Posted on 04/09/2012 8:26:12 PM PDT by robowombat
No sooner had the absolutely horrifying unemployment report for March been released than we received an update on the status of engineer Darin Wedel, who became one of America’s most famous job seekers two months ago.
At that time, Wedel’s wife Jennifer found herself in one of President Obama’s gimmicky “online chat” events, and asked the President why the government is passing out so many visas for foreign workers when large numbers of Americans with excellent job skills are unemployed. Darin Wedel was a semiconductor engineer at Texas Instruments, but lost his job three years ago.
The President expressed surprise that such a fine resume couldn’t bring offers of employment in the high-tech wonderland of Obamanomics, where “industry leaders” just can’t find enough people to grab all the lucrative jobs tumbling from their overflowing cornucopias. The exchange, as recounted by the Nashua Telegraph, went like this:
Obama said industry leaders have told him that the U.S. doesn’t have enough of certain kinds of high-tech engineers to meet its needs.
“If you send me your husband’s resume, I’d be interested in finding out exactly what’s happening right there,” Obama told her. “The word we’re getting is somebody in that high-tech field, that kind of engineer, should be able to find something right away. And the H-1B should be reserved only for those companies who say they cannot find somebody in that particular field.”
The President reminded Mrs. Wedel to send that resume along to the White House at the end of the video chat, so the perplexing mystery of how this one poor fellow can’t find a job - after Barack Obama declared “job creation” to be his “top priority” at least 17 times over the past three years! - might be solved.
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The President loves to govern by anecdote, peppering his speeches with references to all the letters of supplication he receives from the New Poor (formerly known as “the middle class”) All of these people’s lives will supposedly be shattered if the Obama agenda is opposed. The childish absurdity of basing the decisions of a titanic mega-government on a handful of personal appeals never occurs to him, or to the media, which congratulates him on his political skill in “personalizing” huge social “crises.” That’s how the last shreds of cold, hard reason are steamed out of our discussion of the most bankrupt government in history.
It’s Obamanomics in a nutshell: if you’re lucky enough to find your way into his carefully controlled town hall meetings, or you’ve got the right political connections, you can do okay… until things get so bad that His Majesty can no longer wave his hand and cause bounty to be showered upon selected peasants. Fortunately, Obama can count on the media to downplay this story, instead of treating it as a powerful symbolic moment in a failed presidency, as they would if he were a Republican.
To sum it up, the Food Stamp President could not even create one job! Obviously a jerk without any pull!
as for myself I’ve been searching for a job for 2 years only 1 interview, most get no reply or the position is no longer available.
The only thing this administration shows any competency at ... chasing Easter eggs in the Rose Garden. The adoring and complicit liberal media goes to great effort to make Obummer & Moochelle look reasonably competent in a photo op they obviously disdain.
engineer Darin Wedel, thanks robowombat.
Just put “Czar” in front of his name and start sending him barrels of money. Next problem.
“Do you want fries with dat”?
Really doubt that he paid any attention to this fellow but of course his staff screwed up. This is just another nightmare for him.
I’m sorry, but to me a “recommendation” from hussein would be an instant huge black mark against any prospective job candidate. If they were known to associate with the likes of hussein and his cohorts in crime I’d question their judgement, their integrity, their intelligence, their work ethic, and a couple of other things unmentionable here.
bill authored by Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., would have also added Ireland to the E-3 visa program. Schumer’s bill would have given visa waivers to illegal Irish immigrants
The amended version of S.1983 allows an additional 10,500 E-3 guest worker visas to be given solely to Irish nationals. (INA § 101(a)(15)(E)(iii); INA § 214(g)(11)) However, rather than holding Irish nationals to the same “specialty occupation” standard as the Australians, the amended version of S.1983 would lower the skill standard even further by only requiring Irish recipients of the E-3 visa to have only two years of work experience in a particular field, OR to have obtained a high school diploma or its equivalent.
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