Harvard: Students turn on Obama, want him recalled, reject Obamacare
The Obama thrill is gone among America’s millennials aged 18-29 just a year after they helped the president win a second term.
A new and shocking poll from Harvard University's Institute of Politics released Wednesday found that younger Americans are so disgusted with President Obama, Congress and the troubled Obamacare system that 47 percent support recalling the president and just 29 percent are planning to sign up for health insurance.
"A critical factor in the election and reelection of Barack Obama, America's 18- to 29- year-olds now rate the president's job performance closer to that of Congress -- and at the lowest level since he took office in 2009," said Harvard Institute of Politics Director Trey Grayson.
How bad is it? Obama’s approval rating among millennials, many with big college loans and no job, is just 41 percent. Even young blacks are tiring of the president, with his approval rating among African-Americans dropping from 84 percent seven months ago to 75 percent today.
Harvard's poll is especially troubling for Obamacare, which needs millions of younger Americans involved for it to succeed financially. The poll found that 57 disapprove of Obamacare and that there is little interest in signing up.
Worse, by a margin of more than two-to-one, 44 percent of millennials believe that the quality of their care will get worse under the Affordable Care Act and 50 percent believe their cost of care will increase.
"Young Americans aren’t daft, they know a bad deal when they see one and that is why they are abandoning the president and no amount of spin can change the facts that just like MySpace, Millennials are over Obama," said Raffi Williams, deputy press secretary at the Republican National Committee.
On the issue of recalling the president and Congress, 52 would recall all members of Congress and 47 percent would junk the president, though a nearly-equal 46 percent would not recall him.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner's "Washington Secrets" columnist, can be contacted at
AMERICA’S ASSAULT on
AMERICAN YOUTH … illegals still get the jobs and welfare
staggering poverty and
unemployment for youth as the DEMS expand the LA RAZA Mexican welfare state and
all jobs go to illegals!
IN AMERICA THE BILLIONAIRES LIKE
MARK ZUCKERBERG DEMAND BOATLOADS OF FOREIGNERS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED.
BARACK OBAMA’S SO CALLED DEPT. of
HOMELAND SECURITY HAS OUR BORDERS WIDE OPEN AND UNDEFENDED TO EASE MILLIONS OF
MEXICANS INTO OUR JOBS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED!
IN AMERICA, NO LEGAL
NEED APPLY!
Report details massive
wealth loss for youth in US
By Nick Barrickman
18 March 2013
18 March 2013
A recent report from Washington DC-based Urban Institute (UI)
shows that overall percentage of wealth in society for those in “Generation X
and Y” (those in their 20s and 30s) has been consistently dropping and is
currently at a level which may be unprecedented.
THE OBAMA
ASSAULT on AMERICA’S YOUTH AS HE SQUANDERS BILLIONS PROPPING UP AND DEFENDING
THE BORDERS OF MUSLIM DICTATORS AND BUILDS THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA
and the MEXICAN WELFARE STATE in AMERICAN BORDERS.
….he
no longer calls his endless CON-JOBS and LIES “change”!
The
stock market is booming, the Forbes 400 are richer than ever, yet the
conditions for youth and workers are disastrous. War continues without end, and
Obama has gone far beyond Bush in rendering the Bill of Rights a dead letter.
THE AMNESTY ASSAULT on
AMERICA’S YOUTH – It’s all about keeping wages depressed!
Here
are some key facts presented by the CBO: 1) There are now 40 million
foreign-born people living in the United States, making immigrants a bigger
share of our national population than at any time since 1920. 2) Twenty-two
million — a majority of the foreign born — are non-citizens. 3)
Eleven-and-a-half million — a majority of the non-citizens — are illegal
aliens.
Amnesty's Message: Send Us Your
High School Dropouts
DURING BARACK OBAMA’S FIRST TERM, 2/3s OF ALL
JOBS WENT TO IMMIGRANTS, BOTH LEGAL AND ILLEGAL.
IT’S ALL ABOUT MAKING BILLIONAIRES BY KEEPING
WAGES DEPRESSED.
SHOULD WE KEEP IMPORTING FOREIGN BORN TECH
WORKERS YEAR AFTER YEAR AFTER YEAR?
“Tech tycoons like Larry Ellison and
Mark Zuckerberg have gotten rich while wages in the technology sector have
stagnated.”
Silicon Valley Poverty Is Often Ignored By The Tech Hub's Elite
Silicon Valley Poverty Is Often Ignored By The Tech Hub's Elite
TECH
GIANT APPLE COMPUTER SAYS HELL NO TO PAYING TAXES and HELL NO TO HIRING
AMERIANS! KEEP THE BOATLOADS OF CHINESE AND INDIANS COMING!
Tech firms fight hiring rules in
immigration bill
Americans would "be shocked to know that most
of the H-1B visas … are going to outsourcing companies," Sen. Dick Durbin,
D-Ill., said during a recent hearing.
Story Highlights
- Bill provision that would require
firms to post jobs for Americans is targeted
- Technology firms have spent millions
on lobbying on immigration
- Judiciary Committee set to start
working on bill
The measure, part of a sweeping compromise bill drafted by a bipartisan group of eight senators, would require job openings to be posted on a new government website for 30 days and order companies to first extend job offers to "equally or better qualified" U.S. workers. It would give the U.S. Labor Department the power to review and challenge those hiring decisions.
