Jimmie Carter died today. Trump gave him a wonderful tribute but I think Carter was the worst President the U.S. ever had.

7 hours ago, G_Money said:

Sailing off to make America Great Again.

How romantic!

 

555 He won't be able to find it.

8 hours ago, G_Money said:

What facts are you specifically talking about?

 

pfffffffffffffffffff balloon.

On 12/29/2024 at 10:45 AM, G_Money said:

I’ve never witnessed this.  Have you?

Maybe he's above <deleted>ting. 

A bit like virgin birth.

Hmm

 

 

Ah, civil war.

 

I have teams of Analysts in UK, Canada and India. We used to have Analysts in North East US, but they priced themselves out of the market. The offices now are maintained by sales drones and a few consultants. Its gotten hard to recruit now in London, as there is intense competition when you are in the Biotech triangle. Toronto has simlar salaries to London, but easy supply of quality graduates for my specialty roles. The backroom guys we have in India, but also a little team in ASEAN.

 

The pay for a recent graduate in India (and by that, someone with an Indian BS and Indian "MBA") is about £6000 a year. That's decent money for a graduate there. Or it was. We are losing staff to big Pharma who have set up shop in the area, and they are offering 100% payrises. That's difficult to compete with and its breaking the pay model in India. This is one of then reasons that H1B visas are probably now in terminal decline. And its not about jobs being onshored in the US. The likes of Google, Apple etc aren't renting offices in India. They are making huge investments in infrastructure. They are there to stay, and will outlast an Octogenerian Trumpf. There was a time when my Indian analysts would go on about company transfers to the US, because of the incredible apparent salaries. Until I pointed out the cost of stuff there.  My opposite number in India is on about 25% of my UK salary, but he lives better than me. He has two properties, maids, his own driver, and recently installed a marble bathroom in his townhouse. Ovr the years, we've noticed the new Indian graduates are becoming less and less employable in a Western setting. India's previous strength was the widespread adoption of English among graduates. Understanding of English is still very good, but Hinglish is gaining the upper hand (English with Hindi grammar), much to the disappointment of my colleague who  prides himself on his Irish Nun education.

 

The argument about H1b seems to be an argument about yesterday, and they don't realise the increasing irrelevance.

 

It was always about race

 

 

 

30 minutes ago, MicroB said:

Ah, civil war

 

I see you fall for the legacy media brainwashing. How come you didn't write convicted felon or weird ? 

2 hours ago, MicroB said:

Hmm

 

 

Ah, civil war.

 

I have teams of Analysts in UK, Canada and India. We used to have Analysts in North East US, but they priced themselves out of the market. The offices now are maintained by sales drones and a few consultants. Its gotten hard to recruit now in London, as there is intense competition when you are in the Biotech triangle. Toronto has simlar salaries to London, but easy supply of quality graduates for my specialty roles. The backroom guys we have in India, but also a little team in ASEAN.

 

The pay for a recent graduate in India (and by that, someone with an Indian BS and Indian "MBA") is about £6000 a year. That's decent money for a graduate there. Or it was. We are losing staff to big Pharma who have set up shop in the area, and they are offering 100% payrises. That's difficult to compete with and its breaking the pay model in India. This is one of then reasons that H1B visas are probably now in terminal decline. And its not about jobs being onshored in the US. The likes of Google, Apple etc aren't renting offices in India. They are making huge investments in infrastructure. They are there to stay, and will outlast an Octogenerian Trumpf. There was a time when my Indian analysts would go on about company transfers to the US, because of the incredible apparent salaries. Until I pointed out the cost of stuff there.  My opposite number in India is on about 25% of my UK salary, but he lives better than me. He has two properties, maids, his own driver, and recently installed a marble bathroom in his townhouse. Ovr the years, we've noticed the new Indian graduates are becoming less and less employable in a Western setting. India's previous strength was the widespread adoption of English among graduates. Understanding of English is still very good, but Hinglish is gaining the upper hand (English with Hindi grammar), much to the disappointment of my colleague who  prides himself on his Irish Nun education.

 

The argument about H1b seems to be an argument about yesterday, and they don't realise the increasing irrelevance.

 

It was always about race

 

 

 

For some including many posters her, yes, racism. For the oligarchs, no, it's about getting richer by cheap labour.

Here's another quote from Trump about H-1b visas. Looks like it could have been written by a less rabid version of Steve Bannon:

 

"The H-1B program is neither high-skilled nor immigration: these are temporary foreign workers, imported from abroad, for the explicit purpose of substituting for American workers at lower pay. I remain totally committed to eliminating rampant, widespread H-1B abuse and ending outrageous practices such as those that occurred at Disney in Florida when Americans were forced to train their foreign replacements. I will end forever the use of the H-1B as a cheap labor program, and institute an absolute requirement to hire American workers first for every visa and immigration program."

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/statement-donald-j-trump-position-visas

9 hours ago, placeholder said:

Namely?

All of them.

4 hours ago, bubblegum said:

pfffffffffffffffffff balloon.

Another confirmation.

9 hours ago, Screaming said:

Jimmie Carter died today. Trump gave him a wonderful tribute but I think Carter was the worst President the U.S. ever had.

2nd worst.

 

Biden holds the title of THE worst.

