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President Obama Tells Unemployed Engineer’s Wife: ‘Send Me Your Husband’s Resume’

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President Barack Obama had a virtual intimate talk with a number of Americans this afternoon in a “Google hangout,” where he received questions from an audience over the computer. One guest in the hangout asked about worker visas in engineering, and gave the President the anecdote of her husband’s three years of temporary employment despite being an engineer. “Send me your husband’s resume,” replied the President.

A woman named Jennifer described her husband’s situation to President Obama– that he was an engineer (a semiconductor engineer, she later elaborated), who had not been able to find permanent work in three years. Given his education level and the national demand for engineers, she asked the President why visas were still given to foreigners who have the same skill set when worthy Americans are still unemployed.

The President responded that he thought it interesting given his meetings with industry leaders. “There is a huge demand around the country for engineers,” he told her, though adding that “obviously, there are different kinds of engineers,” so the general category doesn’t apply fully. “What industry tells me is that they don’t have enough highly skilled engineers,” he noted, and continued, “If your husband is in that field, we should get your husband’s resume and I’ll forward it to some of these companies that are telling me they don’t have enough engineers.”

Jennifer responded that she still wanted to know why visa programs were so popular with the companies, and the President replied asking what type of engineer her husband is. “It is interesting to me,” he replied, asserting that he would “follow up on this” because he had been hearing that a specialist engineer was higher in demand than in supply, and that the visas Jennifer inquired about were only available to companies having problems finding said engineers. “And I meant what I said,” the President reminded her, “if your send me your husband’s resume, I’d be interested in finding out exactly what’s happening right there.”

The video from today’s hangout below:



[h/t RealClear Politics]

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  • Anonymous

    Visa’s are popular for a whole host of reasons.  But if Obama wants to give everyone a job, how ’bout he stop writing checks he can’t cash to unions and instead put out open bid contracts to businesses for 75% minimum new-hire work.

  • Anonymous

    Is Obama gonna’ send the resume to Solyndra..or Ener1 ??

  • Anonymous

    I think everyone who does not have a job should send their resume to Obama, maybe then he will do his job and get America back to work.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bee-Ruled/100001985815996 Bee Ruled

    FINALLY, Pres BeeHO offers a solution. Shall I also send my SALARY requirements, Barry?

    -The OBAMA Oath: Break it, then LIE about it-

  • Anonymous

    Uh, Barack I think there may have been a misunderstanding – an engineer is someone who has the skills to BUILD or MAINTAIN something. Obviously that has no place in your administration.

    It’s not like “social engineering” that you love so much. So ignore that Marx-boner in your pants. It’s a false alarm.

  • Hout Bosques

    I’ve written on this quite a bit; here’s a follow up that shows what’s up – a trade war with China:

    http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/01/solar-trade-war-looms-as-us-considers-tariffs-on-china.php?ref=fpblg 

  • Hout Bosques

    It’s be nice if the Boehner-run House was the least interested in infrastructure. 

  • Hout Bosques

    It’s not that you wingers are so weird – it’s that you’re weird & so BAD at it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jaylen-Watkins/100003217686270 Jaylen Watkins

    Obama is surely doing good job in eradicating unemployment challenge in US.

    http://www.cvexamples.in

  • Anonymous

    And do you have the power to put an end to the obstructionist games of rethugs holding Americas recovery hostage ???? 

    You can make them stop their tactics of burnt earth and abuse of the legislative process for ideological gains and the expense of the American people????

    You can stop them from doing things like holding hostage a tax cut that is helping the working poor and the middle class so they can extort another tax cut for the rich who don’t need or deserve it?

    The Keystone pipeline has only one purpose and that is to export oil AWAY FROM THIS CONTINENT and since Canada has access to both the Atlantic and the Pacific, let them build the damn thing all on their soil and have all the spills in their country.All it will generate is a limited number of temporary jobs, in fact since Europe would love some of that oil coming there and China would love to have some of it coming there let the EU pay for a pipeline east and China pay for a pipeline west. A project that large would provide plenty of jobs for American oil services companys who have a qualified labor force right here to draw upon.

    There problem solved and we can get down to finding out if the KOCH BROS. lied to the US GOVERNMENT or the CANADIAN GOVERNMENT about their involvement in pushing for this.
    Me? I am betting they lied to US and counted on their wholly owned subsidiary, the republican party, to prevent their being found out or held to account.

