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| 2023-07-16 | 0 |
These oldies can’t handle a society where money and respect is more equally distributed. Middle class here can’t afford a maid for cleaning, one for cooking and a guy to clean cars in Canada like back home, because people aren’t like sheep there.
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| 2023-07-15 | 0 |
Chapri upper middle class ass people ?
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| 2023-07-14 | 0 |
Hate environment is not good and healthy for all humans wither rich, middle class, poor, hindu,muslim, Christian, Jain, Sikh, or Upper caste, Lower caste, Dalits, Tribal... etc .etc ..Love, Equality, Brotherhood, Inclusive is only the way of life in Our Great Nation India.
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| 2023-07-08 | 0 |
Poor Middle class Indians Fighting with broken English Accent ?
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| 2023-07-05 | 0 |
The biggest problem in canada is we are taxed to death...middle class are paying for all the freeloading..paychecks are cut huge...
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| 2023-07-05 | 0 |
Hello sir,\nI am law graduate from india. Belongs to lower middle class family. I want to migrate Canada for work. I seriously need to know whatever you are saying in video about the cost of living is genuine or not?
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| 2023-06-30 | 0 |
I just got off work and am eating a bowl of ramen with corn. I have a college degree with payments out the A$$ for rent, food, insurance and childcare. I have insurance through my work that costs me A TON. In a small apt. What is happening? I really just wish I hit the border and knew spanish. I love how NY is opening college dorm housing for free with food, tax free employees for those willing to BEND the laws, free insurance for families. What the @#$^@#$^@ is happening. Look at AZ where the state is spending 3 Million to open a park in 120 degrees for citizens to figure it out. The US has become a joke. Good luck to all those middle class and below.
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| 2023-06-29 | 0 |
Clearly they need help. We should help them. That's what America is all about. This is all because of Bidens new border policy and illegal border crossings are down literally 70%. Amd you would think the Republicans and GOP would be praising him for doing something they wanted that Trump never did for them. Biden is a conservative, a republican a Democrat whatever you want to call these people. They all switch sides back n forth and want the sake things. For corporations and the 1%, the very people responsible for the destruction of America, the middle class, and not to mention the planet, to get all of our taxes, to get subsidiaries when they screw us like the banks, wall street and airlines etc. To help these corporations exploit us as much as they can, people are working for these companies and living in the street. To keep them from paying their fair share in taxes. Education, infrastructure, investment, they do none of it they do not participate in our democracy they are all participating in socialism for the rich and mass greed. We can't afford a roof over our heads. We can't afford healthcare. We can't afford school. The rich are taking all of our money and lining their pockets, the corporstions pockets, the military complex, the police depts. Republicans and corporate dems have been rerouting our tax money away from public education and towards private charter rich people schools for the last 30 years. Our country is in trouble. Rich people are playing monopoly ruining our economy and our society.
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| 2023-06-25 | 0 |
It’s stupid to do a comparison with US. Canada had something special that no counties have. Especially in Vancouver, the environment and all the ppl fleeing from their chaotic countries. Competition is not the main thing in Canada. As long as their natural resources r not polluted, the attractiveness of moving to Canada never ended. Keep talking about US US US……. Ridiculous ? and don’t forget 1 thing, immigrants who move here, including the Americans, more than half is the elites from their own countries. As long as the gov doesn’t go corrupted like the PM now, this country it’s still one of the heaven for the upper class and the middle class around the world.
