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This article glosses over the evidence clearly showing that Hunter Biden was making $1m/yr for sinecures, with Joe Biden receiving a cut. All this while Joe Biden was Vice President of the United States. Nixon resigned and Trump was impeached for far less.Tony Bobulinski, the partner who has overtly said that Joe Biden received payoffs, was only mentioned once in this article. Ditto Hunter's uncle/Joe's brother, who is knee-deep in cashing in on the Biden name the same as Hunter is.Were Hunter and his uncle only the equivalent of Billy Carter and Roger Clinton, it would make for more amusement than concern. But the evidence - numerous emails, including "10% for the 'Big Guy'", Tony Bobulinski's direct comments, and then some - clearly implicate the sitting Vice President of the United States in 2012 of accepting payoffs from Ukranian and Chinese companies with very close ties to their respective governments at a time when those governments had dealings with that Vice President, now President, Joe Biden.Despite the implication in this article, this story has serious legs, as the investigations will show.
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"content": "This article glosses over the evidence clearly showing that Hunter Biden was making $1m/yr for sinecures, with Joe Biden receiving a cut. All this while Joe Biden was Vice President of the United States. Nixon resigned and Trump was impeached for far less.Tony Bobulinski, the partner who has overtly said that Joe Biden received payoffs, was only mentioned once in this article. Ditto Hunter's uncle/Joe's brother, who is knee-deep in cashing in on the Biden name the same as Hunter is.Were Hunter and his uncle only the equivalent of Billy Carter and Roger Clinton, it would make for more amusement than concern. But the evidence - numerous emails, including \"10% for the 'Big Guy'\", Tony Bobulinski's direct comments, and then some - clearly implicate the sitting Vice President of the United States in 2012 of accepting payoffs from Ukranian and Chinese companies with very close ties to their respective governments at a time when those governments had dealings with that Vice President, now President, Joe Biden.Despite the implication in this article, this story has serious legs, as the investigations will show.\n",
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This $1.6 million penalty bespeaks, most likely, of a triviality, considering Trump's alleged and proven tax evasive endeavors, and the imbroglio he has been creating in his previous brush-ins with the law. As we all are fully aware, his manifest failures in Trump Airlines, Trump burgers, Trump University, and ill-conceived brand of Trump liquors, are the stark reminders of his vulpine attitudes. Even though he continued to quibble with the law, and stepped on a few toes, nothing really notable ensued, legally speaking, at least so far as one can tell. His artifice in answering questions, and sardonic jabs at those trying to bring him down, legally, seemed juvenile and even pedantic, just as his mordant humors about the ''fake news spewing press'' are. His words and actions, in general continue to be a perfect simulacrum of a mountebank. After 2020 election loss, Trump became a combustible combo of ire and lies. Instead of exuding an aureole of wealth and decency, Trump continued to be a charlatan. Those halcyon days of honesty and integrity, are so reminiscent of pricey and distant nostalgia.There sure is a grab bag of GOP members with disparate agenda, still hobnobbing with Trump, which do resemble something similar to misbegotten oddities, despite his tax frauds and other alleged misdeeds.That sure as heck ignores the baleful effects of disingenuity in general.
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"content": "This $1.6 million penalty bespeaks, most likely, of a triviality, considering Trump's alleged and proven tax evasive endeavors, and the imbroglio he has been creating in his previous brush-ins with the law. As we all are fully aware, his manifest failures in Trump Airlines, Trump burgers, Trump University, and ill-conceived brand of Trump liquors, are the stark reminders of his vulpine attitudes. Even though he continued to quibble with the law, and stepped on a few toes, nothing really notable ensued, legally speaking, at least so far as one can tell. His artifice in answering questions, and sardonic jabs at those trying to bring him down, legally, seemed juvenile and even pedantic, just as his mordant humors about the ''fake news spewing press'' are. His words and actions, in general continue to be a perfect simulacrum of a mountebank. After 2020 election loss, Trump became a combustible combo of ire and lies. Instead of exuding an aureole of wealth and decency, Trump continued to be a charlatan. Those halcyon days of honesty and integrity, are so reminiscent of pricey and distant nostalgia.There sure is a grab bag of GOP members with disparate agenda, still hobnobbing with Trump, which do resemble something similar to misbegotten oddities, despite his tax frauds and other alleged misdeeds.That sure as heck ignores the baleful effects of disingenuity in general.\n",
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Curious about all the job openings that are going unfilled, I decided to look and see what the openings were. The vast majority were under $20 an hour ($12 for a caregiver in a nursing home). Our local hospital was looking for nursing with salaries from the mid 40ks to around $70K, which was darn good money, but required training. Our local college has a very highly selective nursing program. But the vast majority were call center jobs ($12-$15 an hour), gig jobs, or retail. Many had no benefits. Most of the ones that did required a bachelor's or master's degree--often in social work. And some in that area paid about $50 but had no benefits at all, but contracted workers who had to pay self-employment taxes on that amount.If Brett thinks the couple making $400k is struggling, what does he think people like this do? And you know what, if they all had Phds, there would still be the motel cleaner ($10 an hour). While he's worrying about that, he might want to rethink his stance on "entitlement" programs.
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"content": "Curious about all the job openings that are going unfilled, I decided to look and see what the openings were. The vast majority were under $20 an hour ($12 for a caregiver in a nursing home). Our local hospital was looking for nursing with salaries from the mid 40ks to around $70K, which was darn good money, but required training. Our local college has a very highly selective nursing program. But the vast majority were call center jobs ($12-$15 an hour), gig jobs, or retail. Many had no benefits. Most of the ones that did required a bachelor's or master's degree--often in social work. And some in that area paid about $50 but had no benefits at all, but contracted workers who had to pay self-employment taxes on that amount.If Brett thinks the couple making $400k is struggling, what does he think people like this do? And you know what, if they all had Phds, there would still be the motel cleaner ($10 an hour). While he's worrying about that, he might want to rethink his stance on \"entitlement\" programs.\n",
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This guy reminds me of George Costanza on Seinfeld where at various times he claimed to be a Marine Biologist and an architect. People believed him because they wanted to believe. I fault the Democratic party for not checking his history when they fill my inbox with requests to RUSH $26.00 or the like to some campaign. If I were to honor all of these requests at a reduced price of $5.00 per. it would cost $1,600,000 per year. How do I know what they are representing to be accurate or are they just interested in power and prestige.
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"content": "This guy reminds me of George Costanza on Seinfeld where at various times he claimed to be a Marine Biologist and an architect. People believed him because they wanted to believe. I fault the Democratic party for not checking his history when they fill my inbox with requests to RUSH $26.00 or the like to some campaign. If I were to honor all of these requests at a reduced price of $5.00 per. it would cost $1,600,000 per year. How do I know what they are representing to be accurate or are they just interested in power and prestige.\n",
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I've worked as a professional firefighter, USCG ship captain...am an avid outdoorsman with hundreds of wilderness miles logged per year...I tried to get work with the EPA and all they offer entry level is 12-15 dollar an hour jobs for individuals with 4 year degrees. Have fun with that...
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"content": "I've worked as a professional firefighter, USCG ship captain...am an avid outdoorsman with hundreds of wilderness miles logged per year...I tried to get work with the EPA and all they offer entry level is 12-15 dollar an hour jobs for individuals with 4 year degrees. Have fun with that...\n",
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I think Mr. Malesic also inadvertently shares another important factor in students being engaged in learning: paying for some part of their own education. Unfortunately college costs far beyond what a student can earn these days, but every student should contribute in some way through summer jobs and part-time work during college. My parents expected this and I think it helped me feel invested in getting the most I could out of college. I was a liberal arts major and thus had the luxury of using my time in college to explore a wide range of subjects, change majors, and career ideas. The goal was simply, but importantly, to learn how to learn—to become the lifelong learner we all need to be in this constantly changing world.
