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The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Subject: Destroying America, Let Us Count the Ways
Date: 09/20/25 1:13 PM
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Trumpedo's clever plan to charge a $100,000 fee for an H1-B visa is remarkably stupid, even for him. While it will "whiteify" the country, technology, consulting, financial services and health care are enormously dependent on those folks. This will absolutely kill universities.

I read that 30% of medical residents are international medical graduates and 10,000 of the 43,000 residency spots are filled by doctors with H1-B visas. The $5,000 fee is now $100,000 and no American hospital is going to pay that outrageous fee.

Add on the purging of U.S. scientists from civil service, slashing research grants, and kidnapping students and foreign workers off the streets and out of plants and it's pretty clear that Trumpedo has made a conscious decision to destroy American leadership in medicine, technology, and education.

Microsoft sent a communication to employees warning those here in the U.S. on H-1B visas to not leave the country "for the foreseeable future." And warned those currently outside the country to get back here before the deadline.

Man, it's like the guy is trying to destroy America.

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