Comments on: Fast Track American Dream http://amreekandesi.com/2009/02/17/fast-track-american-dream/ Taking the Tire out of Satire Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:32:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Grace http://amreekandesi.com/2009/02/17/fast-track-american-dream/comment-page-1/#comment-80956 Grace Mon, 27 Dec 2010 18:20:22 +0000 http://amreekandesi.com/?p=1251#comment-80956 Dance mambo in 2011 : ] Dance mambo in 2011 : ]

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]]> By: all american http://amreekandesi.com/2009/02/17/fast-track-american-dream/comment-page-1/#comment-7751 all american Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:27:45 +0000 http://amreekandesi.com/?p=1251#comment-7751 hmm food for thought ... hmm food for thought …

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]]> By: Rebecca http://amreekandesi.com/2009/02/17/fast-track-american-dream/comment-page-1/#comment-7507 Rebecca Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:05:06 +0000 http://amreekandesi.com/?p=1251#comment-7507 As an American I feel ashamed through and through. As an American I feel ashamed through and through.

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]]> By: Uncle B http://amreekandesi.com/2009/02/17/fast-track-american-dream/comment-page-1/#comment-5013 Uncle B Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:25:48 +0000 http://amreekandesi.com/?p=1251#comment-5013 Short on manpower for getting at Turkmenistan Oil? Tired of seeing American GI's returning in coffins? Running out of native born suckers? Blacks wising up, going to school instead of enlisting? Pot sales in California cutting recruitment? Arlo Guthrey still singing rebel anti- war shit? Young American-born still listening? Need that goddamn oil worse than ever? - Drive a Hummer! Don't Worry! Build a McMansion, Earth-ship survival is for nerds! Put a 'Vette in your driveway and a new improved Escalade! We will bribe, foreigners with citizenship, send them to Afghanistan as cannon fodder, no flak-jackets, just like our boys and girls, and sit comfortably back in the U.S.A. building tanks, planes, choppers, and Hummers for the saps to destroy, and collect our old age pensions on their backs! The few that survive will have color, accents, and look"Foreign" so we will treat them like some of our own GI's - disenfranchised street-people, no medical care, no social rights no chances, no property, no connections, no paychecks - no problem! Meanwhile, the dividend collectors in their walled, fenced villages can survive in glorious comfort unharmed by the big cities' growing slum of unemployable vets, and Chinese stock dividends will flow due to subcontracting and off-shoring to make up for any small bumps on the road! Oh! to be an Uber-Rich Yankee Doodle, and fool everyone all the time and get away with it with impunity! How clever they must be! Short on manpower for getting at Turkmenistan Oil? Tired of seeing American GI’s returning in coffins? Running out of native born suckers? Blacks wising up, going to school instead of enlisting? Pot sales in California cutting recruitment? Arlo Guthrey still singing rebel anti- war shit? Young American-born still listening? Need that goddamn oil worse than ever? – Drive a Hummer! Don’t Worry! Build a McMansion, Earth-ship survival is for nerds! Put a ‘Vette in your driveway and a new improved Escalade! We will bribe, foreigners with citizenship, send them to Afghanistan as cannon fodder, no flak-jackets, just like our boys and girls, and sit comfortably back in the U.S.A. building tanks, planes, choppers, and Hummers for the saps to destroy, and collect our old age pensions on their backs! The few that survive will have color, accents, and look”Foreign” so we will treat them like some of our own GI’s – disenfranchised street-people, no medical care, no social rights no chances, no property, no connections, no paychecks – no problem! Meanwhile, the dividend collectors in their walled, fenced villages can survive in glorious comfort unharmed by the big cities’ growing slum of unemployable vets, and Chinese stock dividends will flow due to subcontracting and off-shoring to make up for any small bumps on the road! Oh! to be an Uber-Rich Yankee Doodle, and fool everyone all the time and get away with it with impunity! How clever they must be!