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"content": "I think Mr. Malesic also inadvertently shares another important factor in students being engaged in learning: paying for some part of their own education. Unfortunately college costs far beyond what a student can earn these days, but every student should contribute in some way through summer jobs and part-time work during college. My parents expected this and I think it helped me feel invested in getting the most I could out of college. I was a liberal arts major and thus had the luxury of using my time in college to explore a wide range of subjects, change majors, and career ideas. The goal was simply, but importantly, to learn how to learn—to become the lifelong learner we all need to be in this constantly changing world.\n",
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Dee Many people, myself included, routinely buy trip insurance for big-ticket trips with high non-refundable costs (cruises, especially). But rarely for a simple plane ticket of a few hundred dollars. We just figure we'll eat that amount or maybe be able to reschedule. We don't anticipate some of the high costs of rerouting, getting stuck for days in a hotel, etc. like has happened to many people during this debacle. Time to rethink, maybe.
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"content": "Dee Many people, myself included, routinely buy trip insurance for big-ticket trips with high non-refundable costs (cruises, especially). But rarely for a simple plane ticket of a few hundred dollars. We just figure we'll eat that amount or maybe be able to reschedule. We don't anticipate some of the high costs of rerouting, getting stuck for days in a hotel, etc. like has happened to many people during this debacle. Time to rethink, maybe.\n",
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Santos in the latest daily drop of scandal is now wanted by Brazil and has asked America to send him down to face justice there. A first in American history. He now faces theft charges for his cretinous behavior with a Go-Fund Me account which was set up for the care of a dying dog owned by a veteran, the theft of his room mates luxury clothing which he posed in throughout the campaign. Not to mention the apparent illegal donations he took in under the table to fund his lifestyle laundered through his campaign and labelled at $199.99 to escape scrutiny. Exactly why is the House leadership not cutting this guy loose? Are they that desperate for his vote? They certainly will not be able to bring up any moral authority usage whilst he is there and likely not after his likely multiple indictments. It is the most bizarre political conundrum of recent history. I still think he knew exactly what would happen, he would be proscuted, convicted and would write a book about he deceived everyone dropping names throughout the tabloid fodder tome.
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"content": "Santos in the latest daily drop of scandal is now wanted by Brazil and has asked America to send him down to face justice there. A first in American history. He now faces theft charges for his cretinous behavior with a Go-Fund Me account which was set up for the care of a dying dog owned by a veteran, the theft of his room mates luxury clothing which he posed in throughout the campaign. Not to mention the apparent illegal donations he took in under the table to fund his lifestyle laundered through his campaign and labelled at $199.99 to escape scrutiny. Exactly why is the House leadership not cutting this guy loose? Are they that desperate for his vote? They certainly will not be able to bring up any moral authority usage whilst he is there and likely not after his likely multiple indictments. It is the most bizarre political conundrum of recent history. I still think he knew exactly what would happen, he would be proscuted, convicted and would write a book about he deceived everyone dropping names throughout the tabloid fodder tome.\n",
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I’m all for old people getting healthcare and social security benefits. Glad this is where my tax money is going. Seriously. Here’s what I’m not for:Lower capital gains tax rate (15% for investments/capital vs much higher rates based on income, this needs to change it is so inherently unfair)Political lobbying (basically legalized blackmail) apparent income cap on coverage so that the poorest in this country are required once again to foot the bill for public services that they may or may not actually benefit from. Our for-profit healthcare system in general.
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"content": "I’m all for old people getting healthcare and social security benefits. Glad this is where my tax money is going. Seriously. Here’s what I’m not for:Lower capital gains tax rate (15% for investments/capital vs much higher rates based on income, this needs to change it is so inherently unfair)Political lobbying (basically legalized blackmail) apparent income cap on coverage so that the poorest in this country are required once again to foot the bill for public services that they may or may not actually benefit from. Our for-profit healthcare system in general.\n",
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So now we are going into Crimea, in an expensive and foolish effort to redeem the failed policies of Obama, Biden and Farkas from ten years ago. They keep opening up the checkbook and moving the goalposts. It really stinks having no leadership in D.C.
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"content": "So now we are going into Crimea, in an expensive and foolish effort to redeem the failed policies of Obama, Biden and Farkas from ten years ago. They keep opening up the checkbook and moving the goalposts. It really stinks having no leadership in D.C.\n",
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Missed the Great Green Elephant in the Room. Lithium is not the only key metal needed for the electrification revolution. Cobalt, nickel, copper are part of the mix. To produce enough to supply private transportation, priceless biological and cultural jewels will be destroyed, such as the Intag Cloud Forests of northwest Ecuador where I live and work and where Chile's Codelco is hell-bent on developing a open pit mine in primary forests that protect pristine rivers and streams and are the habitat of no less than 69 species in danger of extinction (see <a href="https://bit.ly/3W5vIMv" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3W5vIMv</a>) So, how about talking about this other side of the transition? And the common-sense fact that all these minerals should first go to replacing coal-fired power plants and for the manufacturing of mass=transit units. It is incredibly near-sighted to promote private EVs without taking these issues on board.
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"content": "Missed the Great Green Elephant in the Room. Lithium is not the only key metal needed for the electrification revolution. Cobalt, nickel, copper are part of the mix. To produce enough to supply private transportation, priceless biological and cultural jewels will be destroyed, such as the Intag Cloud Forests of northwest Ecuador where I live and work and where Chile's Codelco is hell-bent on developing a open pit mine in primary forests that protect pristine rivers and streams and are the habitat of no less than 69 species in danger of extinction (see <a href=\"https://bit.ly/3W5vIMv\" target=\"_blank\">https://bit.ly/3W5vIMv</a>) So, how about talking about this other side of the transition? And the common-sense fact that all these minerals should first go to replacing coal-fired power plants and for the manufacturing of mass=transit units. It is incredibly near-sighted to promote private EVs without taking these issues on board.\n",
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Brian McHugh Eisenhower's top rate on the rich was 94%.He was a Republican.He said it loud and clear and no one whined.That's how thin the blood has gotten from these Republicans."It's a secret," Kevin mewls, not daring to look at Joe. "We're just not going to tell you. So there."
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"content": "Brian McHugh Eisenhower's top rate on the rich was 94%.He was a Republican.He said it loud and clear and no one whined.That's how thin the blood has gotten from these Republicans.\"It's a secret,\" Kevin mewls, not daring to look at Joe. \"We're just not going to tell you. So there.\"\n",
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I guess same reason Jared Kushner was worth $2.5 Billion from the Saudis.
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"content": "I guess same reason Jared Kushner was worth $2.5 Billion from the Saudis.\n",
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James True, these are not affordable by a household income around $71k. But, do those on lower incomes really need granite countertops, wood floors and stainless steel appliances? They do not, but with HGTV, too many have come to expect it.
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"content": "James True, these are not affordable by a household income around $71k. But, do those on lower incomes really need granite countertops, wood floors and stainless steel appliances? They do not, but with HGTV, too many have come to expect it.\n",
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I am in my 60s and work in a highly-interactive, rather free-form environment that also involves a screen task that I've been keeping up for 16+ years. I find that my brain is kept so present and engaged that I perceive "distractions" and "interruptions" as potential creative sources. My interest in what I do fuels my open-mindedness about what may or may not be a distraction. I understand that I do have an unusual job but am finding at my age that my access to creative ideas and solutions, along with my attention span is in the best shape of my life, although if I was being observed it would look like I am doing that switching that the article refers to. p.s. I do not carry my phone around with me when I am being social.
