Engineer (ChE,ME,IT,MBA,PMP) CTO, Ethno-American, USN Vet, Patent Inventor, Christian, Dad, Husband, Patriot Gen-X, multilinguist, World Traveler, Conspiracist.

Joined February 2009
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**Politicians Who Got Rich With No Real Job Outside Politics** How does someone spend decades in public office on a government salary and walk away wealthy? That is the question that should make every American pay attention. Public service was never supposed to be a wealth creation vehicle. Yet we see career politicians with little or no meaningful private sector experience building large fortunes while in office. Here are clear examples where the wealth is not primarily from a pre-existing wealthy spouse: **Maxine Waters** has been in Congress since 1991. She represents one of the poorer districts yet owns valuable property in exclusive Los Angeles neighborhoods. Her family members, including her husband and daughter, have received substantial payments tied to her political operation and related business dealings. Ethics investigations repeatedly examined ties to OneUnited Bank where her husband held stock and the family benefited from her connections and influence. This is influence turned into family income. **Judy Chu** (D-CA) showed one of the largest net worth increases in Congress. She entered office with modest assets and saw explosive growth through strategic investments and family-related holdings during her long tenure. Public disclosures tracked dramatic percentage gains that far outpaced normal market returns. **Grace Napolitano* (D-CA) also recorded extreme net worth growth after entering Congress with very low assets. The pattern of rapid wealth accumulation while holding office with limited private sector background is documented in the filings. **Marc Veasey** (D-TX) and several others in the top Personal Gain Index lists entered with relatively modest backgrounds and saw triple-digit or higher annual net worth increases during their time in office. **Jeff Denham** (R-CA) entered Congress with relatively modest assets and saw his net worth explode with a reported 661% increase during his time in office. Public disclosures tracked massive gains that far outpaced normal market returns while he held no significant outside business background before or during his tenure. **Trey Gowdy** (R-SC) showed a 278% net worth increase while serving in Congress with limited private sector experience prior to office. The pattern of rapid accumulation during public service stands out in the filings. The pattern repeats. They enter with modest means, stay for decades with no significant private business background, and leave with wealth that regular Americans building actual companies rarely match. The tools are familiar: strategic stock trading with policy access, family members on payroll or contracts, speaking fees, book deals, and post-office opportunities. When the people writing the rules, awarding contracts, and regulating industries personally profit at that scale with no real skin in the private economy, it is corruption by structure. Even if every form gets filed. The machine rewards staying in the club. Real accountability would require blind trusts, lifetime bans on trading individual stocks, strict limits on family benefiting from the office, and term limits. The data is in the disclosures. The results are in their bank accounts. The question remains: why do we keep accepting it?
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I had someone from India explain to me how stupid Americans are because of how easily we are scammed. I replied- high IQ follows a high trust society. I do not believe he understands. Anyhoo ... You can find the stories on the scams from foreign sources as our media is clamping down on reporting them. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/…
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**One Simple Law That Protects American Housing** Ban non-citizens on temporary visas from purchasing residential real estate in the United States. That is it. One rule. Our parents and grandparents worked decades to afford a home and pass it to their children. Now temporary visa workers, often here on 3-year H-1B contracts, get approved for 30-year mortgages and flood markets. This creates artificial demand that drives up prices for everyone else while young Americans get priced out of starter homes. Visa labor did not just take jobs. It distorted the housing market in entire suburbs. Banks treated temporary workers like permanent residents, handing out long-term debt on short-term visas. That mismatch was always going to end badly. One clear law fixing foreign and temporary visa ownership would bring supply and demand back into balance for actual Americans. Reply with why -why not.
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We would like a bill that makes hiring illegals a Federal offense with mandatory jail time, loss of business. Offer a $1000.00 reward for reporting. Charge that award to the employer. Should be easy. Congress-Senate prove you care about American labor. 🇺🇸
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**Saturday Corruption Watch – Immigration Fraud Pipeline** Stephen Miller recently highlighted exactly the kind of systemic abuse we track here. At the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, he laid out how the previous setup turned federal benefits programs into an open pipeline for improper payments - especially through Medicaid, Medicare, and related welfare systems. No real verification on immigration status, household size, disability claims, or eligibility in many states. Migrants (including those here illegally) could claim benefits with minimal checks, and the feds got sent the bill. Miller pointed to examples like Somali refugee communities in Minnesota where fraud on child counts, marital status, and work requirements let people live comfortably on taxpayer money while working-age Americans nearby struggled. The numbers are in the hundreds of billions, yes... potentially trillions over time when you add it all up. This is classic corruption mechanics: - Policies that weaken eligibility checks. - States and NGOs acting as middlemen with little skin in the game. - A bureaucracy that looked the other way for years. - Public money funneled to non-citizens at scale while the system claimed it was all “humanitarian.” The good news is the current administration is auditing, clawing back funds, and prosecuting these cases through the new fraud task force. It is not abstract policy talk. It is going after the actual pipelines that drained taxpayer resources for decades. This fits the larger pattern we have covered: temporary workers and migrants getting access to systems designed for citizens, amplified by weak oversight and low-trust incentives. When the easy money spigot closes, the distortions become visible fast. The machine ran on opacity. Sunlight and enforcement are finally hitting it. That is progress worth watching. What immigration-related fraud cases or patterns have you seen in your area? ijr.com/article/stephen-mill…
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Congressional stock trading shows clear patterns on both sides of the aisle. Rep. Thomas Suozzi (D-NY) led Democrats with a 35 percent return in 2025 at a time when many regular investors struggled to match the indexes. Public filings document the activity and the results. The gap between some congressional portfolios and average Americans appears consistently across both parties. This is not a one-party story.
