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April 20, 2009 08:47 PM UTC
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To have one senator with deep roots and experience in programs like outward bound — and another one with such deep experience in attending georgetown cocktail parties and sailing near the cape. Is it REALLY newsworthy that Bennet finally took a position on something!? It’s either a slow news day or you all are trying a little too hard to show that this boring excuse for a senator is actually representing us.
one of those infected monkeys from “28 days later.”
Bennet is not to be underestimated for his coyness and shrewdness and he probably will win election; if only for his connections to Ritter and Hickenstooper and for his (so far) weak opposition. (Thanks, Romanoff). That being said, we don’t have to kiss his fundament and accept every empty word slipping from his reptilian lips as gospel.
Come on, confess. Are you David Icke?
Wow…he considers the support of inside the beltway establishment big-business republicans on a pork bill to be “bi-partisan”.
Mike Bennett is the Accidental Senator appointed by the Accidental Governor. Mike Bennett has never been elected to anything and I suspect he’s going to keep that streak going next year.
Just how do you figure he is an “accidental governor?”
Beauprez had so many accidents in his campaign that he gave the election to Ritter. (However, if Beauprez had been competent, I do think Ritter would have still won – it just would have been by only 5 points.)
the fact that NO ONE ran against Ritter in the Primary.
Hick, Udall, Rutt Bridges…hell, even Alice Madden could have run. In March or April of 06 there was no way Ritter was going to be the Gov come Nov…
I guess that’s why we have elections… 🙂
the primary is the big kicker here!
Coffman and Suthers won, with Hillman narrowly losing – technically, the Governor’s race should’ve been MUCH closer
But yes – lots of Democrats opted out because they feared Beauprez – that’s the most significant point
I think s/he means the fact that Ritter is a Democrat (for the most part) in name only and for many has been a true buzz-kill.
At present people in on an H-1B visa are tied to the company that brought them over. That gives them very little negotiating power on their salary & benefits.
I hope in the new law they can put something like after 1 year people on an H-1B can hop to any other job and can be unemployeed for 3 months if they are actively job hunting.
They know the deal when they sign on.
Let them go back. Unlike the Americans displaced by H1B’s, they have another option. Permitting job hopping is just a back door way of immigrating.
And, BTW, with so many Americans out of work in the tech industry, why are we continuing the H1B, anyway?
the alternative is they stay here at that work and their salary falls further behind that of Americans. This increases a company’s financial incentive to bring in H-1B workers.
or fix it… but I agree with David here that it’s unconscionable to leave the program as it is. It’s a gift to large corporations, and it screws over workers of all types, regardless of their nation of birth.
Especially if we’re trying to protect the rights of workers, to then turn around and hand companies an entire permanent underclass of workers who don’t have those rights, who can be exploited without consequences, is just not rational.
I don’t mean that I just don’t care about whether H1B visas are granted or not. But I am deeply conflicted about that particular program. On the one hand, I think it’s a poor program. But on the other hand, so much of the opposition is based on latent racism that I don’t want to jump in the same boat with so many moral degenerates.
I know a large number of people who came here on it, mainly at Microsoft. And without exception they were bright motivated people that we want to attract to this country.
Also the ones with kids all have anchor babies. Not in the sense usually used – most were born in their native country. But they are anchor babies in that they have grown up American and the parents now cannot move back because their children will not fit in back in their native country.
All in all this can work very well for both the U.S. and the individuals. But a key part is they are working in the U.S., not they are permanently indentured to a given company.
And every single one of them was someone who was hired because they are very very smart and talented and there are a lot less people with that level of talent in the high-tech community than there are available people in the U.S.
I’ve also seen use of the H1B visa program at a place I used to work… it was exactly the opposite experience. The company was not trying to attract top talent. It was a mess. And the people they brought in that way certainly had no bargaining power, and often showed up to a job very different from the one they had applied for. Ultimately, though, the situation I saw is likely the sort of thing that could be completely avoided if H1B visa employees had the power to shop around for other jobs.
And absolutely, you are 100% right that while there are lots of people with degrees and paper qualifications for high-tech jobs, there’s still a shortage of talented, smart, confident people out there. A really smart electrician can be a huge benefit for a job; but any electrician will do the job eventually, after enough inspections and redos… the same is not true of many kinds of software development, which is my past work experience, and the field where I currently own a business.
And Tancredo won’t be there for it! Aren’t we fortunate.