Dear Comrade, thank you for giving me so much to work with.
I don’t know much about the invasion of our southern border, what I do know is that when I need construction work done I usually end up hiring a Latino. Thanks to elitists like Betsy DeVos who think everyone needs and wants a college education, most of the trade education programs in public schools have been eliminated. Neither of my sons went to college and they each have a successful business they have built from scratch. One son has dyslexia and I helped him get started in construction. The other son followed his father’s example and enlisted upon high school graduation. He is now retiring after over 20 years in Special Forces and war experience in Iraq and Afghanistan. His first son has already completed an enlistment, and his second son has just enlisted. My other son also has a son currently in basic training. So a husband, 2 sons and 3 grandsons all with military service in the US Army. I think I have made my contribution by supporting them and the idea of service.
The 5 violent crimes and a burglery my immediate family members have experienced were all committed by native born, no Latinos. My 2 encounters with sex perverts as a child were both white men. The only sex-trafficking I have been aware of was by Russians, Albanians, and Chinese. I don’t hate Trump. His book, The Art of the Deal I read 40 years ago has helped me and my sons I have advised be more financially successful than if I had NOT read his book.
I don’t think our country has become a banana republic, I have visited some of them. I am glad that business is coming to the conclusion they should come back to the US or find labor other than Chinese in China. I do have a problem with the MIC and MDC driving the country into unnecessary wars like Iraq in 2003, or failing to encourage behavior to improved immunity and pushing vaccines only and high priced drugs like Remdesivir.
I do believe we should support Ukraine, do a better job of monitoring our aid to them, and discourage corrupt behavior as they recover when the fighting stops. I also believe Putin is an egotistical dying man who has gotten his country grasping one heck of a tarbaby. I pity the Russian people. The Russian tendency and advice of Alexandr Dugin is to ever expand through duplicity and conquest. I’m glad the Ukranians are doing the job for the moment and hope my grandchildren now in service don’t end up having to do it too.
We do need to get a better handle on the southern border situation, because our “poor banana republic” country is just too attractive to the rest of the world, especially to our south. I once spoke to a Mexican working for a painting company in Alabama being paid 25% below minimum wage. When I asked if he would rather be here or in Mexico if he could get a paying job there, he said “in Mexico.” I asked what he liked in the US. He said, “Here the police are honest.” Where we go with information like that is a very complex question and I don’t have an immediate answer. Perhaps you can come up with one Comrade, since you are so much smarter than the rest of us.
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Problem is you don't know much about your country. Clear evidence you pay too much attention to what is going on in other countries other than your own.
You are also ignorant that the elites of this nation, and the world, want you to hire these illegals who are willing to work for far less than an American can do the job. It not only increases their profit margins, it destroys morale within this nation which in turn weakens her. Thus, you are destroying the lives of other Americans while saving yourself and your family.
You should be so proud of your patriotism. /sarcasm
The sad part is that you proudly admit your ignorance.
Thanks to elitists like Betsy DeVos who think everyone needs and wants a college education, most of the trade education programs in public schools have been eliminated.
Once again you expose your utter ignorance. The educational system from top to bottom is totally dysfunctional, and the results are clearly visible with you absolutely uninformed response. Her only goal is to reform education, not require every American to be college graduates. But for those who do desire to pursue further education, they should be getting what they are paying for. No doubt you are also unaware of the perverted grooming that is taking place with America's children destroying the future of America via the children who will be totally incapable of becoming productive adults. If ignorance is bliss, you must indeed be one extremely blissful woman.
I still see plenty of Americans getting involved in service occupations like plumbing, construction & other such occupations. Unfortunately for many of them, they are being replaced by illegals willing to work for less money, because of people like yourself. Oh, you are such a marvelous person who weeps for Ukrainians, while ignoring your neighbors.
Again, you are such a patriot. /again sarcasm
I applaud the job you did with your children, however, you are doing a disservice to your grandchildren.
While you recognize the folly of Iran, & even more so Afghanistan, what makes you believe that that Ukraine is worthy? China is by far the communist country that presents the most serious threat to this nation, not Russia. Russia has shown their lack of military competence, yet you continue to label them as a serious threat.
Ukraine has been the driving force behind the invasion by Russia. They have absolutely been brutalizing Russians who have lived their entire lives in Ukraine. The coup d'etat fomented in Ukraine, by the Obama administration, was the catalyst that started the whole ball of wax to start forming within the Russian leadership.
