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Plumbing is a skilled occupation. As are electricians and carpenters. Your post is a non-sequitur. I would be very surprised too. I would expect immigrants with those skills to be coming in legally, with the protection of award wages. Are you saying there is no requirement in the building industry for unskilled labor?

It would appear you have drunk so much Kool-Aid it is coming out of every orifice, including your pores.

I get it, as a statistical sample of one employer, you are living proof the building trade does not employ illegals.

I guess you won't mind paying more for your vegetables, then. Some people like the holier than thou shtick.

1/ The cost of living is so cheap here my savings are being accrued, rather than depleted. 2/ My GF will take care of me until I draw my last breath. 3/ Plenty of entertainment - books, TV etc at the click of a mouse. 4/ The level of air pollution appears to be decreasing in what should be the worst month. Currently 35 AQI in my condo.

I guess DOGE has got around to examining the cost/benefit aspects of deportations. By all means throw out the criminals and drug dealers. Throwing out cheap labor that keeps the cost of supermarket vegetables down is insane.

Because the undocumented migrants are doing the crap jobs no American wants to do.

So you won't remember the bone spurs, disrespecting the fallen, sexually abusing women, or backing down when Trudeau called him out. What an amazing selective memory you have.

You should not post facts on ASEAN, it gets in the way of opinions.

I tend to be biased against felons, sexual predators, liars, people who disrespect those that keep them safe, or cheat contractors by using their wealth to tie said contractors up in knots in the law courts. IIRC over 4000 legal cases. In short, I am biased against scum. What is your problem with that?

Gold is the best defence against governments that debase their currency by printing money. I remember about 10 years ago buying Thai gold for 19,000 per baht. Now, it is about 45,000 per baht. OTOH in Thailand, over those ten years condo prices have stayed static, or even declined in places like Chiang Mai. I have been trading in gold for 50 years. I have never lost money. All I have to do is wait.

Your bias towards Trump is quite obvious from your posts. Take your permission and stick it where the sun does not shine.

I am fairly positive you tell the truth as often as your leader.

He was nicked in the ear by some fragment. He would be dead if he was shot in the head. Crooks was a registered Republican voter. He had also searched for the date of the Democratic National Convention, so he may have been an equal opportunity assassin. Fight or flight are normal human reactions. Trump choosing the former does not make him a hero. He needed Vance in the room to help ambush Zelensky. That is the sign of a coward. When Trump backed down from the Canada tariffs, did anyone hear him shouting " Fight Fight Fight"? Do you ever think of looking at all the facts, instead of picking ones that suit your cognitive bias?

Yes, I have been to America at least a dozen times. Let's see - Chicago, Atlantic City, NY, New Orleans, Houston, Cleveland, St Louis, Philadelphia,, Detroit, San Antonio. Plus places like Rancho Cucamonga, Consohocken, Clementon, Valley Forge, and Yosemite. I am quoting official overweight/obesity statistics. Over 40% of Americans are classified as obese. Every time I was in America, I saw people who were so obese they could barely walk.That may be something to do with the quantity of food served up in every restaurant, be it breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I still have memories of ordering roast beef in Pittsburgh, and getting a piece the size of a loaf of bread. Put simply, Americans eat too much. I was using sledgehammers as an example. As I have helped in milling timber for constructing a 12 stand shearing shed, and marked 500 lambs in 40 C heat, I do know what manual labor looks like. I don't think you understand Americans don't want to work in low-paid jobs. Paying a proper wage for construction and crop picking would result in skyrocketing costs. So if Trump succeeds in deporting every illegal in the US, your cost of living will either go through the roof, or homes will not get built, and crops will rot in the ground.

Every bully is a coward, Trump is both. Bullies always back down after a good smack in the mouth. He just got one from Canada.

The eastern parts of Ukraine are not ethnically Russian. That is a Russian lie. During the Holodomor, Stalin killed off about 6 million Ukrainians by famine in the region, which coincidentally is chernozem, the richest agricultural soil on the planet. He then migrated Russians there. Ukraine is fighting a war with one hand tied behind its back. Give it complete air cover, and the ability to use interdicted missiles to strike Moscow, and the Russian army would probably crumble without any NATO boots on the ground. Kyiv gets hit every day with similar missiles. Of course, Trump is busy tying Zelensky's second arm behind his back. The country most vocal about freedom allying itself with a dictator. I would love to know what Putin has on Trump, it must be quite damning.

Do you think an office worker sitting in an air-conditioned office with a laptop can reskill themselves to swing a sledgehammer in the boiling sun? 70% of Americans are either overweight or obese. That leaves you 30% to do the hard yakka. Sure, there are plenty of jobs in construction. But how many Americans want to do that type of work? It's why the USA has become dependent on foreign workers, legal and illegal.

You were quoting a range of 137 -143 not so long ago. Going by the infantile nature of your posts, you'd probably be lucky to make 85.

Your post lacks any specifics. As I have caught you in a number of lies, I suspect any specific achievement you list will also be a lie.

Why do you think so many Republicans fall over themselves supporting Trump? It's because getting endorsed by him gives them the 30% MAGA morons vote. Incurring his wrath loses that 30%. There are very few Republicans who put their country before their careers. The base salaries of Congressmen and Senators is $174,000 a year. That's pretty good, quite apart from all the incentives lobby groups hand out for a vote, which may run into millions. I don't disagree Trump is a grub.

About 6 months before the last election, Trump is on record as wishing the US economy would tank. As KhunLA says, the so-called people's representatives really only represent themselves.

Don't have to pray at all. A recession is inevitable when a country hikes tariffs, and fires people who would otherwise be paying income tax, and spending. If there is a recession in Thailand, how does that affect me? How does that hit me harder?

I suppose one could say Trump kept a lot of lawyers employed in defending himself from the contractors he has dudded, the crimes he has committed or the women he has molested. IIRC it's over 4000 lawsuits. Whether that is at all productive is another question. I don't need to improve my lot in life. I am financially secure. I don't need to impress friends, family and neighbors with my possessions. I feel sorry for people who are so stupid they don't realize what is happening. Trump is orchestrating a future where America will consist of wealthy enclaves surrounded by a sea of strugglers. Just like any third world country. I can say when I was working, I was more productive than most. What have you done that has improved the business you worked for, or contributed to the society you live in?

I am talking income tax. Please keep up.