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Lyzko   
25 Mar 2024
News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [694]

@Rich, there are usually no cut and dried answers to complicated questions such
as how to protect our Southern border without becoming what we hate about the enemy!

The Mexicans, Guatemalans in and of themselves are not our enemy, rather, the governments
of those banana republics, who play politics and do nothing for their own people, thus forcing
them to migrate to the US.

Surely if they had their way, they'd stay at home.
Lyzko   
23 Mar 2024
History / Poles in the RAF. [15]

I can imagine.
Only place close to where I grew up was a bleedin' brothel LOL
Lyzko   
23 Mar 2024
History / Poles in the RAF. [15]

Of course, I merely forgot the title is written as three separate words, sorry!
:-)
Lyzko   
23 Mar 2024
History / Poles in the RAF. [15]

Not sure if Milo's referring here to the Red Army or the Royal British Airforce.
Hmmm, somebody may have just gotten sidetracked. Oh, well!
Lyzko   
23 Mar 2024
News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [694]

@Rich, as usual you (intentionally?) misunderstood my post!
The "history" I mentioned here refers to the long history of cheap labor
in the US from South of the Border, and NOT to the history of Guatemala and Mexico.

Kindly look before you leap...and end up making a fool of yourself.
Lyzko   
22 Mar 2024
News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [694]

@Rich, Guatemalans, Mexicans, Nicaraguans and so forth are all part of the sad history
of cheap labor which has been poisoning the US economy since around amnesty under Ronald Reagan!

It's never about race, it's about class. Who would seriously object to Third World or South of the Border
high-ranking, fluent English-speaking professionals from any of the above countries?

We know that this is sadly not the case and white, native-born, college educated American citizens are
still being short changed, ever since top execs here in the US quickly realized that they can get that
extra (unnecessary) luxury sun roof in the Hamptons off the back of a migrant laborer by paying that person
bargain basement wages. Trump style, they might not pay the poor chap at all. A native born American would
at least demand minimum wage.

There's also the issue of migrants from whichever country who make it big in America, take care of their own,
while forgetting about their US-born and bred non-Hispanic colleagues.

Either way, far too many whites feel they're losing out in the land of opportunity which allowed their forbearers to succeed
yet no longer does.
Lyzko   
21 Mar 2024
News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [694]

Oh really, Rich??! Israel's currently in danger of losing her meglomaniac president
while earning the eternal emnity of the world!

No, walls DON'T work! As with most draconian solutions, they inevitably fail.
If we can't somehow learn to live together after all this time, seems we can't successfully
live apart either.

The US needs Mexico as much as the latter desperately needs the US. As with most
relationships, good or bad, it's symbiotic and we'd all darned well better get used to it!!

It's never a question of whether or not we "like" this solution. Remember, in life, all too often
the perfect is the enemy of the good (enough).
Lyzko   
20 Mar 2024
News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [694]

You needn't preach to the choir, bud!
I've felt for years that the Pentagon spends excessively on defense,
important though as our military is.

America's often accused Germany of geopolitical arrogance while claiming themselves
to be "policeman to the world".

Something wrong with this picture?
Lyzko   
20 Mar 2024
News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [694]

@Joker,
Government is there precisely to help out, if only when her help is needed!
Surely nobody wants a caretaker administration.

What would have happened had FDR taken that tack or if our president
hadn't sent in troops into Georgia to liberate the state from the Klan way back in the early '60's?

Oh sure, too much government is as bad as too little. However there is such
a thing as balance, you know.
Lyzko   
19 Mar 2024
News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [694]

Rich & Alien, Reagan came into Office on 11/5/81, the year I graduated college. The States had
come out of a toxic period of exceptional disillusionment with labor unions, which had been growing weaker
by the year. Furthermore, I trust I needn't remind you two about an especially toxic manifestation of the late
'70's, namely "EST" or "Erhard Seminar Training", begun by an Uber-Reaganite code name Werner Erhard.

The latter believed with all his heart and soul (who would lie about this stuff, guys!!) that Roosevelt never had
any place in America, most of all, that all of us are where we are solely by choice. LOL
People ate up this garbage hook, line, and stinker.

This then is what precipitated the rise of the Reagan Era, a deep dissatisfaction with liberal policies of former
President Jimmy Carter, that control freak peanut farmer from the plains of Plains, Georgia.

Reagan wanted to "get government off the backs of the American people...."

This is more or less the sequence of events which lead up to the Reagan Counter Rev. which Donald Trump would
like to bring back with a vengeance. Lord have mercy on us all.
Lyzko   
17 Mar 2024
Work / Applying for English speaking jobs in Lodz or Warsaw [13]

Same here, Robin!
I learned Polish, not only because of its practicality, but because I find many aspects of the culture bewitching,
from the hand kiss, Chopin, and the cuisine, but also Polish cinema.
Lyzko   
17 Mar 2024
News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [694]

@Alien & Rich,

A dictatorship is namely a system of government in which the leader declares him or herself sole
and supreme ruler.

Hitler was "elected" democratically, this is true. However, among his first official acts as Fuehrer was
to immediately bring all branches of government in line with his own ideology, known as "Gleichschaltung"! With the
Fuehrer, you people, there was no reaching across the aisles of Congress to work together with the other side.

Trump is a clever salesman in stark contrast with his quasi-predecessor Pat Buchanan way back in the '90's.
On the surface at any rate, Trump skillfully affects the manner of a Jewish-style schmoozer from Queens, who
talks the talk because he also walks the walk. He's almost affable at times, full of easy phrases to lull folks into
a false sense of security, while demonizing the entire left.

Don't be fooled!! Donald John Trump is Ronald Reagan on steroids who wants nothing more than to dismantle
Social Security, abolish Unemployment Compensation, and in essence turn the United States of America into
a self-governing plutocracy, not too dissimilar to the Emirates, in which there's a thin layer of mega rich at the very top
while the rest of the country not clever or immorally ruthless enough to catch up, is left shamelessly behind.

This is a far cry from the Roosevelt Era and the philosophy of "If one American family goes to bed hungry, the rest of the nation is starving!

The latter MUST be our rallying cry, even if most can't do anything substantive about it.
Lyzko   
16 Mar 2024
Work / Applying for English speaking jobs in Lodz or Warsaw [13]

Good for you! Now you're talking sense.
I've known people much as yourself who've ventured off abroad,
thinking that they didn't need to know the local lingo.

In every case, they ended up coming right back home!