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tatupu70 says

True liberals try to make every school the same so every school gives all students a fair shot

Not really. All they do is bring everyone down to the level of the stupidest kid in the classroom. In liberal utopia there are no successes or winners, just dumbed down population of losers.

FortWayne says

Not really. All they do is bring everyone down to the level of the stupidest kid in the classroom. In liberal utopia there are no successes or winners, just dumbed down population of losers.

Conservatives need to get to get together so their strawman arguments agree. You and MMR seem to be saying opposite things but attributing both to liberals.

MMR says

Hypocritical racism isn't a Jewish problem, it's a limousine liberal problem. Besides I have plenty of Jewish friends. I have problems with people who whine about racists who are conservative leaning but stay silent when terms like chindian and killing H1-B's is considered acceptable.

I never saw any person using the term Jew banker to describe the bankers who decimated the economy, although that is more true than false. I see a lot of people here who are racist against Indians trying to provide a better life for their families.

I see a lot of hypocrite liberals who hate on Indians while complaining about racism against muslims, most of whom have jihadist sentiments even if they themselves are non-violent.

Whether it's H1B or undocumented manual labor work, I believe that people consider both groups to place downward pressure on wages which directly affects the people who compete with both groups. While there may be some "racism" involved, it's mostly about economic factors. I don't agree with methods of protests that are employed but I understand why the frustration exists. I can't blame the people who want to improve the lives of their families but we sure as heck can hold the companies and "small businesses" accountable for creating and perpetuating the problem.

What's wrong with Chindian? The first use was to describe the region around the Burma Road and the forces involved in supplying China in WW2.

Or the complaining about Chinaman but not Scotsman or Irishman by the handful of young ABCs who want to get on the oppression bandwagon.

Ironman says

That's exactly what happens when you discuss things with TAT, here's his calling card:

My, you're quite an asshole, aren't you?

bob2356 says

$100-$115K base salaries with $170-$190K total compensation.

Tech jobs are far more volatile than you realize.

It's not like you start with that salary and move up the earnings ladder as if you were in a bank.

Jobs, groups and whole divisions can evaporate faster than an ad agency.

One friend of mine was doing stellar work in cutting edge and valuable technology and walked in to find an entire floor of people let go.

A lot of these salary numbers include hourly contractors who have even less security.

Many jobs are posted as 3 months to hire...but often the hire part never occurs or if it does the high hourly wage can be knocked down to a salary that is half of the hourly...usually the person is by then "bought in", got a house and so on that he desperately takes the lower salary.

Also the industry is highly "youth oriented". It's completely common for anyone (including managers) to label someone as old and discriminate openly without any repercussions. Half the time the "young" know-it-alls end up being completely clueless and drain knowledge off the old guy (surprisingly, no matter how many changes have occurred the basics of programming and data manipulation are still the same at their core) who is still not recognized.

John Bailo says

bob2356 says

$100-$115K base salaries with $170-$190K total compensation.

Tech jobs are far more volatile than you realize.

I worked in tech from the 70's through the early 2000's. I realize just fine how tech jobs work thank you very much. The question on the table is what percentage of new tech graduates are pulling down these types of salaries. A question that was ignored I notice.