U.S. immigration policy and result in 2012. A young Chinese born man is given U.S. citizenship, when we legal born residents are less secure economically because our Congress is slothful and compromised by campaign contributions that do not benefit the Common Good. So the answer is to allow 11M illegal aliens to have their children be legal residents ,,, and give them cheap and near worthless U.S. citizenship!? Hell no.

I called Comcast cable for customer service and they sent this China-born young man with new U.S. citizenship.
He came into my carpeted apartment without the shoe covers that Comcast brags about on their tv commercials.  I asked him "Where are the shoe covers?" i left them in the truck. "Well please go back and get them."

Comcast says, says they will give you 'credit' on your bloated overpriced , way to profitable bill if you complain about this.  What they do is give you a couple or 3 pay per view channels for a month, tho they are not marked in your tv listing and you have to put a post-it on the tv to remind yourself that a tv station in the 400s or 500s is briefly not way overpriced.

The China-born young man and new Comcast employee was taking cables and components out of plastic bags and just dropping the plastic ties and bags on the carpet in my bedroom, instead of using the trash can. So i brought the trash can over to him from the corner of the room and asked him to "please use the trash can". He continued to litter my bedroom carpeted floor. I politely asked again "please use the trash can." What , no trash cans in China!?  Just litter the countryside?

Now how does this help the U.S. and those of us out of work over a year because of the crash of 2008, due to Congress and a string of regressive Democrat and super-regressive Republican Presidents that a young man born in China can come to the USA and get a job ahead of a legal resident and do it so badly?  Does this help China?  Who wants to live in these second and third world countries, but the USa(Congress) has been giving tax breaks like company moving costs to go overseas are tax deductible for way too long; We can not and seemingly will not give jobs to those of us legally born here and there are not enough for even a small percentage of those that want to come here to be legal citizens and live with dual citizenship or not. 

This hurts the legal resident middle class with stagnant wages or declining wages. In my industry an $18/hr bus driving job in California is now a $15/hr job, if you are lucky, even tho rents keep rising like the non-competitive price of gasoline every Spring.  Housing purchase is less possible than in the 40s and 50s , because of deregulation and pandering to the rich corporations that are super profitable but do not pay any Federal taxes, not just multi-million paid yearly people that do not pay above a low ceiling on SSN taxes for Social Security. That makes absolutely no sense.

Yet we can not get Congress to act responsibly and more than slothfully. The President, according to a Bill Moyer's tv show, told someone before the election how he wants to go down in history as the person who severely cuts Social Security and hurts the working poor and shrinking still "middle class"! How did the media not tell us during the campaign about this!?  How can a black man President be so hostile to the working poor?

He is a weak leader this first black President and tho very well educated and a good public speaker , seems to be more interested in benefiting the already rich and comfortable , too big to fail , national risk takers, the Wall Street bankers who helped him with campaign contributions get elected. He has not done what he said he would do , either specifically nor philosophically. 

What if our first black President, very smart high IQ, well educated benefit of our society and earned wealthy, is only remembered for helping the super profitable and super rich and super risky to our Nation, not the Common Good, but the Wall Street bankers who just in 2008 almost collapsed the economy with the biggest white collar theft by corporations probably in the Nation's history?  And that is all he is remembered for, that not one of these white collar corporations-criminals bankers and mortage faudsters and rating agency liars has gone to jail, tho they got Congress to take the main safety gate of Glass-Stegal from the Great Depression off the law books to the disadvantage of the Common Good?

The USA is in serious trouble, economically and politically. Stay in your home country and make it better if you can, even nightmare Mexico, as moving here may seem on the surface to be better, our living standard is still falling like our wages. Add a bloated risky stock market, corporations stealing private 'db' and 'dc' pensions and most public pensions are dangerously underfunded, a seriously flawed 401k retirement saving option, a dithering irresponsible Congress that won't simplify and make fair without personal 'rifleshots' and corporation 'loopholes' in the tax code, take away extravagant gifts like the 50-80 $Bs yearly in oil industry deductions that we clearly can not afford, and the low tax rate for stock profits that we clearly can not afford, and the Bush tax breaks for super profitable corporations and the rich that we never have been able to afford. And a bloated out of control military budget that we have not been able to afford for decades. The USA is in serious trouble still.

Don't use Mail on my MacBook, but Chrome or Firefox and then Gmail or Hotmail, so had forgotten how to "send" a Draft without a visible "send" top button. Funny story.

Called an Apple store, in Sillycon Valley.
Yes i lied and told the answering machine i was wanting to ask about a new Macbook, not one i owned already.  Finally talked to a rep and he says " I don't know how to send a draft email from Apple Mail. Let me get Mail up and see. No, still can't figure it out. You will have to call someone else." An Apple store. In Silicon Valley. Recently.

