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And when they return it is a felony, I believe with up to two years in prison. That is current law on the books. How many do you have to sentence to prison before it is not worthwhile to cross the border? I always hear things like, well you can’t catch them all. Absolutely not. But when there is no incentive not to cross, why not make the attempt? If you cross the border and the law is enforced and there is a 50-50 likelihood that you will be stopped at some time and put in jail for at least six months and then be deported, if you return it will change to two years, how likely are you to try to do it again? How many people are going to come over knowing the odds? The odds now are so low and with no effort to enforce the law except at the border itself, it is almost comical. It is like putting out information such as, everyone knows it is against the law to steal from a store however the state of Texas is going to institute a new policy of never enforcing that law. If you get caught, you will only have to put the items back on the shelf and leave the store for that day. If you get away with it, you get to keep all of the items. Gee…. all stores are going bankrupt. But back to the original supposition, people are not crossing the border to work menial jobs at minimum wage or less in slave like labor that other people will not take. Notwithstanding, there are people being held as slaves or essentially so and even in this area. I have been on a raid where a two-story home was divided up into about 32 apartments. Those apartments or walls put up to make rooms were about 8‘ x 8‘ or less. The master bedroom had four apartments inside of it. A large living room might had six or eight apartments. People were being brought over illegally, possibly by ship, possibly kidnapped and being held. The one I was on had the house rules written in about eight different languages. I am fairly certain that these people being held while working off their pay to be free at probably five dollars an hour working in restaurants. Then they were charged room and board so basically what they made went right back to the owners. Those weren’t the people however in most cases crossing the border, in my opinion.

Working in the construction trade making $30 an hour or more is hardly jobs that those lazy Americans won’t do. There is a an unjustified racial stereotype of people crossing the southern border as underpaid nannies, lawn workers, concrete finishers and so on. While certainly some people do that (job skills from any nationality or race), to think that millions of people are here for menial jobs is a joke. Only as an anecdote, I stopped a suspicion vehicle a few years ago after a person called in that there was people taking photos of a critical infrastructure facility under construction. While not illegal if on public property (it could possibly be trespassing if not ) I found the vehicle and the two men inside didn’t have state issued ID or a driver’s license. What they did have was official employment IDs from that job site. It kind of makes me wonder how people without proper identification could get jobs at a critical infrastructure site but that’s for another story. I asked them about no ID and both without hesitation said that they were illegally in the country. So on the side of the road I contacted INS (or ICE, I don’t remember if they had made the switch yet) and INS/ICE had me take them into custody and place an immigration hold on them. They were angry and said something like, we have been doing this for years and nobody ever cared. The point of it is, I believe they were welders on an important job site, without state credentials/ID but with work identification and probably making compared to today’s salaries, about $50 an hour. I could give you more such stories if you wish. This was under the George W Bush administration when many immigration laws were enforced. If that was back then, what about today? I never looked into the pictures they were reported to have been taken. They were legally on the job site and probably sending pictures home showing where they worked…. assuming they ever took any photos.

Absolutely.

That is another fallacy.

Because if every job paid enough money to support a family, inflation would result. That means all minimum jobs would have to quadruple if a family of 4 with one income. So a guy gets married and his wife stays home with 2 children. That requires about $32 an hour now. That is not counting states like California, New York and New Jersey. That would be more like $40 an hour minimum. Start paying stockers at the local supermarket $32 an hour as well as the person waiting the counter at Whataburger and see what happens to inflation. If McDonald’s had 5 employees working at that rate, they would have to take in almost $1,500 in sales just to pay the salaries for an 8 hour shift …. without a single benefit. Toss in the cost of food, electricity, water and sewer, etc., and if they aren’t selling $3,000 in an 8 hour shift, they are going to go under. That comes up to the cashier ringing up a sale of at least $6.25 every minute for eight hours. That is not to make a profit, that is to break even. So unless there are about 40 people standing at the counter for the next eight hours waiting to order, they aren’t going to make it. I could do a lot more math but every job should not be and was never intended to be a living wage throughout history. Yes, a living wage for every job is a myth. Of course you could have 3 single guys moving into an apartment together and they each would only need to make about $8 an hour each. I doubt that is what anyone thinks about when discussing living wages.