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| 2023-06-25 | 0 |
Aren’t we fortunate in the US to have **none** of these problems!\n\nWe have no homeless here!\n\nTake a look at SF, LA (where all “solutions” are rooted in Bolshevism; “Hi, we’re from the government and will be taking over half of your front yard for homeless yurts (Ok, tents)--true story. Take a gander at any large, medium, and even a few small cities.\n\nHave you ever heard of Detroit (once proud home of my beloved Motown music), Baltimore (complete devastation), or Chicago (my home town—don’t make me cry)?\n\nThe entire homeless situation started when mental hospitals were snake pits and certain factions demanded that people be released.\n\nSure, it sounds humanitarian but they didn't bother to consider what would happen to mentally ill patients suddenly left to their own devices on the streets.\n\nThe do gooders actually were foolish enough to believe that the seriously ill patients (schizophrenic, bipolar, borderline, and plenty of others) would take their meds on their own. It doesn't work that way for patients who are not in contact with reality.\n\nNow we add extreme drugs (crack, meth, heroine, ketamine, whatever they hand out at parties, etc) and severe cases of PTSD/PTSS. It's obscene that we have veterans on the streets.\n\nHeath care--?. Pre Obamacare it wasn’t terrible but medicine had become a CYA project. We are so litigious (side eye to John Edwards ) that doctors practice defensive medicine and carry high limit malpractice insurance (guess who pays for that?). Every decision is driven by avoiding lawsuits, not proper patient care.\n\nPost Obamacare, US health care is an unmitigated disaster at every level. We’re short on doctors, too. Many quit and students are losing interest—medicine won’t pay enough anymore to justify $500K in loans.\n\nWe could repeal every bit of Obamacare tomorrow and still not be able to fix it. The leviathan grew tentacles that released toxins into every nook and cranny of the system. Now that they have buried themselves in critical layers, it would be impossible to yank them out.\n\nI have a good PCP who is booked 6-8 weeks out. Specialists? Hah. GI, neuro, and derm? Four to six month wait post referral.\n\nI never thought I would say such a thing but I would probably swap the Serial Sexual Predator occupying the WH for your Little Lord Fauntleroy.\n\nCan Canada compete with us in corruption? Government employees seriously tried to topple a sitting president and not only were there no consequences, they were able to retire on fat pensions that we citizens work hard to provide for them.\n\nOur government is run entirely by K Street lobbyists; our “representatives” don’t even draft legislation, that’s done for them by K ST.\n\nHow about crime? Do we even need to talk about it?\n\nHousing crisis? Prices were already too high when the regime (predictably) created runaway inflation and we saw the end of affordable interest rates. Even 0.25% increase will knock out many buyers; they won’t be able to qualify.\n\nWe are seeing huge jumps; young people have resigned themselves to never being homeowners.\n\nRacism? Again, look to the US. It’s nothing even close to what the make believe media caterwauls about. If white supremacists are behind every tree, where is the evidence? Surely, in 2023 has caught a cell phone video, right? Where are the videos? Show me the proof. There is plenty of footage of BLM destroying property and injuring, even murdering innocents. If we gripe about this behavior, we are raaayyyycccciiiiissssts.\n\nNo rational adult would claim that the US is not a violent country and becoming more so. Nor can we claim to have eliminated racism. That takes time; it cannot be done by force.\n\nOur economy went from smokin hot to dumpster fire in a short span of time. Pre election, head hunters were shaking the trees to find job candidates.\n\nOur unemployment is up as are our taxes with the stomping out of the tax cuts. \n\nDespite the endless sloganeering about how the Trump tax cuts only benefited “rich” people, it’s quite the opposite.\n\nHigh earners lost their pet deductions and lower income taxpayers were quite pleasantly surprised when they did their returns. The cuts were targeted to preserve wealth for the middle and lower classes.\n\nI could go on for another 100 pages but you get the idea and I get crabby writing for free.\n\nI will leave you with the caution that it’s best if you doubt and question any data and any stats coming from our government. Those are seldom legit. If the data comes from a study, always look to see who paid for it. And how large the sample size was; how were the participants selected? We are all on our own when it comes to ferreting out info.\n\nOh Canada!\n\nYou’re welcome.
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| 2023-06-11 | 0 |
Why would u want to come somewhere where that middle and lower class are struggling themselves ? All this does is breed hostility and in the confusion real enemies could be slipping thru. Garnering some real hate from ppl, eventually it will spill over and then you’ll be in a country where it’s citizens are armed to the teeth even the 5 yr old, and you won’t have a thing to ur name. Sounds like an awesome life to me…
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| 2023-05-28 | 0 |
I am jealous of you you are soo lucky living the dream life (?rich people) i belonge from a middle class thats why i am jealous
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| 2023-05-25 | 0 |
I am an Australian. We seem to have a similar situation. Many of the children of baby boomers have given up attempting to purchase a residential property. Plus, our R & D spending is one of the lowest in the OECD.\nConservative, middle-class Australians, who until recently were in charge of the place, are not big picture people. Their concerns usually centre around their favourite private school and private health premiums.\nWith what is termed negative gearing, an amazing number of property investors don't pay a cracker in taxation. It's the same with our gas and iron orr exporters.\nWould you believe we have the lunatic situation of being the world's largest exporter of LNG, but have a shortage of it on Australia's east coast? We are even considering constructing terminals to import our own gas back from Japan!