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"content": "I am in my 60s and work in a highly-interactive, rather free-form environment that also involves a screen task that I've been keeping up for 16+ years. I find that my brain is kept so present and engaged that I perceive \"distractions\" and \"interruptions\" as potential creative sources. My interest in what I do fuels my open-mindedness about what may or may not be a distraction. I understand that I do have an unusual job but am finding at my age that my access to creative ideas and solutions, along with my attention span is in the best shape of my life, although if I was being observed it would look like I am doing that switching that the article refers to. p.s. I do not carry my phone around with me when I am being social.\n",
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"Maybe two air purifiers"?So I'm going to have to spend $300-400 so that someone can stink up all adjacent units?This is partly why over 300,000 New Yorkers have left the city.Between blasting noise from car and home sound systems, the stench of pot, raucous yelling on street corners and from neighboring apartments -- in general, ill manners and lack of self-control on the part of a good-sized and growing portion of our population -- the city is becoming unlivable.People, just because you feel like doing something doesn't mean it's right to do.
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"content": "\"Maybe two air purifiers\"?So I'm going to have to spend $300-400 so that someone can stink up all adjacent units?This is partly why over 300,000 New Yorkers have left the city.Between blasting noise from car and home sound systems, the stench of pot, raucous yelling on street corners and from neighboring apartments -- in general, ill manners and lack of self-control on the part of a good-sized and growing portion of our population -- the city is becoming unlivable.People, just because you feel like doing something doesn't mean it's right to do.\n",
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Jackson George we have to leave open venue for talks. It’s getting more adversarial between the superpowers to a point of complete mistrust.
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"content": "Jackson George we have to leave open venue for talks. It’s getting more adversarial between the superpowers to a point of complete mistrust.\n",
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P When you talk about "corporate subsidies", you are generally talking about tax deductions which lower a company's taxes, not actual cash transfers from the government to companies. I believe the biggest deduction companies get is investment expense, which reflects our collective desire to incentivize companies to invest in things that allow them to increase productivity and deliver goods and services better and cheaper.So your numbers 2 and 3 are actually in conflict.Your list also omits "spend less." Sounds like you had your spending under control and were able to fund the lifestyle you wanted by taking the other steps you listed. That's great. But if you were living well beyond your means with no possibility of increasing your revenues enough to fund your expenses, you could never get out of debt without cutting expenses. And so it is with our country. Despite the 2017 tax cuts, we are right at the post-WWII average for tax revenues as a percentage of GDP (~17.5%). You can maybe get that number to 20%, but we'll still be running unsustainably high deficits.
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"content": "P When you talk about \"corporate subsidies\", you are generally talking about tax deductions which lower a company's taxes, not actual cash transfers from the government to companies. I believe the biggest deduction companies get is investment expense, which reflects our collective desire to incentivize companies to invest in things that allow them to increase productivity and deliver goods and services better and cheaper.So your numbers 2 and 3 are actually in conflict.Your list also omits \"spend less.\" Sounds like you had your spending under control and were able to fund the lifestyle you wanted by taking the other steps you listed. That's great. But if you were living well beyond your means with no possibility of increasing your revenues enough to fund your expenses, you could never get out of debt without cutting expenses. And so it is with our country. Despite the 2017 tax cuts, we are right at the post-WWII average for tax revenues as a percentage of GDP (~17.5%). You can maybe get that number to 20%, but we'll still be running unsustainably high deficits.\n",
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To all the naysayers and cogent critics - the investment in US chip manufacturing is necessary! Yes, it’s not enough. Yes, we need to invest in talent and education and recruitment as well and the myriad supply chains and relationships needed. Yes it won’t make us completely independent. and it will take decades. Patience is painful but its rewards are sweet.
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"content": "To all the naysayers and cogent critics - the investment in US chip manufacturing is necessary! Yes, it’s not enough. Yes, we need to invest in talent and education and recruitment as well and the myriad supply chains and relationships needed. Yes it won’t make us completely independent. and it will take decades. Patience is painful but its rewards are sweet.\n",
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Instead of backing off real support for Ukraine, NATO and EU countries are increasing support. They have had time to see and come to believe Russian aggression in action, they know that Russia will not stop. Finland and Poland and others are open to supplying Leopard tanks to Ukraine. Even slow Germany is sending another Patriot battery to Ukraine. Ukraine best and brightest are fighting and dying every day. Give them what they need in all areas, weapons and humanitarian aid. Future depends on them.
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"content": "Instead of backing off real support for Ukraine, NATO and EU countries are increasing support. They have had time to see and come to believe Russian aggression in action, they know that Russia will not stop. Finland and Poland and others are open to supplying Leopard tanks to Ukraine. Even slow Germany is sending another Patriot battery to Ukraine. Ukraine best and brightest are fighting and dying every day. Give them what they need in all areas, weapons and humanitarian aid. Future depends on them.\n",
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As a student in Nairobi almost 40 years ago, we were taken to the Kibera slum. The story is nice, but how is it acceptable that slums like this still even exist? With the proliferation of billionaire superyachts, costing $200K a week to operate, there's something very wrong.
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"content": "As a student in Nairobi almost 40 years ago, we were taken to the Kibera slum. The story is nice, but how is it acceptable that slums like this still even exist? With the proliferation of billionaire superyachts, costing $200K a week to operate, there's something very wrong.\n",
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Last year Nadal beat Medvedev for the title, less than 6 months after Medvedev had beaten Djokovic in straight sets at the finals of the US Open.Last year Djokovic’s lies about his COVID status were outrageous. In addition to Djokovic lying about his holiday travel status, Der Speigel determined that his Covid QR code revealed that his supposedly positive test was not taken when he claimed it was, and further that the test reading QR code indicated negative before it mysteriously switched to positive. Finally, while supposedly being ill with COVID he attended a children’s tennis tournament and handed out prizes.The above two episodes do not rhyme with “Greatest of all Time”.
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"[...] if he thinks he can function or that there is a result of his continued service beyond deepening his own shame."Mr. King, you didn't grasp the obvious result of Santos' continued service: he's collecting a $175K in the interim. Given his demonstrated ability and willingness to engage in the grift, it's all the more surprising you overlooked it.
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If the Supreme Court rules as Linda Greenhouse argues they will they will open up a Pandora's box that will negatively impact employers and the citizens they serve- whether it is policemen, firemen, doctors, civil servants or teachers. If one's religious practice may imposes significant costs to a governmental entity funded by tax payers- you are broaching the separation of Church and State- forcing tax payers/non-alighed to subsidize religious practice. Further, there are no state sanctioned religions and the Court dare not define what religions or belief systems this applies to and those it doesn't. If they did, this would be an even more intrusive intervention of the state in religion. I guess the standard of de minimis cost was intended as way of saying that while the government wouldn't foster/pay for accommodation- it would not impede it if the tax payer was only minimally burdened. Though even here- the issue of favoritism comes in and I am not clear how Courts have looked at this.Apparently it is not enough that Church's are flouting federal law by engaging in political advocacy- apparently there is now the demand that they be legitimized in the workplace- regardless of the burden to society and non-believers.
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"content": "If the Supreme Court rules as Linda Greenhouse argues they will they will open up a Pandora's box that will negatively impact employers and the citizens they serve- whether it is policemen, firemen, doctors, civil servants or teachers. If one's religious practice may imposes significant costs to a governmental entity funded by tax payers- you are broaching the separation of Church and State- forcing tax payers/non-alighed to subsidize religious practice. Further, there are no state sanctioned religions and the Court dare not define what religions or belief systems this applies to and those it doesn't. If they did, this would be an even more intrusive intervention of the state in religion. I guess the standard of de minimis cost was intended as way of saying that while the government wouldn't foster/pay for accommodation- it would not impede it if the tax payer was only minimally burdened. Though even here- the issue of favoritism comes in and I am not clear how Courts have looked at this.Apparently it is not enough that Church's are flouting federal law by engaging in political advocacy- apparently there is now the demand that they be legitimized in the workplace- regardless of the burden to society and non-believers.\n",
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neeraj, just read the article with open mind. The author never said bad anything about your beautiful city. He only highlighted the 'business' of education going on there with all the money floating in the air of Kota.