  • Anonymous

    WHY?? Is your hate so important to you that you want to disparage the Presidents efforts to find out why an engineer here is being kept out of a job so a corporation can import a foreign labor force?

    Rather UN-American of you to favor imported labor over domestic labor.

    But hey your hate agenda is oh so important that you would oppose economic recovery just to justify your hate.

  • Anonymous

    Oh your just way to clever, but tell us would you really take a job President Obama found for you? Can your iddy bitty brain handle it?

    Just one question do you already have a job? cause if you do I hope you lose it and have to suffer, it is what you deserve for being part of the HATE AGENDA OF CONSERVATIVEs

  • Anonymous

    yes the Chinese are out to hurt us economically and the fact that is US corporations aiding and abetting our next greatest threat and providing China all the industry capacity it will need to conduct a modern war of conquest and domination begs the question of WHY these conservative American companies are treading the path of betrayal and treason and why are conservatives in congress helping this to happen?

  • Anonymous

    You forget the Rethuglicans in the Senate, for that matter you should be asking why are the conservatives practicing a policy of destroy America to destroy Obama.

    Why are they standing in the way of economic recovery and job creation (except for a pipeline that will have a limited number of jobs for less than two years but a lot of money  for KOCH and Halliburton) and enacting financial reforms needs to reign in corporate criminal banks run by conservatives?

    Yep ChuckSacrametal this post is mainly directed at you and all you America hating conservatives, destroy a President to destroy America and vice versa.

  • Anonymous

    are you a man or a woman? can’t tell by your photo. so depending on which it is you definitely look like minimum wage to me.

  • Anonymous

    I bet they’d be receiving loads of resumes now. 

  • Pablo

    Why do you prefer lies to facts? http://majorityleader.gov/JobsTracker/

    And why didn’t Obama answer her question? And why is what Obama told her not true? .2% growth is just not a huge demand.

     ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/suppl/empsit.tab2.txt

    Mindless hatred is not an answer to our economic problems, Thomas.

  • Pablo

    I’m betting that you could use some medication.

  • Pablo

    Is your hate so important to you that you want to disparage the
    Presidents efforts to find out why an engineer here is being kept out of a job so a corporation can import a foreign labor force?

    Is your hate so important to you that you fail to recognize that that is what the Obama administration is enabling, that is what the woman asked him why he’s doing it, and that he didn’t answer her question?

  • Anonymous

    OBAMO looks utterly exhausted and deflated. Poor man.

  • Anonymous

    Thomas, where are your ill words for Harry Reid. The Republican House has sent dozens of jobs bills to the Senate that Harry Reid will not even bring to vote. Who is being obstructionist? I know, I know, you may not have heard this before since the Senate blocking votes on jobs bills doesn’t fit the narrative, but it has happened. Even though MSNBC or Media Matters has not picked up on it.

  • Anonymous

    Conservative corporations???? Do you consider Apple to be a conservative corporation? Where do you think Iphones are made?

    It is not only due to the cheaper labor force, but the fact that adding more to your labor force is much easier there. They are much more business friendly. Which leads to lots of people working.

  • Anonymous

    Keystone XL anyone? Sounds like infrastructure to me…..

  • http://www.facebook.com/tonykoch1 Tony Koch

    yep give me his resume so i can get him freebies and hand outs and enslave him like the rest of the dolts following this idiot

  • Anonymous

    lol lol lol lol lol

  • Anonymous

    Monty, there have been a few stories out in the ether about FoxConn, the factory where most electronic companies manufacture their products. I suggest you look into it.

    Some of the workers are age 12. There are over 400,000 workers living in assigned high rise housing. Shifts can be as long as 12 hours. Multiple suicides have plagued the factory, so nets have been placed around the building so that they will be fewer.

    By all means, tell me how the American people, and certainly not the unions, would support those kinds of working conditions? 

    Human lives are fungible in China- they have too much population anyway. “Lots of people working”- I cannot even respond to your point of view, given the conditions under which Apple and other electronics companies are manufacturing their products.

  • Anonymous

    Someone tell this woman to send her husband’s resume to head hunters in Texas- lots of engineering jobs are being filled here.

  • Anonymous

    Have pity, its all they have left.  Hope died during the health care fiasco.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t agree with the conditions in China. (however, when apple wanted to speed up production it took them no time to add the workforce as people in China lined up for the work). However the poster said it was “conservative corporations” that were going to China. I asked if Apple is considered a conservative corporation as it is always heralded by the left.

