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14. How unfortunate that these congressional critters have to deal w/ the likes of foul-mouthed miller, who claims he
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 01:35 PM
Jun 21

knows best about immigration policies etc.

Sadly, a lot of these immigrants are here for jobs, that would go unfilled otherwise.

I've always wondered about the seeming disconnect between the constantly increasing number of new economic entities in this Country, that keep popping up, vs. the vast numbers of physical bodies to work in these thousands of new positions. With the birth rate in the US creeping downwards, our population getting older, and the economy driving families to have fewer children or no children, there's bound to be serious discrepancies in economic activity, due to a serious lack of labor.

Hence, some smart-ass republicans have been saying to yank everybody off of social security and put them to work. Despite the fact that a great majority of us have worked legitimately until our retirement age, and thus, are entitled to retire. Somehow, the repugs seem to act like this is wrong, when in practice, yanking millions of immigrants who were paying taxes too, while working (not all of them), is leaving serious gaps in our economic engine.

And sadly, there were viable fixes to these immigration issues, the repubs just didn't want to 'fix' it, they wanted immigration to be an ongoing issue.

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