Pondering

Of the 475 individuals arrested during the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid at the Hyundai-LG battery plant in Ellabell, Georgia (5 Sep)....roughly 300 were South Koreans.

So far....no one has said how or why came to be.

I paused over this and pondered.

If you came to me....as head of HR, and said I ought to sign in some fraudulent way....475 folks for the plant, and all of them were to be non-American....I'd freak out and say 'no-way'.  But this plant HR guy (and team)....didn't seem to have a problem.

How the South Koreans were brought in? I would take a guess that they all had tourist visas.  The normal tourist visa is 90 days....but if you did the extra paperwork for the B-1/2.....you could  stay as a tourist for six months.  My guess is that  all of the South Koreans detained....held the B-1/2 visa and were making a 6-month stay possible.

How the plant paid them their salary and took out the Social Security?  Well....fraudulent methods, I assume.

The HR guy (and team)...going to a grand jury?  Yeah, and this will be a very unpleasant situation....where ten years of prison might occur. 

Plant 'boss' in trouble?  If I were him.....I'd be on a plane to exit the US.

But here's the thing.....the plant will need six months now to find a new HR group....train up....hire 475 new folks, and train them up.....to reach production.

You can imagine the chaos here.  Wendy calls 'dad'....saying her Hyundai job is dissolving and her bright career in HR is 'gone'....asking dad if he can recommend a lawyer.   

The question now is....just how many folks are here on a B-1/2 tourist visa....and what exactly are they doing?

Seven Humble Thoughts

1.  Today, I opened up the news (via Twitter) and found that about a decade ago....Citizen Donald Trump became some secret-agent-informant to the FBI on Epstein's isle and the BS going on there.   Even the House Speaker (Johnson) is telling a bit of the story.  

Amazing....I'll probably wake up next week and find that Trump wrote five of the scripts for Charlie's Angels.

2. It's just fascinating....this time in 2024....you might have one scene or video of President Biden in a day....showing him alive (not much else).  2025?  There's probably twenty video-clips per day of Trump doing 'something'.

3.  Something that looks great on paper.....means 'crap' unless you apply, test, modify and improve....in reality.

4.   In case you were wondering how the Roman Empire fell....it started with economic decline....snowballing into daily corruption, and eventually there was this overreliance on slave labor which strained resources. Invasions became a regular event....with stability regularly discussed.  The final blow?  Around 476 AD...the last Western Roman Emperor, Romulus Augustulus, was taken down by the Germanic tribal chief....Odoacer.

5.  Watching the US Navy attack on the drug-boat from Venezuela....I tried to have sympathy for the boat-cartel-guys.....but I can't seem to find such sympathy.  The next boat?  I'm guessing the going price for a 'run' just tripled.

6.   I have this new syndrome that I've invented....it's called the 'fairy-tale-syndrome', where you believe something....like trans-stuff, or that the three bears did have a run-in with Goldilocks, or that demons live under the basement floor.   

7.  My impression of the 3I/ATLAS space 'rock'?  I think it's a 99-percent space-rock.  However....as it passes Mars (behind it).....if it doesn't appear  on the other side as expected....it's parked there, and pretending not to exist.  In this scenario...it's 100-percent aliens.

Non-Professional Professionals?

 A scandal broke out this past week in Turkey, when the authorities announced they'd uncovered some  situation where around 200 folks held degrees....but didn't seem  to have any college class hours or test results to  'earn' a degee.

I read through the piece, and the one story which interested me.....some Turkish guy who was a carpet-cleaner.....had a official degree in psychology. Somehow, he'd entered into deal where the 'real' college had some guy/gal who just filled some data in, and the carpet-cleaner guy was a 'legit' degree-holder.

Now, folks were careful to say....the cleaner-guy wasn't talking or messing with the mind of some crazy folks....just that he had a degree.

I paused over this.

I've attended a couple  of two-year colleges and three public four-year colleges.  To be honest, I never saw that big of deal over knowledge given to me.  I did have to prove some things, but it was more of a collection of  lectures....nothing more than that.

What made Socrates different?  Legend has it that he was a blacksmith early on in his life, and asked  a lot of questions of people along the way.....getting opinions of people, and giving advice.

What did the carpet-cleaner intend to do with his degree?  Unknown....maybe nothing.  

This ending with finding the two-hundred folk out?  I'm not sure....they might dig more into this and find ten-thousand folks with worthless degrees.

Eight Humble Thoughts

 1.  When you are in the presence of a fairly far-left nutcase....wanting to upstage their act....state that you are a one-spirit entity. 