  • Anonymous

    And what’s he to do with someone’s resume….Pump it up…lie? WHAT?
    This man is a charlatan…I’d love to follow this to see what the outcome will be.
    Perhaps he will make a phone call to AG Holder…”HEY..hire this loser and get the wife off my back”….
    That about sums it up….Spineless freak.

  • Anonymous

    Well then, it might result in an actual JOB and I don’t think that is the outcome desired.

  • Anonymous

    Gas is all seeped out….

  • Pablo

    Sure, because anyone who fails to worship The One is nothing but a racist. She’s totally not interested in her husband getting a job.

  • Anonymous

    Passing partisan crap for it to get stuck in the senate is not working towards productive legislation. It’s political posturing. Really, that stuff does not count until it is actually signed by potus

    Obama did answer her question. I recall watching a feature on maybe Nightly News or the ABC evening news a few months ago and they featured the company Siemens which had hundreds of jobs that they had been struggling for over a year to fill. This was just at ONE tech company. These were basically engineering type of jobs and they just could not find Americans with the expertise to fill them. This is where the visas come into play and help get workers fill those jobs. Go to academia and look at the vast majority of the professors in sciences and I can guarantee you that most are foreign. People with professional degrees have very low unemployment. It’s easily 1/2 the national unemployment rate right now. Bill O’Reilly always talks about it on his show why EDUCATION is important. Basically, that lady’s husband should not be unemployed for THREE years if his qualifications are what she said they were. 

  • Pablo

    Ah, their bills are partisan crap. Democrat bills are the One True Solution.

    Obama did answer her question.

    No, he didn’t address visas at all.

  • Anonymous

    Pres. Obama was bragging about more than 3 million U.S. jobs created during the last 22 months, but during that same period, the Obama Administration issued more than 3 million work visas to new immigrants and other foreign workers (more than half of them permanent). 
    Although
    the number of work permits issued is primarily controlled by Congress,
    Pres. Obama could be asking for reductions to give relief to all those
    Americans who have been unemployed for such long periods. To be fair its not just President Obama, it is both parties that are allowing offshoring.
    The
    U.S. House of Representatives could easily pass several great bills
    that would immediately cut the foreign work permits to far below the job
    creation numbers.  But Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) refuses to bring a
    single one to the floor for a vote.
    Yes, Senate Majority Leader
    Reid (D-Nev.) and Pres. Obama would push back, but the
    Republican-majority House could put this issue of giving away most new
    jobs to immigrants into the national spotlight and force a showdown.  Nearly
    every Republican has been part of a
    conspiracy of silence with Speaker Boehner to make sure that unemployed
    Americans don’t get priority for new U.S. jobs.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Your hatred is overwhelming, and why would she not want her husband to have a job?

  • Anonymous

    Unfortunately if you were laid-off during the beginning of the recession, no one was hiring for an extended period of time. This left millions without a job for a long period of time prior to the restart of hiring, but companies are not interested if you have been unemployed for over 6 months. This leaves millions of well qualified workers fighting to get a job every day, but having to compete with the new unemployed and the fact companies prefer to hire H1-B visa workers. The H1-B visa worker has an easier time communicating to the offshore team and are a better fit to the team. Companies get around all the laws and unfortunately the US government is the biggest offender by utilizing a third party to shed government jobs.

  • RW

    Great idea – everyone looking for a job, send your resume to President Obama.  At least he might get the message.   Why are we giving out H1b visas when there are American engineers and IT people looking for jobs.

    Has anyone fact checked President Obama?  He said 22 million jobs were created – not.

  • Anonymous

    Gotta be an extra $2.5 million lying around somewhere so Obama can create a job for this guy. 

  • Anonymous

    “Wedel said that she sees Obama as a bit disconnected from economic
    realities, but he’s not the only one. “The reality is we’re still having
    a crisis — it’s not over — but the Republicans don’t realize that
    either,” she said. A longtime Republican who did not vote for Obama in
    2008, Wedel said she and her husband for “the first time ever don’t feel
    like we’re Republicans or Democrats because of the economy.”

    She said she’s not drawn to any of the Republicans in the presidential
    race and might vote for Obama because at least she knows how he’ll
    handle the presidency. Wedel said she’d be more inclined to vote for him
    if the White House helps her husband get a job.”

