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by davidf18 10y ago
I am upset about the whining. Suck it up California. You elected politicians who use your tax funds on people who are in the country illegally and then you whine because you aren't getting federal funds. Since money is fungible it s
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> "Words can't express how sad I feel about people who write and believe in such a logic. Where is our humanity gone?" The correct term is illegal aliens. I didn't create the term, but I do use the language correctly
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Instead of down voting, please state why you want to fund people who are living in the US illegally instead of funding a train for people who are here legally.
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> "By your argument, California could easily afford to pay for it if only Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Montana, and Kentucky were not "mooching" off of it." Not if the funds are paying for people living in thes
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People are down voting, the but the assessment is a correct one: California citizens need to elect responsible politicians that spend money on people who live in the the US and CA legally instead of those illegally. If they elected respon
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by davidf18 10y ago
The cause of high housing costs which is known to economists is market inefficiencies or market failures called "rent-seeking" in this case the use of politics through zoning density restrictions to create artificial scarcity in t
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by davidf18 10y ago
Good studies must discuss denominators as well as numerators. The 51% is misleading. What would be important to know is how many immigrants were founders with a denominator of how many founders were there. Moreover, there is some (wrong
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by davidf18 10y ago
> "Sarah Sherburn-Zimmer, executive director of the Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco, said housing problems have arisen because occupants leave buildings being converted to communal homes and cannot afford to move back in o
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"“In this company I feel 100% equal,” said Lital Mor, EverCompliant’s director of customer success. Mor manages 17 employees and deals with customers on a day to day basis. Mor believes the situation for women in high tech in Israel is
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Israeli cybersecurity company highlights potential of women in tech(timesofisrael.com)
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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding it." -- Upton Sinclair
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> Current "experts" are really terrible about defending their current belief system, and actual evidence be damned. While it is true that Semmelweis could have communicated his ideas better than he did, his true problem was tha
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Please state why downvoted. Do you believe that the elites of the media know people whose jobs have been or could be displaced by H1-B visas? I really don't think so and they never seem to write about it.
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Actually, I believe it is because the elites of the media probably don't know one scientist, programmer, engineer, that would be affected by H1-B. They certainly don't know working class Americans who are affected by illegal immi
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"The H-1B visa program currently admits 85,000 immigrants each year. Technology companies have been lobbying to extend the program to allow for more foreign immigration, of which Donald Trump has been a vocal opponent. In the run-up to
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US suspension of fast track for H-1B visas leaves foreign workers in limbo(theguardian.com)
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'"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," said Trump in a statement las
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A Major Proponent of H-1B Visa Reform Loses Patience with Trump(bloomberg.com)
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"The $30 million investment fund gathered by Sadara, which is backed by first-rate investors including George Soros, AOL founder Steve Case, and former eBay president Jeff Skoll, as well as Google, Cisco and the European Investment Ban
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Can Startup Nation be an incubator for Palestinian high-tech entrepreneurs?(timesofisrael.com)
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There are laws that protect people from physical harm such as licensing for doctors or to keep people in certain fields from working too many hours (e.g. airline pilots and Emergency Room Doctors). There are laws that protect patents, copyr
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What kind of human being downvotes when someone survives a terrorist attack?
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A few years ago I would have been the victim of a terrorist attack in Jerusalem had I not gone into a store to buy a candy bar.
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There should be some sort of GUI interface that does appropriate checks instead of allowing someone to mistakenly type the correct information.
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I work in healthcare patient safety and study safety in industries such as aviation, nuclear power, oil & gas, and auto and airplane design among others. Even luxury brands such as BMW (in the article) and Lexus, Mercedes, and Audi were
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Automakers Knew of Takata Airbag Hazard for Years, Suit Says(nytimes.com)
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Among the companies/institutions that have replaced Americans in IT with Indians: 1. Disney of Florida 2. Southern California Edison 3. Abbott Laboratories 4. University of California at San Francisco http://www.foxbusin
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Indian Workers in U.S. Fear Trump H-1B Visa Crackdown(wsj.com)
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> Do they routinely report on what he votes against in Congress? This is an important vote and for Ellison to be one of 8 members of Congress suggests that he is very anti-Israel. I had earlier googled on Ellison and anti-Semitism and di
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by davidf18 10y ago
Thanks for the reference. I hadn't seen anything at all until yesterday. Curiously, the article was on page A18 -- way back on in the "A" section. Nor did it mention that he was one of 8 Congressmen to vote against funding

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