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| 2023-05-24 | 0 |
The UK is pretty much like Canada, now. There is only room for the 5% who are rich (the capitalists & rentiers) and the 35% of people on Benefits (the 35% of population who live off welfare paid for by the State using the hard-working tax payer's money). The honest, hard-working middle-class (about 50 to 60% of society) are absolutely screwed and doomed, because all they can now do is keep working their guts out till they drop dead, and never hope to have a decent life. The culture of state-funded Welfare has now gotten so bad that I now live in a street where some 30% of the people who live off Welfare have been given State funded houses, and those houses which are bigger and better than mine (all paid for using my tax money). And I have slogged my entire life (I am 65 now) to pay off a large mortgage on a house that eventually has lower value than the houses that people on Welfare are given on the same Street! Worse still, now that I am approaching the stage where I might need to go into a Care Home, my house (which I worked for my entire life to attain) will have to be sold off to pay for my Care Home costs. While my neighbours who never worked a single day in their life (and whose life was subsidized using my tax money) will again get free state-funded Care Home facility too! It utterly beggars belief. \n\nWhen state-funded Welfare gets to a point that doing an honest day's work actually penalizes you, because all you are doing is funding the lifestyles of the other half of society who wish to sponge off State Welfare (due to the high taxes the Government is forced to impose on the working middle-class to support the 35% on State benefits), then that society can never prosper, firstly because it removes the motivation to work hard, and secondly because some day the Government will run out of money to continuing funding the lavish lifestyles of people on State Welfare. And that is very much now the state of affairs in countries like Canada, the UK, and much of EU. It is an unsustainable model. \n\nBy contrast, in countries like the US, China, India, etc. there is a much greater correlation between hard work and reward. Choosing to not go to work and sponging off Governmental welfare is simply not an option. And that is precisely why countries like these will continue to prosper in the coming years - because they have some form of Meritocracy. Unfortunately, I think countries like the UK, Canada, and most western EU countries are looking at a downward spiral, and there are no easy solutions, because their Welfare model has already created these huge segments of society which depend on it and will not allow it to be demolished - but the day is fast approaching where they will all soon run out of money to continue funding it (most of these countries are already facing huge Debt-GDP ratios, and there is no conceivable way of them coming out of it).
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| 2023-05-21 | 0 |
Remember that Biden and the Democrats did this and the media is complicit with the cover up.\nThe cost to adequately care for all these people will drive down everyone's standards of living. If your poor and don't have a job - it won't be getting asier for u. If your middle class, you'll pat more taxes and get less in return.
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| 2023-05-20 | 0 |
Some are trying to reunite with family, some are fleeing poverty and feel America is the best place to come up but it's those that are fleeing violence that concern me. We can't take on the world in one nation only to have some immigrants globally thumb their noses up at our traditions, rights we had to fight for, housing we need etc. The sad fact is running to America isn't the Answer. We fight the Middle East who will never change but we need to turn our attention to Mexico, the island nations and South America. It doesn't matter if people who won't change are overwhelming our nation. The violence you escape still comes here. It's getting to the point of entitlement. I've known immigrants who had to pay out-of-state fees while living in America until they could gain a visa but those from the south refute this and demand in state tuition or the same rights as those who took classes and became legal citizens the right way. So much violence from gangs and the cartel but we can't help by just opening the borders. It's time the South changed and took out the gangs and cartel for good to make a better life . Moreover, greedy leaders need to be taken out if necessary so these people can have a better future. The south and certain islands can't really say America should mind its business because these invasions are our business. When we are flooded with ethnic groups of people it becomes America's business nationwide.
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| 2023-05-20 | 0 |
What I don't understand is how much does it cost the middle class to feed educate house and provide healthcare to these people. Most of whom are seeking economic asylum.. Because if they were seeking safety ,,they'd stop at the first safe area..
