Anyone listening to Sessions' confirmation hearing?
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Anonymous
And it is so much fun to watch the coastal elites blow their stack. Unable to deal with other people desperate to get jobs they vote for someone like trump. Ever get fired ?? And replaced with guest workers?? And have CNN and the post talk about how immigration helps America? I am enjoying every second of this. Now |
Anonymous
Booker gave specifics. They talked about his voting record in the Senate. I was impressed by Booker. Booker and Lewis inspired some of my friends and family who have never voted to contact their Senators to let them know that they oppose Sessions and that if they vote to confirm him, they will vote against them when they come up for reelection. These are people who have never been politically active in terms of contacting their representatives but ALWAYS show up to vote. Further, Booker stood on principal and followed his conscience. Everyone who is saying that he testified for purely political reasons have not been paying attention to how Corey Booker has lived his life. Those claiming he is doing it for political reasons rather than following his conscience are revealing more about their own world and behavior. When I hear them ascribe political motives to Cory Booker, that tells me that they are people who probably let politics--not conscience--be their guide. You point out that his "pro people" on the same panel are African American as if that means we are supposed to say, oh, okay. They know best because after all they are black. That's insulting. Everything they say might be true but that in no way means that the testimony of others about Sessions record and behavior is not also true. Maybe Sessions is both. Nice to his staff and people he knows but also someone who has engaged in prosecutorial misconduct and who has voted against protecting ensuring the rights of all Americans. For example, he opposed extending the violence against women act, he has actively opposed legislation aimed at protecting the LGBTQ community, and he has opposed much needed bipartisan criminal justice reform to name just a few examples. The issue before the Committee and later the Senate is not whether Sessions is a nice guy that orders a Blizzard at Dairy Queen (yes, Sessions' aid actually testified to this), the issue is whether Sessions will uphold and act to enforce the civil rights of all Americans--black, white, native americans, male, female, gay or straight, Christian, Muslim, Jew, Hindu, Atheist, differently abled, etc. Whether we can count on him to apply and enforce our nation's laws fairly and appropriately. In the past he has been reprimanded for serious prosecutorial misconduct. Sessions voting record indicates that he disagrees with a number of our nation's laws. Further, his record shows that he has abused his prosecutorial discretion in the past. That is relevant as to whether he should be entrusted to be the nation's number one law enforcement officer. Go look at the Tieco case he prosecuted and what the trial court said. I prefer to judge someone on the totality of their behavior. I am not someone who says--well I know he bullies you but he's nice to me so I'll be his friend. I remember losing friends because some of my friends chose to stay friends with a friend who abused his wife. They figured, not my business. He's nice to me. Well, that's not good enough for me. Jesus said it well in Matthew 25:40 "Whatever you do to the least of my brothers or sisters you do to me." Most of the world's religions encourage talking care of your neighbor and standing up for others. That's what Cory Booker, John Lewis, and others were calling on the Senate to do. Stand for what's right not just what is polite. |
Anonymous
I remember hearing Republicans discussing the plight of the urban poor, they suggested moving. You need to move to find work. That's what I did. I was out of work for 7 years but managed to find a well paying job. You can too. Move out of the area you are living in. |
Anonymous
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So is everyone OK with the AG firing DOJ employees for religious reasons?
"Whitehouse suggested that lists were already circulating suggesting there might be purges or demotions of certain career appointees in the Justice Department. Whitehouse wondered whether Sessions would have a problem with career lawyers “with secular beliefs,” having in the past criticized department attorneys for being secular. Sessions replied that he has used that language about secular attorneys to differentiate between people who recognize objective “truth” and those who take positions “in which truth is not sufficiently respected." Whitehouse replied, with a leading, and perhaps slightly conclusory question: “And a secular person has just as good a claim to understanding the truth as a person who is religious, correct?” At which point Sessions responded, “Well, I’m not sure.” For a few seconds the Senate chamber seemed to go completely silent." http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/01/jeff_sessions_confirmation_hearing_had_one_moment_that_revealed_why_so_many.html |
Anonymous
If this is the case it isn't the CEOs and higher ups forcing you to hire them so you can pay lower wages so that they can lower costs, not only for shareholders, but for themselves and their golden parachutes with stock options. |
Anonymous
Wait a second-- you are hiring people for H1B visas for jobs that Americans are qualified for, and you are blaming me? WTF? Find some way to push back, don't whine about consultants. |
Anonymous
We know it benefits ceos and owners of large corporations. No one argues that. the 1% will keep getting more and more. The entry level workers get the shaft But we know which side you are on |
Anonymous
Frightening. He is a disgusting human being. |
Anonymous
thank god for rich CEOs, rich stockholders and more H1Bs, screw the next generation, we are entitled to cheap guest workers With a median household income of $40,581, millennials earn 20 percent less than boomers did at the same stage of life, despite being better educated, according to a new analysis of Federal Reserve data by the advocacy group Young Invincibles. http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/01/13/millennials-falling-behind-boomer-parents/96530338/ |
Anonymous
Democrats gave Attorney General-designate Jeff Sessions an opening to discuss immigration policy - one of the issues on which the minority sees him as most potentially disruptive - in his own preferred terms.... "....'If you bring in a larger flow of labor, then it does impact adversely the wage prospects and job prospects of American citizens,' said Sessions. 'I think we should evaluate immigration on whether or not it serves the national interest, not the corporate interest. It has to serve the people's interest first.'" |