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Blog: Unthinkable Anyone Would Re-Elect The Republicans That Got Us in This Mess

Yes We Can (Change our Destiny)

It is unthinkable that anyone, especially anyone who voted for President Obama in the last election would reelect any Republican and worse yet, put the Republican Congress back into power, the very people that got us into this mess.

I can’t fathom the short memory of our society, the gullibility of our populace to actually believe that the very people that lied to us about Iraq simply so that they could attack another country for their own purposes and who came so close to creating the next great depression are the “change that we now need” are the “anti-establishment” that will make our country strong, again. The irony of the word “again” is that what would happen is that they’d destroy us, again.

How incredulous I am when I see that the GDP way down during the end of the Bush era, and yet when President Obama came in, the GDP began to climb and it has climbed every quarter due to President Obama’s financial decisions. And so has jobs. And so has nearly every metric that measures our society getting stronger financially. And let us not forget that prior to the Republicans taking office, when the Democrats were in power during the Clinton era we didn’t have a deficit. We had a surplus that was squandered by the Republicans. Our current situation regarding the deficit exists because we are climbing out of a hole created by the Republicans. Read More »

Blog: On Jobs

by Ravi Ganapathy

I came to this great land of opportunities from India 21 years ago to work on my graduate studies. After waiting many long days for my interview at the American Consulate in the city of Chennai, I still cannot forget the moment the visa officer told me that my student visa was approved. It was a huge turning point in my life and a moment of extreme happiness and sadness. I was happy to be heading to the land of dreams, which I had aspired toward for the previous five years; and I was sad that I would be leaving behind everyone I knew.

When I started to look for a job after school, as a foreign national, I had to apply for a work permit (known as the H-1B visa), during which process I had to prove to the Immigration and Naturalization Service that I would not replace an equally skilled American. These rules still exist, to make sure that U.S. citizens are able to maintain their standard of living and that their salaries are not diluted by businesses hiring lower-paid foreigners. Read More »