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| 2023-05-18 | 0 |
Canada is a false economy most of the money you see there wasn’t made there it was made elsewhere.\nMost of the new luxury condos being sold to offshore people trying to get heir money out of the country they live in like the Chinese Hong Kong Iranians etc.\nYou may see nice luxury cars on the road in Toronto like Bentley and Range Rovers but 9 times out of 10 they aren’t driven by old stock white Canadians they are driven by foreigners.\nYou may see Canadians that have a nice car and home but they don’t own it the banks own it they just make payments they own nothing .\nSo on the one hand Canada is flooding itself with foreign money making home prices unaffordable and inflation to sky rocket and on the other hand flooding the country with migrants from the third world that drive down the wages for ordinary middle class Canadians and cause the crime rate to sky rocket.\nLast year Canada let in 1 million new bodies half of them settling in Toronto.\n500,000 people is the population of Winnipeg yet in no way did the size of Toronto add a area the size of Winnipeg with new infrastructure hospitals and schools in 12 months .\nThen Canadians wonder why they can’t afford a home .\nOn one hand the government says we must bring in so many people because there isn’t enough workers yet got caught in their lie by bribing a European car company with 13 billion to create 3,000 jobs .\nSo the government is so desperate to create jobs they will pay 4.5 million to create one new job and other the other hand say there are too many jobs and not enough workers ?\nCanada is going into the toilet only a matter of time before there are race wars crime is unreal and Canadians just sit back and watch and do nothing.
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| 2023-05-17 | 1 |
Bruh just stay home the middle class is already evaporating enough they need to stay home and fix there homes
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| 2023-05-15 | 0 |
its all planned by the bankers , US needs cheap labor because US dollar doesn't have power anymore and by printing more money to support LAZY middle class life style will distroy US
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| 2023-05-14 | 0 |
This is the Democratic Party trying to destroy the middle class and they don’t give a rats ass who it hurts these poor people are being used as pawns in their twisted sick game
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| 2023-05-14 | 0 |
Democrat liberal policies running the border.. \nWait till the IRS start’s auditing the middle class to collect the taxes to pay for this.. IRS will not go after the rich because they have lawyers, the low income families do not have the money, so the middle class will be the IRS’s target. We have homes to maintain and families to care for.\nBe prepared because Democrats are going to collect for this..
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| 2023-05-14 | 0 |
Over it. This will KILL the middle class and drive down minimum wage, WAKE UP people.Americans first!!!!!!
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| 2023-05-13 | 0 |
Sorry many middle class Americans \nyou lose your life savings.\nBut you voted Biden and Democrats Politicians. Deserve it.
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| 2023-05-12 | 0 |
This will continue to push down the minimum wage and kill the middle class of America. At some point you have to take care of the structural integrity of America, or it won’t be sustainable for anyone.
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| 2023-05-11 | 0 |
Reality check it's not poor Illegal immigrants lowering the middle class
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| 2023-05-09 | 0 |
Not once have i lived off the government. I work my girl works. We’re having a kid. And things are getting really tight. Inflation is kicking our butts bills increased pay is the same. Were not married yet. We decided to try to seek some government help for at least food right. Shit is tough rn so if we can at least get some food we’ll be fine. We can’t get it technically my girl makes too much money. Why is that even a thing? You’re telling us no because we have too much money? Well we also have alot of bills. Regardless if we’re “middle class” that shit dont feel like it. Im broke af. I got 150 in the bank last me till the 15th. I deserve no help because i choose to help myself? That makes no sense. Yet you got ppl not trying to do a thing for themselves living off of us. Thats insane.
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| 2023-05-01 | 0 |
What's happened to canada is what is happening to all countries with woke leadership. We have made wedge issues a priority despite the fact they don't tangibly matter. Resources go into absolute nothing of value. We declared a climate emergency despite being less than 1% of global emissions. This has caused us to literally turn down lucrative LNG contracts that would have reduced the emissions of coal burning nations by 50%. It has made us insane. We sold all our gold and are printing money while expecting the entire middle class to bear the burden of this money printing. Billions have to Ukraine and nobody even knows why.
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| 2023-04-28 | 0 |
I'm embarrassed to have immigrated here... Being in the middle class I get rap*d on every paycheck. All those tax dollars go toward the uneducated to bring up equality. They literally take from me and give it to the poor..
