SaintsInDome2006

I agree. I think there’s a premise they either 1. Don’t have work permits or 2. They get paid less than minimum wage. I’ll add that my understanding frequently these people have taxes taken out out heir paycheck. It’s a complex subject.

Do you remember the illegal alien who murdered that poor girl in Iowa? The plant he was working at was the facility of a major GOP donor. What’s more is he played fast & loose with the immigration check platform he used. I’m guessing that’s the case with a lot of the truly awful, horrific cases we read about with the alien criminals. But those are really exceptions. The factories & Big Ag farms where these people work are generally GOP donor owned. And please everyone with the harrumphing - do you have family & neighbors shopping at WalMart, Target, & big box groceries? They buy from people who employ these people. You mean what you say? Go shop organic with the hippy progressives who truck this stuff from a couple counties away. Go to the farmers markets & stock up and Buy American. Sure you’ll pay more but it will be fresh, American & extra-expensive.

This I agree with. People bought this bullshit sandwich & gobbled it up whole.

It’s just getting worse this way. Our cost of debt has skyrocketed and now we’re paying welfare (cough, subsidies) to our farmers to cover up the costs of this Great Leap Forward.

I hear you - I do - but it’s not happening. Shockingly Americans aren’t dropping everything to go pick grapefruits & almonds. And btw it’s not that easy, there’s a lot of skill to it. - But here’s what is happening, countries that we used to sell to are just buying less or just not buying at all. We are the capitalists. Us. We built the system and we are completely screwing ourselves out of what we built.

I have Wilson, my season is officially & permanently screwed now.

I think you’re assuming the people who own the big farms & factories are Democrats. They might be sometimes but usually they’re not. If you left it up to the Dems they’d be paying them a “living wage.”

Right, it’s not just the “slave wages” it’s the fact no one is filling the jobs at all.

Ken Chesebro was just suspended from practicing law via state disbarment proceedings in Florida. He was also disbarred in NY & Illinois.

Maybe Halligan doesn’t know she can be personally sued for malicious prosecution. Disbarment isn’t her only problem.

I didn’t ask about who it was to assess the truthiness. I just wanted to know if Ed knew the name of the person, that’s it. Headline just said ‘journalist.’

Yes, I’m happy for Asunción policy makers. The USA is not Bolivia. We are the richest nation on Earth. We just *gave Argentina $20 billion.

>>A person familiar with the James property told CNN that members of her family are living at the home. The person added there is no rental agreement, James never relinquished control of the property and she has made all the mortgage payments.<< CNN

If Halligan got a whole new grand jury to hear evidence… whooboy.

>> Five years ago, the door of a modest yellow house on a quiet stretch of avenue in Norfolk, Va., swung open to admit a young family looking for a peaceful life after years of turbulence in several cities. The family, Nakia Thompson and her children, have lived at the address ever since, according to two people familiar with the home, and until this week, the plan for a more placid existence had largely gone as expected. Several times a year, the people said, a great-aunt who had purchased the house in 2020 with Ms. Thompson in mind would come for an extended stay. This week, with the filing of court papers some 200 miles north, the plan came to an abrupt end. The great-aunt — Letitia James, the New York attorney general — was indicted by President Trump’s Justice Department. The yellow house, with its gabled roof and tidy lawn, was revealed to be at the heart of the case that Mr. Trump’s chosen prosecutor brought against Ms. James, one of the president’s most prominent adversaries. In the indictment, the prosecutor, Lindsey Halligan, accuses Ms. James of having misrepresented the purpose of the house when she purchased it in August 2020 for $137,000. The indictment says that while Ms. James indicated to her mortgage broker that she expected to use the house as a second home, she had instead used it as a “rental investment property, renting the property to a family.” But in June, Ms. Thompson testified to a grand jury in Norfolk that she had lived in the house for years and that she did not pay rent, a person familiar with her testimony said. She was not asked to testify again, and the grand jury that voted to indict Ms. James was not seated in Norfolk, but in Alexandria.<< NYT

No I didn’t. It turns out at least one other person at that WH conference has been documenting ICE’s activities for ICE. The guy who took the video of Noem on the rooftop was also at the WH.

Right, the whole premise is ridiculous.

People did not. Inflation was a major voter concern.

I’m an 100% in agreement on this and all I can say is that GOP USSC judges have time again struck down regulations that would limit influence & increase transparency. And also the DOJ has a public integrity division that has been dismantled by this administration.

Make America Great Again. Also, we need to follow Bolivia’s economic recovery plan.

We’re the richest country on earth. We have (had) the strongest post pandemic recovery. You’re acting like we’re Greece 2008 in need of austerity jolts.

Nobody bought in to more expensive cost of living. Nobody wants that. This is bag of magic beans stuff.

With dollars that buy less.

What actually happens: take soybeans. The US created the China market through blood & treasure in the Cold War. We pried them open, beginning with Nixon & through the Bushes & Obama, but really it was a Republican achievement. We do all this, for decades. Then what? El Magnifico Jefe Naranja pisses them off & taxes them out of the US market. Now they buy from Brazil, & we are putting American farmers on welfare. That was *our market.

Slave wages. And what of the blue collar families that need to eat?