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"Lazy kids won't get CNC creds, takes a few months! Lazy kids!"

Turns out the CNC jobs pay less than delivering pizza, a job a non-HS Graduate could do.

Right, there's no lack of workers at high enough wages.

So what, the plandemic hiring craze was an aberration, those jobs had to be lost and digested again, and now it's back to normal. The tech job market certainly isn't great at the moment, but similar to the housing market far from crashing, despite the shitty 4 years of the corrupt xiden administration.

Machinist get bennies, tho? What about unions? OH isn't exactly right-to-work.

I'm calling BS on the pizza delivery driver job being fulltime.

More winning. On Sunday, amidst the Weekend of Protest, the New York Post ran an encouraging story headlined, “Nearly 1 million illegal immigrants have ‘self-deported’ under Trump, which has led to higher wages.” MSNBC viewers have no idea.

https://nypost.com/2025/06/15/opinion/nearly-1-million-illegal-immigrants-have-self-deported-under-trump-which-has-led-to-higher-wages/

Alongside all the arrests and high-profile deportations, the Trump Administration is also quietly running a voluntary self-deportation program that encourages illegals to leave with cash benefits and free plane tickets. DHS has also revived what corporate media is calling an “archaic law” requiring foreign nationals in the U.S. to register with the federal government and provide their fingerprints.

Under the 1950s law, failing to register is a separate and sufficient ground for instant deportation. Judges in lower courts facing these cases have been quibbling about whether illegals “actually knew” they were violating the law— a newly-discovered and careful type of judicial scrutiny that J6 Capitol tourists did not enjoy. For some reason. (It’s definitely not politics, how dare you.)

The article quoted a Washington Post story that reported “a million foreign-born workers have exited the workforce since March.” WaPo framed that news as “a sign of the weakening labor supply.” Yet the paper also noted, “Average hourly wages accelerated, rising by 0.4 percent over the month, to $36.24 in May, as earnings continue to beat inflation in a boost to workers’ spending power.”

As the NY Post correctly pointed out, the statistics show that, with fewer illegal immigrants, businesses are having to raise wages to attract workers. In other words, it’s helping Main Street instead of Wall Street. That’s just what the President promised, and it is called winning.