Comments on: Waiting For Bureaucrats To Say It’s Time To Make The Donuts http://www.redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2009/03/05/waiting-for-bureaucrats-to-say-its-time-to-make-the-donuts/ Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:41:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: 1SGinTN http://www.redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2009/03/05/waiting-for-bureaucrats-to-say-its-time-to-make-the-donuts/#comment-2810 1SGinTN Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:30:19 +0000 http://www.redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/?p=275#comment-2810 to describe the implementation of immigration law. I tried several times, using various available avenues, to get a friend to this country via both work visa and student visa to no avail. Mind you, this was an individual who had risked life and family to assist us in Iraq. The work visa involved 3 different government bureaucracies; BCIS, and the Depts of Labor and State - a daunting task for mere mortals. As for the student visa, State was the long pole in the tent. On two occasions, even after recommendations by Genaral and Field Grade officers, UN officials, and queries by Congressmen, the student visa was denied - not by US personnel, but based on an arbitrary whim by foreign nationals imployed by the embassy to do the screening interviews. What made it more galling was the news during that time about the Yale student with ties to the Taliban. If he could get a student visa, why not my friend? My guess is, that the employment of Mr. Mohamed had less to do with baking donuts than it did with getting a friend to the US. to describe the implementation of immigration law. I tried several times, using various available avenues, to get a friend to this country via both work visa and student visa to no avail. Mind you, this was an individual who had risked life and family to assist us in Iraq. The work visa involved 3 different government bureaucracies; BCIS, and the Depts of Labor and State – a daunting task for mere mortals. As for the student visa, State was the long pole in the tent. On two occasions, even after recommendations by Genaral and Field Grade officers, UN officials, and queries by Congressmen, the student visa was denied – not by US personnel, but based on an arbitrary whim by foreign nationals imployed by the embassy to do the screening interviews.

What made it more galling was the news during that time about the Yale student with ties to the Taliban. If he could get a student visa, why not my friend?

My guess is, that the employment of Mr. Mohamed had less to do with baking donuts than it did with getting a friend to the US.

]]> By: Praying http://www.redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2009/03/05/waiting-for-bureaucrats-to-say-its-time-to-make-the-donuts/#comment-2786 Praying Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:44:12 +0000 http://www.redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/?p=275#comment-2786 My personal view is that the gov't should be paying more attention to government business, like making sure potential cabinet nominees have paid their taxes before being nominated. But the thing that they don't seem to understand is that in a free market economy, businesses are free to succeed, and to fail. The government should not have stepped in - surely there are variables that could not be measured at the time, and the business owner, who has already invested his capital into the company and accepted the risk, should be allowed to make those decisions that he feels are best for the company. This is why we have the government spending billions of our tax dollars to "bail out" failed companies. Who would have thought? Now it is expected, and I blame no one but the government. My personal view is that the gov’t should be paying more attention to government business, like making sure potential cabinet nominees have paid their taxes before being nominated. But the thing that they don’t seem to understand is that in a free market economy, businesses are free to succeed, and to fail. The government should not have stepped in – surely there are variables that could not be measured at the time, and the business owner, who has already invested his capital into the company and accepted the risk, should be allowed to make those decisions that he feels are best for the company. This is why we have the government spending billions of our tax dollars to “bail out” failed companies. Who would have thought? Now it is expected, and I blame no one but the government.

]]> By: Vladimir http://www.redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2009/03/05/waiting-for-bureaucrats-to-say-its-time-to-make-the-donuts/#comment-2785 Vladimir Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:41:16 +0000 http://www.redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/?p=275#comment-2785 If he doesn't pay his taxes, <u>then</u> it's their business. If he doesn’t pay his taxes, then it’s their business.

]]> By: The_Gadfly http://www.redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2009/03/05/waiting-for-bureaucrats-to-say-its-time-to-make-the-donuts/#comment-2784 The_Gadfly Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:33:35 +0000 http://www.redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/?p=275#comment-2784 spend $40,000 trying to hire the guy. If River Street Donuts had simply accepted the decision and moved to hiring another donut baker, everything would have been just peachy! [Sarcasm off] Mixed feelings about the case really. If the finances were booked incorrectly, it is possible that the company might not have been able to pay the guy. On the other hand, maybe another donut maker would have increased revenues enough to more than offset the cost of hiring him. Assessing that kind of risk/reward relationship is essential to business. spend $40,000 trying to hire the guy. If River Street Donuts had simply accepted the decision and moved to hiring another donut baker, everything would have been just peachy! [Sarcasm off]

Mixed feelings about the case really. If the finances were booked incorrectly, it is possible that the company might not have been able to pay the guy. On the other hand, maybe another donut maker would have increased revenues enough to more than offset the cost of hiring him. Assessing that kind of risk/reward relationship is essential to business.

]]> By: Leopard1996 http://www.redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2009/03/05/waiting-for-bureaucrats-to-say-its-time-to-make-the-donuts/#comment-2783 Leopard1996 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:46:14 +0000 http://www.redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/?p=275#comment-2783 This is a prime example of Governemnt interference in the private sector that kills jobs in this country and closes businesses. The government needs to play referee not unpaid, unsolicted manager of the business world. This is a prime example of Governemnt interference in the private sector that kills jobs in this country and closes businesses. The government needs to play referee not unpaid, unsolicted manager of the business world.

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