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Altschuler: I Have Been Blessed

I am so fortunate that the values and work ethic instilled by my Mom made me who I am today.

I received a great education and was fortunate to have teachers who pushed me.

After working odds jobs through college, I started my first business from an apartment and ultimately built two successful American companies from the ground up that have created more than 1,000 American jobs.

And, most of all, I have a wonderful, loving wife and two beautiful, healthy children.

But none of it would have been possible without my Mom.

My Mom raised my brother and me by herself.  She taught us about hard work and the importance of playing by the rules.

As I look back now, I realize how much she sacrificed to make sure me and my brother had a happy childhood, while still preparing us for what would await in the real world.

If I am fortunate enough to be elected to Congress this November, I will take those lessons with me to Washington and do my best to build a better future for Long Island’s middle-class families, seniors and small businesses.

I will work with common sense people on both sides of the aisle to implement the ideas outlined in my detailed, 10-point jobs plan to boost small businesses, grow Long Island’s economy and foster a climate for job creation that helps get local residents back to work.  Check it out at www.Randy2012.com/jobsplan

Over the course of the next two months, Congressman Bishop will try to vilify my success in business and attack me as an “outsourcer.”  The truth is that it’s Congressman Bishop’s repeated votes for higher taxes, more spending and irresponsible debt that have driven jobs off of Long Island and crippled our local economy.

As questions mount regarding Congressman Bishop’s pattern of ethics problems, his smears against me will only intensify in hopes of distracting you from his failed record.

You deserve better.

Let’s change Congress by changing our Congressman.  I respectfully ask for your support and hope you will join with me to build a better Long Island for all of us.  Thank you.