The main thing to understand is that there is far more than just Russia invading Ukraine, and you need to look into the actual causation, not just the obvious that they beat you with constantly to justify stealing more of your hard-earned money too support the corruption that is Ukraine. It makes you poorer and them along with our crooked politicians richer. You gain nothing. Quit being such a willing mark in their scams, because you are making me, along with other tax paying Americans, marks as well.
Your personal experiences are one thing, but if you rely only upon them then, how can you possibly see that crime is rising, thanks in large part to the black population who have been taught to feel like victims, but also because of illegals committing crimes. Not only economic crimes but sexual crimes as well. When you relegate your information to only your personal experiences, then you have only a very small data set from which to inform yourself. thus you miss a lot of data that provides an even bigger picture.
The fact that you point to native Americans being the ones your family has experienced violent crimes from, is because their futures are being stolen from them, and illicit drugs has become their avenue of escape from their realities. Not every native child has had the parents your children were blessed with. The other problem is that our schools have focused on making people feel like victims, rather than teaching them much needed skills to make productive lives for themselves.
I too have a family history of military within my family. I broke the mold. Almost joined but decided against it. I also bowed out of schooling beyond high school opting instead to attend a trade school, where I learned computer programming skills.
When I asked if he would rather be here or in Mexico if he could get a paying job there, he said “in Mexico.” I asked what he liked in the US. He said, “Here the police are honest.” Where we go with information like that is a very complex question and I don’t have an immediate answer. Perhaps you can come up with one Comrade, since you are so much smarter than the rest of us.
I can tell you where we don't go, to Ukraine to fix their problems. It makes no logical sense whatsoever, if you really take the time to think about it.
In some ways, I am smarter than you give me credit for, that's for sure. You are wasting time & resources on some other country's problems. Those resources are are needed here at home. We need as many people, who love this country and want to see her continue, to rise up and retake our country back from tyrants. If you do not see where the priorities are, then perhaps that does say something about your intellectual deficiencies.
Bottom line here is that we are saddled with enough of our own problems. We do not need to go searching the world for problems. Focus on our problems, for if we don't and the U.S. falls, then the whole world falls & descends into tyrannical hell on earth, and we become powerless to do anything about it.
Quit allowing yourself to be distracted, for that is exactly what the tyrants want, and need, to be successful. We can stop this, but it will take a united effort by a vast majority to do so.
Don't be foolish with your endeavors, be focused where you are needed, not where they want you to be focused on. Our children's future depends on us uniting, not dividing ourselves insanely. This is why I wage my fight against you people. The world depends upon you opening your eyes to reality.
I am not the enemy, and calling me a supporter of Putin, when nothing could be further from the truth, only helps the enemies of this nation. Furthermore, it provides no real help to the world at large either.
Think wisely, not emotionally, for that only interferes with critical thought, which is what is needed for good to defeat evil.
I agree with much of what you said, especially relating to work in the trades.
If I were a middle-aged father with college-age kids I’d strongly encourage them to skip college and go into the trades. Only exception: If they pursue STEM interests, they should go to college.
The following is from former Central Intelligence Agency officer turned political activist, Raymond McGovern. McGovern was a CIA analyst from 1963 to 1990, and in the 1980s chaired National Intelligence Estimates and prepared the President's Daily Brief.
What Americans Don’t Know
Humorist Will Rogers had it right:
“The problem ain’t what people know. It’s what people know that ain’t so; that’s the problem.”
What Americans "know" is that President Vladimir Putin is evil and that Russia must be stopped in Ukraine. This comes of six straight years of indoctrination/brainwashing. Putin and his colleagues, of course, are aware of this. It must seem to them that people in the US an Europe are being steeled with the propaganda basis for wider war. This gets extremely dangerous. What people don’t know can really hurt them and lead them into another misbegotten war – this one far worse than other recent misadventures.
You can read more HERE.
What amazes me the most, after the Afghanistan debacle, are people like youself following this idiot and supporting his very dangerous adventure into Ukraine, which really hurts the Ukrainian people more than it helps them.
In addition, it causes further erosion of our nation's strength and ability to react when the SHTF for real.
You are only making the world become a more dangerous place, not a safer place. Wake up.