pcworld.com— A survey of IT professionals found a roughly even split supporting Obama and McCain, but more than a third have another favorite candidate
Mar 24, 2008View in Crawl 4
Interestingly, the single strongest indicator of party affiliation nowadays is marriage. Married people are more likely to be Republican, and single people Democrat. Those can mean very different lifestyles and attitudes towards all sorts of things. It's a very ideological rift nowadays, not just economic.
the health care problem isn't restricted to being able to pay for insurance, but even just getting an insurance company to be willing to cover you. Even if you are able to afford insurance many companies wont cover you if you are considered to have a higher risk, even for things out of your control. And even if you are covered then you still have to watch out for the insurance companies trying to weasel their way out of covering you. So even if we don't have a government funded health plan we do need to rework the insurance system.
I find it odd that they would even consider McCain after he's already admitted that he's never used a computer and doesn't know anything about them. McCain has no strategy for helping us regain our former edge on technology. He still claims the "free market" and "global economy" is the best way to go - which means we continue to ship tech jobs overseas where corporations can pay less for their workers.Personal computers were the biggest change in America in the last 50 years, yet McCain isn't even curious enough to even want to try and use one. That tells you what he thinks of technology. He's too old to understand what this country needs right now.
You won't have to pay any taxes at all once your job gets shipped to India, or given to an H1B immigrant who replaces you for less pay. McCain's speeches about our "global economy" and his "free market solution" should be scaring the hell out you if you want to keep an IT job.
Closed AccountMar 24, 2008
Interestingly, the single strongest indicator of party affiliation nowadays is marriage. Married people are more likely to be Republican, and single people Democrat. Those can mean very different lifestyles and attitudes towards all sorts of things. It's a very ideological rift nowadays, not just economic.
coffeebabyMar 24, 2008
yes very interesting. especially considering McCain doesn't know how to use a computer. <a class="user" href="http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/John_McCain_Doesn_t_Use_a_Computer">http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/John_McCain_Does ...</a>
bagboyrebelMar 25, 2008
thank you for not being one of the idiots who actually thinks Gore claimed to be the sole inventor of the internet.
bagboyrebelMar 25, 2008
the health care problem isn't restricted to being able to pay for insurance, but even just getting an insurance company to be willing to cover you. Even if you are able to afford insurance many companies wont cover you if you are considered to have a higher risk, even for things out of your control. And even if you are covered then you still have to watch out for the insurance companies trying to weasel their way out of covering you. So even if we don't have a government funded health plan we do need to rework the insurance system.
sheilanoyaMar 25, 2008
I find it odd that they would even consider McCain after he's already admitted that he's never used a computer and doesn't know anything about them. McCain has no strategy for helping us regain our former edge on technology. He still claims the "free market" and "global economy" is the best way to go - which means we continue to ship tech jobs overseas where corporations can pay less for their workers.Personal computers were the biggest change in America in the last 50 years, yet McCain isn't even curious enough to even want to try and use one. That tells you what he thinks of technology. He's too old to understand what this country needs right now.
sheilanoyaMar 25, 2008
You won't have to pay any taxes at all once your job gets shipped to India, or given to an H1B immigrant who replaces you for less pay. McCain's speeches about our "global economy" and his "free market solution" should be scaring the hell out you if you want to keep an IT job.