Re: The market turn-around (hh)

[Bob Larkin <blarkin@xxxxxx>]

> SNIP

> While I've attended more COMMON conferences as an independent than I _EVER_ 
>did
> as an employee, I'm already seeing a reversal in the trend of customers not
> sending their employees to these events.
> SNIP
> Dean Asmussen

"Well, If I send my staff to COMMON, they'll get smarter, then they'll leave!" I
actually had a client express views like that!

Here's one to ponder. The Labor department is proposing to spend $26 Million 
(USD)
on High-Tech (read that computer) jobs. This money is to be used to train
unemployed people to become computer programmers! SWELL. Take my hard earned tax
dollars, and spend them to create competition for ME! They also want to spend
money to promote Programmers as COOL, not geeky. Get a grip. Just because we can
code at the MI level, and spend hours on the net, doesn't mean we are geeks!. 
Ask
my wife, or my girlfriend (Just kidding about the GF).

Of course, If the Federal Government, under the direction of Daniel P. Moynihan
(sp?) had not passed Section 1706 of the Tax Reform Act of 1986, maybe companies
would be getting more choice of consultants/contractors at a LOWER rate. For
anyone not familiar with 1706, you need to know how such a measure was tacked 
onto
the bill after 2:00a.m. the evening before the bill was voted on. Rumor has it
that Computer Dynamics Inc. ot Michigan was one of the groups that pushed for
this. It backfired in Houston, as their branch there went belly up soon after 
the
bill was passed.

Sorry about the ranting. I get this way around 1040 ES time. (Twice as bad 
around
April 15)

Bob

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