Proponents say the measures are needed to curb abuses by companies who they say use the visa program to hire cheaper labor. Technology companies say the proposed rules would cripple their ability to hire the best employees from a global workforce and represent inappropriate government intrusion in internal hiring decisions.
The fight over hiring practices is part of the massive lobbying campaign underway on the immigration measure and will offer a fresh test of the technology industry's growing influence in Washington. The companies involved in the computer and Internet sectors spent nearly $140 million in lobbying last year -- more than twice the $69 million the industry poured into influencing Washington a decade earlier, according to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks political spending.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to begin work on the bill Thursday.
The hiring battle centers on the program that grants H-1B visas, which go mostly to college-educated foreigners in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. Technology companies say they face a chronic shortage of qualified workers in these fields. The United States sets an annual limit of 85,000 visas for these companies, and the competition for them is intense: This year, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services opened up the application process April 1, and the cap was reached within a week.
Industry groups have made big gains in the Senate's immigration proposal. The bill, for instance, Would increase the H-1B cap to 205,000 annually. However, tech officials warn the new recruiting requirements could drive companies to move their skilled jobs overseas, rather than comply. A commonly cited example: Microsoft's decision to open a software center in Vancouver, British Columbia, after Congress failed to pass immigration legislation in 2007 that would have significantly increased the number of H-1B visas.
Under the bill, "employers are going to have an arbitrary government standard imposed on every hiring decision," said Robert Hoffman, the top lobbyist for the Information Technology Industry Council, a trade group. The proposed rule, he said, ignores subjective factors that influence hiring. "A perfect example: How does one define whether or not someone has the personality to fit into a corporate culture?" he said.
"We are not trying to change any of the fundamental policy goals that they are trying to achieve" in the Senate, Hoffman said. "We are just trying to tweak it, so that these goals and other goals, like retaining the best and brightest and growing in the United States, so that those types of goals are advanced as well."
Ron Hira, an associate professor of public policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology, has criticized the visa program, saying it allows firms to hire "cheap indentured labor."
"The technology industry is asking the government to come in and intervene in the normal functioning of the U.S. labor market, specifically on their behalf," Hira said.
Bruce Morrison, a former Connecticut congressman who lobbies on behalf of a group that represents American engineers, said the organization will object to any effort to "dilute worker protections" as the measure moves through the Senate. "The arguments from the companies is that there aren't any Americans to take these jobs," he said, "so there shouldn't be any problem."
The biggest users of H-1B visas are not brand-name companies, but little-known staffing companies that provide foreign workers on a temporary basis to U.S. companies — including banks, health insurance companies and big retailers. Cognizant, a New Jersey-based company that employs 27,000 people in the USA, is the top user of the temporary visas, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services records show. Most of its workers come from India.
In addition, three India-based outsourcing companies rank among the top five recipients of H-1Bs, according to the federal data.
Americans would "be shocked to know that most of the H-1B visas … are going to outsourcing companies," Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., one of eight senators who drafted the immigration bill, said during a recent hearing. "They're going to these firms, largely in India, who are finding workers, engineers, who will work at low wages in the U.S."
Durbin is a driving force behind the hiring requirements in the Senate proposal.
The measure would make business harder for staffing companies dependent on foreign workers. It would impose higher fees on firms that rely on overseas employees for more than 30% of their workforce. Starting in 2016, the bill would bar granting any new temporary visas for foreign workers at companies with more than half their workers on the visas. Both measures apply to companies that employ more than 50 people.
Cognizant spokesman John Procter said he did not have a breakdown on the percentage of the company's workers in the USA on H-1B visas. He said the bill imposes an "arbitrary, detrimental restriction on the number of skilled immigrants."
"It would really change the way America does business," he said. "The company is very focused on educating legislators and making sure this language doesn't make its way into any final outcome."
Cognizant hired its first federal lobbyist in 2010 andby last year, it had spent nearly $1 million on federal lobbying, congressional records show. Its team includes Democratic power broker Heather Podesta, who did not return a telephone call. Other companies also have stepped up their political activity.
Last month, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Netflix's Reed Hastings, Google's Eric Schmidt and other technology executives teamed up to underwrite an advocacy group to promote their views on immigration. Two of its subsidiaries began a seven-figure advertising campaign to shore up voter support for key senators in the immigration debate.
The tech industry "has clearly come of age," said Ellen Miller, executive director of the Sunlight Foundation. "In the last decade, we've seen this tremendous recognition from Silicon Valley of the need to play in the power circles — to both protect their bottom line and to alter the political scene to their advantage."
Obama and Justice
Sotomayor (A LA RAZA PARTY MEMBER) Vow to Illegals to SABOTAGE E-verify!
VIVA LA RAZA
SUPREMACY?
during Obama's first
term, 2/3s of all jobs went to immigrants... BOTH LEGAL and ILLEGAL... and
workplace enforcement of FED LAWS PROHIBITING THE EMPLOYMENT OF ILLEGALS
plummeted 70%!
given Obama was
reelected by LA RAZA, enforcement is expected to be nonexistent.
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