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Immigrants are and have been a net plus to the US economy for decades.

"Benefits of Immigration Outweigh the Costs"

www.bushcenter.org

"Immigrants are a fiscal boon to the U.S. In a new report released by the Cato Institute, the authors update a model created by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to examine the impacts of immigrants on the U.S. government's budget.

Their findings are clear:

In each year from 1994 to 2023, across all levels of government, immigrants paid more in taxes than they received in benefits.

This resulted in a cumulative fiscal surplus of $14.5 trillion in real 2024 U.S. dollars over that period, including savings on interest payments on the national debt."

more

www.brookings.edu

Trumpers don't need no stinking Facts!

Here's the Clutter house - en.wikipedia.org - which you can locate with a quick search. As for driving 100 miles out of your way, pretty much count on it. It's way to hell-and-gone out at Holcomb.

More: Sen. Warren: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So, the Federal Reserve has long been plagued by a culture of corruption and coziness with Wall Street.

Over the last five years, at least six senior Fed officials have been implicated in serious ethics scandals related to personal stock trading and self-dealing.

But instead of trying to repair this broken culture, I'm concerned that you seem to be embracing it.

At the time of your nomination, you owned more than $100 million worth of shares in private investment vehicles called the Juggernaut Funds and THSDFS LLC. And, you refused to disclose the underlying assets to the Senate and to the public. You say now that you've sold those shares. In other words, someone wrote you a check for more than $100 million days before you entered office. Chair Warsh, who wrote that check?

Chair Warsh: Senator Warren, this is a discussion you and I had in the public square seven weeks ago. And I'm thrilled to tell you that I've fully honored the obligations I had under the Office " the agreement I had with the Office Government Ethics. And there's continued disclosure which I'm happy to make as consistent with the agreement.

Sen. Warren: I asked you a very specific question. Who gave you $100 million right before you were sworn in. Was it a billionaire who has business with the Fed? Was it Stanley Druckenmiller, who has made billions of dollars betting on what the Fed does? Or was it a different billionaire? Who gave you the money?

Chair Warsh: I will fully comply with the Office of Government Ethics.

Sen. Warren: That's not an answer.

Chair Warsh: Well it is an answer actually, Senator.

Sen. Warren: No, it's not.

Chair Warsh: Because there are obligations and I will satisfy them completely.

Sen. Warren: It's $100 million right before you were sworn in, and you won't tell the American people where it came from.

I went inside, shaved and showered, and put on my Oscar Romero T-shirt.

en.wikipedia.org

As archbishop, Romero spoke out against social injustice and violence amid the escalating conflict between the military government and left-wing insurgents that led to the Salvadoran Civil War. In 1980, Romero was fatally shot by an assassin while celebrating Mass. Though no one was ever convicted for the crime, investigations by the UN-created Truth Commission for El Salvador concluded that Major Roberto D'Aubuisson, a death squad leader and later founder of the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) political party, had ordered the killing.

Initially seen as a social conservative at the time of his appointment as archbishop in 1977, Romero was deeply affected by the murder of his friend and fellow priest Rutilio Grande and thereafter became an outspoken critic of the military government of El Salvador. Hailed by supporters of liberation theology, Romero's relationship with this theology was debated and initially led to impediments in his beatification process, with both denials and affirmations of Romero adhering to it. According to his biographer Michael E. Lee, since Romero's theological thought and homilies extensively utilized the theme of liberation, and Romero borrowed numerous controversial elements of liberation theology, he "can be seen as an exemplar of liberation theology."

Ron DeSatan, "An Officer and a Gentleman Schmuck": He's no Zack Mayo

In 2020, this troglodyte with a double Ivy League education was slammed as 'stupidest Governor in America' when he lifted all Covid-19 restrictions on Florida restaurants.

Are you saying Iran will simply refuse to agree to any of Trump's terms and win?
And as long as Iran refuses to capitulate, you believe it can maintain control of the Strait of Hormuz...for now...or perhaps indefinitely?
Just dig in their heals and that's all they'll need to do?

#22 | Posted by BillJohnson

Yes, that is correct.

You don't get it Bill; Iran controls the strait. There is no going back. Even in best of circumstances all they have to do is threaten action and poof traffic stops

You fail to understand that we lost. Iran won.

It is one of the most lopsided strategic victories in a long time.

Try, real hard, to put yourself in Iran's shoes.

3 times Piggy has backed out of an agreement, the second two times with violence

The last time with a cowardly sneak attack.

We murdered their leader with a cowardly bombing.

We murdered the more centrist elements of the regime

Piggy threatened to murder their negotiators

Piggy threatened to end their civilization.

Why would ANYONE agree to ANYTHING with Piggy.

Let alone give up something with the value of controlling the strait and with zero upside.

Seriously, what is the upside for Iran to agree to anything with Piggy?

The ONLY card Piggy has is to cease bombing

But if Iran gives up control of the strait, nothing prevents Piggy from coming back and bombing them months or years from now

And, shit, just this week Piggy showed he acts at the whims of the ME dictators who told him in no uncertain terms he isn't putting a toll on the strait

You need to wrap your head around the fact that we lost, unequivocably

And we deserve to suffer

This is the new normal. Get used to it.

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