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"content": "neeraj, just read the article with open mind. The author never said bad anything about your beautiful city. He only highlighted the 'business' of education going on there with all the money floating in the air of Kota.\n",
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Gus I'm with you in every eloquently and truthfully stated particular, as a non-Catholic who like many sincere Catholics wishes that all churches be lovingly welcoming to all. In addition: my take on God is that its presence welcomes all with open arms. This former. pope, despite his failures, has been welcome all along, in my understanding, because of the unconditionally loving nature of God. Up for discussion is whether as pope he extended God's welcome to others.
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Left Of Center Yup, the board of JPMorgan Chase has decided it’s chairman will have to make do with no bonus this year and make ends meet on a mere $34.5 million.<a href="https://stocks.apple.com/Agm-YgVwgTEya9WCNRD3mxQ" target="_blank">https://stocks.apple.com/Agm-YgVwgTEya9WCNRD3mxQ</a>
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Fox Exactly. $15 trillion for wall street. No need to cut anything, just appropriately tax those who benefited from those bailouts. They are mainly very wealthy, even millionaires. Raise their taxes and cut their loopholes.
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"content": "Fox Exactly. $15 trillion for wall street. No need to cut anything, just appropriately tax those who benefited from those bailouts. They are mainly very wealthy, even millionaires. Raise their taxes and cut their loopholes.\n",
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You seem to think that the uncle was doing this family a favor, it’s a transactional relationship where he bought the extended family he wanted and has now found out that family is messy and costly and wants out. They’re not pets and even if they were there is no shelter for the children that came out of this twisted and codependent relationship. Don’t make the wealthy individuals into victims, they aren’t.
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"content": "You seem to think that the uncle was doing this family a favor, it’s a transactional relationship where he bought the extended family he wanted and has now found out that family is messy and costly and wants out. They’re not pets and even if they were there is no shelter for the children that came out of this twisted and codependent relationship. Don’t make the wealthy individuals into victims, they aren’t.\n",
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I suppose we should be grateful that the MTA and governor's office haven't further insulted our intelligence by referring to the delays as "unexpected" and the ballooning price tag as "an investment."Instead, they dragged out "equity," their shiny new buzzword.And they want Uncle Sam to bankroll this hot mess they dumped on us?Sure, just as soon as the US District Court for the Southern District of New York gets a complete look at the books and starts perp-walking anybody who got their pockets lined.
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"content": "I suppose we should be grateful that the MTA and governor's office haven't further insulted our intelligence by referring to the delays as \"unexpected\" and the ballooning price tag as \"an investment.\"Instead, they dragged out \"equity,\" their shiny new buzzword.And they want Uncle Sam to bankroll this hot mess they dumped on us?Sure, just as soon as the US District Court for the Southern District of New York gets a complete look at the books and starts perp-walking anybody who got their pockets lined.\n",
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Love the knee-jerk reactions of so-called animal rights people assuming all sorts of nonsense about how these animals are cared for ... Maybe go visit and talk with the people involved in the program? I assure you they love these animals more than you love your own children. There's only so much an article in a news rag can cover in 2000 words.It no longer matters how or why these animals are in captivity, it only matters how well they are cared for and how their captivity can benefit our knowledge of how to protect wild populations in the future. Much like your dog or parakeet, these animals are bonded to their handlers and do, in fact, have a choice to flee on their open-ocean swims. They don't. They aren't shocked or coerced to return. And "releasing" them to live freely isn't as simple as the ignorance behind the statement. Tell you what, give this idea a try ... Release your dog or your child to live freely and see how well it works out for you.
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"content": "Love the knee-jerk reactions of so-called animal rights people assuming all sorts of nonsense about how these animals are cared for ... Maybe go visit and talk with the people involved in the program? I assure you they love these animals more than you love your own children. There's only so much an article in a news rag can cover in 2000 words.It no longer matters how or why these animals are in captivity, it only matters how well they are cared for and how their captivity can benefit our knowledge of how to protect wild populations in the future. Much like your dog or parakeet, these animals are bonded to their handlers and do, in fact, have a choice to flee on their open-ocean swims. They don't. They aren't shocked or coerced to return. And \"releasing\" them to live freely isn't as simple as the ignorance behind the statement. Tell you what, give this idea a try ... Release your dog or your child to live freely and see how well it works out for you.\n",
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I was excited about the premise of the show and its actors. The initial montage depicting clients waxing on about their woes made me chuckle, but unfortunately it went downhill from there. Between Segal getting hit by the water sprinkler and the scene where he takes the patient with anger management to an MMA class, I felt like I was watching the opening to a 90s Adam Sandler movie, except without the funny jokes. You’d think by now at least we’d have more unique interventions from a fringe therapist— cheesy at best and, as Gen Z says, cringe. Segal’s character relates to his daughter in such a flat manner and seems to have no introspection for a psychotherapist— it just wasn’t believable. This show begs for more character development and less careless humor about white privilege and people getting stuck in the bushes.
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"content": "I was excited about the premise of the show and its actors. The initial montage depicting clients waxing on about their woes made me chuckle, but unfortunately it went downhill from there. Between Segal getting hit by the water sprinkler and the scene where he takes the patient with anger management to an MMA class, I felt like I was watching the opening to a 90s Adam Sandler movie, except without the funny jokes. You’d think by now at least we’d have more unique interventions from a fringe therapist— cheesy at best and, as Gen Z says, cringe. Segal’s character relates to his daughter in such a flat manner and seems to have no introspection for a psychotherapist— it just wasn’t believable. This show begs for more character development and less careless humor about white privilege and people getting stuck in the bushes.\n",
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There is a big difference between adding more and more lanes to the Katy Freeway and adding a single new travel lane to the Lehigh Valley Thruway/Route 22 and I-78 in eastern Pennsylvania. If one of the two travel lanes is suddenly closed today, 100 percent of the traffic has to go into the single remaining lane. If one lane of a four-travel-lane road is closed, 100 percent go into the three remaining lanes. A bad commute day, certainly, but not the regular disaster we experience as the Inland Empire (of distribution centers) of the Northeast. So yes - keep traffic flowing in some cases such as ours. Expansion doesn’t need to be reactive, especially if we planned on making steel, not transshipping packages.
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"content": "There is a big difference between adding more and more lanes to the Katy Freeway and adding a single new travel lane to the Lehigh Valley Thruway/Route 22 and I-78 in eastern Pennsylvania. If one of the two travel lanes is suddenly closed today, 100 percent of the traffic has to go into the single remaining lane. If one lane of a four-travel-lane road is closed, 100 percent go into the three remaining lanes. A bad commute day, certainly, but not the regular disaster we experience as the Inland Empire (of distribution centers) of the Northeast. So yes - keep traffic flowing in some cases such as ours. Expansion doesn’t need to be reactive, especially if we planned on making steel, not transshipping packages.\n",
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An example of the effects of investment is the IRA/401(k) retirement funds program. To simplify the explanation, assume that current and future tax rates are equal. And ignore taxes on growth of funds outside an IRA. For the IRA scenario, the US borrows an amount equal to (Deferred Taxes). It eventually is paid back an amount that has grown annually by (Deferred taxes)*(Annual Growth Rate). Historically, (Annual Growth Rate) has been greater than (US Borrowing Rate). If this holds true in the future, deficit funding of IRAs is a plus for the US. That is the general idea. Details matter so you have to look at the factors ignored in the simplified analysis. But you should get the idea.Investments could have positive payoffs and be big factors in the future. The US investment in education, transportation system, and technology research has reaped great benefits in the past. The new CHIP legislation is a current investment that could have a large future payoff. While there is a benefit of balancing the budget to eliminate excess spending, there is a potential for it to be very costly if balancing eliminates investment with large payoffs.
