Coming Up on ‘This Week’ Summers, Cantor on Jobs and The Deficit

It’s a shame that George Stephanopoulos is not aware of an article by Lee Fang, which appeared in the Huffington Post, November 21.
According to this article, Eric Cator hosted a job fair at Germana Community College, and 30 of the organizations participating in that job fair got fund from the stimulus program. These organizations Included the Culpeper County School system got which $ 4.1 million, enabling them hiring 7 new teachers and helping them save 700 jobs, Grand Canyon University, which got $ 14 million on Pell Grants, and the Orange County Public Schools which got $ 340,00 and is hiring 7 people.
Half of participants were from the public sector including Dept of VA, CIA, FBI ,Army, and FAA. Some of the big ticket winners in the public sector included the Department of Defense with 83 projects totaling 75.7 million in stimulus money and the Culpeper Army Recruiting center, which also got stimulus money.
Cantor used the job fair to denounce Obama’s economic stimulus, even though the job fair would not have been possible were it not for stimulus funds.
Cantor’s behavior epitomizes the hypocrisy of GOP Congressmen. Time and time again, they denounce the stimulus, but yet they are first in line to take credit, when stimulus money funds projects in their own districts.
It would be interesting if George Stephanopoulos would actually bring this subject up.

George Please Think It Over You Belong In Washinton Or In Charles Gibsons seat BUT not GMA

Associated Press:
“A bipartisan coalition in the House voted late Thursday to make it easier for corporations to engage in complex derivatives trades without government restrictions, eroding the reach of proposed regulations to govern Wall Street.
Democratic attempts to toughen the legislation failed.”
Business Week:
“Even as job losses in the US mount, employers have stepped up the hiring of skilled workers from abroad, according to data from the US Citizenship & Immigration Services. The acceleration in recent weeks has put companies close to exhausting the 65,000 visas allotted each year for foreign hires under what’s known as the H-1B program. Some 61,500 visas had been used as of Dec. 8, and the last visas are likely to be claimed within weeks. Once that happens, companies won’t be able to use the program to bring in additional workers until October, the start of the government’s fiscal year.
“The numbers are surprising, considering the state of the economy,” says Ron Hira, associate professor of public policy at Rochester Institute of Technology. “With 15.4 million people unemployed in the U.S., employers should be able to find qualified workers here.” The H-1B program allows employers to sponsor skilled workers from overseas for up to three years, with the possibility of extending for additional years.”
So how’s that Hope and Change working for you?

The biased media largely ignore the implication of the high level of immigration on unemployment, earnings and the environment. This is true of the current discussion about jobs programs. 125,000 Visas are issued every month for foreign workers to work in the U.S. The numbers of these Visas exceed the number of jobs created by the massive stimulus program. The Obama administration has even reduced work place enforcement from the low level of the Bush administration. An estimated 8 million illegals are currently working in the U.S. In the little work place enforcement that does occur the immigration rarely deports the criminal immigrants. Obama is not fulfilling the reposibility to enforce immigration law.

Bring them jobs back here.Put tarrif on imports and open the factories.

We’d all like to get by with lower spending, yet the cut taxes & cut government approach of the Reagan/Bush years has been given 3 decades, to deliver on the prosperity it was supposed to create — saw a cool site; Balkingpoints ; incredible satellite view of earth

Posted by: Jenn | Dec 11, 2009 4:54:37 PM posted: “So how’s that Hope and Change working for you?”
Are you implying that the increase of US corporate hiring of foreign workers is somehow THIS President’s fault?
The use of H-1B visas have been building for decades, propped up by both parties. For example, in 2005 due to an accounting “mistake”, 10,000 more H-1B visas than authorized by Congress. And, in 2005 Congress had already added 20,000 H-1B visas to the 65,000 already mandated !
But here’s some good news: In February 2009, as part of the stimulus bill signed into law by President Obama, banks and financial institutions were LIMITED from hiring H-1B workers unless jobs were first offered to qualified US workers.
So if this action indicates moving toward government control over H-1B visas, then yeah, it’s working for me.

Cantor like most republicans ,have never cared about small business. so listening to Cantor is just that same old republican crap.. we americans are sick of hearing from the party of NO >>> :)

George keeps bring back Hufington ..?
all she has to say is like any republican ( put the democrate president down)..
please find some people to be on your show that will use open thought and not just republican idiots.. she sounds like a spoiled brate

Mr. Cantor…where were you these last 8 years…in a closet? Do you remember that your party was handed a surplus which mysteriously disappeared during your 8 years leaving us in the worst deficit since the time of Roosevelt. We have nothing to show for the money spent except a war we did not need to be in losing too many lives needlesly. We have no health care for all and we are fighting to keep the economy from going down the drain thanks to your administration. At least what is being spent now is for something and we will see a result in the end. All generations spend more than we should and we all have left our children with problems so let’s get off the leaving our children our debt problems. If President Obama were to receive some support in any way or shape like Bush did, so much more could be accomplished. I don’t know why you continue to say the public does not want health care as I marched with 700 here in Georgia who want it and desperately need some form of health care. Most of us prefer the public option in case you are interested. I am so tired of the constant negativity to our President and the lies by the talk show hosts and distortions. Too bad so many who listen to them don’t have the sense to check things out on FactCheck.org or other organizations to see just how much they do lie. Many hate the government anyway and are happy to hear these untruths as it makes them feel better about their hate. You know the kind of man he is and what he wants for those who have been neglected for so long. I know that if (God forbid) you get back in power, many of these things will be brought back up again and you will take credit for them. Ideas which have been brought about by this President. I was once a proud republican but now I am an informed Independent and a free thinker. Thankfully, I will never have to sign a purity pledge or carry signs about hanging our president like those I saw at the Palins’s campaign and at the tea parties. I did not think you were like that but as time goes by, I have my doubts. Inciting these fringe groups is not a wise thing to do and I had hoped you were one who could lead the party away from this hatred. I see you are not. You are not a free thinker but a party person which saddens me. Oddly enough I respect Lindsey Graham as he does give the president some credit from time to time and he did vote for Sotomoyer against his party’s wishes so he still has my respect. While I know he disagrees with the President on things, he still can see some good in him which makes him the free thinker I thought you were. He may not be the prefect president but he has kept his word in many instances and that to me is important. I was proud of him at the Nobel Peace prize award as he faced everyone with his beliefs and did not back down in front of people just to say the right thing. And for the first time mentioned the fact that our soldiers have done more to keep people safe all over the world for many years and people should remember this. About time they got some credit.