RockyPointDiver August 31, 2012 at 01:08 am
I was all set to jump on the "or indicated" as opening the door for more unsubstantiated supposition but your synopsis of the article you had cited was accurate enough that I'll let it slide. Although I will note that the interview you had cited was with Sigelman alone.
Laughable though, that YOUR deduction of all 10,000 employees supplanting American employees should be accepted as a priori knowledge, while the contrary position that some number of those positions did NOT originate here requires documented substantiation. At least you seem to have backed away from the inflammatory and still unproven "annihilation of livelihoods". My turn? I documented the Administration's statement of $769.1B spent to date on ARRA. I documented the Administration's accounting of some $275.8B spent domestically (assuming you're willing to count money to places like Guam and Palau as domestic spending). One can deduce from this train of data that the remaining $493.2B was spent elsewhere, or that it's unaccounted for in this self-professed "unprecedented level of accountability", or perhaps that it's been pocketed somewhere along the line... but remember, your profession of belief affects your credibility.
Joanne Toresko August 31, 2012 at 01:38 am
Tim Bishop outsourced jobs. http://abcnews.go.com/WN/wind-power-equal-job-power/story?id=9759949#.UD-HJY7TLHh
Thus Tim Bishop is ........... Doing it with our money may make him even more...........?
justme August 31, 2012 at 02:01 am
Randy should run for office in India or China where he sent the American jobs! He thinks they're "better workers" anyway.
justme August 31, 2012 at 02:05 am
Randy is in the outsourcing business. He should take responsibility for it. Unfortunately for him, Americans don't want to elect those who ship our jobs overseas. We don't need leaders who have so little respect for the American worker.
justme August 31, 2012 at 02:09 am
Complete and utter nonsense.
highhatsize August 31, 2012 at 03:30 am
to RockyPointDiver:
To reiterate, you see a chart that lists $769B spent; $275B spent locally; and imply that the $493B balance was, ergo, spent overseas, and you are happy to accept that farcical conclusion as an indicator of your rationality. Mazel tov. Before you hang your hat on that opinion, however, here's another POSSIBLE answer that you might not have considered. http://www.recovery.gov/Pages/default.aspx
RockyPointDiver August 31, 2012 at 03:39 am
I'm not happy to accept that this Administration seems unwilling or unable to show the people of this nation where or how nearly $500B was spent under the auspices of a program to create jobs in this country. Why would that be? Money was spent overseas, that much is indisputable, but there's no documenting on the recovery.gov site of how much... none at all.
Joanne Toresko August 31, 2012 at 04:12 am
Billions of tax dollars spent by Tim Bishop to create jobs overseas.
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/wind-power-equal-job-power/story?id=9759949#.UD-HJY7TLHh Iberdrola, one of the largest operators of renewable energy worldwide, is based in Spain and has received the most U.S. stimulus dollars -- $577 million. It buys some of its turbines from another Spanish manufacturer, Gamesa, which has a U.S. connection. Gamesa has two facilities to manufacture turbine blades in Pennsylvania, but the company said the market forced it to temporarily lay off nearly 100 workers. Nearly $2 billion in money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has been spent on wind power...But the study found that nearly 80 percent of that money has gone to foreign manufacturers of wind turbines. "According to our estimates, about 6,000 jobs have been created overseas, and maybe a couple hundred have been created in the U.S." How's that for a bang for your borrowed buck? We don't need elected officials spending our tax dollars to create jobs overseas because they have such little respect for the American worker.
highhatsize August 31, 2012 at 04:34 am
to Low Plains Drifter:
Your academic discussion of outsourcing and its benefits as a mechanism in the global marketplace may be true (although I doubt it.) However, for the folks that Randy observed in New York, the effect was not beneficial (i.e. their jobs evaporated.) Accepting your opinion for the purpose of argument, someone had to perform the disagreeable task of sending their jobs abroad so that the blessings of global commerce could salve the world. Someone had to be cold-blooded enough to eliminate their paychecks. That person was Randy. It may be that in the grand scheme of things this will benefit the most people, but it sure didn't benefit those actors and poets in New York. It was also entirely legal and, no doubt, "someone would have done it" had Randy not. But is still didn't have to be him. It is unthinkable to vote for anyone who would do this to his brethren. We may be a global economy but we are still a sovereign nation and the concept of loyalty to one's countrymen is still alive in most of us. We are not citizens of the world.
Bright n Cheery August 31, 2012 at 10:09 am
highhat, now that is hope and change. we've gotten you to admit over the course of a couple of hours and a few posts that using employees in other geographic locations other than your own may be beneficial to the earth and its inhabitants and that your colloquioual (sp?) view of the world is small minded and limited. We have also gotten you to admit that its a global economy and perhaps things miiiiigggghhhhht not be as bad as you try to reflect.
_________________________________ highhatsize 7:14 pm on Thursday, August 30, 2012 A paraphrase of your statement would be, "Thanks to Altschuler enabling the oursourcing of American jobs, the global economy improved, and those Americans who lost their jobs were better off, just as were the foreigners who took them." If you buy that assertion (and its implicit assumptions) you are truly beyond reason. _____________________________________________ To paraphrase your comment, outsourcing is a natural progression of an economy that now extends to the global stage and it is good for everyone-just not the people involved with the candidate I am hoping doesn't win. "If you buy that assertion (and its implicit assumptions) you are truly beyond reason." In the internet lingo of the xgeneration, you have been #owned highhat. This will be my last communique on this topic. See ya around.
Bright n Cheery August 31, 2012 at 10:15 am
justme, if you are wearing anything made in China, and you are, you have sent American jobs to China. Tickets are $1100 one way, have a nice trip.