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"content": "An example of the effects of investment is the IRA/401(k) retirement funds program. To simplify the explanation, assume that current and future tax rates are equal. And ignore taxes on growth of funds outside an IRA. For the IRA scenario, the US borrows an amount equal to (Deferred Taxes). It eventually is paid back an amount that has grown annually by (Deferred taxes)*(Annual Growth Rate). Historically, (Annual Growth Rate) has been greater than (US Borrowing Rate). If this holds true in the future, deficit funding of IRAs is a plus for the US. That is the general idea. Details matter so you have to look at the factors ignored in the simplified analysis. But you should get the idea.Investments could have positive payoffs and be big factors in the future. The US investment in education, transportation system, and technology research has reaped great benefits in the past. The new CHIP legislation is a current investment that could have a large future payoff. While there is a benefit of balancing the budget to eliminate excess spending, there is a potential for it to be very costly if balancing eliminates investment with large payoffs.\n",
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Just because traffic increased after a major expansion doesn't prove the expansion wasn't worthwhile or is to blame for the increased congestion. Maybe hundreds of apartment units were built nearby that spilled more traffic onto the freeways, or a big employer just opened up the road. The analysis seems to come up short in that regard.
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"content": "Just because traffic increased after a major expansion doesn't prove the expansion wasn't worthwhile or is to blame for the increased congestion. Maybe hundreds of apartment units were built nearby that spilled more traffic onto the freeways, or a big employer just opened up the road. The analysis seems to come up short in that regard.\n",
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Bill-You suggest that we avoid running into things because we have a nervous system and sensory apparatus that tells us where we are. But there's an even more fundamental reason why we avoid running into things. It's because we really, really don't want to cause injury or death, either to ourselves or others. All the technological bells and whistles don't reproduce this ultimate motivation behind our actions, which is to *not* increase suffering. When they produce an AI with this deep understanding of suffering (and the overriding desire to avoid it) as the fundamental basis of its decision-making, then we may (perhaps) be on the way to an AI that we might be confident entrusting with our safety, the safety of those we love, and the safety of society.We have a word for decision makers who lack empathy for the suffering of others -- we refer to them as "sociopaths." At the moment it is clear that Tesla vehicles (and by extension, Musk himself as their creator) are, for all practical purposes, sociopathic entities.
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"content": "Bill-You suggest that we avoid running into things because we have a nervous system and sensory apparatus that tells us where we are. But there's an even more fundamental reason why we avoid running into things. It's because we really, really don't want to cause injury or death, either to ourselves or others. All the technological bells and whistles don't reproduce this ultimate motivation behind our actions, which is to *not* increase suffering. When they produce an AI with this deep understanding of suffering (and the overriding desire to avoid it) as the fundamental basis of its decision-making, then we may (perhaps) be on the way to an AI that we might be confident entrusting with our safety, the safety of those we love, and the safety of society.We have a word for decision makers who lack empathy for the suffering of others -- we refer to them as \"sociopaths.\" At the moment it is clear that Tesla vehicles (and by extension, Musk himself as their creator) are, for all practical purposes, sociopathic entities.\n",
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Mr. Krugman, you are Nobel winning economist, and yet you think about our debt in children's terms.How unfortunate.Under your scenario, we're good to go. Only $31 trillion and counting. Full steam ahead. The interest payments are just a small percent of the GDP. No big deal.I am really sorry you have an influential voice.
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"content": "Mr. Krugman, you are Nobel winning economist, and yet you think about our debt in children's terms.How unfortunate.Under your scenario, we're good to go. Only $31 trillion and counting. Full steam ahead. The interest payments are just a small percent of the GDP. No big deal.I am really sorry you have an influential voice.\n",
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Before one penny of Covid stimulus went to any ordinary American, the Trump regime sent a $1.5 trillion bailout to Wall Street in March of 2020.Never forget this. Do not EVER forget this. If they want to rein in federal spending, they can start there.
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"content": "Before one penny of Covid stimulus went to any ordinary American, the Trump regime sent a $1.5 trillion bailout to Wall Street in March of 2020.Never forget this. Do not EVER forget this. If they want to rein in federal spending, they can start there.\n",
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$1.6 million is too low a fine for the 21st century. But more importantly, Trump and Co. should be paying the taxes, with interest, that they failed to pay, and were obliged to.New York has its set of tax laws. Each state has their own. Trump owns property in a few states. While his filings have been deliberately convoluted to take maximum advantage of loopholes in tax laws, it's certain that he owes taxes, with interest, in New York and other states.These should be collected.The 75-year old Weisselberg, who benefited financially for years from working for Trump, was not honest. But he was loyal, and "fell on his sword" to protect Trump. He goes to Rikers, while the quite vigorous and crooked Trump preps to run for President.Trump should be sporting the orange suit.
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"content": "$1.6 million is too low a fine for the 21st century. But more importantly, Trump and Co. should be paying the taxes, with interest, that they failed to pay, and were obliged to.New York has its set of tax laws. Each state has their own. Trump owns property in a few states. While his filings have been deliberately convoluted to take maximum advantage of loopholes in tax laws, it's certain that he owes taxes, with interest, in New York and other states.These should be collected.The 75-year old Weisselberg, who benefited financially for years from working for Trump, was not honest. But he was loyal, and \"fell on his sword\" to protect Trump. He goes to Rikers, while the quite vigorous and crooked Trump preps to run for President.Trump should be sporting the orange suit.\n",
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I saw Mary Ellen Hannibal, author of The Spine of the Continent, speak a few years ago. Her concept to create a connected corridor along the Rockies from Alaska to Mexico to allow big predators the freedom they need to move and maintain genetic resilience is key to their survival. “Their return would most likely result in healthier forests, safer roadways, less zoonotic disease and, in turn, healthier human communities.”People are scratching their heads wondering why we have pandemics, Lyme Disease, and so worth. Human overpopulation and the accompanying impacts of habitat destruction, pollution, and climate change are throwing nature out of balance. Zoonotic diseases will become more and more commonplace unless humans can slow population growth and support initiatives to preserve open spaces and natural habitats.
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"content": "I saw Mary Ellen Hannibal, author of The Spine of the Continent, speak a few years ago. Her concept to create a connected corridor along the Rockies from Alaska to Mexico to allow big predators the freedom they need to move and maintain genetic resilience is key to their survival. “Their return would most likely result in healthier forests, safer roadways, less zoonotic disease and, in turn, healthier human communities.”People are scratching their heads wondering why we have pandemics, Lyme Disease, and so worth. Human overpopulation and the accompanying impacts of habitat destruction, pollution, and climate change are throwing nature out of balance. Zoonotic diseases will become more and more commonplace unless humans can slow population growth and support initiatives to preserve open spaces and natural habitats.\n",
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Tuckmics Same here. In fact, I get eggs for $1.49/dzn at Yoke's Fresh Market in Spokane. The eggs are labeled as "Grade B," a USDA designation for older eggs, but they're not old. They are also labeled as "repackaged." The supermarket combines good eggs from cartons with cracked eggs, labeling them so customers know. A given carton may have eggs of different sizes, colors. Some of them are the cage free and organic eggs that go for premium prices otherwise. I examine the cartons and select ones that have large and bigger eggs, and brown or the Easter egg colors that local producers sell.