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]]> By: amreekandesi http://amreekandesi.com/2009/02/17/fast-track-american-dream/comment-page-1/#comment-2394 amreekandesi Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:21:10 +0000 http://amreekandesi.com/?p=1251#comment-2394 Here's some further details i got from a reader who got this email via a job site: The U.S. Army is authorized to recruit certain legal aliens whose skills are considered to be vital to national interest. Those holding critical skills such as physicians, nurses, and certain experts in language with associated cultural back rounds would be eligible. If you are in the process of trying to earn your green card or citizenship this may be the opportunity you have been waiting for! BENEFITS FOR YOU - GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO EARN YOUR CITIZENSHIP - RECEIVE UP TO 65,000 TO PAY BACK OLD STUDENT LOANS - Tuition Assistance, Up to $4,500 Per Year - ENLISTMENT BONUS UP TO $40,000 - Up to $81,000 for school from the Army College Fund and GI Bill - 30 Days of Paid Vacation per Year and Full Medical and Dental Care - Job Opportunities in several exciting career fields such as Computers, Medical, Mechanics, Finance, Engineering and More! - Travel, Excitement and Challenging Experiences You Won't Find Elsewhere Eligibility - Applicant must be ASYLEE, REFUGEE, TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS or NON-IMMIGRANT CATEGORIES E, F, H, I, J, K, L, M, O, P, Q, R, S, T, TC, TD, TN, U, V - Applicant must have been in valid status in 1 or more of the categories listed above for the previous 2 years - Applicant must not have left the United States for more than 90 days consecutively during the previous 2 years *Health Care Professionals • Applicants must fill medical specialties where the service has a shortfall • Applicants must meet all qualification criteria required for their medical specialty, and the criteria for foreign-trained DoD medical personnel recruited under other authorities • Applicants must demonstrate proficiency in English • Applicants must commit to at least 3 years of active duty, or six years in the Selected Reserve *Enlisted Individuals with Special Language and Culture Backgrounds • Applicants must possess specific language and culture capabilities in a language critical to DoD • Applicants must demonstrate a language proficiency • Applicants must meet all existing enlistment eligibility criteria • Applicants must enlist for at least 4 years of active duty (Services may add additional requirements) Languages Accepted - ALBANIAN - AMHARIC - ARABIC - AZERBAIJANI - BENGALI - BURMESE - CAMBONDIAN-KHMER - CHINESE - CZECH - HAUSA - HINDI - HUNGARIAN - IGBO - INDONESIAN - KOREAN - KURDISH - LAO - MALAY - MALAYALAM - MORO - NEPALESE - PERSIAN (DARI AND FARSI) - POLISH - PUNJABI - PUSHTU (AKA PASHTO) - RUSSIAN - SINDHI - SINHALESE - SOMALI - SWAHILI - TAMIL - TURKISH - TURKMEN - URDU - YORUBA Here’s some further details i got from a reader who got this email via a job site:

The U.S. Army is authorized to recruit certain legal aliens whose skills are considered to be vital to national interest. Those holding critical skills such as physicians, nurses, and certain experts in language with associated cultural back rounds would be eligible. If you are in the process of trying to earn your green card or citizenship this may be the opportunity you have been waiting for!

BENEFITS FOR YOU

- GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO EARN YOUR CITIZENSHIP
- RECEIVE UP TO 65,000 TO PAY BACK OLD STUDENT LOANS
- Tuition Assistance, Up to $4,500 Per Year
- ENLISTMENT BONUS UP TO $40,000
- Up to $81,000 for school from the Army College Fund and GI Bill
- 30 Days of Paid Vacation per Year and Full Medical and Dental Care
- Job Opportunities in several exciting career fields such as Computers, Medical, Mechanics, Finance, Engineering and More!
- Travel, Excitement and Challenging Experiences You Won’t Find Elsewhere

Eligibility

- Applicant must be ASYLEE, REFUGEE, TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS or NON-IMMIGRANT CATEGORIES E, F, H, I, J, K, L, M, O, P, Q, R, S, T, TC, TD, TN, U, V
- Applicant must have been in valid status in 1 or more of the categories listed above for the previous 2 years
- Applicant must not have left the United States for more than 90 days consecutively during the previous 2 years

*Health Care Professionals
• Applicants must fill medical specialties where the service has a shortfall
• Applicants must meet all qualification criteria required for their medical specialty, and the
criteria for foreign-trained DoD medical personnel recruited under other authorities
• Applicants must demonstrate proficiency in English
• Applicants must commit to at least 3 years of active duty, or six years in the Selected Reserve

*Enlisted Individuals with Special Language and Culture Backgrounds
• Applicants must possess specific language and culture capabilities in a language critical to DoD
• Applicants must demonstrate a language proficiency
• Applicants must meet all existing enlistment eligibility criteria
• Applicants must enlist for at least 4 years of active duty
(Services may add additional requirements)