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| 2023-04-23 | 0 |
often times national growth comes and the expense of the middle class and a increase in inequality much like the US
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| 2023-04-19 | 0 |
Trudeau and big green climate change scam to kill middle class
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| 2023-04-19 | 0 |
The same country the richest on the planet with undeveloped natural resources the same country who obstructs the development of these resources and exchange for payments from our competitors\n The only nation on the planet with resources anything like this where the people live in poverty and there's no middle class
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| 2023-04-10 | 0 |
As a Californian this is deplorable, the Canadian government is willingly letting these students be exploited for profit. Trudeau ran in 2015 with making real change for the middle class. Notice middle class is inferred only Canadians, he doesn't care about you. I always knew something was going on after hearing about so many international students going to Canada, and my fears have been proved right.
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| 2023-04-03 | 0 |
Do things legally. \nDon't have an entitled mindsets.\nAnd be productive if you want to come here.\nThe middle class is the one providing a free ride for immigrants...AND most of us can't even barely take care of our own families. This crap is out of hand.
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| 2023-04-02 | 0 |
These mass entries bring disease and drugs and terrorist. We have millions homeless now. Our government knows it will make life worse. It's called population control. It's a cruel death and the end for the middle class and poor. It will result in government taking total control of all of us. No freedom no art no happiness....just slave control ????
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| 2023-04-01 | 0 |
They should never have messed with that country. Venezuela was doing just fine economically for years. It had a large middle class, oil rich country. Then they go in there and make it poor . . . If you don't want the immigrants, then don't go meddling with other countries. Wtf
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| 2023-04-01 | 0 |
The upper class is safe, and the lower class is safe. The middle class will still get smoked to provide tax dollars to help with housing and assistance. Rent is outta control, and don't even think about trying to buy a house, unless you want 1 bed 1 bath for $80,000.
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| 2023-04-01 | 0 |
Blame the rich top top 1% and corporations who make 100’s of billions a year, not these people. The elites who are stealing from the middle class WANT to fool you into thinking it’s the lower class and migrants causing economic problems but it IS NOT. Don’t believe the propaganda people! May God help us all.
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| 2023-03-31 | 0 |
So they can't stay at the Ritz-Carlton in New York so they're going to walk through the woods with an infant in dangerous temperatures to find a better life than this middle class stuff we offer them. Got it.
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| 2023-03-30 | 0 |
Hey guys look it's the rich class' candle for every issue in the country, these immigrants always come to steal our jobs and houses it's not like we live in an exploitive system or that the rich trick us into fighting each other it's always these filthy looking immigrants they're the problem. \n\nAnd no I'm not talking about the US, I live overseas and it's always the same candle, poor people fighting middle class while the rich laugh at us.\n\nJust look at the comments lol
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| 2023-03-30 | 0 |
This is directly result of having Vice President in charge of the border and A President that's doesn't even remembering his own name half of the time, yes come on in and come to my house i have a lots of chocolate.... This country has become a lawless, public education system are dumber, moral values are gone, taxes are to the roof, and can't even helping our own vet and homeless , but yet we trying to help other. PETHATIC !....\nthey are sucking the blood of the small business and middle class like us.... And yet there are American people still supporting them, i dont care what side you're on, no one give rat a$$..... but if you dumb enough to not see it, i feel sorry for y'all and your kids ...WAKE UP!!!! Do What Is Right...
