News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]

@PolAmKrakow,

Fact of the matter is that foreign labor in Poland, Germany,
Britain and of course the US, will by and large be drawn from
cheaper wage countries!

For generations, Poland, Germany, Britain and the United States
survived, to be sure, happily prospered without the need for a cheap wage,
non-native speaking workforce, save for certain specialty areas such
as head chefs for the mega wealthy at posh English estates, naturally
in the fashion industry, for example. In the latter instances, who wouldn't
have jumped at the chance to hire a French cook, an Italian courtier etc..
generally at a most generous rate of pay? Isolated status symbols were not
the order of the day. The rank-and-file citizen were luck if they could afford the
bare necessities or comforts of daily life, much less a high-priced foreign-born
expert.

However here at home under Trump, the labor market for all but the most specialized IT jobs
has squeezed out non-tech workers, except of course for those who've somehow managed
to make a sweet deal with either the local politician(s), the Church/synagogue or some close
family member:-)

Connections have ALWAYS been a part of American life, it's simply that since Reagan, up through Bush
and now during the Trump presidency, they've become not only essential, but absolutely critical. For that
reason, the uncounted number of homeless and displaced, dislocated souls out there on a scale I couldn't have
imagined growing up as I did during the last gasp of the Roosevelt Era.

Classifieds / Business English training for Polish companies [2]

An excellent post!
Poles in business can sure use more English language training.
Thank you,

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]

Poland's economy was in the toilet for years....LONG WITHOUT ILLEGALS!!
The US economy since Reagan has been dependent on a cheap labor, in essence disposable/throw away, foreign-born,
non-native English speaking workforce, mostly at the expense of an educated, skilled, American-born, native-English speaking
workforce, for no other reason than to save millionaires, now billionaires, money.

Who ends up paying the highest taxes, Bezos, Buffet, Donald Trump, or the average, hard-working American wage earner?

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]

Oh,I concur wholeheartedly, Maf!
Try telling that though to the fella running for that morning cup of Java
for $1.50 or so on the corner, only to find he or she's paying twice as much.

Ain't gonna sit well with the electorate, especially as our President uses illegals
to help keep his grounds at Mara Lago:-)

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]

Ban illegal migrants and watch the prices soar like mad 'cuz labor costs will skyrocket.
The entire US has come practically to depend on illegals!
While I don't like it either, remembering when I grew up during the late sixties just before the
cusp of change, nowadays, the dude at the corner with the cart serving coffee's gonna leave
the average American high and dry once ICE boots him and his family back to Latin America.

Imagine the new coffee guy, either a young W.A.S.P. student, Northern European foreigner,
US-born Jewish and that cup o' Joe's rising to nearly $5 a shot.
Who'll pay that when they can get the same for pennies on the dollar?

News / Germany's Socio-Political Climate and Its Impact on Poland [122]

No, Greeks, Italians, and Spaniards all made real contributions.....

I've never denied that, Maf.

News / Germany's Socio-Political Climate and Its Impact on Poland [122]

Interesting too that Greeks, in particular Italians and Spaniards, during the start of the '60's became the
most numerous foreign labor, "Katzelmacher" or guest workers in Germany under Adenauer. Today, Greece, Italy, and Spain are overrun with migrants.
The tables have indeed turned.

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]

Somehow, the Dems aka liberals, are trying once more to throw
this election to the Reps!

Hope NJ fares better:-)

Life / 60th birthday in Poland [38]

@Rich,
The analogy's hardly comparable.

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]

@Joker,
I see you didn't read my post from yesterday, but
I would vote for Cuomo in a heartbeat, impaired as his
candidacy is!

Zohran's a joke, a farce, and the joke will be on the NY electorate.

Life / 60th birthday in Poland [38]

Ain't it the truth! If that were so, why in the world would
Donald have chosen Freddy?

News / Germany's Socio-Political Climate and Its Impact on Poland [122]

The German people didn't decide, their gov't. did for them!

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]

Trump is a hypochristian who wouldn't know a good deed
if he tripped and fell over it broad side, unless of course it were a land deedLOL

Off-Topic / Donald J. Trump and William Randolph Hearst [11]

Sarcasm aside, Mr. Jokster, one cannot deny the strong similarities,
witness Trump, like Newt, Bannon, even Reagan, giving the royal finger
to the American, indeed the world, public.....once again!!

@Rich,
It's common in speech to say things such as, "Being a joker, aren't we!"
when referring to another person's remark of which we disapprove.

@Ironside,

Hope's the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul....

Off-Topic / Donald J. Trump and William Randolph Hearst [11]

Always playing the Devil's Advocate, are we.