    Myself a longtime Democrat who did not vote for Obama in 2008 agree with Wedel. After hearing President Obama’s first speech in office making statements that jobs that have been off-shored are not worth the time to get them back convinced me I made the right decision. Though know I am faced with having to vote for President Obama, the lesser of two evils depending on the GOP nomination.

  • Anonymous

    Do you know what the visas are for? My wife works in HR and has to recruit from other countries because our education is horrible. No one in our country wants to receive a doctorate in stats or in Math, so she is forced to look at people from other countries. And the biggest kicker is these people receive their education here. Now, when I say our education is horrible I am referring to our high schools and elementary schools. Our college and universities are fine, hence foreign students coming here to receive their education in the field of mathematics and stats. They even come from China. So how do you think the President or anyone is suppose to curb this? Oh I know get rid of the Department of Education.

  • Anonymous

    Mindless posts are even more of a problem Pablo.  Why are you posting raw employment numbers as evidence there is no demand for jobs?  You can’t even understand and interpret your own link correctly:  The .2 shown for NAICS code 334 represents the actual number of JOBS in thousands…NOT the percent of any increase.  It’s showing a month over month change of 200 jobs.

    LOL my brilliant friend, LOL.  Mindless posts are your problem Pablo.

     

  • Anonymous

    Where do I send my resume to be evaluated by Obama?
    Computer guy with over 20 years experience, 3 years unemployeed.

  • Anonymous

    Again Pablo, you’re either short on facts are devoid of them all together.  The President did address her question, it’s just you’re relying on a summary news report or some pundit for your information.  Here’s his response to her about the visa program:

    Weddel: “He is a semiconductor engineer.”

    Obama: ” The, see, it is interesting to me, and I meant what I said if you send me your husband’s resume I’d be interested in finding out exactly what’s happening right there because the word we’re getting is that somebody in that kind of high-tech field, that kind of engineer,
    should be able to find something right away. And the H-1bs should be reserved only for those companies who say they cannot find somebody in that particular field. So that wouldn’t necessarily apply if in fact there are a lot of highly skilled American engineers in that position.
    I’d be interested in … I will follow up on this because I’m interested in finding out and maybe we can get some information as to why your husband has been having trouble getting placed. We want to encourage
    more American engineers to be placed and that’s part of the reason why it’s so important for us to boost American manufacturing. ”

    Weddel: “I appreciate your response, Mr. President. I’ll have to take you up on that, Thank you.”

    see the transcript: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9223847/Obama_confronted_on_H_1B_use_during_Google_hangout_

    So, he gave her a sentence summary of the visa program and promised to follow up on the disconnect between her husband and the actual demand in the industry.

    This means, once again dear Pablo…you’re wrong.  Your statement that “No, he didn’t address visas at all. ” is a flat out falsehood.

  • Anonymous

    I am so tired of hearing companies state they can’t find properly educated or trained workers. Ask the millions of laid-off workers with high-degrees and 20 years of experience whose resumes are just thrown into a black hole. Companies use the perfect match philosophy to make excuses why they off-shore and in-shore for jobs. I watched a team of 25 fellow US workers be off-shored and in-shored in the airline business after 911 and all that remained were foreign workers in-shore and off-shore. This happened across the IT industry and continues today and is infiltrating into all high-paid skilled jobs. When are US companies going to realize its important to their economic growth in the US, to accept workers who are not a perfect match, instead of using the same old excuses to continue fleeting America?

  • Anonymous

    He did address her question – you are just too full of hate and contempt to dare look up the transcript- stop lying.  Further, since you clearly don’t know anything about this – the H-1b program has been around for many years and has a max quota to keep people from taking jobs away from Americans. 

    This case is funny, because the 2012 quota was hit back in November already, so the truth is this woman must be lying because no more people are being allowed in under the h-1b program for 2012.

    Stop going around and spreading your lies – it’s pathetic Pablo.

  • Anonymous

    This lady is on crack – the FY2012 quota for the h-1b program was already hit back in November.

  • michael stevens

    http://sendyourresumetothewhitehouse.us  You can not only send your resume but include a personal message to the President as well

  • Anonymous

    He totally avoided her question about visas. And being puzzled that her husband is having a hard time finding a job shows just how out of touch this miserablle excuse for a president really Obama is.

