win.
Why? Because she's the least crazy. And if you're already popular, the least crazy one tends to have the most appeal once it's down to just two candidates.
Yes, percentages mask two big factors: generational bias and the basket of goods. With the number of good-paying jobs shrinking due to globalization and automation, the few remaining jobs are going to Boomers and GenX'ers who have experience, shutting out GenY/Millennials and GenZ. At the same time, the basket of goods those younger generations are facing is skewed due to college tuition outpacing average inflation.
Thus the younger generations are facing the double whammy of fewer jobs and a basket more expensive than average. This has led to the term https://www.reddit.com/r/lostgeneration/.
I just stood up for the US national anthem... and this thread made me wonder why I'm bothering to put in the effort.
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don't think that's what GP meant. More like, "I know I ain't 'sposed to say Mexicans are rapists, but dangit they are! Trump's right about them, and bout the Chinas, Blacks, and Jews, too! Thas why I'm talkin to ya real low and confidential like, Jimbob."
You, you're completely agreeing with my post then? And you're using crude offensive stereotypes to do so? Crude offensive stereotypes you agree with are fine, but those you disagree with should be whispered.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
It would be so easy for big software-based companies like Google and Disney to put the funds they pay for lobbyists and politics into continuous training for their developers and to set up intern programs. What they actually want is no-risk freeze-dried instant developers such as those turned out by many schools in India, rather than the broadly based theory-up grads of the US schools. Employers have few compunctions about warehousing those one-trick hires after their skills are obsolete, or subtly brokering them off to another company.
People who can solve problems they have never seen before are not a dime a dozen and will command high salaries wherever they come from.
First, Trump is a Trojan horse candidate, his sole purpose is to divide the conservative vote, to ensure a Clinton presidency. Those who think Hillary will be indicted are sure to be disappointed, as Loretta Lynch will make NO EFFORT to bring charges against her. The only reason there's only two democratic candidates is because the others have been chased off by the Democrats National Committee, leave only one candidate to oppose Clinton, and he has no chance of winning the nomination. There is enough people against Trump that will cause some Republicans to stay home, while Democratics who don't support Clinton but are opposed to Trump will come out for Hillary. The only hope is people who are opposed to both Clinton and Trump should vote libertarian.
Especially when the stock market gets to play by it's own rules.
Trump's had some shady dealings in acquiring his billions, Ted Cruz actually has worked as a lawyer. I can't see where Rubio ever did much of anything and Jeb! made most of his money off his daddy's friends. Ben Carson was certainly an amazing surgeon and saved many lives but somehow I feel that he needs to go back to teaching surgery. Most of these guys though have spent their lives sucking on the public tit. Hillary, well her corruption has been covered so many times I see no need repeating it here. Certainly they're all far more ambitious than Bernie I will have to admit. Not sure that's all that good of a thing. I find it so difficult to get excited about any of them.
No, he has a point. Even a mass murderer can have integrity. Integrity is important but not everything. It would be nice if more Congressmen had it though.
Two solutions occur. Either Trump has had his ex-wives killed and replaced by doppelgangers. No great technical problems - or moral ones if you look at it from a Christian perspective. Just as long as you make sure that the target is from some marginally mis-aligned heretic evil barbarian sect. Ref Henry VIII - he got away with it 4 times.
Or, Trump checked out his wives for being brain-dead gold-digging bimbos before marrying them. Dead before marriage, no problem, marriage is null and void. Again, see Henry VIII for precedent.
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Bravo! You defined Trump for what he is. A shallow opportunist who really cannot relate to the man who works at a job and needs his wife's salary to make ends meet.
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I think President Obama's god is President Obama.
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So what is your salary, including bonuses and deferred compensation, Mr. O'Neill? WTF do you do that is so valuable?
*crickets*
H-1Bs were not created to serve this "but smart people are expensive!" purpose. He said it out loud that his company is abusing the H-1B Visa process. He also invited criticism of his own compensation, as well as every other C-level's compensation.
Someone needs to do some digging.
All well said, except for one thing: Trump has ZERO public-service record. NO ONE KNOWS WHAT HE WOULD ACTUALLY DO IF ELECTED PRESIDENT.
Bernie walks the walk, and has for 45+ years. He does not wear it on his sleeve, but has simply fought for what he thinks is right, and for a VERY LONG period of public service.
This is the critical difference. Trump's actual decisions are utterly unpredictable. Well, aside from starting WW-III within a month...
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If you meet anybody from India ask him, What Is Your Caste? You're doomed, if he answers it;
Caste system is quite simple to understand; If you're not from my caste, you're non-human to me; I can abuse/exploit/rape/kill you; Caste is present where ever Brahmin is there; We have petitioned US/UK to Expel Brahmin;
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Casteism
1. Legalize insider trading
2. Regulate market capitalization
Casteism
The only Trump supporters I know are middle class whites who grew up in small towns, never traveled far from home, and think that Trump will keep Jesus in their house and the colored out of their towns.
That's funny, the only Clinton and Sanders supporters that I know are rich or upper-class people who grew up in large towns, and only ever interacted with other people in their economic niche. All the while turning around and looking down upon the plebs and how disgusting they are.
Om, nomnomnom...
Today, most CEOs take actions to get immediate profits while hurting the company long term. They bail out of the plane after they alight it on fire, and enjoy their golden parachutes. They then move onto another firm and repeat the process.
You only have to pay $60K for that position. So it's easy to say, hey, we didn't find a network security agent with 15 years of experience and a master's degree for our offered $60K. So we have to bring someone over from India. Because there are no qualified American's [willing to work for peanuts].
1) H1B Visa is not tied to a specific company
2) H1B Visa salary has to be the equivalent of the current average for said position of U.S. citizen workers. (In otherwords, the average pay cannot take into account other H1B visa workers)
3) H1B Visa includes a $10K tax per $100K income bracket, this goes to fund free tuition at 2 year colleges so we can have more trained resources.
Starting a speech with a blatant lie... that's a good start for a career in politics.
Long distance service.
It wasn't bad for the economy when oil prices were high, so the two are unrelated.
Latest reports also say he's building up a permanent military presence in Syria, as well as along the Turkish border. That changes the strategic balance of power - a lot!. NATO won't defend Turkey.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
And somewhere there's an actual slave who would tell you to STFU because at least you're getting paid. Bosses just looove crabs like yourself.
Something about my post hurts your feelings? Need to run to your safe space?
Om, nomnomnom...
âoeJust think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider!â
- George Carlin
And some percentage of those people are going to resonate very well with Mr. Trump.
And some of that percentage of those people are going to resonate very well with Sanders and Clinton. Gee, so easy...
Om, nomnomnom...
âoeJust think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider!â
- George Carlin
And some percentage of those people are going to resonate very well with Mr. Trump.
And some of that percentage of those people are going to resonate very well with Sanders and Clinton. Gee, so easy...
Agreed :-)
It would be fun to see which percentage went to which candidate -
blindly antisocialist = antisocial
H1Bs for third-world workers are sometimes just a step above indentured servitude.
Sometimes boldness is in fashion. Sometimes only the brave will be bold.