The living wage on all jobs is a myth. The moment that all jobs become a living wage, the lower paying jobs will no longer have a living wage.

A couple of generations ago we were told that corporal punishment was not the answer. Over 5,000 years of human history of raising children was all wrong. What they need is being put in timeout, on campus suspension, have their cell phones taken away for 30 minutes, etc. That way they will not learn violence and will not use violence against other people. They will only learn to be pacifist. It has worked out so well……

The dog sold it to some cat he met on the street….

Yep, I can think of several. It sounds like a case of the Ivory Soap calling the sugar, white.

Also, I think I’m pretty good at attacking the issue and not the person. There are others in this forum. In fact I don’t think I have ever started a political thread. Of the many posts I have made in this form, how about 90% of the political threads I do not even commented on. If you look at the current list of topics, Get Woke, Fraudulent Election, Joebama Regimen, Trump Social Truth, 40 Billion Unaudited, Joebama Inflation and ston, I have not made a single comment. The reason is that I don’t do ad hominem attacks (and I am not alone and there are others). I on occasion call out people from my side of the aisle for being wrong and agree on occasion with the other side of they make a point. The mere fact that you stated Steve Nash was the “only person” is in itself an attack where you started a thread to protest against it. It is interesting that you started this topic and then used a broad brush to include everybody with an opposing opinion.

Didn’t you just make an ad hominem attack on Trump and his supporters?

And I did not list of correction, just some of the problems. The corrections would be undoing those things.

The list is long and it will never be done. Parents have given the authority over their children to the school to act like babysitters. Schools have abdicated authority to the police. When you were in school, did you have any policeman in the hallways issuing citations for acting up in class? Did you even see a policeman at school? Schools are in fear of losing money so they will not get rid of students who do not need to be there for discipline or danger reasons. Corporal punishment is legal under Texas law but try to find a school district using it. Not allowing teachers to protect themselves against assaults by students. The federal government in the early to mid 1960s making it lucrative to have children out of wedlock. Do you want to keep going with the problems that will not be corrected?

Manchin again steps up and support the Republicans against the Democratic regime. He might as well go ahead and make it official and switch parties.

That meme was plastered all over Facebook and their “fact checkers” removed it as not true. They either don’t understand jokes, puns, innuendo, etc., or they are fully aware of what it meant but when jokes are politically against their progressive beliefs, they are removed under the guise of “disinformation”. Back to the humor…..

Yeah, if I liked the gamble, I would have lost money on that bet.

Yes, in some form they have to be. I can’t imagine any electrical technology in less than at least 100 years that can lift 400 people into the air…. unless we go back to dirigibles.

Trust nothing of what you hear and about half of what you see.

I’m not sure what that has to do with my comment but I have never said otherwise. Does that mean that in 10 or 15 years, technology will not advance to the point of making it possible? Whether the answer is yes or no, if it does become reality it will be because of free enterprise and not because the government deep in to be so. Comparing an EV in 2015 to what will be available in 2035 would be like comparing my 1995 Pentium computer to my cell phone.

I think Cracker Jill is a huge mistake as it identifies the product as female and therefore a non-gender neutral pronoun that might be offensive to someone. Maybe Cracka Non-Binary Person would be a better name. The problem with that is that they use an emblem of someone appearing to be female so it might be a transgender female. That would go back to Jack pretending he is Jill. So….. Frito Lay says we honor women in sports who have broken down barriers. The problem is that since we cannot define what a woman is, a transgender )male)female is considered just as much as a woman at one who was born with ovaries, the barrier being broken is men replacing women in all the record books by calling themselves female. You can’t make this stuff up. Go Democrats!!

Yes. Therein lies the difference in the government mandating something as opposed to the free enterprise system figuring out a solution in order to make a profit.