Languages Accepted
- ALBANIAN
- AMHARIC
- ARABIC
- AZERBAIJANI
- BENGALI
- BURMESE
- CAMBONDIAN-KHMER
- CHINESE
- CZECH
- HAUSA
- HINDI
- HUNGARIAN
- IGBO
- INDONESIAN
- KOREAN
- KURDISH
- LAO
- MALAY
- MALAYALAM
- MORO
- NEPALESE
- PERSIAN (DARI AND FARSI)
- POLISH
- PUNJABI
- PUSHTU (AKA PASHTO)
- RUSSIAN
- SINDHI
- SINHALESE
- SOMALI
- SWAHILI
- TAMIL
- TURKISH
- TURKMEN
- URDU
- YORUBA

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]]> By: amreekandesi http://amreekandesi.com/2009/02/17/fast-track-american-dream/comment-page-1/#comment-2392 amreekandesi Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:15:05 +0000 http://amreekandesi.com/?p=1251#comment-2392 @Poonam, @Chirag and @Vijay - Yes it is funny that now they are looking at outsourcing war when there is such a big movement against the outsourcing phenomenon and immigration! @Poonam, @Chirag and @Vijay – Yes it is funny that now they are looking at outsourcing war when there is such a big movement against the outsourcing phenomenon and immigration!

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]]> By: vijay http://amreekandesi.com/2009/02/17/fast-track-american-dream/comment-page-1/#comment-2383 vijay Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:32:56 +0000 http://amreekandesi.com/?p=1251#comment-2383 Twisted logic really... @Chiraq....Outsourcing wars ... LOL Twisted logic really…
@Chiraq….Outsourcing wars … LOL

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]]> By: Chirag http://amreekandesi.com/2009/02/17/fast-track-american-dream/comment-page-1/#comment-2377 Chirag Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:28:22 +0000 http://amreekandesi.com/?p=1251#comment-2377 WTF, man, this is disturbing and entertaining at the same time. But metaphorically speaking its the same except the blood shed and carnage. Few of the smartest folks were leaving of US and then competing with the average folks in developing economy so nothing much changed. Now wars are being outsourced. WTF, man, this is disturbing and entertaining at the same time. But metaphorically speaking its the same except the blood shed and carnage. Few of the smartest folks were leaving of US and then competing with the average folks in developing economy so nothing much changed. Now wars are being outsourced.

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]]> By: Poonam http://amreekandesi.com/2009/02/17/fast-track-american-dream/comment-page-1/#comment-2375 Poonam Wed, 18 Feb 2009 05:42:55 +0000 http://amreekandesi.com/?p=1251#comment-2375 This has been subject of debate all around Web. Now yuppies need others to fight for their country. :x :( This has been subject of debate all around Web. Now yuppies need others to fight for their country. :x :(

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]]> By: amreekandesi http://amreekandesi.com/2009/02/17/fast-track-american-dream/comment-page-1/#comment-2373 amreekandesi Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:33:41 +0000 http://amreekandesi.com/?p=1251#comment-2373 @Dinesh and @Gauri - WTF was exactly my reaction when i saw this! @Solilo - I feel sad for Americans, or anybody else for that matter, dying in a senseless war. But dangling the citizenship carrot to lure hapless immigrants to a war that Americans dont want to fight reeks of hypocrisy. Talking of FOBs, i recall reading some article about Vikram Pandit and how his Indian accent still lingers on despite his having lived for so many years in the US, which apparently is a bad thing. My point was this - you may live in this country and become a citizen, but eventually people will point to your accent and shout 'Apu'. Which keeps me awake at night some times. @Dinesh and @Gauri – WTF was exactly my reaction when i saw this!

@Solilo – I feel sad for Americans, or anybody else for that matter, dying in a senseless war.
But dangling the citizenship carrot to lure hapless immigrants to a war that Americans dont want to fight reeks of hypocrisy.

Talking of FOBs, i recall reading some article about Vikram Pandit and how his Indian accent still lingers on despite his having lived for so many years in the US, which apparently is a bad thing.

My point was this – you may live in this country and become a citizen, but eventually people will point to your accent and shout ‘Apu’. Which keeps me awake at night some times.

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