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| 2023-03-27 | 0 |
They’re not asylum seekers, they are asylum breakers. If asylum is what they seek, send them to the insane asylums. You gotta be crazy for wanting to voluntarily move into Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York or Chicago. You know, the worse places in the USA to live. Unless you are well off to begin with.\n\nMy rant: I swear politicians use the illegal immigrant border crossings as media fodder or campaign debate ammunition. Why not set up a program financed by their home country and ours to get them physically and financially healthy to work or start businesses in their home country? Physically, because they are coming here with all kinds of old world curable diseases, due to being born into an inadequate healthcare system. Not really their fault. The cost of living is so low for them that they could afford a future of prosperity or middle class lifestyle in their country of origin. Force their governments to change economically to sustain themselves for their interests. Imposing themselves upon a nation no longer prospering as it did during and after the Industrial Revolution is senseless. There is hardly any upward mobility in blue collar jobs, ever more so in the labor market. If they are not making $40K/year (assuming the majority has not a college degree in something marketable, advanced skills, a tradesman or artisan) then they’re struggling like everyone else in the service industry. Jobs for teenagers, entry level workers, part time jobseekers like for students, people needing extra income cause it’s so expensive in CA, NY, Austin, TX, Chicago or SF living off work entry-level service jobs. Technology has created a shortage or labor gap between unskilled jobs. Jobs that Americans need while pursuing training or technical degrees for the new skilled jobs. \n\nImmigrants do not need to fit the stereotypes of working in the service industry or as farm workers. American citizens can fill these labor positions quite easily. No, immigrants, work visa or not, do not work any harder, smarter, slower or faster than anyone else wanting to work. If someone is motivated to work an unskilled labor job then they will be just as effective as the next person. The HR for these companies definitely virtue signal and satisfy diversity quotas every time they hire someone due to their work status or ethnicity. Everyone and anyone can be replaced and so the question is, who do you, as an employer, want to replace the job vacancy with? Gonna hire cause they are a good fit or because your helping some politicians cause? Gonna grant asylum cause their lives are in danger from a government firing squad or because Biden/Harris will pat you on the back? \n\nThere is reason to illegally enter this country and it is disrespectful, disgraceful, dishonorable, dishonest and disheartening to the ones who are here legally by going through the process like everyone else paying time and money. Even Christopher Columbus paid to be here, no one handed him a free ticket to ‘paradise.’ The Mayflower patrons weren’t met with resistance by the indigenous community, they were harmonious. If there was a border in Maryland at Plymouth Rock, I am sure the Puritans would stop there first to get their passports stamped. I mean hell, these ‘asylum seekers’ don’t have the courtesy to get passports, why not? Passports are not that expensive considering what they pay coyotes. It makes no sense and is suspect. They won’t get stopped at the border if they have a passport!!!
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| 2023-03-22 | 0 |
Bhai tumko lgta h humlog middle class k bnde h kaha se aaaiga itna rupya
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| 2023-03-15 | 0 |
Immigration laws exist for a reason. The audacity of illegals. Their blatant disregard for our process. Bunch of fools that risk their lives and their children’s lives in brutal winter conditions. Meanwhile Canada is in the midst of a housing crisis. Middle class families having to use food banks. We can barely provide for our own. Meanwhile Canadian police continue to act as bellhops. What a joke.
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| 2023-03-11 | 0 |
It is due to the type of people Canada tries to lure, middle class, well educated who can pay at least $35,000 to migrate. \n\nThis type of person will get disapointed very quickly if they don't find exactly what they expect, in oposition of the type of migrant the US has been trying to drag, people who burnt their ships and have no way to go back.
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| 2023-03-11 | 0 |
I am Canadian. I don't know if Canadians are nicer than Americans. I have met many nice Americans. but I think Canada is way better if you are poor or middle-class just like every other developed country in the world. we work less, we get more paid holidays. in America, you work like a slave if you're poor .but the best country in the world if you are rich.
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| 2023-02-27 | 0 |
Canadavis great if you where poor in your country, if you where middle class you are better in you country. Here you can be middle class upper or lower but true , very very hard to accumulate money ?. And healthcare, yes you can wait 12-24hours before seeing a MD, for a basic thing. And yes operations too are often postponed.\nStill a great place to be.\nI had Mexican friends that left Canada because they have a better life in Mexico, they where middle upper class. That can becoyrichnin mexico but not here..
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| 2023-02-21 | 0 |
During 2008 crash. Canadian didn't lost their home because they keep work and the maj are middle class. In US a lot of citizen lost their home because they lost their jobs to sustain the mortgage specially those don't enough training or profession. Even during the pandemic, Life here is keep going
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| 2023-02-17 | 0 |
You may not like it but it's your first amendment: Freedom of Speech. There is no amendment stating that freedom of expression is only what White middle class liberals permit - although give Joe Biden the chance? Also, it sounds as though the Indian gentleman hasn't learned to speak English.
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| 2023-02-04 | 0 |
Why is it that so many punjabis from lower middle class are in trap? There are Iranians, Arabs, Bangladeshis, Sri Lankans, South Indians etc. I believe this group is desperate
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