Meaning?  Simple terms?  You are a individual whose mind, body, and spirit are aligned, reflecting a state of inner harmony or wholeness.  Their staged BS....is repelled off your body/soul....like using Turtle-Wax on a car.

2.  The most stupid thing you could do presently, if maxed-out on TDS?  Do something to get fired from your gov't job, and find that literally no one wants a dead-weight former gov't employee.

3.   Almost daily now....I see some story of how X-family or X-individual are fleeing their state, or the US.  There's little thought put into their plan....which I suspect in a year....they will 'flee' a second time.

I have this feeling, by 2035.....at least 200k Americans in perpetual 'fleeing-mode', and mostly living out of a suitcase (or two).

4.  There should be a requirement for mortgage paperwork....geared to the 8th-grade level, and a pre-test...if you can even perform at the 8th grade level.  If you can't read/handle that....you shouldn't be borrowing $200k.

5.  As of Thursday....John Bolton is officially under a full-up FBI investigation.  Pretty dire situation....meaning he'll have to deal and name people....to get least likely sentence deal (probably two years in prison).  My question....who exactly is he naming and for what?

6.  If you asked a hundred people what 'rogue' meant....fewer than 20 would be able to give a decent answer.

Officially....it means a person who has little to no principals, and pretty dishonest in their dealings.  

It's just....in an average week....if you watch CNN (my weekly limit is presently 75 minutes)....I'll hear it used three or four times.

7.  At the White House dinner last night, Bill Gates says to President Trump....he's already working/developing next-level "cures" to "eradicate" several yet-to-be declared major diseases.

How anyone would work within a science like this, and think the general public would buy your 'cures'....is unknown to me.

8. Every time  I see some interview being done with Governor Newsom....I feel like it's a talk with a 8-year old kid.

Analysis of Mortgage Fraud

This morning, I spent an hour reading over mortgage fraud.

IF you prosecute under federal statutes like 18 U.S.C. § 1014 (false statements to financial institutions), 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (mail fraud), 18 U.S.C. § 1343 (wire fraud), or 18 U.S.C. § 1344 (bank fraud).....penalties can be severe.

Average sentences?  Using 2021 data, the U.S. Sentencing Commission reported that 74.1-percent of mortgage fraud offenders received prison sentences with an average of 14 months.  Back in 2018....it was an average of 20-to-24 months.

Misdemeanor cases?  Typically this means a fraud of less than $1k....could go up to one year of prison.

In Cook's case (the Fed Governor)....this looks like a false statement and avoidance of certain taxes on some property.   The fact that no state investigations are going on?   Yeah, that is a odd factor.

On The Subject of 'Freaky'

 Since the November 2024 election...one of the hundred-odd subjects that I do study/analysis upon....what really makes up the Democratic Party/voters in 2025?

I've come to the opinion that it's (the party itself) developed into a ragtag group, made up of outcasts, mavericks, freaks, oddballs, and even a motley crew.  There has to be at least twenty-odd groups which seem to fit themselves into the situation. 

If you tried to identify party-platforms and agendas....there must be a minimum of 100 selected 'topics', and it's reached a level where a average non-freak, non-oddball, non-outcast Democrat.....can't really talk themselves into believing the party.

Saying it was designed back in the 1990s, and this is some intellectual modern way of getting the 'herd' to mingle and stay within one single pasture?  Well....one could suggest that.  But it makes little sense.

I'm likely to suggest that 30-percent of the folks voting for the Republicans at present....are  former Democrats (from the 1980s/1990s), or unattached people who feel the D-Party is too much of a nutcase to support.

Where this leads onto for 2028 and 2032?  I don't think the Democratic Party has understood the damage done, and the effect of everything being so politicized. 

Gen-Z Topic

 I don't watch much Fox News anymore....maybe five minutes in an entire week.  So this business item came up a day or two ago, and it's been on my mind....about Gen-Z.

Roughly three-quarters of parents of Gen-Z 'kids'....admit that they help the kid complete work assignments.  I assume....they mean spreadsheet and data collection....which the kid takes home.  

The boss probably sits and 'thinks' that the new-hire did it himself/herself.

Bringing a parent to the job interview....probably to boost confidence.  

But then you have 45-percent of Gen-Z kids who have mom or dad talk to the manager....to re-assure him....about some situation or mess.

If I were the boss....the minute I got the impression....parents were deep into my business structure and the Gen-Z kid could only function with 'guidance'?  I'd let the kid go (he can't stay).

All of this begs the question....was the parent doing the same BS when the kid was in high school, and college?