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Hekate

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6. Sure, like the time my computer-engineer sister lost her job to overseas hires, & was offered "retraining" as...
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 01:37 AM
Jun 20

…a word-processor. Yes, typing.

That was a long time ago. She had to train her own overseas replacements more than once. She changed course by becoming a technical writer, and is now retired.

But with that in mind, imagine all the fired civil servants with suburban houses or city condos, with their kids in good public schools, being offered new far-away careers stripping beds in motels or doing stoop-labor in the fields or even better — meat processing from slaughter to packing to cleaning the kill-floors at night.

Yeah, that’s the ticket. Mass firings of skilled federal workers, bankruptcy and loss of their homes, the kids going hungry — that will make Americans willing to take “those” jobs. In fact, and this is the real beauty of the MAGAGOP plan, Sarah Huckabee Sanders has pointed out that even young teens would be “proud” to help their parents put food on the table by working in factories on the night shift, and still be able to go to school in the daytime.

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IF this regime doesn't loot social security vapor2 Jun 20 #1
trump believes Americans will take those jobs, perhaps because they have no choice after Silent Type Jun 20 #2
Sure, like the time my computer-engineer sister lost her job to overseas hires, & was offered "retraining" as... Hekate Jun 20 #6
Yeah nothing like a $10/hr job when costs require $40+ to function. Brainfodder Jun 20 #10
Undocumented immigrants already pay $90 billion a year into SS PSPS Jun 20 #3
A few of them will, if they're on track for a Green Card. haele Jun 20 #9
That will stop when they are deported . . . Ms. Toad Jun 20 #14
The solution is simple Picaro Jun 20 #4
The Treasury Department takes donations if you think you did not pay enough taxes and want to reduce the kelly1mm Jun 20 #7
That money is long gone Picaro Jun 20 #8
They already pay into SS, and all other payroll taxes. They just don't ever draw them out. That is the core... Hekate Jun 20 #5
Yes, the fix for most of our problems is to make wealthy people pay their fair share. travelingthrulife Jun 20 #11
Billions in surplus. Blue Full Moon Jun 20 #12
trillions struggle4progress Jun 20 #17
Have they paid back the IOU's? nt Hotler Jun 20 #13
That's the point of the report. Igel Jun 20 #15
Thank you. nt Hotler Jun 20 #16
Technically, giving illegal immigrants already working here citizenship may make SS worse, not better NickB79 Jun 20 #18
This is easily solvable TacosUberAlles Jun 20 #19
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