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The irony is rich …

Cogito ergo sum …

Sounds like the USA … although in all fairness, I have found the medical care I have been given here in Chiang Mai has been great. That includes the heart attack and associated TIA from a “floater clot” following the stent placement and 2 additional angioplasties in 2015.

Thirteen years in Chiang Mai. While many take care of immigration by themselves, my rationale for using an agency is that it has been worth the charge to let them handle matters. As they work with immigration daily they know if there has been a change in regulation, if there is a new boss who wants to make his mark, which immigration officials are easier to deal with and which to avoid. Here in Chiang Mai, I do take care of the 90 day Reports as the Drive-up window is fast and efficient.

So.I am told. Personally I am retired as an Expat here because it allows me an earned working middle class American retirement unavailable to me in the USA.

The 4 academic titles I outlined were factually accurate for the state system in which I taught. I retired in 2011 with the academic title of Professor Emeritus of History.

As stated in the article, the Academic Title of Professor is earned over time and the process is often vetted by students, colleagues and administration. It takes years to earn. In my case in the USA, often new Faculty members start as Instructors. In the system where I worked I was hired as a History Instructor in a new community college after having already taught as a tenured teacher in the public schools for 16 years. All Faulty were evaluated each year (even after earning tenure). After two years as Instructor, you were considered to be raised to the Academic Rank of Assistant Professor. This was vetted at the local institution with input from Student evaluations, colleagues and administration. After serving successfully for six years the critical time came to be considered to be raised to the Academic Rank of Associate Professor with Tenure. Again local decision but then the file was sent to the system offices where a more intense vetting was required. If one did not receive this promotion, you were given a terminal contract for one year to look elsewhere. This was the end of the required academic steps. However, after ten years of successful teaching and fulfilling of other requirements, including statewide and/or national service you could voluntarily request to be recognized as Full Professor. Upon retirement one might also be granted the earned Academic Title of Emeritus Professor in recognition of the years of service and attainments. This was for the statewide system in which I taught for 27 years. The focus was on teaching, it was not a research institution system so publication was not a criteria for promotion. We were assigned four areas of responsibility: teaching, institutional service, professional development and community service. I retired to Thailand in 2011 but have not pursued teaching here.

First degree from Chiang Mai University. Master’s Degree in Public Administration from Kentucky State University.

“Vietnamese with American citizenship” = no real Americans in your mind? Interesting, bent dealing with a nation of immigrants, including my own forebears arriving in the 1600s before the founding of the USA.

It is like this, Americans are used to at least partly knowing, if not comprehending American Rights. What we see evolving now is a move where Rights will be determined by the residency of a particular state. Not American Rights … State Rights … we have been down that road previously. The argument is 248 years old and some seem to want to revert to the Articles of Confederation.

I am beginning the reading of Project 2025. You? It is available for download from the internet.

A while ago, my bank would not do an international transfer form required by Bangkok Bank in NYC … so I changed to Wise … recently Wise started using an intermediary company to take the funds from my account when I asked for a monthly transfer … the change resulted in my bank saying no, cannot do. Long and short of it, I now do a direct monthly wire transfer into my Bangkok Bank Account here in Thailand. Fast, efficient and does not cost me more than a Wise transfer did so … Recommend doing a direct wire transfer.

Sad response by the red ant. Suggest we ignore.

Very clearly stated.

Quite so. Nonetheless my Absetee Ballot will be mailed voting for the political party having a documented record of favoring the working middle class over the party putting forth the policies of Project 2024. I will vote in opposition to a current candidate who is anathema to everything I support. I have studied far too much history to do otherwise. I fully face that if the majority of American citizen voters do not reject Trump and his old, I will have lost my country.

Personally, I would seek out a Nose, Throat and Ear Doctor. They will take a look. Discharges sounds like a definite infection. But the Doctor could find a growth (s) causing the long running issue. At the onset of any sinis issues, I irrigate continuously by flooding up one nostril and out the other with saline solution (plastic bottles for eye contact lense).

If only … Bernie gave voice to the working middle class justified frustrations/anger … just at Trump is perceived to be doing. Hugh difference was Sanders had the documented record of fighting for the middle class as opposed to Trump’s lip service and incompetence in leadership/ statesmanship. Defeat the Trump Party and I am ready to turn attention on the rich and famous in the Democrat Party. Sanders was shafted and no, I did not vote for Hillary.

Damn those unskilled laboring peasants. Wait, what? You mean the working middle class thinks they are better off voting Democrat rather than Republican? What a thought! That said, as a Democrat voting, I have plenty to criticize the Democrat Party on but … first I need to cast my vote in opposition to a man abhorrent to what my forbears built in the USA from before its founding and drive a stake through the heart of the current Republican Party.

H, yes, the importing of votes. Except you cannot vote if you are not a citizen. Care to look at the process of becoming a citizen?

Whoa! You are stating that what is taking place in NYC (with Southern Governors having proudly dent bus and plane loads of immigrants to NYC purposely as the same as “dozens of other cities”? Hoisted on your own petard there.

So, it is the best and the brightest that are not having Visas processed … OK, let’s take a step back. Where is the acknowledged labor shortage? It it in the fields demanding higher education? Or is the shortage in areas needing manual labor? I just raise the questions for consideration. The “they are getting free, taxpayer services” charges for another day as there are publicly available documents fro creditable academic studies that we would need to review to see if these accusations are indeed valid.

See, a bit of critical thinking. Stating fact is not the same as promoting. Was also true with the cotton debate in their time. Focus on the issue … is there an agricultural labor shortage? If there is how to address the shortage. We’ve been here before. Might want to visit the history of the Eisenhower Administration and immigrant labor just as one snapshot.

Thing is the existing laws are not addressing the new reality since those laws were passed. New immigration legislation is needed and both Republicans and Democrats hammered out a bipartisan bill to address this (after both parties have kicked the can down the roads for decades). OK, bipartisan attempt that the President had agreed to sign and … don’t do it says a Donald J Trump. Bill dead …

Yes, wise for Trump to duck as, in answering questions demanding a direct answer, he’s got nothing. Never mind the personal attacking, which I would be opposed to ( how many prostitutes have you been with in total ). Rather, would you tell us your plan for deporting immigrants, which of the Project 2025 proposals do you support. Will you truly move to replace the experienced career federal government bureaucrats? Will you declare an end to support for Ukraine?

You have my attention. Please cite what has been delivered that you see as a negative and the projected billing. You will want to include the bipartisan bill dealing with concrete needs passed by Republicans and Democrats in Congress and signed by the President.