Off-Topic / Donald J. Trump and William Randolph Hearst [11]

Ironside, once you learn more English, you will understand.
Just put it into Google Translate and you're all setLOL

Off-Topic / Donald J. Trump and William Randolph Hearst [11]

Obviously, you didn't understand my post.
Why should I bother explaining things to you.
While Trump erodes the foundations of democracy, humanity,
and freedom of speech, you and your kind blithely stay home
and surf the TV!

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]

If it's a matter of saving the woman's/girl's life, I think the choice
should be clear!

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]

"Trump has one billion enemies foreign and domestic."

For good reason, Rich! Look at the man's record. Nothin' I'd be proud of.

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]

@jon,
As Bertolt Brecht, best known virulently anti-Nazi playwright,
said (roughly translated):

A country in need of heroes
Is indeed a country in need

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]

Jews fought and died for THEIR country, Germany, long before Hitler took power! Many awarded the Iron Cross.
Their sole language was German, their cultural identity was German, not Yiddish, certainly not Hebrew.
The majority were in fact horrified by Viennese Jew Theodor Herzl's radical notion that Israel aka Palestine
was the true homeland of the Jews. Germany was the homeland for Germany's assimilated Jews, bar none.
What are you talking about?

Most of Europe's Jews were demonized as Christ killers by the Catholic Church,
all of which was based on a myth propagated by the Church Fathers in order to
deflect blame on the true culprits here, namely the Romans!!

Rogue monk Luther didn't make things any easier for them when he
ranted that they should be burned out of their homes and driven out
from their villages.

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]

There are plenty of misguided folks out there who worship Charlie much
as millions of misguided Germans worshipped Adolf, only to eventually reap
the suffering upon themselves which they inflicted on so many others.

What goes around comes around and payback time bites hard!

Off-Topic / Is Islam a threat to western society? [221]

Many clueless young people, almost exclusively women, typically with an ahistorical memory,
for whom 9/11 is ancient history, find Islamic accoutrements attractive and the burkha/kitab combo sexy.
Some might actually make a deep study of the Muslim faith and even convert, perhaps because they
are in the experimental phase of their still young lives (many not yet out of their teens or mid-twenties!),
without regard for or grounded understanding of the Western tradition.

All this is another direct result of the fallout from the Woodstock Era; everything traditionally European
is thus boring, indeed suspect, while everything Near Eastern, African, and Asian is somehow, cool, in,
desirable.

Ignorance is always the death knell of civilization. As Santayana once said.......

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]

Hear, hear Alien!

@Rich,
You do realize of course that Big Don in the White House is the new Teflon Don.
I hope you can see that, it's not such a mystery, what with his Mafia ties etc.
Remember, only the current president can lie with impunity.....and NOT even get
called on the carpet.

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]

A rise in purchase prices out of synch with average daily cost of living expenses,
something which the President's childishly vengeful tariffs have exacerbated for
the US public, save of course for the top 1%, the usual suspects!

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]

Boy, that's sure a switch, considering ol' man Freddy was a Long Island Klansman way
back in the day.

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]

@PolAmKrakow,
The problem is that the Dems have relinquished their contract with their
fellow US citizens! Once again, the proverbial pendulum has swung in the opposite
direction and standards of excellence have long since been abandoned in favor of a
a woke philosophy based on an outmoded, idiotic Woodstock Era philosophy, according to
which discipline is tantamount to faschism and order, organization, to militarism.

As this anti-intellectualism is far from the promise of the New Deal, Roosevelt must be turning over in his grave.

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]

@Rich,
For the bazillionth time, the reasons that Reagan was elected, paving the way for Tea Party Republicans
and later the MAGA movement, were and still are untrammeled greed, egotism, above all, social diaper rash!!
Compare the likes of Trump's inner circle, among others, Pete Hegseth & Co. with the likes of Wm. P. Rogers,
Ted Sorensen, Robt. McNamara along with rest of the Camelot Coterie under JFK, and we can't avoid a glaring
glance at the infantility of the current crowd. Even the first Reagan Admin. had more literate folks in the cabinet than
today. In Hegseth's lovely speech before the Joint Armed Services Committee several weeks ago, he let more than
one four-letter word slip out, as his speech was really a rant and, like his boss, he ended up venting rather than
speaking.

America today no longer understands her societal responsibilities to ALL Americans, not simply the top 1%.
I'm hardly "against" the concept of success. I am against the concept of success at any and all human costs.
Were there more Aaron Feuersteins out there, the US and the world would be a better place for everyone.

In the end, we're not on Earth to do solely what we want to do 24/7, but instead what we have to to.....or
risk the consequences of increased violence, lashing out, and anti-Americanism world wide, not to mention
anti-Semitism, here at home.

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]

@Maf, the average person believes what they WANT TO believe, even
when it's an out and out lie!!

Trump has the public buffaloed. As race was the number one issue during the campaign,
Trump played on the public's fears like a Stradavarius, tapping into their myriad weaknesses,
such as infantilism, ignorance, petty bigotry, isolationism and selfishness.