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Importing Cheap Labor Eliminates American IT Jobs

The debate was focused on whether or not to protect undocumented aliens in the United States because they do "jobs Americans won't do" – for example agriculture, food processing, and unskilled construction. But no attention has been paid to protecting jobs Americans are doing from documented alien labor. Despite the loss of +/- 200,000 US technology jobs, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) proceeded to awarded 85,000 "temporary high skilled knowledge worker visas (H1-B) last year

2021-02-01T15:10:32+00:00May 4th, 2017|4 Comments

Public Option is Part of Fix for America’s Broken Health Care System

It is an axiom of American politics that Americans reject a public health care option. Rhetoric to the contrary: 49.6 percent of the American people get their health care paid for by a government-run insurance program. The dictionary definition of a public option! Instead of railing against it -- why not seize the opportunity?

2021-02-01T15:12:01+00:00April 13th, 2017|Comments Off on Public Option is Part of Fix for America’s Broken Health Care System

CBO Waves Yellow Flag at GOP Healthcare Bill

By the time I had printed out a copy of the just released Congressional Budget Office (CBO) cost estimate of the GOP proposal to "repeal and replace Obamacare" my inbox had filled up with draconian headlines. A complete reading of the 27 page report paints a more complicated picture but does urge caution as the House of Representatives moves to debate. But, if we examine the CBO's underlying assumptions, their analysis, itself, is complicated and more conjecture than fact.

2021-02-01T12:33:48+00:00March 20th, 2017|Comments Off on CBO Waves Yellow Flag at GOP Healthcare Bill

What Americans Don’t Want to Hear About Healthcare

If we want good healthcare coverage with reasonable insurance premiums, Americans must become active consumers. We must advocate for a system without hidden costs. If we want the impending debate in Congress to conclude with a better outcome than just "Obamacare2.0", we, the people, are going to have to hold our representatives' feet to the fire! We must insist they begin with a comprehensive investigation of the underlying costs of healthcare.

2021-02-01T16:05:42+00:00March 6th, 2017|4 Comments

USA Doesn’t Need More Security, It Needs Smarter Security

During my early December trip to Washington DC and New York the streets were crowded and restaurants were packed with Holiday Celebrants. San Bernardino dominated the news but none of the travelers or "locals" I met seemed overly concerned. None where concerned enough to change their plans. My random sampling of opinions found no widespread fear -- just a desire for smarter government security rather than just more government security.

2021-02-01T16:19:05+00:00December 18th, 2015|Comments Off on USA Doesn’t Need More Security, It Needs Smarter Security

Presidential Executive Actions Risk the Republic

The President's unwillingness to work with Congress to fix laws he believes need fixing violates his constitutional oath to "faithfully execute" the laws of the land. Unchallenged, the President would set a precedent that reduces Congress to an investigative body.

2021-02-02T06:09:30+00:00July 4th, 2014|Comments Off on Presidential Executive Actions Risk the Republic

Increasing Minimum Wage Won’t Fix USA Economy

The American middle class is shrinking faster than the polar ice caps. The question is are we going to concede defeat or are we going to ignite a 21st century American economy that provides stability and prosperity for everyone willing to work for it.

2021-02-01T16:24:53+00:00May 8th, 2014|Comments Off on Increasing Minimum Wage Won’t Fix USA Economy

No 21st Century American Vision – No Goals, No Plan = No Budget

As a result - no vision, no goals, no plan = no budget. That is why we have seen Continuing Resolution after Continuing Resolution to “fund the government” without asking the question are we funding the right priorities, at the right level with the right resources? Unless we arrive at an adequate answer to that question, it is a sure prescription for national bankruptcy!

2021-02-01T16:30:37+00:00October 15th, 2013|Comments Off on No 21st Century American Vision – No Goals, No Plan = No Budget

Are There Any Adults In Washington DC?

I find it genuinely shocking that the President of the United States merely stood by and watched the Congress play a week long legislative game of “whackamoo”. This is the end of government of the people, by the people and FOR the people. Instead we have a perpetual campaign were the power of the political party is the basis of legitimacy – rather than power derived from the governed.

2021-02-01T11:28:48+00:00October 10th, 2013|Comments Off on Are There Any Adults In Washington DC?