I haven’t gotten anything from the government. I’m still fighting for my benefits. In the meantime (unable to work for medical reason that are nobody else’s business really - by law), I have pressed hard to get back on my feet with or without government aid.
I’m on a very strict vegan diet for improving my heart health, and have lost 85lbs this year. I’m also in the process of going off meds that keep me from being able to hold complex structures in my head (critical to the level of work I do), and doing a number of other very hard things, because I simply do not believe the government will ever help me at this point.
So, yeah, I’m getting better, and will get back on my feet. But, after what I’ve been through, the odds of my using the very indemand computer skills I have in this country, after being treated they way it treated me, are near zero. Most likely without major changes to our system, when I can work again it won’t be in the US.
It’s called abraindrain, and the US is headed for a massive one.
There are a lot more reasons to pit the US, but I thought I’d start with my own personal issue. (meaning it affected me directly and personally).
As for Randroids that say “you made very good money, why didn’t you save, etc.” - I did, it was all lost do to medical bills. As for insurance, I didn’t have it - and here is why:
Before the dot.com bubble burst, software engineers had the power in the industry by in large. They were so indemand they could set their conditions (the companies wanted to hire them more than they wanted to be hired). After the bubble burst, that changed (but only briefly - for about 2-3 years).
The industry took advantage of that time to switch it’s policies from hiring employees to hiring contractors. You got no benefits and often very little say in working conditions (by this, in my field, I mean massive unpayed overtime - and by massive I mean regular 60-80 weeks. In theory they had to pay contracts for that overtime, but somehow the law let them get around that (I’m not sure how)).
Since then, a large number of these issue have been at least partly resolved, but it was during this initial time that I got sick, so I got screwed.
As for other reasons to pit America:
Selling military hardware to local law enforcement. (link)
Draconian Internet laws (or at least attempts at them) (link)
The list would be so long as to possibly be spam, so I’ll just stop there for now.
There’s a sad sort of clanging from the clock in the hall
And the bells in the steeple too
And up in the nursery an absurd little bird
Is popping out to say
So, the jest from the last couple posts is that I am a cuckoo and a (possibly - based on the bridge comment) a suspected troll?
I love the idea that anyone would post semi-cryptic insulting things about someone else (a very obvious non-debate troll tactic) while implying the OP is a troll. These kind of things are so ridiculous and circle jerky that they aren’t even allowed on most boards I post on, even crazy free speech boards.
I’ll take a Schrodinger’s cat approach to it, and wait until a real response is given before decided in the box contains a dead or alive brain.
Not a cuckoo; a child (who should be going up to bed and letting the grownups have their party).
It’s the intro to the So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Goodbye song in The Sound of Music.
Or possibly, that was in anticipation of your imminent departure. Neither makes a whole lot of sense, of course, since you’ve been here seven years, which argues against you being a kid.
Not to mention, the word specifically left out was cuckoo - so either the author has a stunning lack of understand of the thing they are quoting, or there intent was rather clear. Either way, stupid is stupid, and that post was a shinning example.
Personally, I thought it was a clever way of mocking the OP. While I could have gone with trite idiocy like “put up or shut up” and “you’re ridiculous and circle jerky”, I wanted to express my disdain for the OP in a clever, new way.
The idea that because the government didn’t do enough to help the fat, lazy, unmedicated ass that you were (glad to here you’re getting better!), you’re taking your massive computer skills to another country was the kind of 3rd grade hissy fit “I’m taking my ball and going home and you’ll all be sad”, that was just ripe for mockery. There’s plenty of reasons to pit the things the American government does, but that OP was nothing more than a “poor me” whining I really wish I hadn’t wasted time on.
Then you have a clear misunderstanding of the laws of supply and demand in regards to computer programmers. Once I am working again, I can live anywhere in the world I want, with few exceptions. No country that I know of denies computer programmers - we are on everyone’s short list for immigration.
I think we both with you hadn’t wasted time on it.
As for ‘poor me’ whining, well, all I can say to that is… well nothing - having just read the rules for posting here.
Finally, as far as “take my ball and go home” damn right that is what I’m going to do. When the non-labor side of the work-force does this folks (I’m assuming, and could be wrong in your political leanings) like you are all for it, calling it outsourcing.
And since I’m ranting, and you are being - whatever you are being - I figure I might as well continue grinding you under my verbal shoe:
As I posted as an immediate follow up to my OP (the second post in the thread) “There are a lot more reasons to pit the US, but I thought I’d start with my own personal issue. (meaning it affected me directly and personally).”
I then went on to further clarify the situation, and then provide links (trying not to get too spamming, thus only providing two) to other reasons the US should be pitted.
Now since you agree there are lots of reasons to pit the US, one can only conclude that you have decided the mocking of my personal struggle of which you know very little about is far more important than the many reason the US should be pitted.
That’s sound logic. Please, keeping insulting me while you admit the world is in trouble. That is after all what every honest, intelligent, compassionate person would do.
My dear fellow, the reason companies in the US outsource talent is because they want to get labor more cheaply than they can get in the US. When other countries don’t mandate things like health care coverage and the very benefits that you are bemoaning have not been forthcoming, they can offer labor more cheaply.
So I’m not sure which countries you are eyeing to be the recipient of your superior brainpower, but I doubt the grass is greener over there. You’ll either pay for your benefits via a payroll deduction or astronomical taxes. Either way, I assure you that There is no free lunch.
