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  • So, why we have the same people running it is beyond me!

    But they also (still) have Government in their pocket although I think it's starting to dawn on a few that maybe they shouldn't be listening to institutions with lobbyists who are basically insolvent.

    Reply to: The Greedy B*st*ards Can't Help Themselves   15 years 9 months ago
    EPer:
  • Did caco write that here or elsewhere?

    Reply to: Jobs For U.S. Workers Stripped Out of Stimulus Bill Behind Closed Doors - Update It Lives!   15 years 9 months ago
    EPer:
  • They've got to prove the person was fired "for cause". REALLY hard for the company to do, the presumption is on the innocence of the employee. If I was in this situation, I'd request a hearing.

    Reply to: We Need a Revolution..... A Labor Rights Revolution   15 years 9 months ago
    EPer:
  • But if they can't prove you were "fired for cause", and it's just a lack of work, the law states you get it.

    Of course, a completely separate problem is if you have enough hours to get it- basically you need three months worth of FULL TIME work in the last 12.

    Reply to: We Need a Revolution..... A Labor Rights Revolution   15 years 9 months ago
    EPer:
  • for the Treasury/Congress to have the banks receiving bailout money be required to open their books .... all their books. Let's see how much they have in derivatives.

    It has always been about class warfare.

    Reply to: Dead Bank Walking - On the Brink of Insolvency   15 years 9 months ago
  • BTW

    are you busy writing hate crap about Americans being "anti-immigrant" and other such crud because I really don't want to assist you in information for those sorts of efforts of those thinking magically somehow they should get U.S. workers jobs like IV. What a hate site.

    Reply to: Jobs For U.S. Workers Stripped Out of Stimulus Bill Behind Closed Doors - Update It Lives!   15 years 9 months ago
    EPer:
  • dire column basically saying the Obama administration and Congress are not being smart enough on the economy and also calling for nationalization of the banks.

    Reply to: Dead Bank Walking - On the Brink of Insolvency   15 years 9 months ago
    EPer:
  • This makes the Republicans look even more like dirty politicians playing games while the economy is falling apart.

    Reply to: A Win for Workers - Judd Gregg Withdraws as Commerce Secretary Nominee   15 years 9 months ago
  • a. he's a republican
    b. he's a populist
    c. corporate lobbyists have in place Nancy Pelosi/Harry Reid as well as a host of other Democrats.

    Even when the GOP was in power it was the same thing, the corporate lobbyists control the leadership of Congress and Grassley on this issue went against those leaders many times. He lost.

    It's bi-partisan corruption. It's absurd and these particular jobs are mainly I.T. level jobs.

    Reply to: Jobs For U.S. Workers Stripped Out of Stimulus Bill Behind Closed Doors - Update It Lives!   15 years 9 months ago
    EPer:
  • is the reason I'm skeptical about this - he was on the conference committee. How can he let his pet issue be stripped?

    And give me some credit, I could've been an anonymous drive-by ;-).

    Reply to: Jobs For U.S. Workers Stripped Out of Stimulus Bill Behind Closed Doors - Update It Lives!   15 years 9 months ago
    EPer:
  • Yes, a shocker. So THAT's what Steele meant when he said government jobs aren't jobs. Gad.

    Reply to: Outsourcing the Government   15 years 9 months ago
    EPer:
  • President Obama Stimulus Package will not work. It ignores too many realities.

    For the most part he left out Free Trade as a cause of the economic crisis. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said it all when he told Congress during the first stimulus package debate the best way to stimulate the economy is to buy "domestically produced goods". Of course this is an impossible task these days but until we bring back our production and restart small farms, the government could have spent some money on creating business to business mercantile centers in every major city and creating people to people buy and sell centers - perhaps in the format of upgraded bizarres etc. Just imagine what would happened if there was one in each city where there would be sales tax free days.

    Our economies based on making money on money instead of making things are burning out.

    The value of workers and labor which represent a real tangible value and asset and acts as a money standard has been severely deflated. This impacts the money products too.

    The unemployment rate is a facade and notice the term underemployment has vanish from any discussion. Only about 38 percent of all workers qualify for unemployment insurance. You would think someone in the political arena would question what are all the other workers doing.

    The payroll tax which is used in the general fund like all other taxes acts as a flat tax on workers and labor. It also represents a 15 percent overhead for businesses. It should be discontinued. Most of all our tax codes are obsolete due to Globalization and Free Trade. They act as reverse tariffs and the stimulus package actually is one too. See Taps instead of Taxes at http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Ray_Tapajna

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    Reply to: Jobs For U.S. Workers Stripped Out of Stimulus Bill Behind Closed Doors - Update It Lives!   15 years 9 months ago
  • Caterpiller just fired 20k people, they have been offshore outsourcing, rehiring people in at minimum wage and just fought like hell to rip out any Buy American provisions in the Stimulus bill.