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"content": "Tuckmics Same here. In fact, I get eggs for $1.49/dzn at Yoke's Fresh Market in Spokane. The eggs are labeled as \"Grade B,\" a USDA designation for older eggs, but they're not old. They are also labeled as \"repackaged.\" The supermarket combines good eggs from cartons with cracked eggs, labeling them so customers know. A given carton may have eggs of different sizes, colors. Some of them are the cage free and organic eggs that go for premium prices otherwise. I examine the cartons and select ones that have large and bigger eggs, and brown or the Easter egg colors that local producers sell.\n",
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A lot of people are reacting by disparaging the fact that Harry and Meghan are earning a profit from telling their own story. I say, better they profit from their story than tabloids profiting off it! (Or rather, off invented versions of it.) I finally got around to watching the Netflix documentary so I could come to my own conclusions, and it didn't seem at all like the salacious accusation-charged tell-all it's been made out to be. I simply saw a sincere endeavor to set the record straight. Obviously, there are always multiple sides to a story, and no side will be unbiased. But I'd wager that the Oprah interview, the documentary, and Harry's book are intended as ways to fight the normalized toxic behaviors of both tabloid practices and the Royal family (gaslighting, dishonesty, and hazing). In sharing openly their experiences, perhaps Harry and Meghan hope to open up space for genuine conversations about the British monarchy, racism in the UK, and tabloid culture. It's easy to belittle the characters and motives of celebrities when they speak out in an unconventional way; far more challenging to use what they share as an opportunity to question the status quo. I think the Harry-Meghan discourse could use a lot more thoughtfulness and compassion from all of us who choose to take part in it.
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"content": "A lot of people are reacting by disparaging the fact that Harry and Meghan are earning a profit from telling their own story. I say, better they profit from their story than tabloids profiting off it! (Or rather, off invented versions of it.) I finally got around to watching the Netflix documentary so I could come to my own conclusions, and it didn't seem at all like the salacious accusation-charged tell-all it's been made out to be. I simply saw a sincere endeavor to set the record straight. Obviously, there are always multiple sides to a story, and no side will be unbiased. But I'd wager that the Oprah interview, the documentary, and Harry's book are intended as ways to fight the normalized toxic behaviors of both tabloid practices and the Royal family (gaslighting, dishonesty, and hazing). In sharing openly their experiences, perhaps Harry and Meghan hope to open up space for genuine conversations about the British monarchy, racism in the UK, and tabloid culture. It's easy to belittle the characters and motives of celebrities when they speak out in an unconventional way; far more challenging to use what they share as an opportunity to question the status quo. I think the Harry-Meghan discourse could use a lot more thoughtfulness and compassion from all of us who choose to take part in it.\n",
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"In particular, McElroy urges the church to shelve any meaningful judgment on sexual relationships and to open communion to “all of the baptized,” presumably including Protestants. Only this kind of radical inclusion, he suggests, has “any hope of attracting the next generation to life in the church.”In contrast to Pell, McElroy is following the actual Gospel. Remember that? Jesus didn't ask anyone's marital status, sexual orientation, or church affiliation when he shared the loaves and fishes. Jesus told us to take care of each other, and not just the rule followers. He especially welcomed the transgressors. Take care of each other -- that's the basic message. It's a fabulous one, that would, actually, save the world from all of its ills if heeded. Maybe the Church should consider making that a priority, and then they wouldn't continue on their speedway to irrelevancy.
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"content": "\"In particular, McElroy urges the church to shelve any meaningful judgment on sexual relationships and to open communion to “all of the baptized,” presumably including Protestants. Only this kind of radical inclusion, he suggests, has “any hope of attracting the next generation to life in the church.”In contrast to Pell, McElroy is following the actual Gospel. Remember that? Jesus didn't ask anyone's marital status, sexual orientation, or church affiliation when he shared the loaves and fishes. Jesus told us to take care of each other, and not just the rule followers. He especially welcomed the transgressors. Take care of each other -- that's the basic message. It's a fabulous one, that would, actually, save the world from all of its ills if heeded. Maybe the Church should consider making that a priority, and then they wouldn't continue on their speedway to irrelevancy.\n",
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Affordable housing in one thing. But there's no "laudable purpose" in keeping up the Seaport Museum", when ten minutes is quite enough.If the Commission is that easily persuaded -- using kinder language than the judge -- it can't be trusted with much of anything.This is the same Commission that requires 90 days and tens of thousands of dollars worth of engineering submissions to allow a 4 story walk-up brownstone coop to replace a damaged brick in the facade. And same thing next year, when another one goes or a window starts leaking from above.Meanwhile, large developers get carte blanche.
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"content": "Affordable housing in one thing. But there's no \"laudable purpose\" in keeping up the Seaport Museum\", when ten minutes is quite enough.If the Commission is that easily persuaded -- using kinder language than the judge -- it can't be trusted with much of anything.This is the same Commission that requires 90 days and tens of thousands of dollars worth of engineering submissions to allow a 4 story walk-up brownstone coop to replace a damaged brick in the facade. And same thing next year, when another one goes or a window starts leaking from above.Meanwhile, large developers get carte blanche.\n",
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linda5 Yes it seems that Putin’s assets negotiated with McCarthy to put them on committees where they will have access to confidential intelligence
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"content": "linda5 Yes it seems that Putin’s assets negotiated with McCarthy to put them on committees where they will have access to confidential intelligence\n",
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Mike S. Gold was a luxury good long before it was used as money. Every paper currency devalues to zero, the real value of paper. The oldest currency, the British pound, bought one pound of silver when it was introduced but is now worth far less than 1% of its' initial value.
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"content": "Mike S. Gold was a luxury good long before it was used as money. Every paper currency devalues to zero, the real value of paper. The oldest currency, the British pound, bought one pound of silver when it was introduced but is now worth far less than 1% of its' initial value.\n",
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I entered my mid twenties and early thirties hopeful. Though we lost Dr. King, we had his analysis of the interlocking evils of poverty, racism, and militarism. As I entered my professional life in health care, this hope translated into belief that with my colleagues, we would contribute to a transformation of health care. We had a vision of accessible, compassionate, quality health care for all. In my latter sixties, the forces of profit are stronger than ever and divide us from a shared vision of the benefits of the commons. Dr. King's analysis remains relevant, but with the 4th dimension of the environment interlocking with the evils of poverty, racism, and militarism. In my profession, the vision of the health care system we hoped to achieve is largely a dream deferred. Medicare is actively being turned over to for-profit insurance companies (see Gilfillan and Berwick in Health Affairs Sep 29 and 30, 2021 and NYT Nov 8, 2022 on "How Insurers Exploited Medicare for Billions"). Primary care (my area of work) is known to be foundational to a health care system, but with per capita supply falling (see S Basu et al. JAMA internal Medicine Feb 18, 2019). I feel so much despair that the world I love, the values I hold dear, and the work that I devoted my energies to are in peril. We failed our promises to the next generations. More of the same....heck no. Turn more conservative....why would I do that?
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"content": "I entered my mid twenties and early thirties hopeful. Though we lost Dr. King, we had his analysis of the interlocking evils of poverty, racism, and militarism. As I entered my professional life in health care, this hope translated into belief that with my colleagues, we would contribute to a transformation of health care. We had a vision of accessible, compassionate, quality health care for all. In my latter sixties, the forces of profit are stronger than ever and divide us from a shared vision of the benefits of the commons. Dr. King's analysis remains relevant, but with the 4th dimension of the environment interlocking with the evils of poverty, racism, and militarism. In my profession, the vision of the health care system we hoped to achieve is largely a dream deferred. Medicare is actively being turned over to for-profit insurance companies (see Gilfillan and Berwick in Health Affairs Sep 29 and 30, 2021 and NYT Nov 8, 2022 on \"How Insurers Exploited Medicare for Billions\"). Primary care (my area of work) is known to be foundational to a health care system, but with per capita supply falling (see S Basu et al. JAMA internal Medicine Feb 18, 2019). I feel so much despair that the world I love, the values I hold dear, and the work that I devoted my energies to are in peril. We failed our promises to the next generations. More of the same....heck no. Turn more conservative....why would I do that?\n",
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Charging $500 for stuff that 500 years ago poor folks scrounged for from the forest floor, or were lucky enough to take down with a bow and arrow. Makes perfect sense the 1 percent would find this irresistible.