So i called another Apple store, near Silicon Valley. And went through the usual machine's options phone tree b.s. ,lied, again, and talked to another rep. "Ok, i have it up on my laptop. Let's see,,, oh, yeah, you have to double click on the message." Where?  "On the top line." That's not very intuitive of Apple. Why not just have a 'send' button on top row, next to 'forward'? Then he said, "That would be too simple." 

Dumb choice by Apple: Apple requires there company sub-contracted campus shuttle bus drivers also have a SPAB/school bus drivers license in addition to a CDL/commercial drivers license. Don't they care or know, per recent ABC tv documentary, that SPAB drivers by greedy subcontractors are relatively underpaid compared to school district employees and statistically no safer than regular CDL drivers !?

If Apple really cared about safer subcontracted corporate shuttle bus drivers on their property/campuses and huge parking lots in distant spots, they would use the old UPS tool of the Smith System, linked with a lab video game class on safer driving choices(make it fun instead of the usual SPAB boring sleepy class with a hostile CHP officer), interspersed with actual behind the wheel driving testing.  Any professional bus industry rep could tell them that.

But Apple seems to want to be unwise and foolish with its employees safety and lives and continue to insist , in a simple but different industry called transportation, that it wants 'safer' school bus licensed drivers with the usual CDLs, and from greedy subcontractors.  Ha!! I was a SPAB in the 1970s and it contributes little to practical behind the wheel safety since it mainly stresses rote memorizing of check off forms for bus pre-trip inspections. A school bus driver license, in California, is a false assumption of added safety to a CDL, a fraud!, ask any school bus driver, as recently proven in the ABC documentary tv news report.

Watch the recent ABC documentary report reveal, Apple.  Your employees deserve better mgmt choices. And please get a top row 'send' button on your Mail draft file !

Wall Street Journal?  New York Times? 
Washington Post? San Jose 'smerc' ?

Apple's "Mail" draft page has no "send" button at the top where it should be. You have to double click the draft!! How dumb and difficult;

Apple, this is not intuitive.

Get a 'send' button on the top of the "Mail" draft page.

My WGHS buddy's daughter just spun out-lost traction on Hwy 17 in light rain. BEWARE !!

Daily commuters may know this, but most of us think 17 after all the $$$ spent on a new median barricade , drainage system, and repaving over years and years of traffic construction delays, would be much safer.

Caltrans does not get reports from tow truck companies so how can they say they know the stats on collisions, accidents, and spin-outs/ loss of traction when they obviously have such incomplete data? Do they get all reports from the CHP as to probable cause, such as loss of traction/spin outs in light rain? Not just heavy rain hydroplaning.

Caltrans says they will only SAND when it SNOWS,,, not if it is just cold and BLACK ICE forms!!  That is THE MOST DANGEROUS CONDITION ON A HIGH SPEED, 50MPH LIMIT, HIGHWAY !!  When it snows at least most people know to slow down, but when it is cold and you are inside a heater-on warm car, most of us do not expect and do not see BLACK ICE , until it is too late.  
That means $1000s in TOTALLY UNNECESSARY BODY SHOP WORK AND INCREASED INSURANCE COMPANY PREMIUM PAYMENTS !! Why doesn't the San Jose Mercury News paper take this political task on of finding out who,top to bottom of state govt., supports such a risky expensive policy as not sanding Ca.'s black ice highways like 17 and getting public pressure to get them to be more responsible and representative of the common good?

Now we have a Democrat Governor and a 'super majority' Democrat State Legislature; So that means this is as good as and as progressive vs regressive as it is going to get in California.  So goes California lately, so goes the Nation.  A 'Democrat'  Governor Grey Davis got us bankrupt with Enron(see dvd movie) and his "deregulation" as he said on tv as Governor that the market will lower the cost of home gas and electricity(lie).  President Clinton, Democrat, signs away the most important lesson--ask any lawyer or stock broker or history professor-- of the Great Depression, the Glass-Stegal Act separating investment banks from savings banks. President Obama 'said' he would close Guantanamo's torture prison, but has not yet, even after 4 years and into his second term. And he has not stopped the Pebble Mine and other waiting environmental catastrophes. We can expect no more in so much less from 'Democrats'.(Green Party?)

Back to more local problems; Do i need to mention all the Huge costly failings of Caltrans, again?  Accepting Hwy 87 substandard construction N-S thru San Jose, to have to have it rebuilt when the elevated landfill freeway started sinking and sagging!!?  Spending $$$$$M rushed in a month to repair the damaged eastern Bay Bridge after the 1989 earthquake, only to learn on completion that the bridge was built on now rotten wood pilings in the water and mud , and the 1936 bridge had to be torn down and replaced!!?  The the replacement project has been a botched nightmare of incompetence costing untold $$$$M and extra years of still unfinished work !!

Huge hidden campaign contributions must be taken out of politics, yet both parties want to put the electorate to sleep for 2 to 4 years. Where are our progressive leaders?