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On 10/29/2024 11:10 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.

Just having a larger pool of workers for the same number of jobs 
depresses market wages.

pt