    There's Obama in front of a Caterpillar logo giving a speech about "innovation" and "American jobs".

    WTF. Why isn't he standing with Intel and the Intel logo. While Intel sucks on labor arbitrage, huge labor thrashing, age discrimination, displacement through H-1B they also just coughed up $7 billion dollars to invest in FABs in the US, U.S. manufacturing.

    Reply to: Imported Cheap Labor Forced to Foot Bill for their own Exploitation   15 years 9 months ago
    EPer:
  • I've seen this, and it's really obnoxious.

    Think about the injustice of a person who works for a year for a company on an indefinite contract through a third party subcontractor, and then after operating on the assumption that they are going to have a job for the forseeable future, and then get's fired.

    Reply to: We Need a Revolution..... A Labor Rights Revolution   15 years 9 months ago
  • My view is always focused on U.S. workers first, increase those wages, increase worker power, increase the economic strength of the U.S. middle class...and write accordingly...

    Thats why I come here. Just my $0.02

    It has always been about class warfare.

    Reply to: Imported Cheap Labor Forced to Foot Bill for their own Exploitation   15 years 9 months ago
  • Don't even think about writing any of your open border stuff on here! ;)

    I just called Sanders office and they do not know.

    It's a heavy target for AILA, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, NASSCOM, ITAA, Compete America corporate lobbyist groups so they are after it.

    Here is the thing on this amendment. It's a symbolic gesture. TARP are using 3rd party Indian body shops to insource those jobs as well as signed billion dollar contracts to offshore outsource them. So companies like Infosys, TCS, IBM (yes, they are in the labor arbitrage business!), WIPRO have contracts with these banks and thus the bill doesn't affect them because it only names the banks themselves.

    It's incredible these corporate lobbyists...they do not care if something is a symbolic gesture or whatever, they are gunning for this amendment.

    But I guess it was revived because so many Americans are calling in.

    Reply to: Jobs For U.S. Workers Stripped Out of Stimulus Bill Behind Closed Doors - Update It Lives!   15 years 9 months ago
    EPer:
  • Believe me, there are studies going back all the way to the 1970's that know the way to stop illegal labor is to enforce employment law and punish employers. That is the effective mechanism and has been known forever.

    If employers are busted for this as well as stopping the recruitment etc...this is all the employer chain...

    it would stop.

    Seriously, in most cases can you blame someone when they are in poverty and here is this "opportunity" presented to them to earn money...so of course they are going to do it.

    But, it's the employers that will work.

    Just like Americans, ya know, people are people so you have all sorts of motivations and different crap that illegals think and believe....

    but to simply stop the influx of illegal labor the answer is well known, simple...it's just that the U.S. chamber of commerce along with other groups who want cheap labor know this will work and hence try to stop that at all costs.

    Just like e-verify, they know it works so come hell or high water, they are going to stop it. They want that cheap labor.

    Remember the globalists want corporate controlled unfettered global migration as an agenda.

    Reply to: Imported Cheap Labor Forced to Foot Bill for their own Exploitation   15 years 9 months ago
    EPer:
  • Robert,

    Do you have a source for this? I've heard this from one other place, but I'm looking for independent confirmation.

    Reply to: Jobs For U.S. Workers Stripped Out of Stimulus Bill Behind Closed Doors - Update It Lives!   15 years 9 months ago
    EPer:
  • Right now, the punishments are so incredibly light that they're basically taken as "cost of doing business", at $15,000/head for illegal aliens. That is, if you can get by with unskilled labor that does *exactly* what you say and nothing else (the work ethic south of the border doesn't seem to include imagination), AND if the difference in cost is greater than $15,000/employee- then go for it.

    Thus, from an economic standpoint, the way to stop this behavior is at the demand side of things (gee, where have I heard that before- I think I'm a demand-side economist, or at least heading that way) by making the cost of punishment completely outweigh the benefits of the crime- loss of business license, jail terms, deportation.

    And to me, that's in keeping with no matter what the illegal labor is- H-1b/STEM abuse, or just border hopping.

    What might help on the supply side of things would be greater efficiency in ICE to begin with- I see no reason, with modern technology, that any country with a Wal-Mart can't be allowed to have green card applications done over the web in 30 minutes or less (as opposed to the 3-5 years they currently have to wait). If Wal-Mart is in country, then you already have a massive database keeping tabs on all purchases and police records.

    Reply to: Imported Cheap Labor Forced to Foot Bill for their own Exploitation   15 years 9 months ago
    EPer:
  • A lot of independent consultants fall in this category and they are heavily affected by the H1b and L1 visa programs. I hope there is also a provision to help us.

    By the way, I heard Gregg withdrew for the nomination.

    Reply to: We Need a Revolution..... A Labor Rights Revolution   15 years 9 months ago
    EPer:

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