The left, socialist, progressive are demented. They have a mental illness that is often openly displayed. Unfortunately in this football game of politics, a majority of the normal people who vote for the Democrats are unaware of or choose to ignore how far the lunacy has become. They have chosen a team and will go down with the ship rather than go in a different direction. It is OK to fly a Dallas Cowboys pennant from your car as they suffer through another losing season. I admire someone who will stick with their team through thick and thin. That has any effect on no one else but you however. When that team is a political party and is dragging you personally, your country and everything around you into the toilet, it may be time to root for another team. And easy example is that we use about 1,000,000,000 gallons of diesel and gasoline every two days in this country. Biden immediately on taking office, shuts down millions of acres of oil expiration area with a stroke of a pen. Gee, what effect will that have? So gas prices shot up to near record highest. He’s solution? I will allow a few million barrels from our national strategic reserve (which was meant to be a storage for the US military in case of war). That will be the answer to have prices!!! That will show OPEC!!! And within a few weeks??????? We have all time record fuel prices which will result in all-time consumer product prices. BUT….. it’s my team!! I have to fly that pennant! What does all of that have to do with abortion? It is the sick mindset of people driving the current DNC. I think that an overwhelming majority of the people who vote Democrat are just like everyone else and basically want the same thing as everyone else. They have chosen a team however that is full steam ahead in the fog and heading toward an iceberg while saying, “this ship can’t sink!”.

You are correct but….. The difference being that vaping is a free enterprise. This country, the free market/free enterprise in general was what spurred most of development in history. If someone can figure out a way to build an electric cigarette that works, is safe, economical and people willing to buy, awesome. That free enterprise is a far cry from the federal government taking trillions of dollars and forcing you to use a product which they are forcing to be created without free market constraints. There is a huge incentive for people to come up with an economic alternative to fossil fuels. Even if you could come close to matching the average price of a gasoline vehicle, imagine the money you can make (rivaling Elon Musk) if you could come out with a $30,000 electric car that is driven completely on solar power, even if it is cloudy, which would give you basically unlimited mileage for free. How are we charging stations, no additional load to the power grid, etc. What you put the purchase price of a car on the table, short of maintenance the car will not cost you anything for the next 20 years. at the current cost of gasoline, the vehicle would basically be free within a year. You couldn’t produce enough of them as people would be beating the path for the better mousetrap. I doubt that electric cigarettes and their improvements happened because the federal government was spending many billions of dollars forcing companies to produce them.

With all the crime and shootings going on in and around schools, they might be good to plug a bullet hole.

I arrested a guy for burglary doing the same thing. I don’t remember how many years he was sentenced to but was looking at a 20 year maximum. I was training a rookie officer and we got a call of a garage being broken into at about 3:30pm in the summer. The rookie was driving and we saw a guy mowing grass in the same area. For some reason it looked strange to me but he was just mowing grass. Then I started giving rapid fore directions to my partner which she didn’t understand. The one sided conversation went something like…. “Stop the car!! Get out and grab the guy mowing grass!… Hurry, hurry!!”. Standard rookie response…. “Huh…. What… ?”. Standard training officer response…. “Don’t ask questions, get him!”. It took a few seconds to figure out why I was confused but knew the guy was committing a felony. He was on his first cut after starting the mower. But…. he started at the sidewalk and was mowing straight into the middle of the yard. Basically he divided the yard in half with a push mower. I have mowed a yard a few million times and never made my first cut straight into tall grass. I always started by going around the outside and working my way in. This guy saw us coming and as an alibi, pull started the mower and started cutting. The problem is that he was going down the sidewalk and had no time to start where a person would typically start. The San Augustine grass was about 5” high (family was on vacation) and he dove straight into it. We handcuffed him immediately (obviously my decision) and I don’t remember if I or the rookie checked the garage but yep, the lock was pried off. The difference between a veteran officer and a rookie….. She went on to be a training officer herself and has been in detectives for a out 20 years with about 34 years on the job so far. No doubt learning what I was teaching.