  • Anonymous

    That is correct another 85,000 foreign workers of which 20,000 who have high degrees were granted a visa, so that’s another 85,000 American workers who will either be laid-off or will not get hired in 2012. April 1 2012 starts the begin of the 2013 quota, why is this being allowed under any circumstance? Reminder this is just the H1-B program their are many other visa programs.

      E-13

      E-2

     Treaty investors and qualified employees.

      E-23

      E-2C

     Long-term foreign investors in the CNMI

      E-2C

      E-3

     Certain “specialty occupation” professionals from Australia.

      E-33

        H-1B

     Workers in a specialty occupation and the following sub-classifications:

    H-1B1 – Free Trade Agreement workers in a specialty occupation from Chile and Singapore.

    H-1B2 – Specialty occupations related to Department of Defense Cooperative Research and Development projects or Co-production projects.

    H-1B3 – Fashion models of distinguished merit and ability. 

      H-4

      H-1C2

     Registered nurses working in a health professional shortage area as determined by the U.S. Department of Labor.  

      H-4

      H-2A

     Temporary or seasonal agricultural workers. 

      H-4

      H-2B 

     Temporary non-agricultural workers.  

      H-4

      H-3 

     Trainees other than medical or academic. This classification also
    applies to practical training in the education of handicapped
    children.  

      H-4

      I   

     Representatives of foreign press, radio, film or other foreign information media.

      I

      L-1A 

     Intracompany transferees in managerial or executive positions. 

      L-23

      L-1B 

     Intracompany transferees in positions utilizing specialized knowledge. 

      L-23

      O-1

     Persons with extraordinary ability in sciences, arts, education,
    business, or athletics and motion picture or TV production.  

      O-3

      O-2

     Persons accompanying solely to assist an O-1 nonimmigrant. 

      O-3

      P-1A

      Internationally recognized athletes. 

      P-4

      P-1B

     Internationally recognized entertainers or members of internationally recognized entertainment groups. 

      P-4

    P-2

      Individual performer or part of a group entering to perform under a reciprocal exchange program.

     P-4

      P-3 

     Artists or entertainers, either an individual or group, to
    perform, teach, or coach under a program that is culturally unique.

       P-4

      Q-1

      Persons participating in an international cultural exchange
    program for the purpose of providing practical training, employment, and
    to share the history, culture, and traditions of the alien’s home
    country. 

      Not Applicable4

      R-1

     Religious workers.

       R-2

      TN

     North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) temporary professionals from Mexico and Canada.  

      TD

  • Anonymous

    Genius, what you read above was just part of the conversation.  He did address her question.  Take your lazy behind and go find the transcript you contemptible POS.

  • Anonymous

    Good thing the “Immigration bill 2611″ of 2006, passed by the Republican controlled Senate in 2006 was shot down by Congress…the Republican controlled Senate wanted to nearly double the number of H-1b visas each year :-(

    At least in 2009 when President Obama brought forth the ARRA act and passed it, he included restrictions on this program (H-1b) that:

    -The employer must, prior to filing the H-1B petition, take
    good-faith steps to recruit U.S. workers for the position for which the
    H-1B worker is sought, offering a wage at least as high as what the law
    requires for the H-1B worker. The employer must also attest that, in
    connection with this recruitment, it has offered the job to any U.S.
    worker who applies who is equally or better qualified for the position.

    -The employer must not have laid off, and will not lay off, any U.S.
    worker in a job essentially equivalent to the H-1B position in the area
    of intended employment of the H-1B worker within the period beginning 90
    days prior to the filing of the H-1B petition and ending 90 days after
    its filing.

    Yay Obama!

  • Anonymous

    Yes but unfortunately the companies get right around this and it hasn’t stopped the situation. The large companies have a complete legal team to determine exactly what to do legally to get around these restrictions and they do continually. My biggest concern is why haven’t we halted the programs all together. Their should be no worker visa’s being granted at any level and we should make it extremely difficult for companies who off-shore jobs to provide services or sell their goods in this country. I expected real change and bold moves from President Obama, jobs should of been his first priority and it still should be. How will the debt get paid without Americans having jobs, the wealthy can’t entirely pay off the debt?

  • Anonymous

    I think it will be a lost cause for Obama to write any more regulations around hiring h-1b visa workers. 

    In 2006 Senate Republicans tried to double the amount of h-1b workers that get allowed into the country, and they tried to block the ARRA bill in 2009 that implemented Obama’s restrictions on h-1b above. 