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AI restrictions from foreigners ... Let's discuss. I do this in my real job... I am considered a subject matter expert. I am not some talking head spouting gibberish here so pay attention. I am not going to get too far into it but I get paid for stuff like this by the government and others. This was sudden and zero F's about offending anyone. Detect the threat Assess the threat Protect the system Treat the system Sustain the system The Anthropic news. We can assume Threat has been detected Assessment is underway Protection means no foreign use of the threat - means it's taking place and they are the initiators. Treat - being determined Sustain - being determined Something already happened. Steps for threats - in this context - of it seems familiar to you business guys it's like DMAIC. Meanwhile, the foreign originating AI advisor was fired a couple days ago. Then the government said hey submit your AI for review at EXACTLY the same time .. Hmm 🧐
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Run for school board, city council, or county commission yourself or back someone who will. These races are usually decided by a few hundred votes. The machine hates when competent locals actually show up and run. So many wiki's show us how to go about it. If you are looking for signatures to get on a ballot tag the big accounts to spread the word.
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I know a way... Ask me how.
Suspending Fable for all “foreign person inside the US” is wild. How can you even enforce this properly?
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HALL OF SHAME: Cognizant ...or should we say congratulation? Governor Kim Reynolds has contracted Cognizant Government Solutions to manage the day-to-day IT operations for Iowa’s executive branch, a move effective August 3, 2026. This decision is part of a broader IT modernization strategy. @IAGovernor great move... lets review who you rewarded with Iowa jobs. They told Americans they were lazy. They said the skills weren’t there. They claimed no one was applying. Federal court proved otherwise. A judge found that Cognizant’s internal employment practices had a discriminatory disparate impact on American workers, while favoring H-1B visa holders from India. Policies with names like “Visa Readiness” and “Bench Management” were shown to systematically advantage visa workers and sideline U.S. citizens. You might think it was anecdotal but actually... It was statistical. Expert testimony showed the probability that Cognizant’s hiring outcomes occurred by chance was near zero. The record showed: • Americans placed on the bench while H-1Bs were assigned work • Promotion and retention paths favoring Indian-born visa holders • Referral networks dominating hiring decisions • A tech workforce overwhelmingly sourced from a single region of India That is not diversity. That is exclusion by design. In December 2025, a federal judge ruled that Cognizant’s practices violated U.S. employment law through discriminatory impact. The jury agreed. The excuses collapsed. For years, this model was defended as “efficiency.” In court, it was exposed as discrimination. This matters beyond one company. Cognizant was not a one off, no- it was the case study. It was the template. The same labor model used to suppress wages, control workers, and bypass Americans is now failing under scrutiny. The narrative is crumbling. The data is in. This was never about skills. It was always about control and pay. 👉 Monitor PERM job postings before they disappear: jobs.now EXPOSING THE SCAM. HIRE AMERICANS FIRST.
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1791 Philadelphia Carpenters Strike for a 10-Hour Day In 1791 Philadelphia carpenters struck for a 10-hour workday, arguing that after fighting for independence they deserved reasonable hours. Recall Vivek Ramaswamy's love of 16 hour days without overtime in his Christmas rant as a good thing? Well, that was the reality at the time. It was an early assertion that American workers should have some control over their own labor. The strike helped plant the seed for shorter workdays. Courts and employers quickly pushed back. The 10-hour standard took decades to become widespread, and the fight for basic dignity continued for generations. Bookmark if you learned something new. Quote or repost your observation. Comment below if you know another chapter like this.
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** Boomer to Gen X Letter (1995)** --- Dear Gen X, We gave you everything. We grew up in the golden age of America. One income could buy a house and raise kids. We fought for civil rights and economic growth. We built the early internet, the modern economy, and handed you a world full of possibilities. We even made the responsible choice to have fewer children. With birth control and abortion available, we decided not to bring unwanted kids into the world. We were told it was the smart, moral thing to do, to save the planet and give each child a better life. So we underpopulated on purpose. We thought we were doing the right thing for the future. Yet you walk around cynical, with headphones on, rolling your eyes at everything. You call us sellouts and say the system is rigged. You were given more opportunity than any generation in history and you act like it is all hopeless. We played hard, then worked hard to play by the rules. We built the comfortable world you grew up in. The least you could do is show some appreciation instead of acting like nothing matters. A Boomer Parent
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Which is the hottest industry right now? Why?
