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Cameron143

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Many Donald Trump supporters have claimed they want millions of job losses in the United States of America. Now they will have to suck it up and deal with it.
More false news. We want wasteful government spending lost. If that includes unnecessary jobs, then yes. The loss of private sector jobs, nope. But you purposely conflate the two.
 
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More false news. We want wasteful government spending lost. If that includes unnecessary jobs, then yes. The loss of private sector jobs, nope. But you purposely conflate the two.
Am I understanding you correctly? Do you also want the loss of unsustainable private sector jobs?
 

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Am I understanding you correctly? Do you also want the loss of unsustainable private sector jobs?
The private sector gets rid of obsolescent jobs organically because they are run for profit. Other jobs replace those because of technology. The key is to adapt, maybe even work multiple jobs.
 

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😱 This Changes Everything: U.S. Consumers Just Issued a MASSIVE Warning – You Can’t Ignore This!

 

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Foreign investment in China has dropped 99% since 2021


99% Collapse (Not Clickbait): China’s Catastrophic Crash | Australia-China Incident | Taiwan
 

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IRS Layoffs Begin: Thousands of Agents Face Axe as DOGE Audits the Auditors
 

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The private sector gets rid of obsolescent jobs organically because they are run for profit. Other jobs replace those because of technology. The key is to adapt, maybe even work multiple jobs.
Knowing that companies are looking at the profit line, most of these jobs that do not go to robots will go to foreigners. Businesses will find a way. Musk is a huge fan of H1-B visas. After that, there is not enough good paying private sector jobs (for American standards). The private sector will have to take the role of the "government" by being a bit charitable (one could say) through providing higher paid jobs to Americans and not looking as much at the profit line. They will have to give up on some profit.
 

Cameron143

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Knowing that companies are looking at the profit line, most of these jobs that do not go to robots will go to foreigners. Businesses will find a way. Musk is a huge fan of H1-B visas. After that, there is not enough good paying private sector jobs (for American standards). The private sector will have to take the role of the "government" by being a bit charitable (one could say) through providing higher paid jobs to Americans and not looking as much at the profit line. They will have to give up on some profit.
Not likely. People will have to adapt.

Jobs come and go as technology advances. My dad in high school worked setting up pins in the bowling alley. I worked at a sub shop. My kids didn't work or worked with me.

There are always jobs for those who want to work.
 

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Not likely. People will have to adapt.

Jobs come and go as technology advances. My dad in high school worked setting up pins in the bowling alley. I worked at a sub shop. My kids didn't work or worked with me.

There are always jobs for those who want to work.
I think it is more a case of U.S. businesses will have to adapt. If job are not good enough, people will not work or will join a government program like military or CBP. Americans are not going to settle for foreign wages.
 

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I think it is more a case of U.S. businesses will have to adapt. If job are not good enough, people will not work or will join a government program like military or CBP. Americans are not going to settle for foreign wages.
People will do what they need to do to eat. And military jobs pay less than the private sector typically.
 

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People will do what they need to do to eat. And military jobs pay less than the private sector typically.
Only in the beginning. They can make up to around $150k and can retire as early as their late 30s after 20 years. They are another high paid gov employee. Sweet deal, especially for someone not engaged in war.
 

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Only in the beginning. They can make up to around $150k and can retire as early as their late 30s after 20 years. Sweet deal, especially for someone not engaged in war.
That's only a small percentage. Most don't make anything like that.
 

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Hey I got an idea next time we go to the grocery store and get a hundred dollars in groceries lets lay it all out on the kitchen table and take a picture of it beside a hundred dollar bill and see which pile gets bigger and smaller. Wait, what if I don't have another hundred dollar bill for my photo will Monopoly money work for the photo?
 

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At least you're nonpartisan. You keep hollering that the sky is falling even after a different political party takes over. Lesser Chicken Littles would have pretended everything is hunky-dory now that their party is in control.
Tell that to the people in China, for most of them the sky has fallen, and those in Ukraine, and those in Gaza, as well as those in Lahaina, and those in the Palisades, and those who have just lost their jobs to AI.

God is a merciful God he gives people warning, but if you put your ear to the railroad track you can hear the train coming.
 

Lynx

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God is a merciful God he gives people warning, but if you put your ear to the railroad track you can hear the train coming.
Yeah but that's what you were saying two and a half years ago.

Can't you at least spice it up a little? The same thing over and over for 2 and 1/2 years gets a bit stale.

Maybe you could look into the subversive tactics of Google speech to text, which sometimes spells out two and a half years and sometimes uses numbers. It just pulled that on me and I still don't know why.

There has to be some sign of our impending doom in that. Surely you can decipher it if anybody can.
 

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The two witnesses -- one spicy, one not

Luke 1:15 For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb. 16 And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God. 17 And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.

There are two different Spirits operating, the Holy Spirit is working in the watchmen to turn many of the children of God to the Lord, and to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just. But there is also another spirit operating in the world to make straight the paths of the Antichrist. It is the spirit of rebellion. It claims to be "woke" but is actually rebellion against the Lord our God. It operates in darkness, causing the children to rebel against their fathers and to rebel against the wisdom of the just.

Consider DOGE, the Holy Spirit is working in people to turn to the Lord, to root out the corruption and graft, to let the Father's know they need to take the lead, stop being passive, but take a stand for what is right and what is just.

But there is another spirit working of rebellion. Instead of praying for the leaders it condemns them. Instead of the wisdom of the just, it is full of bitter envying and strife. They manipulate people by lying against the truth. It is a devilish wisdom.

James 3:15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

Up until recently these two were warring against each other. But now with AI and with almost all communication being digital the devilish wisdom has a huge advantage. They can easily censor others, they can easily shout them down, and they can easily drown them out. AI can create ten posts for everyone that a child of God can and AI can make the lies very convincing, and AI can shadow ban channels feeding you the channels they want you to see.

Luke 1:20 And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.

All ministries are speaking ministries. The sword of the Spirit is the word of God. We don't war according to the flesh, it is the words of God that give life, the flesh profits nothing. But in order to speak the word of God you must have faith. It would have been a great honor to have spoken them before they were fulfilled. But the fearful and unbelieving cannot speak until they are fulfilled.

Revelation 12:5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne. 6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

John the Baptist is like this man child, Zechariah is like this woman. One is filled with the Holy Spirit and speaks these things before they are fulfilled, the other cannot speak until they are fulfilled and will then flee into the wilderness for 1,260 days. This is the same period of time as the ministry of the two witnesses. When the Children of Israel fled into the wilderness what was the day that the curse ended? That was the 15th of Av. If you understand the picture that was the day that they rose up out of their graves. Hosea 6:2 talks about Israel being raised up, that would also be on the 15th of Av.

Therefore the 1,260 days of the ministry of the two witnesses includes the 3 1/2 days that they lie in the streets and concludes when they also are raised up on the 15th of Av. The 15th of Av in 2028 is Aug 6 & 7.

The 15th of Av would be the day the two witnesses are raised, and it would also be the day that Israel is raised 7 1/2 years after the rapture when the raptured saints are taken to heaven (Hebron) with Jesus (Kind David) prior to his coming to Jerusalem to reign.