    Companies WANT to be able to hire visa workers from other countries – since Republicans are beholden to these companies, there’s no way they will allow Obama to implement any more restrictions on h-1b visas.

  • Anonymous

    If President Obama can halt deportations and grant temporary work visas to 300,000 illegals without congress, I don’t see why he can’t halt the Visa programs? I believe its not because he can’t do this but because he doesn’t want to do this.

  • Pablo

    “My question to you is why does the government continue to issue and extend H-1B visas when there are tons of Americans just like my husband with no job.”

    A sentence summary of what he thinks the visa program should be doing is not an answer to her question.

  • Pablo

    Why can’t you recognize sarcasm?

  • Pablo

    No he didn’t. Telling her what he thinks the program ought to do is not an answer to her question.

  • AliveStillKickin

    Some Hi Tech company is now going to get paid off with taxpayer money for hiring this guy.
    Then Obama will USE him as a campaigning tool.
    Hopefully it will be a Solar-based company which will go bankrupt before November….. just like all the others
    Phony SOB

  • Anonymous

    Pablo, you’re tragically off the mark again.  First you say that “No, he didn’t address visas at all.” which we all know is wrong, right?  Because we know for FACT he addresses the visas with:

    “And the H-1bs should be reserved only for those companies who say they
    cannot find somebody in that particular field. So that wouldn’t
    necessarily apply if in fact there are a lot of highly skilled American
    engineers in that position. I’d be interested in … I will follow up on
    this because I’m interested in finding out and maybe we can get some
    information as to why your husband has been having trouble getting
    placed.”

    Is that correct my poor friend Pablo?  And we all know that she asked:

    “My question to you is why does the government continue to issue and
    extend H-1b visas when there are tons of Americans just like my husband
    with no job?”

    So, we know she asked why the Gov’t is continuing to extend H-1b visas when her husband does not have a job.  Obama answers that it does not make sense that H-1b visas would be taking his job because H-1bs should only be awarded jobs when corporations “…cannot find somebody (US Citizen) in that particular field.” 

    You are a notorious backpeddler Pablo – keep going.  Maybe you can completely change the topic and call him a commie.  Hahaha.

  • Anonymous

    Hooray Pablo!  Finally, admitting your shortcomings – it’s a big step.  So now that we can agree you were wrong to say Obama “…didn’t address visas at all.” – we can move on to a new topic you’re backpeddling into, which is whether he actually addressed her question.

    She asked why “…the government continue to issue and extend H-1B visas when there are tons of Americans just like my husband with no job.”

    This question puzzled Obama because Corporations are required to fill spots with American workers first:

    “And the H-1bs should be reserved only for those companies who say they cannot find somebody in that particular field. So that wouldn’t necessarily apply if in fact there are a lot of highly skilled American engineers in that position. I’d be interested in … I will follow
    up on this because I’m interested in finding out and maybe we can get some information as to why your husband has been having trouble getting placed. ”

    Sorry Pablo – you got yourself caught making a statement that relied on the story above and not the full, verbatim comments of the President.  Now, as usually, you’re backpeddling to find something else to argue about or create some sort of misdirection.  Quit it with the weasel tactics and just admit you were wrong…everyone can see it, you look more like a jerk when you redirect.

  • Anonymous

    Everyone who needs a job or is underemployed, e-mail your resume to white house.gov. It is as much fun as turning yourself in to attack watch.

  • Anonymous

    You want to tell me more about the .2% Pablo?  LMAO.

  • AliveStillKickin

    Obama to reporter: I will unite America!
    The alternative headline could easily be, “Proof that the president
    believes you unwashed masses don’t remember the last three years” or
    “Mainstream media drone lets Obama get away with one of the most absurd
    statements of his presidency to date (besides the one about healing the
    planet, of course).”
    MORE: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=49189

    BTW….Didn’t some guy named “Adolph” say the same thing about Germany?

  • Anonymous

    Just because you “wrote” about it means nothing to me. I’m sure that I’m not the only one, who upon seeing “Hout”, speed scrolls past your rambling pontifications and manifestos.

    Green companies that used stimulus money are going bankrupt. Case closed. End of story. Thanks for participating though, stop by the prize closet on the way out and pick up a t-shirt.

  • Anonymous

    He immediately corrected himself. TRY AGAIN!!