24% Space
18% Data Centers
25% Semiconductors
33% AI
130 votes • Final results
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Silent Generation to the Boomers (1978) Dear Boomers, We kept quiet for a reason. We grew up in the shadow of the Depression and World War II. We watched our fathers come home broken. We studied hard, worked hard, and tried to keep the country stable while the world around us seemed to lose its mind. We gave you the strongest economy America has ever known. You had opportunities, prosperity, and freedom we never dreamed of. Yet you burn flags, protest the very system that gave you comfort, and call us boring conformists. Free sex, drugs, and stepping away from the values that made our country great are certain to make you poor leaders, parents, and we weep at what will become of this nation. Our deepest fear is those that lead the counter revolution never end up in power. What you call it “liberation.” We call it ingratitude. We handed you a stable, growing nation and you act like it is a prison. We hope one day you understand what it took to build what you are so quick to tear down before it is left for your children to do. A Silent Generation Parent
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What would America look like if 55 million Visas were cancelled and all the illegals were deported? Let's deep dive it. If 55 million visas were cancelled overnight and all the illegals were deported, America would change in ways few could imagine. At first it would look chaotic. Hospitals short on nurses. Tech firms unable to staff support teams. Crops left to rot because migrant labor vanished. For a few months, the headlines would scream collapse. But then something else would happen. Wages would climb. Automation would soar. The price of an hour of work would be valuable. Trades and apprenticeships would surge. Competence and ownership would return to our society. Hospitals could bill people instead of government. Colleges that depended on foreign tuition would close, but community colleges would thrive again as Americans re-trained. Housing prices in major cities would fall for the first time in decades. Renters would finally have leverage. Families that were priced out could buy homes again. The GDP might dip at first, but the money would start circulating locally. People who thought they’d never matter in the economy would suddenly be needed again. The country would remember how to build, grow, fix, and teach without importing labor. It wouldn’t be easy, but it would be ours. (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024; DHS Yearbook of Immigration Statistics, 2023; Borjas, G. “Labor Market Effects of Immigration,” NBER 2018; U.S. Census Bureau, 2024 ACS; Institute of International Education, 2024 Open Doors Report.)
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In many ways if the tech bros want demand for AI and robots - they would be pushing for these policies.
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**Greatest Generation to the Silent Generation (1955)** Dear Silent Generation, We hope this finds you well as you start families and build your lives. We were born into the Great Depression. We stood in bread lines as children. We then went off to fight the greatest war the world has ever seen. We came home missing limbs, haunted by what we saw, and still we rebuilt this country from the ground up. We built the interstate highways, the factories, the suburbs, and the strongest middle class in human history. Now we watch you complain about “conformity” and “the man.” You have jobs that pay enough for a house on one income. You have cars, televisions, and safety we could only dream of. Yet all we hear is how boring we are and how you want to change everything. We sacrificed everything so you would not have to suffer as we did. The least you could do is show some gratitude instead of tearing down what we built with our blood and sweat. A Greatest Generation Father - Generational strife is nothing new, the ability to vent about it is.
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One Historical Turning Point in American Labor: Founding of the United Nations (1945) The United Nations was created in 1945 to prevent future world wars and promote international cooperation after the devastation of World War II. For American labor it initially helped stabilize global markets and create export opportunities as war-torn countries rebuilt using American goods and technology. Later the UN evolved into a vehicle for globalist policies on migration climate and labor mobility that undermined American sovereignty. What began as a forum for peace became a platform pushing open borders and centralized control that pressured nations to accept mass immigration and dilute national labor protections. Bookmark if you learned something new. Quote or repost your observation. Comment below if you know another chapter like this. They Dont Work for You
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**They Dont Work For You** It is not just John Thune. Here is where it gets awkward. The entire Senate leadership team and a large chunk of the Republican caucus are actively working against core MAGA priorities. They are using pro forma sessions (empty procedural meetings) to block President Trump from making recess appointments. They are slow-walking or outright opposing the SAVE Act. They require unanimous consent agreements to keep this system running smoothly, which means the broader Senate body is going along with it. This is a team effort. Leadership cannot maintain these procedural blocks without significant support across the chamber. The same senators who campaigned on border security, America First, and draining the swamp are now protecting the mechanisms that keep borders loose, elections vulnerable, and institutional power intact. Whether it is fear of the donor class, future lobbying jobs, Chamber of Commerce pressure, or simple loyalty to the permanent DC club, the result is the same. The Senate is not broken. It is working exactly as the globalist-aligned establishment designed it. The Senate: They changed the rules from how the constitution had defined the Senate. They made the terms super long so only a fraction had to worry about primary and straighten up a few months before the vote. They removed the State's ability to remove them. They made it impossible for even the voters to remove them. No Term limits, control the opposition with party money driven by donors and you have a perfect globalist club controlling DC with the fewest total number you need to bribe, blackmail, or coerce. The result? They do not care what the voters who sent them there actually want. They care about maintaining the system that benefits them and their real constituents, the lobbyists, foreign interests, and institutional players. This is why primaries matter. This is why the base is furious. This is why they set up your senator who is up for primary to look like they are resisting the leadership but most certainly are not. They Dont Work For You. If you are watching your own senators participate in or stay silent on these procedural games, drop their names or actions in the comments. Like share and bookmark this if you see the team effort clearly. Follow for more.
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