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Thank you for your nonpartisan and entirely objective report.

according to those graphs foreign born employment has increased by more than 2 million since just before the covid crash. Not the one million you clam. And the reason for the decline in native born workers' percentage of the population is simple: Immigrants’ Share of the U.S. Labor Force Grows to a New High Native-born workers’ slice is shrinking as retirements rise and population growth slows https://archive.ph/tHanL https://www.wsj.com/articles/immigrants-share-of-the-u-s-labor-force-grows-to-a-new-high-67805c45

You might want to check whose name is in the topic line of this thread before making accusations about TSD. Given your apparent inability to understand what it means for his name to feature in the topic line, maybe it's you who should be seeking help.

There have been all kinds of predictions about all kinds of things since forever. But climatology only got its start as a science in the 1970's with the advent of advanced computing power.

Can you share with us this strong and credible evidence?

The U.S.' aging infrastructure is struggling to keep pace with the rapid growth of renewable energy. IEEE: improvements and replacements to the grid’s 8,000 power-generation units; 600,000 circuit miles of AC transmission lines and 70,000 substations to support increased renewable energy and battery storage could cost $2.5 trillion. Upgrading existing lines using advanced conductors actually costs less than half what a new power line would cost because it does away with much of the construction spending. https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/This-Might-Be-The-Fastest-Way-to-Double-US-Grid-Capacity.html

Immigration has propelled the U.S. job market further than just about anyone expected, helping cement the country’s economic rebound from the pandemic as the most robust in the world. That momentum picked up aggressively over the past year. About 50 percent of the labor market’s extraordinary recent growth came from foreign-born workers between January 2023 and January 2024, according to an Economic Policy Institute analysis of federal data. https://news.yahoo.com/economy-roaring-immigration-key-reason-181700645.html

Whether or not the rich can exploit opportunities - and since when hasn't that been the case - is irrelevant. Now maybe you're a socialist and resent private enterprise. Me, I'm all for for it as the best way of making progress. As for the science, the denialists have consistently been proven wrong in their predictions about the global warming trend. So, all they've got left is to allege a huge conspiracy to deny them their say.

Well, apparently, the people who criticize climate change on account of the behavior of the wealthy and prominent, think personal details are somehow scientific data.

And, of course, even worse is that his daughter and son-in-law were actually high level govt officials, particularly Jared Kushner who was assigned responsibility for the Mideast. Even while Kushner was still a government official, Qatar participated in bailing his family out of Kushner's disastrous purchase of a building in Manhattan. We only know that because under NY law certain investments have to be made public. We still don't know how much of the total investment was Qatar's and other possible participants. There is is virtually universal agreement that the terms of the agreement make no financial sense for the investors. So most likely the participants were parties with money to burn.

Nepotism would be Biden giving his son a job or intervening to get him one. I don't know that there's any evidence that really happened. Whereas Trump's three dim bulbs we're all working directly for him.

Well, he is stating some facts. Hunter Biden admitted to Devon Archerthat he was using his father's name to get business. He also admitted that he had absolutely no influence over his father. And it's true that Biden didn't sanction Baturina. But it's also true that Baturina is no longer an oligarch. She's living in exile, an enemy of the current Russian regime.

It's clear you don't understand that facts aren't enough. The facts have to be relevant.

I have yet to see any Trump supporter defend Trump's claim that any act he commits as president is exempt from criminal prosecution unless he is impeached and convicted in a Senate trial. The connection between this belief and his dictatorship mentality are too obvious even for them to defend.

As for Baturina. This issue has repeatedly been addressed. Yelena Baturina has been living in exile in the UK since 2010. She is in no way a friend or supporter of the current Russian government. Quite the contrary. I don't know about Yevtushenko. Are all the Russian oligarchs now being sanctioned by the US?

You are making a case for the impeachment of James Biden and Hunter Biden. Not really offering anything that would constitute an impeachable offence on the part of Joe Biden.

Actually, it would take a caveman to insist that a man would have the final say rather than the woman. You know, the person who's actually pregnant. It's obvious that a woman should have the final say in the matter. Or are claiming that somehow the issue of a split decision would never arise? Or is this a case of you offering more magical thinking, as you did when you claimed that there would be no consequences to women's health in Idaho despite a large exodus of specialist ob-gyns?

I don't know about me being rude but your misleading editing of my comments is certainly dishonest.

Actually, both Obama and Biden did succeed in increasing taxes on the wealthy. As did Bill Clinton. Biden would have done more but a couple of DINOs thwarted his efforts.

Now, someone's claiming that Trump would have sold some of his stocks to pay for his lifestyle. As anyone just mildly conversant with how the rich finance their lifestyle know, they borrow money against their assets. The interest rates they pay on the loans are far, far lower than what they would pay in income taxes.

His latest comment only further confirms your diagnosis. Not that it need confirmation.

After months of speculation and delay, the Federal Trade Commission moved Monday to prevent the proposed $25 billion merger of Kroger and Albertsons, claiming that the largest grocery merger in U.S. history would raise prices and hurt workers. Legal experts say the government’s lawsuit, which contends the merger will reduce the competition that now keeps prices down, could take a year or more to get through various hearings and appeals. The FTC has asked the court to block the deal while the complicated case is being heard. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/seattle-shoppers-cheer-ftc-action-on-kroger-albertson-merger/#:~:text=After months of speculation and,raise prices and hurt workers.

Someone else who clearly doesn't understand the concept of rates. Yes, there are long term climate changes on various cycles that last up to 42000 years. But they move very slowly. Nothing like the relatively rapid gains that have occurred starting in the very recent past.

No need to guess. Clearly, someone who thinks that unrealized capital gains would result in taxes is clearly clueless about finances. On top of which, anyone who knows anything about capital gains taxes in the US knows that they don't approach anywhere near 50%. Long term capital gains taxes top out at 20%. Even short term gains (less than a year) top out at 37%.

You're the one who claimed that the remaining ob-gyn specialists in Idaho would somehow manage to shoulder the additional workload without any additional risk to their patients. Magical thinking much? You've got nothing.