RockyPointDiver August 31, 2012 at 05:15 pm
Highhat - I'm certainly NOT happy to accept that this Administration will only account for where $275B of $769B was spent, and is either unable, or unwilling, to show where almost $500B of ARRA money has been spent... despite its self-proclaimed "unprecedented levels of accountability and transparency".
Believe me, I DID consider the info shown at the link you provided - I wasn't going to miss a page on the site titled "Where is the Money Going?". Money recipents are shown by Project Name, and by Funding Category, and even by state or territory... but somehow there's no link or search option to show where ANY money that was spent overseas went. Even you have acknowledged that some money was spent overseas, and yet NONE OF IT is accounted for here - why not? What is it that this bastion of transparency doesn't want us to see?
highhatsize August 31, 2012 at 05:56 pm
to RockyPointDiver:
It would be nice to have an "official" figure for the total amount of Stimulus money spent overseas. However, I don't see it as a conspiracy, rather, I think it is a problem of methodology. As a Washington Post article noted, foreign recipients manufacture in the United States and vice-versa. It further elaborates on the problem of attribution.* Nevertheless, it would be nice at least to have an official "guesstimate" even if subject to dispute. *http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/romneys-claims-of-misspent-stimulus-money/2012/07/26/gJQAIjOHBX_blog.html
highhatsize August 31, 2012 at 06:02 pm
to Bright & Cheery:
Welcome back, Kemo Sabe! From your above post, we all thought you had vanished forever in a cloud of dust. However, that silver bullet that you fired? It was a dud. Your post reiterates an issue not in dispute. Hi-yo, Silver! Away!
RockyPointDiver August 31, 2012 at 06:40 pm
"It would be nice..."
It would be nice?? Nice??? Go back to "Debatable", at least it doesn't sound quite as wimpy. Yes, it would be 'nice' if transparency meant that 'dollar one' was acknowledged to have been spent overseas instead of sweeping that fact under the carpet. It would be 'nice' if accountability meant that $500B was accounted for in reporting ARRA spending to the American people. It would be 'nice' if the "methodology" of this administration didn't manifest itself in 'we know better than you, and you'll know what's in our bill once it's passed' and 'you can't be successful without our help' arrogance.
Jaguar-Guy August 31, 2012 at 06:41 pm
Oh, so sorry Hat - We all mean that Bishop/Obama "CREATED" millions of new jobs abroad with OUR tax dollars through the Stimulus. The Bill which was supposed to cut unemployment here, in America - Not Europe, Scandanavia, Mexico, Japan, Sweeden or anywhere else.
As HHS has written correctly - Obama/Bishop have CREATED more jobs abroad than any people in HISTORY folks. And what Randy did as a PRIVATE citizen 10 years ago is irrelevant. Obama/Bishop are currently sending our tax dollars overseas TODAY and want more from us so they can go spend it all abroad. It will make us all MORE BROKE if Bishop slithers back into office. Thanks for the correction Hat !! http://obamanomicsoutsourced.com/
Jaguar-Guy August 31, 2012 at 06:43 pm
Yes Bright N Cheery - Obama/Bishop are copying Randy according to HHS - "creating" jobs abroad.
Jaguar-Guy August 31, 2012 at 06:45 pm
RPD - Great Points - and yes, HHS ran away to troll another day . . . . . too hot a topic for the Bishop Operative.
highhatsize August 31, 2012 at 06:57 pm
to RockyPointDiver:
The Washington Post article deals with the difficulties in determining a total for Stimulus dollars spent overseas. However, if you want to beat your chest about it, that's OK. Those of us who prefer dialectic will wait until you return to rationality.
Jaguar-Guy August 31, 2012 at 07:12 pm
After weeks and weeks - HHS has been worn down enough to admit that Stimulus Dollars (our taxes) were spent creating jobs abroad - amen. My work here is done.
TerenceQuinn September 1, 2012 at 01:05 am
Office Tiger never even had 10,000 employees. Only. 4,000 when it was sold. It was an international firm that had clients all over the world, so had international employees hired in other countries hired for those countries. Obviously high hat has swallowed the big lie! Do not confuse him with the facts. How sad is that?
TerenceQuinn September 1, 2012 at 01:08 am
Your t-tard use is very offensive to people who are afflicted. I would ask you to show some class and compassion. But I know you are not capable.
North Fork Bob September 1, 2012 at 01:37 am
Randy there are two forces in this World Good and Evil.I'm afraid you've been "blessed" by the devil.
North Fork Bob September 1, 2012 at 01:48 am
Hometown I know those people.They want to take away women's rights,defund Planned Parenthood,remove $90.00 in food stamps from children's mouths.They are the ones that threw peanuts at a black woman saying "this is how we feed animals" at the RNC.Yet they say they follow Christ.
North Fork Bob September 1, 2012 at 02:02 am
Prelator have another drink.The President and Congress are owned by the banks and large corporations.They will do what they are told.ExxonMobile no tax and a subsidy.GE no tax on and on.It's crazy
highhatsize September 1, 2012 at 05:31 pm
to TerenceQuinn:
You are mistaken. Office TIger had 9,300 overseas employees when it was sold, 4,000 in India alone* *http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2006-09-01/news/27454246_1_officetiger-astron-bpo-rr-donnelley
Preliator September 2, 2012 at 10:21 am
Help restore America, vote for the three R's; Romney, Ryan and Randy!
Jaguar-Guy September 2, 2012 at 10:49 am
Obviously.
forward thinking September 2, 2012 at 11:53 am
People With The Loudest Voices Have The Least To Do With Change
While The Rest Of Us Are Doing Something About It Some Of Us Talk About It Each Error We Make Grows Us Stronger – We Have To Do It To Experience It According To The Jealous The Rich Control Everything – Last Time I Counted The Rich Were Vastly Outnumbered Is It Not Amazing That the Working Taxpaying Few Support the Illegal’s And Needy And Don’t Rant And Rave They Want More. And Finally It Was A Dem – Roosevelt Who Made The People Who Were Without Work “Get” Support By Creating Jobs… TVA – CCC – I great idea support the infirmed and work the needy While The “Trickle Down Economics Of The Rep.’S Are Attacked – What Do We Have From The Dem.’S Trickle Down Moral Decay
Preliator September 2, 2012 at 12:14 pm
Obama's policy: Trickle up poverty.

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