38 minutes ago, placeholder said:

Here's another quote from Trump about H-1b visas. Looks like it could have been written by a less rabid version of Steve Bannon:

 

"The H-1B program is neither high-skilled nor immigration: these are temporary foreign workers, imported from abroad, for the explicit purpose of substituting for American workers at lower pay. I remain totally committed to eliminating rampant, widespread H-1B abuse and ending outrageous practices such as those that occurred at Disney in Florida when Americans were forced to train their foreign replacements. I will end forever the use of the H-1B as a cheap labor program, and institute an absolute requirement to hire American workers first for every visa and immigration program."

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/statement-donald-j-trump-position-visas

Q.  President Biden, Are you planning to pardon your son?

 

A.  No

 

 

5 minutes ago, G_Money said:

Q.  President Biden, Are you planning to pardon your son?

 

A.  No

 

 

Really irrelevant to this thread. Do you see a contradiction in trump's present words and his 2016 position?

On 12/29/2024 at 10:30 AM, John Drake said:

I'm guessing Trump is either lying or doesn't know what he is talking about. Or both. It's known he uses H2B workers. But I don't see where anything he does would fit for H1Bs. If he's putting his landscapers on H1Bs, he's breaking the law.

Since the late seventies he has spent his entire career breaking the law, so why would anything change now? 

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On 12/31/2024 at 9:25 AM, G_Money said:

Q.  President Biden, Are you planning to pardon your son?

 

A.  No

 

 

And Biden was wrong for breaking his promise. But Biden's pardon affected 1 person. Trump's 180 percent reversal on H-1B will affect hundreds of thousands of Americans. But it's clear you care more about the fate of just 1 American than those hundreds of thousands.

21 minutes ago, placeholder said:

And Biden was wrong for breaking his promise. But Biden's pardon affected 1 person. Trump's 180 percent reversal on H-1B will affect hundreds of thousands of Americans. But it's clear you care more about the fate of just 1 American than those hundreds of thousands.

Wrong. It affects everyone ever arrested for drugs, people trafficking, tax evasion, corruption at state level, SA with minors, weapons charges etc etc. It affects millions of people and it affects the once beloved mantra yet oh so rare to hear these days that "nobody is above the law".

2 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Wrong. It affects everyone ever arrested for drugs, people trafficking, tax evasion, corruption at state level, SA with minors, weapons charges etc etc. It affects millions of people and it affects the once beloved mantra yet oh so rare to hear these days that "nobody is above the law".

It affects them how? Are their lives going to be different because Biden pardoned his son? Whereas Trump's reversal on H-1B will change the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans for the worse. 

35 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Wrong. It affects everyone ever arrested for drugs, people trafficking, tax evasion, corruption at state level, SA with minors, weapons charges etc etc. It affects millions of people and it affects the once beloved mantra yet oh so rare to hear these days that "nobody is above the law".

What makes your comment even more foolish is the fact that Trump pardoned many  his cronies - some of whom may have been in possession of knowledge that could incriminate him as was the case with Pau Manafort, convicted of tax evasion.

Even worse is the case of Steve Bannon. Remember when Bannon and 3 co-defendants were indicted for fraud? For claiming that money that was sent to them to build the wall was all going to be used for that  purpose alone? That they were taking nothing for themselves? Well, Trump pre-emptively pardoned Bannon but his 3 co-defendants all were convicted and sentenced to prison. What kind of message does that send to "everyone ever arrested for drugs, people trafficking, tax evasion, corruption at state level, SA with minors, weapons charges etc etc. It affects millions of people and it affects the once beloved mantra yet oh so rare to hear these days that "nobody is above the law"'?

On 12/31/2024 at 9:25 AM, G_Money said:

Q.  President Biden, Are you planning to pardon your son?

 

A.  No

 

 

 

Don't know  where to put this 

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13 hours ago, placeholder said:

And Biden was wrong for breaking his promise. But Biden's pardon affected 1 person. Trump's 180 percent reversal on H-1B will affect hundreds of thousands of Americans. But it's clear you care more about the fate of just 1 American than those hundreds of thousands.

There is no hope for you.

20 minutes ago, G_Money said:

There is no hope for you.

Once again you offer no evidence or reasoning. You've got nothing.

4 minutes ago, placeholder said:

Once again you offer no evidence or reasoning. You've got nothing.

All the evidence of “no hope “ is your posts

 

 

On 12/30/2024 at 4:03 PM, G_Money said:

So you must of thought of “you have nothing “ during your extended period away from the forum immediately following Trump’s landslide victory in the 2024 election.  You certainly had plenty of time to think of it.

 

Your predictions gone terribly wrong and the loss of face can be devastating.  It’s still obvious to anyone reading your posts that you have not and most likely will not recover.  

Why would a non U.S. citizen burden himself with all that unnecessary stress?

 

 

 

What predictions were those? I made no predictions about the outcome of the election. In fact I explicitly and repeatedly said before the election that I wasn't making a prediction. But, since you made the claim, provided evidence to prove that I'm misstating my stance.

1 hour ago, placeholder said:

What predictions were those? I made no predictions about the outcome of the election. In fact I explicitly and repeatedly said before the election that I wasn't making a prediction. But, since you made the claim, provided evidence to prove that I'm misstating my stance.

That’s 15 seconds of my life I can never get back.