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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a
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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 14:47:17 -0500
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On 10/29/2024 10:10 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:
>> On 10/28/2024 9:59 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>>> On 10/28/2024 7:26 AM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>>>> On 10/28/24 01:49, The Horny Goat wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, 27 Oct 2024 18:16:03 -0700, Bobbie Sellers
>>>>> <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>      Harris is not trash but an elected Vice President who did
>>>>>> everything
>>>>>> asked of her by her President. Now she is running at
>>>>>> his instigation since her policies will aline more with his than
>>>>>> most others. She served as Attorney-General to the State of California
>>>>>> which is bigger than Autearoa both in population and surface area.
>>>>>
>>>>> I dunno - judging by his behalf since July it seems almost certain
>>>>> Biden was pushed, he didn't leap off himself. There have been all
>>>>> sorts of stories to the effect that Obama and Clinton told him
>>>>> contributors wouldn't contribute if he was on the ballot after that
>>>>> catastrophic first debate but nobody's saying anything for sure - but
>>>>> no question any time Biden has appeared on camera he seemed grumpy
>>>>> about not leading the ticket.
>>>>
>>>>       I sent him a note asking him to stay as a candidate since
>>>> he is slightly younger than myself and he has done a great job. He
>>>> was pressured into resigning his candidacy by people like Nancy
>>>> Pelosi. I don;t think the people putting the pressure on Biden
>>>> were the people choosing Harris. She was Biden;s choice out of
>>>> all the other prospective candidates in 2020 and the American
>>>> people voted them into offie.
>>>>
>>>>       last night after i finished my note to the fellow in
>>>> Anteroa(?) shut down my computer and went to bed I realized
>>>> that the slurs on Biden he repeated were certainly Trumpite
>>>> but from the Putin wing of the Republican Party. Several of
>>>> the people riding on Trump's coat tails like Hauley and
>>>> MTG are simply following the Putin line ofstructing aid
>>>> to the Ukraine on specious grounds. Obstructing the bill
>>>> to enhance border security so that the Border Patrol
>>>> does not get the new officers it needs badly to do its
>>>> Duty properly. Of course when the undocumented persons
>>>> are in the USA it is largely Republicans who exploit their
>>>> labor as Trump himself has done in the past.
>>>>
>>> Anyone who has done a honest study on illegal immigration in the US has
>>> concluded that the American economy is DEPENDENT on the labor of
>>> illegals.  Our economy would crash without them.
>>
>> Nice try, nope.  Illegal immigrants allow employers to cut the salaries
>> of legal USA citizens.  I have seen it done many times in the
>> engineering industry, especially software engineering.
> 
> As the old saying goes, 'one swallow doesn't make a summer'.
> 
> There are very few, if any, illegal immigrants in the software engineering
> field.  There are a lot of legal immigrants in the software
> engineering field, and federal law requires they be paid
> the same as domestic engineers.

Ha, ha, ha !  I have never seen an H1-B person working for even half 
salary of a USA engineer.

But now, a lot of the engineering companies have offices outside the USA 
and pay what the market wage is in that country.  With India's 
incredibly strict capital controls, this is one way to get "money" out 
of the country.

Lynn