  • Anonymous

    Obummer can’t believe someone can’t find a job in his economy…Surprised he didn’t just outright call this woman a liar!!

  • david r

     ”Rethuglicans”?  Learn that in community college?

  • david r

     You just like Obama because he has pizzazz.

  • david r

     More partisan crap, no doubt.

  • david r

    I feel the same.  Obama is real up front about how he is doing nothing about the deficit.  He says it is not insurmountable, and that in times of economic distress, the government should be deficit spending.  In other words, he spins it, and leaves the problem for the next president.  And he has been talking about how it is going to take more than 8 years to get out of Bush’s mess, so he lays the blame for his inaction elsewhere.  But Gingrich is truly evil.  I would not be able to vote for Obama or Gingrich.  Probably vote SWP.

  • david r

    Tons of you guys right here in Austin.  Not to mention all the recent college grads who cant find work.  Once Obama is out, the rich will bring their money back from offshore, and we will see growth and jobs.  Get smart.  Dump Obama.

  • Anonymous

    You know what Hootie?… You’re right. You are Pro Weird.

  • Anonymous

    Republicans are caught between a rock and a hard place because there are so many hispanic votes that they cant afford to make it look like they are against them. Wouldnt it be nice if politicians didnt have to suck up for their votes.

  • Anonymous

    Libs dont have the wit to recognize such.

  • Anonymous

    Obama is the one who has said that we need to bring in and keep foreign labor. Soooo,,,does that make obama un-american? By your own terms that seems to be the case.

  • Anonymous

    She said her husband had been out of work for 3 years. The 2012 quota you keep saying was hit back in november has nothing to do with him. There have been 3 years worth of foreign workers brought in since he has been unemployed, can you not figure out simple situations? Americans are passed over for foreign workers every day, i know them personally. One woman i know was laid off from a supervisor job where a hispanic person was put in her place and she was even told she couldnt go back on a line to work because she was “overqualified” even though she had worked there before. You can keep talking about h-1b all you want but companies get around the rules all the time. 

  • Anonymous

    Bad at being wierd, guess that means one cant be wierd because they are too bad at it.

  • Anonymous

    Keep proving your lib compassion for all. Looks like your the one spewing the hate there tommy.

  • Anonymous

    You have got to be kidding right? This is all conservatives fault? Tommy,,you really need to dig a little deeper than the lib news you have been listening to.

  • Anonymous

    Syphilus, can you understand cbo numbers or is that a joke to you too? By their own estimates the actual unemployment rate is 9.95% if millions of people hadnt actually given up on finding work in this obama economy. And taxes will rise more than 30% between 2012 and 2014 due to the limit in the alternative tax and other taxes (obama care) going into effect. They estimate the economy will perform below its potential for at least 6 more years, has to be because of obama policies or will this be blamed on bush too?

  • Anonymous

    Shouldnt the senate have at least taken up this “partisan crap” to debate it and see what was in it to quote pelosi. Or should they just do what they have done for 3 years and not pass a budget as is required in the constitution? Its always the republicans fault no matter the situation with you libs isnt it.

  • Anonymous

    H1b Is the real problem for unemployment for young graduates and engineers in this country..Expecially Indian Companies..These Indian companies like Infosys, Wipro, Cognizant, Patni etc etc, dump in foreign workers from India in all sorts of visa’s lile H1B, L1B..If you  look at the payroll of these indian companies 99% of those working in USA for those companies are Guest workers from India..These indian companies employ around 4 Million Guest workers in our country DUMPING in cheap workers..That is the MAIN reason why our Students , US citizens are NOT going for Engineering Degress these days..Because with hefty Student loans these graduates will never get Jobs in our Country as long as these Indian companies DUMP in foreighn workers so cheaply…these wokers are paid 45-50K/ANNUM which is well below any US citizens with DEGREE can work for..A MODERN DAY SLAVERY is HAPPENING in OUR GREAT NATION and WE AMERICANS become the ultimate VICTIM..
    IT is time to SEND these Guest WORKERS HOME..Place a cap on salary as well as increase the visa fee to 20K/ANNUM so that these companies will NOT dump in cheap workers but at the same time can bring in talented folks from overseas by paying the premium..