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"content": "Charging $500 for stuff that 500 years ago poor folks scrounged for from the forest floor, or were lucky enough to take down with a bow and arrow. Makes perfect sense the 1 percent would find this irresistible.\n",
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What a remarkable -- and eye-opening -- story! I couldn't have imagined that two people with such different sets of beliefs about the nature of our society and the workings of the human heart would come together as a force for good in the world. Amazing. Gives me hope.
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"content": "What a remarkable -- and eye-opening -- story! I couldn't have imagined that two people with such different sets of beliefs about the nature of our society and the workings of the human heart would come together as a force for good in the world. Amazing. Gives me hope.\n",
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The Showdown at the OK Corral (the debt ceiling) looms large. Republican renegades--all of them, to one extent or another--will be willing to bring the world economy to its knees by defaulting on US financial obligations because they don't (or won't) understand how modern money works.I heard one Republican in the House chamber today decry our $31 trillion (yes, that's with a "T") "national debt." And this white male--almost all Republicans are--shed crocodile tears over how we were saddling our grandchildren with this "debt."But let's think about this for a second (OK, it might take a few minutes). Does this GOP Congressman own US dollars free and clear? Stay with me, because this is an important question. US dollars enter our economy in 2 ways: when private banks (or quasi-banking institutions) issue loans, or when the federal gov't spends more money created "out of thin air" than it claws back in taxes (we call this a deficit). "Bank money" accounts for most of the dollars circulating in our economy. But it's all spoken for--a bank loan is simultaneously an asset and a liability for both the bank and the borrower. By force of logic they sum to zero!None of us has a "Benjamin Tree" in our backyard, so where did our financial wealth (expressed in US dollars) come from? The shocking truth (to deficit hawks, anyway) is that our wealth comes from federal deficit spending. Where else could your dollars come from? Why would the GOP take that money away from you?
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"content": "The Showdown at the OK Corral (the debt ceiling) looms large. Republican renegades--all of them, to one extent or another--will be willing to bring the world economy to its knees by defaulting on US financial obligations because they don't (or won't) understand how modern money works.I heard one Republican in the House chamber today decry our $31 trillion (yes, that's with a \"T\") \"national debt.\" And this white male--almost all Republicans are--shed crocodile tears over how we were saddling our grandchildren with this \"debt.\"But let's think about this for a second (OK, it might take a few minutes). Does this GOP Congressman own US dollars free and clear? Stay with me, because this is an important question. US dollars enter our economy in 2 ways: when private banks (or quasi-banking institutions) issue loans, or when the federal gov't spends more money created \"out of thin air\" than it claws back in taxes (we call this a deficit). \"Bank money\" accounts for most of the dollars circulating in our economy. But it's all spoken for--a bank loan is simultaneously an asset and a liability for both the bank and the borrower. By force of logic they sum to zero!None of us has a \"Benjamin Tree\" in our backyard, so where did our financial wealth (expressed in US dollars) come from? The shocking truth (to deficit hawks, anyway) is that our wealth comes from federal deficit spending. Where else could your dollars come from? Why would the GOP take that money away from you?\n",
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Game Over That's encouraging! Your only investment was DB's? No bar or bench? Resistance bands?
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"content": "Game Over That's encouraging! Your only investment was DB's? No bar or bench? Resistance bands?\n",
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Even as gas prices fall, there are still serious problems with our national and global distribution networks, which are still recovering from disruptions caused by the pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It would seem that what's really needed now is additional investment in constructing — or, more accurately, reconstructing — new, more robust systems. But that's exactly what higher interest rates (not to mention the threat of a policy-induced recession) discourage. I'm unconvinced that high food and energy prices, for example, are the result of too much easy money or that they will be successfully pushed back down through a conservative fiscal policy. Rather, these high prices are clearly the result of pandemic, war and drought. These are problems we should be actively trying to solve through increased and sustained investment in our domestic supply.
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"content": "Even as gas prices fall, there are still serious problems with our national and global distribution networks, which are still recovering from disruptions caused by the pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It would seem that what's really needed now is additional investment in constructing — or, more accurately, reconstructing — new, more robust systems. But that's exactly what higher interest rates (not to mention the threat of a policy-induced recession) discourage. I'm unconvinced that high food and energy prices, for example, are the result of too much easy money or that they will be successfully pushed back down through a conservative fiscal policy. Rather, these high prices are clearly the result of pandemic, war and drought. These are problems we should be actively trying to solve through increased and sustained investment in our domestic supply.\n",
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Bruce Williams The last improvement to Medicare was when Bush and the Republicans added prescription drug coverage in 2003. The last action Democrats took with respect to Medicare was to defund it to the tune of $0.8 trillion without a single Republican vote in 2010.Now, based on history, who is a threat to Medicare and Social Security?
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"content": "Bruce Williams The last improvement to Medicare was when Bush and the Republicans added prescription drug coverage in 2003. The last action Democrats took with respect to Medicare was to defund it to the tune of $0.8 trillion without a single Republican vote in 2010.Now, based on history, who is a threat to Medicare and Social Security?\n",
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Indian prof, as of now our the intrastate borders are open and easy to cross. Due to California’s size and geography, daily back and forth is not as common as say Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Michigan and Indiana, New York and Connecticut. However, it is a necessity. In the United States, this is by design. And will continue per the Commerce Clause.
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"content": "Indian prof, as of now our the intrastate borders are open and easy to cross. Due to California’s size and geography, daily back and forth is not as common as say Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Michigan and Indiana, New York and Connecticut. However, it is a necessity. In the United States, this is by design. And will continue per the Commerce Clause.\n",
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Remove subsidies from commodity ag products.Make raw fruits and vegetables free at the check out counter of the grocery store.Obesity is tied to poverty, the poor can eat healthily for free.Get the $75 billion to pay for the fruits and vegetables with a tax on sugar, soda, corn syrup, and other poor food fillers.If you eat healthily, it would be largely free. If you eat garbage, you can pay for the garbage and the free healthy diet of others.
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"content": "Remove subsidies from commodity ag products.Make raw fruits and vegetables free at the check out counter of the grocery store.Obesity is tied to poverty, the poor can eat healthily for free.Get the $75 billion to pay for the fruits and vegetables with a tax on sugar, soda, corn syrup, and other poor food fillers.If you eat healthily, it would be largely free. If you eat garbage, you can pay for the garbage and the free healthy diet of others.\n",
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Steve Thank you for your post and "we find out that the best way to approach disease is treatment rather than vaccine." I would like to speak further on this: De'Santis's top doner's company was investing millions in Regeneron, the drug that De Santis was promoting over vaccines. (My source: an AP internet article published on 8/18/21 by Brendan Farrington titled "DeSantis top donor invests in Covid drug Governor promotes."
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"content": "Steve Thank you for your post and \"we find out that the best way to approach disease is treatment rather than vaccine.\" I would like to speak further on this: De'Santis's top doner's company was investing millions in Regeneron, the drug that De Santis was promoting over vaccines. (My source: an AP internet article published on 8/18/21 by Brendan Farrington titled \"DeSantis top donor invests in Covid drug Governor promotes.\"\n",
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The FANGs still retain nearly a trillion dollars of cash profits in overseas corporations. Repatriating it it even at lowered overseas corporate rates is considered too costly. Despite massive cash reserves, the FANGs were floating corporate bonds, with reserves as collateral. Now its becoming expensive to create new bonds and thereby raise capital.
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"content": "The FANGs still retain nearly a trillion dollars of cash profits in overseas corporations. Repatriating it it even at lowered overseas corporate rates is considered too costly. Despite massive cash reserves, the FANGs were floating corporate bonds, with reserves as collateral. Now its becoming expensive to create new bonds and thereby raise capital.\n",
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Dave Walker >The payoff for investments in education, STEM, and high-tech manufacturing is measured in decades, not election cycles.<Well said. And maybe part of the problem is that a lot of American high school students (particularly boys, who develop more slowly) are simply not mature enough to make sensible education and career decisions. Seems to me that scholarships in engineering (and other professions in which there's a shortage of relevant expertise) ought to be offered not just to 18-year-olds, but to adults aged 25-45 who ended up in lousy dead-end service jobs because, as teenagers, they lacked the self-confidence and vision to choose a challenging discipline, and/or they thought they'd somehow make it big in sports or on TikTok.Surely there must be some angry young-ish voters of all stripes out there who would be willing to go back to school if it were made economically feasible for them.
