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Posts by Lyzko  

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From: New York, USA
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Lyzko   
28 May 2025
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

@Przylotnyptak,
No one is more against rogue outsourcing than I am! Trump, as with many Republicans,
and not only MAGA/MAGGOT, wants to screw the middle class by farming out homegrown
work opportunities to cheaper labor countries in order to keep the profits for themselves
instead of paying out to the expert, quality professionals who deserve to be paid well for their
services.

Study the Kondraiev Wave and read up on the the "soft money" vs. the "hard money" cycle.
Not long after WWII, Americans were able to pursue careers in areas both interesting as well
as modestly profitable such as traditional publishing, advertising and college teaching. This was
the case until roughly around the advent of the Reagan Era, during which time, the "hard money"
cycle slowly began to take effect and those aforementioned professions began to give way to
high tech fields, leaving those skilled in language communication in the dust, save for those who
could either bribe, cajole or con their way into making a career for themselves which would allow
them to do more than live from paycheck to paycheck:-)

Yours truly was clever, more than skilled, enough to follow suit.
Lyzko   
27 May 2025
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

Unfortunately, gumishu. we aren't and, as usual, it's the poor who will be, indeed who are, most affected!
Just remember, the only crime in the US is that of being poor.

I used to have a small free-lance translation firm and before we sold out to a larger competitor,
we typically would allow our support staff to help themselves to note pads, paper clips, other incidentals
which might help out those not in charge, but still in need of such basic supplies.

Other businesses often did the same. However, far too many, above all law firms, would typically
fleece millions from their clients, while penalizing by firing needy employees for "taking" one legal
pad from the supply closet.

This is where I draw the line.

@jon, I agree! Trump doesn't.
Lyzko   
27 May 2025
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

True enough, however, the more pressing issue really should be medicines such
as Tetracycline along with other drugs and antibiotics which are imported and which
might be weakened if they contain cheapened ingredients!
Lyzko   
27 May 2025
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

Spices, rice, certain types of seafood.
Trump claims he wants to encourage "Made in the USA".
However, he has has a history of outsourcing native born staff
and hires solely Hispanic labor at Mara Lago.
Lyzko   
27 May 2025
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

They're not, gumishu, trust me! I live in the US and all the tariffs are doing is making Chinese imports more
unattainable for millions of poorer working class Americans who need medicines, food stuffs etc. from countries such as
China and India, on whose services we so desperately depend.
Lyzko   
27 May 2025
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

I see. And apparently you aren't aware that all those BREXIT supporters are now
no longer so keen on their decision. State of reality?? Whose, mate?

Originally, the idea of NATO was for the US to help Europe if and when
needed. Trump wants to blame the EU for the latter's so-called dependency,
not realizing that we all need each need one another.

After all, where would America have been without the RAF??
Lyzko   
24 May 2025
Life / Problems adjusting in Poland [43]

...and math is mandatory in US schools, yet some of us can barely count, multiply or divide.....yet we all HAVE TO
do it even if we stink at it! So too with "Poglish" LOL
Lyzko   
24 May 2025
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

Europe, among other countries Germany, is indeed feeling the effects of Trump's tariff war, Rich.
While "suffering" might well be a bit too strong, EU import items are definitely giving plenty of European
consumers sticker shock, believe me!
Lyzko   
23 May 2025
Language / Use of "Pan/Pani" in Poland vs Other Countries [30]

Not impolite, albeit familiar in any event! Most languages throughout the
world with which I'm familiar have a formal or distant vs. informal or intimate
form of address.

Modern Hebrew is a notable exception.
Lyzko   
23 May 2025
Off-Topic / What is a woman? [855]

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Lyzko   
23 May 2025
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

Import goods will obviously be more expensive because of the surcharge imposed
by the higher cost of exporting. This is not even sheer common sense, it's a matter of
basic economics.
Lyzko   
23 May 2025
Life / Problems adjusting in Poland [43]

In Poland, a native, run-of-the-mill fellow Pole needn't know English, this is self evident.
However, an American, for example, armed only with a knowledge of English, will
be at a severe disadvantage with zero Polish skills, no argument there. I certainly would have.
Lyzko   
23 May 2025
Life / Is it worth returning to Poland in old age? [168]

The hand kiss is charming, Rich, and you know it.
Have been told by Poles that the difference between the traditional
Austrian "Kuess die Hand, gnae' Frau!" and the Polish (unspoken) "Caluje Pani raczki!",
is that the Poles mean it and it's not just going through the motions.
Lyzko   
23 May 2025
Life / Problems adjusting in Poland [43]

That's right! Statistically, one's much more likely to survive, much less comfortably, in Poland knowing
Polish than not.
Lyzko   
22 May 2025
Off-Topic / A "humorous" aside to US 47th President [31]

But of course you are emotionally sound.

Paul Krugman was right; Trump brought out the racists like yourself, to vote
against themselves, blinded by prejudice and lumping all failed liberal programs
into one pot.
Lyzko   
22 May 2025
Life / Is it worth returning to Poland in old age? [168]

No, not sole. However, thanks to both the Web and my contacts, I remain in touch with
Poland, if not only for my language as well for my acquaintanceships.
Lyzko   
22 May 2025
Off-Topic / A "humorous" aside to US 47th President [31]

I realized that she wouldn't win, yet, I also voted for Biden the first time as well,
thinking that he'd lose, maintaining hope of a victory of sanity.