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> The US just lets foreign countries use it for its resources now.

The US is dead last in net exports in the entire world[1], so you literally couldn't be more wrong about this.

> India just hit a record for remittances from the US

Those workers pay their taxes. It's up to them what they do with the rest of their salary. Or do you just want to raise taxes on all US immigrants?

> much of the country is struggling for jobs

This is among the best job markets for workers in US history. Companies are struggling to fill jobs. We need more immigrants to fill those jobs.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_net_expor...

Silver lining to all those remittances: if the whole world is using our currency to buy goods and services (and also holding dollars as a reserve currency) we can print a lot more money before we’re affected by inflation, or at least that’s how I understood it.

That's got nothing to do with remittances. That's got to do with central governments... And many central governments are moving away from using the US as central currency recently because we're being destabilized. Partly by massive amounts of immigration on the order of 2 million per year, as much as the population of some entire states!

>This is among the best job markets for workers in US history.

And yet most companies are either laying people off or have hiring freezes, and I've personally been unemployed for three months now. Your post has no basis in reality, and it sounds like you're trying to come up with post hoc justifications for your political orthodoxy.

The economy has been rapidly adding jobs lately, so how can most companies be laying people off?

I'm sorry you're unable to find work, but an anecdote isn't data.

You need to o differentiate between middle class jobs and poverty jobs like Uber driver and burger flipper.

"Adding jobs" is a poor and lazy indicator of a healthy middle class and healthy economy.

>This is among the best job markets for workers in US history.

Jobs that don't pay the bills are abundant!

There's never been more subway sandwich and Uber driver jobs in history!

Middle class jobs? Flooded with immigrants and hyper competitive.

Much like the housing market which is skyrocket expensive partly because of the 2 million immigrants (the size of some states!) we let in per year who increase demand for housing.

> Those workers pay their taxes. It's up to them what they do with the rest of their salary

Yeah spend it in other countries vs an American who calls this place home who will spend it here to better communities in the USA? They're literally here to exploit the economy of the USA.

Also, what does exports have to do with anything? Does that include siphoning money from the taxpayers to Ukraine? Or siphoning money from the economy in general by immigrants?

Do you feel that Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, or Rupert Murdoch are immigrants who exploit our economy? They have enormous wealth outside the country and pay very little in taxes (much less than Indian immigrants do).

They treat the United States as their home.

This is such a bad take. Indians are stuck in archaic immigration laws, pay taxes for US services they can never use, send whatever small amount they can save to family in India. And you have a problem with that.

The United States has a perverse immigration policy where we punish people who try to come in through the approved and legal avenues, and rely on those who don't in order to feed our population.

If those illegal workers weren't here the wages on those jobs would stabilize to a wage that an American could afford to work it and Americans would work it.

The rich love immigration. They make way more money off the backs of workers.

I am pretty sure that the Americans would not do that work anymore.

First off it require a bunch of them to leave cities and there is a remarkable tendency for people not to do that.

Second, the work is extremely grueling. Many Americans are no longer able to do that sort of physical labor.

Finally, the spiraling cost of food would be so inflationary that we could not afford to pay the people doing the back breaking labor enough for them to consider it worthwhile compared to their other money making options.

That would always be an interesting experiment, if only the people in power would ever allow it. Unfortunately, all political parties try their hardest to perpetuate and foster “illegal” immigration to fill their own pockets.

1 billion Indians would move to America if allowed. Do you believe this would be a good thing?

Its a quintessential slippery slope.

>Sending billions of our tax dollars to Ukraine.

in hardware, manufactured on US soil by US workers https://thehill.com/policy/defense/unprepared-for-long-war-u..., often build over 30 years ago for specific purpose of killing russians (stingers)

Nice. They're still making things to give to other countries either way.

Would much rather my tax money pay American workers to work on the countless issues were facing in America.

They are mostly sending stuff that was stock piled to fight a war with Russia in eastern Europe too, fight a war with Russia in Eastern Europe.

Its all upsides for the USA, they get to decimate one their biggest military foes, show off how weak and bad Russian military equipment is, and get to actually be involved on the right side for a war for the first time in forever and they don't even have to fight.

there is zero upside to spending my tax money for war in other countries.

> there is zero upside to spending my tax money for war in other countries.

So you don't think helping protect the democracy of another country is a upside worthy of 'your' tax dollars?.

Or destroying your enemy militarily without even having to be in a war?.

> protect the democracy of other countries

"Protecting democracy"...the military industrial complex has been saying this as a justification for doing nasty things....for decades.

You should scope out modern American history for the past 100 years.

> "Protecting democracy"...the military industrial complex has been saying this as a justification for taking tax dollars and doing nasty things....for decades.

What do you call arming a country against an imperialistic invader that literally says on TV they have no reason to exist and they will kill as many of them as they need to?.

I call that protecting democracy.

> says on TV

Do you still think wearing a covid mask out in public is a good idea for the safety of others?

> Do you still think wearing a covid mask out in public is a good idea for the safety of others?

You’re really avoiding the question here, what do you call protecting a democracy if not what America is doing with Ukraine against imperialist Russians?.

Or do you think Russia bombing civilians and torturing/executing children in Ukraine is a good thing?.

just pointing out that anyone who believes the TV is the purveyor of truth is not really going to be a productive discussion.

We could have a virtue signaling battle.

I wish that Ukraine money would instead go to help starving children with malaria in Africa. The TV says it only takes the price of a cup of coffee to help them. Imagine how much 20 billion could help.

Don't you want to help the children?

> just pointing out that anyone who believes the TV is the purveyor of truth is not really going to be a productive discussion.

I am merely quoting Russian TV not Western TV.

> Don't you want to help the children?

Not sure what help a M270 MLRS will do to feed the children of Africa but I guess you could try.

the vast majority of the dollar value of aid to Ukraine is the value of the vehicles being provided, cant use that to feed children.

But I have a feeling your against any aid to Ukraine regardless of how many lives it saves.

I have a feeling you're against the USA in general.

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