Republicans Who Screamed About A Crisis On The Border Oppose A Plan To Fix It

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and that debt is approximately $30,000,000,000,000.00(thirty trillion dollars), so actually that is something that actually can never be paid back.

What's the largest amount of debt that can be paid off in a finite amount of time?

this is a situation similar to if you were working at mcdonalds for minimum wage, but you own a debt of fifty million dollars.

The debt is 122.9% of GDP. So that is only a fair analogy if minimum wage is 40.98 million dollars per year. For someone on the minimum of $7.80 who works 2080 hours per year, a similar situation would be if they own a debt of $18,500.

we dont need to import skilled workers, but instead we needed to employ our current citizens.

If you need skilled workers, your choices are:
1) Don't have skilled workers, and let the jobs go to other countries.
2) Produce sufficient skilled workers from your education system. Note that this has a 20 year lag.
3) Import skilled workers. Not that this doesn't have a lag, and you don't have to pay the education costs.

What is the reasoning behind not doing (3), and only doing the resulting combination of (1) and (2)? That appears to be the worst economic outcome.

my prediction is that in a very few short years, the economy of the united states will be similar to indonesia or the phillipines where people are working for $100/week and eating rice for dinner.

A default will certainly be the end result of the brinksmanship, if there's not something done about using that as a political tool. And economic collapse will certainly be the result of a default. See Argentina for a historical example.

we allowed arabs to come in and form a monopoly of our corner stores

Corner stores aren't a monopoly. They're in competition from supermarkets.

and indians dominated our hotel/motel business

Perhaps a couple of generations ago. Now they dominate IT.

so many people in the united states are now on welfare, which will come to an end eventually.

Maybe not. Universal Basic Income is something economists debate.

we(white folks) are fucked in a major way.

I've got a job.