    OBAMA , last 3 years you are told by the corporate CEO’s that they cannot find Engineering folks in USA.. THAT is NOT TRUE..I AM an ENGINEER with Bachelors and Masters Degree in Electrical engineering and because of these foreign workers my salary is stagnat for last 5 years, fearing of losing jobs to these cheap visa folks are ever increasing as these folks are so abundant in our country…
    WE can reduce the unemployment rate , OBAMA within 6 Months to 3% if we act on these visa folks..CANCEL there VISA”S or increase the visa fees of H1B and L1b(NEW and Existing) folks to 20-30K/ANNUm…and ASK/Force these cheap INDIAN companies to hire atleast 50% of there employees in our country for US citizens..

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Sanjay-Bose/100001861177870 Sanjay Bose

    http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20111221-707599.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhzMEtD349YThis current Call Centre bill And American jobs Act will be also not passed , same as previous outsourcing bill which was dead .Its an Election gimmick , with nexus of corporate s (wall street ) and government to fool people , and they r damn sure that this will too not pass very damn sure , infact Morgan Stanley and jp morgan chase (these both got large amount Bailout from fed (tax money)) is going to cut more jobs in US around most of them and they will will transferred to India , they want to transfer about 92 % more jobs outside , A mortgage company OCWEN FINANCIAL which has 90 % of jobs outsourced overseas ( India and some to Uruguay ) r buying more mortgage companies like LITTON from Goldman sachs and HomeEq servicing from Braclays and together with Altisource etc and transfer there jobs to overseas too ( mostly all of them ) same with IBM and other companies . so most of american companies will be employing overseas people in future ( might be 95 % of workforce). jobs of authors , contents writers ,editors ,copy writers etc etc will also be going to be outsourced so u too get ready to find other job in Mac Donald or wall-mart And all ur jobs r here , Below in this linkshttp://www.informationweek.com/news/199601616?pgno=2&queryText http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Indiahttp://modernpatriot.blogspot.com/
     

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Sanjay-Bose/100001861177870 Sanjay Bose

    http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20111221-707599.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhzMEtD349Y This current Call Centre bill And American jobs Act will be also not passed , same as previous outsourcing bill which was dead .Its an Election gimmick , with nexus of corporate s (wall street ) and government to fool people , and they r damn sure that this will too not pass very damn sure , infact Morgan Stanley and jp morgan chase (these both got large amount Bailout from fed (tax money)) is going to cut more jobs in US around most of them and they will will transferred to India , they want to transfer about 92 % more jobs outside , A mortgage company OCWEN FINANCIAL which has 90 % of jobs outsourced overseas ( India and some to Uruguay ) r buying more mortgage companies like LITTON from Goldman sachs and HomeEq servicing from Braclays and together with Altisource etc and transfer there jobs to overseas too ( mostly all of them ) same with IBM and other companies . so most of american companies will be employing overseas people in future ( might be 95 % of workforce). jobs of authors , contents writers ,editors ,copy writers etc etc will also be going to be outsourced so u too get ready to find other job in Mac Donald or wall-mart And all ur jobs r here , Below in this linkshttp://www.informationweek.com/news/199601616?pgno=2&queryText http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Indiahttp://modernpatriot.blogspot.com/

    So get ready for worst 

  • Anonymous

    I also am a unemployed 3 yrs semiconductor working. I have 5 other friends in the same situation…we have applied to 1000′s of companies…all independently….NO HITS!!!

    I also (when working) was involved in the “game” of finding a qualified US employee b4 going VISA route….we essentially played the game, filled out the paper work that said “we tried…couldnt find anyone”. 

    Also…how do they calculate the 3.8% unemployed Engineers???? I bet $100 I am NOT on that list of BS statistics! Also now that I have a $9/hr job….am I still an unemployed “engineer”?!

  • Anonymous

    Almost a coherent thought there lac – almost.

  • Anonymous

    Ayeyaeyae – libs_are_clueless, dummy, you know the budget is not “required in the constitution”?  Holy idiocy – look ladies and gentlemen: libs_are_clueless, conservatives pride and joy.  Doesn’t know the Constitution. Typical.  LOLOLOL

  • Anonymous

    You don’t even know the constitution libs_are_clueless – and you think you’re going to try and trick me into thinking you know about h-1b visas?

    You’re a proven liar and idiot – I call BS on your whole post.  I wouldn’t be the first post you put up here that was full of crap.

    Besides, are you some communist or socialist scumbag?  Why are you trying to keep corporations from competing through foreign workers?  LOL dummy.

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