Posted on 06/09/2015 6:17:56 AM PDT by xzins
We’re locals to Disneyland and the annual passes are in the stratosphere at almost $700. I can get Knott’s Berry Farm Annual passes for about $80. The atmosphere and the rides are just as good, if not better so we won’t be back unless it’s free.
And they are looking at ‘surge pricing’, which is the new lexicon for ‘usury pricing’.
It’s like charging $50/gal for gas during an emergency. One could argue that’s surge pricing too.
Surge pricing. The power companies are doing it too.
There is all kinds of short term thinking going on in places where they are paid to take care of the long term.
Ted seems to have one of the louder voices if you ask me.
What I said was the circumstances of war are bizarre.
However, I don’t think anyone was manipulating the law at those times as they are with the H1B program today.
Disney’s IT department has been plagued with serious problems for years. read a few Facebook posts from irate travel agents following the abject disaster of the free dining rollout last month when IT crashed for hours:
A sample, “Let’s face it, if we did our jobs like Disney IT, we’d all be fired.”
I’m not going to speak to replacements, but the idea that Disney dropped its elite IT staff for cheaper labor is silly. Disney has needed a major IT shakeup for some time.
Ted’s polls have stalled.
I think this is why.
Wernher von Braun?
Kurt Gödel?
Albert Einstein?
Nikola Tesla?
Danyu Lin?
and hundreds of thousands of others?
None of those you mentioned displaces an American worker.
It almost sounds like many companies are only thinking about short term stock gains instead of thinking about the long term health of their companies. This tells me that corporations think that the regulatory and tax environment worldwide is only going to get MUCH worse, and that they need to take as much profit as they can now before they can’t.
And somehow hiring quasi-English speaking, lesser trained replacements from the 3rd world, instead of the best and brightest here in this country is going to turn that around???
BFL...your post...
> “I think he’s dead wrong on this issue.”
You need to improve your thinking and correct your error in judgement.
When you rant on about how Ted Cruz should “back off” you’re making an error in judgment that Ted is part of the cheap labor express. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The fact is we have hundreds of thousands of eminent scientists in our universities, laboratories and think tanks that are on H1B. Those H1Bs need to be renewed regularly. We are not going to send them home “period”. In fact we are going to encourage them to make America their new home.
Again post #30, the vehicle is not the problem, the driver is. Obama is a reckless driver allowing abuses in H1B to occur and grow. Ted Cruz is the good driver who will drive the vehicle as it was intended to be driven.
And Ted is not stalling in anything. He is gathering momentum. If you think he is ‘stalled’ in the polls, then you are falling for the MSM narrative. The facts on the ground are that Ted Cruz is creating a sensation in the grassroots wherever he goes. That fact has the left so scared they are assaulting Cruz on H1B and TPA. And you are a dupe to their deception.
Well here's some good news. I believe the IT industry is slowly but surly catching on. Corporate America is very slow to learn but in the case of H-1B and other foreign labor IT solutions it is becoming known that the reality is not profit but rather "Short Term" Profit.
Yes foreign labor is cheaper but it is also of significantly lower quality. So the end result is a short term gain with lower labor costs but long term economically insolvable internal problems that in many cases can put the very existence of the company at risk.
So the trend I'm seeing is a trimming down of this strategy and a higher priority on American workers at higher pay rates.
Agreed. Walker and more recently, Santorum, have picked up the “protect the American worker” meme and are flourishing. All the others who think they can boast of their opposition to amnesty and then take corporate cash for supporting H-1B visa expansion are going to find they are lacking votes during primary season.
The polls I’ve read have him at 6% or so.
He was higher before.
You do what you are compensated to do. Fiorina wrecked HP because that’s how her compensation was structured. They paid her to complete the Compaq merger.
If you are paid to keep the stock price up, that’s what you do.
Eisner paid some very efficient idiot a lot of money to sequelize Disney’s catalog. She was good at it too, churning out horrible, but numerous, sequels of classic Disney movies.
What ever gets you paid.
BFL...your post...
> “None of those you mentioned displaces an American worker.”
That’s right!
And Ted Cruz is not going to replace or displace American workers with foreign cheap labor.
Replacing or displacing Americans with cheap foreign labor using the H1B program is an ABUSE. That is not the original purpose of the program.
Again Post #30, the H1B program is not the problem, its regulator is the problem and that regulator would be Barack Obama.
Oh yeah, sure, they “need” the visa programs because there just aren’t enough “qualified” American workers...
H-1B scam has been around for a long time. Decades. It is very heartening to see it discussed on Free Republic. You don’t know how many Americans have been screwed over by this stupid visa program, Millions perhaps.
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