Posted on 10/31/2014 7:21:29 AM PDT by xzins
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee and senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sounded the alarm today for those concerned about our borders: Obama is helping open borders billionaires while planning “to deny millions of Americans their shot at entering the middle class and a better life.”
Sessions posted a statement today in response to the Wall Street Journal’s October 29 report entitled, “Obama May Cut Deportations.” The report revealed that President Obama is likely to announce an executive order that grants amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants as soon as one week after election day.
It gets worse.
The report also stated that the Administration may allow illegal immigrants who have already spent a minimum amount of time in the U.S. or have family ties to others living in America.
The Wall Street Journal article pointed out that, “Those requirements, depending on how broadly they are drawn, could offer protection to between one million and four million people in the country illegally.”
But the bad news doesn’t stop there.
ConservativeHQ, Jeff Sessions, Ted Cruz, and other high-profile conservatives have warned that Democrats are selling out working American families to boost Big Business.
Sen. Session’s statement says it all:
“The President is ‘expected to benefit businesses that use large numbers of legal immigrants, such as technology companies.’ Those changes include measures to massively expand the number of foreign workers for IT companies—measures aggressively lobbied for by IT giants like Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates. Yet we have more than 11 million Americans with STEM degrees who don’t have jobs in these fields. Rutgers professor Hal Salzman documented that two-thirds of all new IT jobs are being filled by foreign workers. From 2000 through today, a period of record legal immigration, all net gains in employment among the working-age have gone entirely to immigrant workers.”
“And now, in order to help open borders billionaires, President Obama is going to deny millions of Americans their shot at entering the middle class and a better life.”
“The world has turned upside down. Instead of serving the interests of the American people, the policies of President Obama and every Senate Democrat serve the needs of special interests and global CEOs who fail to understand the duty a nation owes to its own people. But the citizens of this country still hold the power, and through their voice, they can turn the country right-side again.”
This should motivate every Republican to get out and vote November 4th. A vote for a Democrat is a vote for Obama’s dangerous policies.
But that's actually OK. The need for automation hasn't disappeared, just the desire to accomplish it with a dedicated IT department. As Nicholas Carr predicted some years back, IT is being absorbed back into the job functions that use it. Being good at it gives you a leg up - if you are also good at a business function the company values. If not, then you will eventually find yourself in an ugly place - competing with the other "dedicated" IT professionals like yourself, who are located in Bangalore and work for $9/hour.
I’ve actually been thinking of going back to school and finishing an effort to get legal degree I started years ago, and then specializing in IT compliance law and offering my services to corporate america in that arena - that is literally the only path I see forward for myself within IT. And we all know that Governments appetite for oversight will never be satiated. Otherwise, it’s time to start career #2 as you suggested.
You presume that contract based IT project managers these days are actually concerned with code quality. Hint - they aren’t.
Their only focus are dates - deliver ‘something’ by this date so they get that nice bonus check for saving a ton of money by using managed services and still delivering on time and under budget. They know they can rely on the few remaining support folks who actually give a damn about the company and it’s customers to clean up the mess for them.
Take a look at the whole healthcare.gov effort and you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about...
This one sentence gave lie to all your others. :)
The enormity of the failure with healthcare.gov colored the perception for everyone forever. It was an abysmal failure, and in the real world the project would have gone belly-up outright. Only because this is government, does it survive.
Code quality matters.
Outside of impeachment AND CONVICTION, as Cruz mentions,there is little that can be done about it. No way 45 democrat senators vote to find him guilty and remove his executive orders, no way.
Once (if) he does this, the political fortunes will be almost impossible to reverse, heck they were already tough, with this executive order, without a major miracle we will surely go the way of a third rate country.
healthcare.gov was not on time and under-budget
It was obscenely and ludicrously expensive and way late.
Every time I turn around someone points out and pontificates about what's occurring.. but NO ONE EVER DOES ANYTHING to curtail it.
Is that not a form of being "SCREWED?"
If immediately after the election Obama declares unconditional pardon for every illegal, what steps do we take that actually result in QUICKLY reversing that order?
With a split congress there is nothing effective that comes to mind short of challenging it immediately in the Supreme Court and having them immediately take it up and rule against it.
It was a failure and it was well documented that it failed because the vendor and project managers cut major testing corners to meet dates.
There is no way to make even a short term PLAN until we see what comes out of Tuesday’s election cycle.
Two Parties with leadership that have one mission - to keep only two Parties. The leadership of both create policies that are intended to divide us, while the policies benefit mostly the globalist string pullers and crony capitalists who play both sides by adding alternating bags of gold to a see saw.
Each Party uses a different strategy to leverage their power, like importing poverty while exporting our jobs.. Very few of their laws benefit America the nation and average citizens. The game is to create divide while the MSM keeps us clueless.
Impeachment is off the table from the leadership of both Parties because the real owners of America want it that way. They didn’t want any of Bush’s giveaways, wars and policies investigated, and they don’t want any of Obama’s policies such as the bailout, spying on Americans, or changing America to an Hispanic nation investigated.
We need patriotic leadership like Jeff Sessions and what we have are puppets.
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