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I don't think this one would ever get made today! A few unwoke lines in there!

Hungry Jack. When I was there I think I looked into it and if I recall correctly, when they started years ago it was done illegally and BK sued, but they worked it out.

They have Woolworth's in AU and NZ! They also had Woolworth in Germany when I lived there.

Strangely, Kmart Australia and New Zealand are doing alright. I've been to a few stores and they were busy, but that was Christmas time. The stores I saw were in major malls. They have a unique self checkout system where everyone ques in a rectangle in the middle of the store, but there are a lot of assistants. Seems to work well and the line moves along quickly. I assume Kmart U.S. licensed the name to them years ago and there are no financial ties to the U.S.

That is easy. Just take her to any democrat run city.

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I agree. This will be a big hardship and increase costs a lot, for many, with a huge burden on those who have to travel far for the appointments. Seems highly unlikely that the appointments could be same day or even synchronized in some way. I'm glad my wife and step-daughter still have a lot years left on their tourist visas. Also, most likely the VAC is outsourced. This is a cost saving move. Many countries outsource the biometrics.

The author does a poor job of keeping illegal alien remittance separate from legal alien remittance. Although he seems to be leaning on illegal alien remittance for taxation, he ends up with "tax remittances" which could mean all remittance. So what about citizen remittance? If you are quoting total remittance figures like India 100 billion, and then breaking them down by U.S. legal status, you might have: Citizen: 75% Legal Alien: 15 % Illegal Alien: 10% Total 100% I'm just throwing those % numbers out there. However, I live in the Philippines where remittance is an important part of the economy. Pre-pandemic, remittance was averaging 9% of Philippine GDP. For 2023, the total was 33.5 billion and 13.7 billion came from the U.S. So how much of that came from Filipino Americans who became U.S. citizens? How much from legal aliens? How much from illegals? While I agree illegals should not be able to just walk in and then earn money and then send it home, (and certainly not to our enemies) the author does not lay out how taxing ONLY illegal remittances would work. How do you track them? Do they have SSN? How do we even know of their tax status? Need a new branch of the IRS? Remittance may be a small part of the incentive for illegal entry to the U.S., but taxation and bigger government is not the answer. Just keep them out the old fashioned way: SECURE THE BORDERS AND SEND THEM BACK. For most groups, sending them back will end most of the incentive to come and they will never earn any money in the U.S. As far as double taxing U.S. citizens and legal aliens on U.S. earned and taxed income used for remittances, hogwash. The government is going to tell us what we can do with our after-tax income? Also, if that ever came about, other countries would retaliate against all the U.S. citizens who work and live overseas. Remittance to your Filipino family is a time honored tradition for Filipinos and is a primary factor for many to go abroad, legally. Filipino culture respects and takes care of their elders, and much of this is done through remittance. The argument that the money is not put back in the U.S. economy is not strong. Only a smaller % of income earned would be sent home. For normal people, you have to take care of your expenses first, spending it in the U.S., and send some leftover home. Of course, if you are illegal, and the government is paying for a nice hotel, food, healthcare and other things, maybe you could send almost all of it home, just saving a little bit for cigs and beer.

In Subic Bay Freeport (old U.S. Navy base), where I live, everything is fairly normal. The infrastructure on the base was built to Western standards so most areas have good drainage and don't flood. There are a few problem areas but so far, nothing my SUV can't handle. I got a bit nervous yesterday when I went storm sightseeing in our boardwalk area. The tide was so high that waves were crashing over the seawall and flooding the road with seawater, probably over 2 feet of water in some places. I was pushing the 600 mm wading depth of my Trailblazer. It is down in Olongapo where they have big problems. They have the Santa Rita river going through town and it is full of lahar from Mt. Pinatubo, which last erupted in 1991. They have dredging operations ongoing for years, but it seems they never get ahead of it. So when everything aligns right, they get floods. Heavy rains bring more lahar + high tides = the river overflows. Yesterday at 11 am the tide was very high and it was raining cats and dogs and the river was already full of water and lahar. The river basically covers the whole floor of the city.

Actually that picture is a photoshop joke, referring to the ongoing conflict between China and Philippines, with China claiming Philippine islands as their own. A ship could not go down the main road of Olongapo. However, I grabbed that picture from FB in the morning yesterday before it really started to pour. Nonstop "red" downpours from mid-morning to late afternoon. Manila was neck deep in some areas. Olongapo was mostly knee deep, like this picture. I live on a hill and am not impacted much by the flooding.

It is very bad. This is downtown Olongapo City, next to Subic Bay Freeport where I live.

Yes, still on hold, 2+ years. I just log in to NVC once in a while. I keep a log of the logins, to keep track,