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• Yes, cuz paying a bunch of people who gave you the best 30 years of their lives the benefits that you promised in order to induce them to do so is "wasting a ton of money."

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• Hmm... "Provide government assistance to people who fall beneath a certain minimum of resources. Otherwise, don’t." That seems like a worthy goal, but the devil is in the details. The...

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• Meh, costs are costs & labor is most expendable. Slash them.

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• Will, this is an interesting article. I would be curious to know how you would define a Guest Worker Program. Almost all proposals for Guest Worker Program that I have seen do not allow free and...

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