I don't understand these stats. Surely far less than 85 - 90% of those who apply for H-1b visas are approved in any given lottery cycle.
I have read that 65k out of 275k petitions (23%) won the lottery last year.
What do your 85-90% numbers represent?
Those number represent the percentage of people whose applications are actually adjudicated. If your application is dismissed even before reaching the adjudication, you are not counted.
This week @POTUS struck a serious deal to cut drug prices for people on Medicare and fight climate change, received a stellar July jobs report, shrank the unemployment rate to 3.5%, eliminated bin-Laden’s successor, & gas prices fell to a 50+ day low. Great week, Mr. President!
Welp, per AAA the average price of a gallon of regular unleaded in the U.S. is now 90 cents lower than it was in mid-June.
If you say "But Biden had nothing (or little) to do with that!"--I will likely agree. But I will accept that statement only from people who acknowledge that he, like every other POTUS, had little or nothing to do with the previous *increases*. A little consistency would be nice.
Goodbye Liz! Wyoming is voting your a$ out of office. Good luck on your impending media career- you'll get paid better. The NeverTrumpers are either losing primaries or stepping down.
Goodbye Liz! Wyoming is voting your a$ out of office. Good luck on your impending media career- you'll get paid better. The NeverTrumpers are either losing primaries or stepping down.
Liz will run for president and get more primary votes than Trump. Watch and learn.
I'd be willing to bet if Trump were actually imprisoned, he'd still get more write-in votes than Liz Cheney (around 1%).
Don't know where you guys got the fantasy that there's a Liz Cheney constituency out there. Even people who like her, aren't going to vote for her for President.
Actually, Liz is more likely to run as an independent. Or maybe she will be the nominee of the Forward Party.
Either way, if she runs against Trump she will get more votes than him.
This week @POTUS struck a serious deal to cut drug prices for people on Medicare and fight climate change, received a stellar July jobs report, shrank the unemployment rate to 3.5%, eliminated bin-Laden’s successor, & gas prices fell to a 50+ day low. Great week, Mr. President!
Is he going to give him a sucker and tousle the hair on top of his head ?
If we're going to be consistent, which of course we should, some of Clinton's "Attaboy!" there is awfully similar to the reflexively anti-Biden crap we get on this thread.
The truth, I think, is that - perhaps against the wishes/intentions of the founders - we make too much of a deal of the president - all presidents. We don't just see them as really senior public servants....but rather as "POTUS !!!" I think that that's at least a little bad. And silly.
Bad, for among many other reasons, because it leads very serious and thoughtful people to wonder IF we should prosecute a president for crimes? WTF?
And silly - which can very easily cross over into bad - when we give them credit or criticism for things a knowledgeable citizen should know we shouldn't. Like, say, tons of economic/market things (freakin' tenths of a percentage point changes in unemployment, dozens of cents change/gallon on gas???), the freakin' execution of special ops missions on the other side of the world, etc., etc.
All told, we should probably think and talk about the position a lot less than we do.
Welp, per AAA the average price of a gallon of regular unleaded in the U.S. is now 90 cents lower than it was in mid-June.
If you say "But Biden had nothing (or little) to do with that!"--I will likely agree. But I will accept that statement only from people who acknowledge that he, like every other POTUS, had little or nothing to do with the previous *increases*. A little consistency would be nice.
This week @POTUS struck a serious deal to cut drug prices for people on Medicare and fight climate change, received a stellar July jobs report, shrank the unemployment rate to 3.5%, eliminated bin-Laden’s successor, & gas prices fell to a 50+ day low. Great week, Mr. President!
Is he going to give him a sucker and tousle the hair on top of his head ?
If we're going to be consistent, which of course we should, some of Clinton's "Attaboy!" there is awfully similar to the reflexively anti-Biden crap we get on this thread.
The truth, I think, is that - perhaps against the wishes/intentions of the founders - we make too much of a deal of the president - all presidents. We don't just see them as really senior public servants....but rather as "POTUS !!!" I think that that's at least a little bad. And silly.
Bad, for among many other reasons, because it leads very serious and thoughtful people to wonder IF we should prosecute a president for crimes? WTF?
And silly - which can very easily cross over into bad - when we give them credit or criticism for things a knowledgeable citizen should know we shouldn't. Like, say, tons of economic/market things (freakin' tenths of a percentage point changes in unemployment, dozens of cents change/gallon on gas???), the freakin' execution of special ops missions on the other side of the world, etc., etc.
All told, we should probably think and talk about the position a lot less than we do.
Shoot, I forgot perhaps my favorite: "I was president when a Supreme Court justice died or retired. Impressed, yet?? Then, being able to draw on the advice of large number of experts (just like virtually ALL of my decisions), I picked what seemed to be the most reliably liberal or conservative person."
Sorry, we just shouldn't be too impressed - at all - by plain luck followed by a very well-informed choice/guess. Get a supreme court justice "right"? Big deal. Get it wrong? A shame, sure, but it almost certainly means that the person "fooled" a whole lot of experts, and it's not much of hit on the president.
Although.....that one lady that Bush Jr. tried to pick. OK, that WAS embarrassing.....and perhaps a fair negative reflection on him.
Goodbye Liz! Wyoming is voting your a$ out of office. Good luck on your impending media career- you'll get paid better. The NeverTrumpers are either losing primaries or stepping down.
I'd be willing to bet if Trump were actually imprisoned, he'd still get more write-in votes than Liz Cheney (around 1%).
Don't know where you guys got the fantasy that there's a Liz Cheney constituency out there. Even people who like her, aren't going to vote for her for President.
Actually, Liz is more likely to run as an independent. Or maybe she will be the nominee of the Forward Party.
Either way, if she runs against Trump she will get more votes than him.
Top House Democrats including Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer and Jim Clyburn made clear their support for corporatist Democrat Henry Cuellar in the 2022 midterm e...
Another nugget of good news concerning the Inflation Reduction Act.
When Sinema killed the closing of the carried interest loophole, she inserted a 1% excise tax on share buybacks. She also got about $5 billion for drought relief.
Closing the loophole was going to bring in $14 billion. But the new excise tax will bring in $74 billion.
So it looks like Sinema reduced the deficit quite a lot, and also got important drought funding.