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"content": "Dave Walker >The payoff for investments in education, STEM, and high-tech manufacturing is measured in decades, not election cycles.<Well said. And maybe part of the problem is that a lot of American high school students (particularly boys, who develop more slowly) are simply not mature enough to make sensible education and career decisions. Seems to me that scholarships in engineering (and other professions in which there's a shortage of relevant expertise) ought to be offered not just to 18-year-olds, but to adults aged 25-45 who ended up in lousy dead-end service jobs because, as teenagers, they lacked the self-confidence and vision to choose a challenging discipline, and/or they thought they'd somehow make it big in sports or on TikTok.Surely there must be some angry young-ish voters of all stripes out there who would be willing to go back to school if it were made economically feasible for them.\n",
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Couple 15 minutes from San Francisco making $300k a year here, go ahead and audit us. Eggs are getting expensive but all the people we have to pass on the way in and out of that store want to eat eggs too. Generally, people who become successful don’t spend their time trying to pinch pennies and skirt the rules. Some people Bret knows will laugh at $300k a year but it pays the bills and it pays taxes and we have enough for college and eggs.
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"content": "Couple 15 minutes from San Francisco making $300k a year here, go ahead and audit us. Eggs are getting expensive but all the people we have to pass on the way in and out of that store want to eat eggs too. Generally, people who become successful don’t spend their time trying to pinch pennies and skirt the rules. Some people Bret knows will laugh at $300k a year but it pays the bills and it pays taxes and we have enough for college and eggs.\n",
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RJG Sorry, I meant to say a penny a day per person<a href="https://www.investmentmonitor.ai/features/how-much-money-does-the-monarchy-bring-to-the-uk/#:~:text=The" target="_blank">https://www.investmentmonitor.ai/features/how-much-money-does-the-monarchy-bring-to-the-uk/#:~:text=The</a>%20Accounts%20for%20the%20Sovereign,from%20the%20previous%2012%20months.
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As a sex & intimacy coach for distressed couples in a sexless marriage, I see the quality of therapy to be not in the therapist's credentials. It’s what happens btw you & your partner IN the sessions.
If therapy's working, you feel closer. Your interactions with each other become easier, more vulnerable, less fraught with danger.
If it’s not, you walk away feeling even more alone, unseen, misunderstood & with less hope your relationship can work.Are you getting the best support—or stuck in a frustrating holding pattern?1. If you’re not consistently experiencing connection btw each other IN the sessions, spending more time in therapy will do nothing. Your therapist needs to RESTRUCTURE your interactions—from criticism to vulnerability, from closedness to closeness—so that connection happens then and there, not as a future promise. Your hope is on the line.2. Analyzing what's gone wrong & why won’t help with growing closer. Real intimacy is not theory/analysis; it's a LIVED experience that must be fostered in every word, gesture, move. Your therapist should be modeling and reinforcing those moments of trust & openness. Without, you grow further apart.3. If you’re following a session-by-session model, you’ll be on a frustratingly long path that may/may not get you results. It’s a costly risk for a couple on the brink who needs results fast. Look for a therapist who believes in you & your love & has an intentional step-by-step process, backed by success stories.Irene Fehr
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"content": "As a sex & intimacy coach for distressed couples in a sexless marriage, I see the quality of therapy to be not in the therapist's credentials. It’s what happens btw you & your partner IN the sessions.
If therapy's working, you feel closer. Your interactions with each other become easier, more vulnerable, less fraught with danger.
If it’s not, you walk away feeling even more alone, unseen, misunderstood & with less hope your relationship can work.Are you getting the best support—or stuck in a frustrating holding pattern?1. If you’re not consistently experiencing connection btw each other IN the sessions, spending more time in therapy will do nothing. Your therapist needs to RESTRUCTURE your interactions—from criticism to vulnerability, from closedness to closeness—so that connection happens then and there, not as a future promise. Your hope is on the line.2. Analyzing what's gone wrong & why won’t help with growing closer. Real intimacy is not theory/analysis; it's a LIVED experience that must be fostered in every word, gesture, move. Your therapist should be modeling and reinforcing those moments of trust & openness. Without, you grow further apart.3. If you’re following a session-by-session model, you’ll be on a frustratingly long path that may/may not get you results. It’s a costly risk for a couple on the brink who needs results fast. Look for a therapist who believes in you & your love & has an intentional step-by-step process, backed by success stories.Irene Fehr\n",
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"I'm shocked, SHOCKED to find that gambling is going on in here (in Casablanca) !" Unlimited contributions, unaccountable political action committees, and underfunded regulatory agencies with no real authority have turned campaign finance into open air bazaar of shady characters and what is essentially state-sanctioned money laundering.
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"content": "\"I'm shocked, SHOCKED to find that gambling is going on in here (in Casablanca) !\" Unlimited contributions, unaccountable political action committees, and underfunded regulatory agencies with no real authority have turned campaign finance into open air bazaar of shady characters and what is essentially state-sanctioned money laundering.\n",
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Elie Levine Hi, and welcome to the hive. I suggest that the opening legend be changed from its current, "How many words can you make with seven letters", to something that shows the limited extent of the search. Something like, "We made (number here) words using these seven letters. How many of those words can you find?"That one change, or some similar phrasing, would greatly reduce—though probably not eliminate—the number of comments about "missing" words.Can the Wordle-bees, the thread within this forum concerned with comments on the day's wordle game, please be given our own forum apart from this one? Many times we have been accused of cluttering the hive with our comments that do not relate to the Bee. A separately-placed forum, perhaps accessible from the wordle game area, as the bot is, would end the complaints about our little corner of the hive.The wordle-bees thread typically runs to at most, 50 posts or so, including replies, so it would not call for any large outlay of resources.What now is the hive was once a bunch of "squatters" in the crossword forum. We were given a home of our own and we flourish here. I am certain that we wordlle-bees can do the same. None of this would mean that we would turn our backs on the hive. We love our family here and would not forget to join them.Last May & June the occasional few would discuss wordle in the hive; now around a dozen and more gather daily as others join with us.We could use a place of our own.
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"content": "Elie Levine Hi, and welcome to the hive. I suggest that the opening legend be changed from its current, \"How many words can you make with seven letters\", to something that shows the limited extent of the search. Something like, \"We made (number here) words using these seven letters. How many of those words can you find?\"That one change, or some similar phrasing, would greatly reduce—though probably not eliminate—the number of comments about \"missing\" words.Can the Wordle-bees, the thread within this forum concerned with comments on the day's wordle game, please be given our own forum apart from this one? Many times we have been accused of cluttering the hive with our comments that do not relate to the Bee. A separately-placed forum, perhaps accessible from the wordle game area, as the bot is, would end the complaints about our little corner of the hive.The wordle-bees thread typically runs to at most, 50 posts or so, including replies, so it would not call for any large outlay of resources.What now is the hive was once a bunch of \"squatters\" in the crossword forum. We were given a home of our own and we flourish here. I am certain that we wordlle-bees can do the same. None of this would mean that we would turn our backs on the hive. We love our family here and would not forget to join them.Last May & June the occasional few would discuss wordle in the hive; now around a dozen and more gather daily as others join with us.We could use a place of our own.\n",
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"The U.S. federal government last ran a budget surplus in the fiscal year 2001. ..."Actually, we didn't really run a true surplus. Debt continued to increase through all the years of the Clinton Presidency. This is due to some accounting slight of hand that counts excess Social Security revenues as general revenues. They are not. Excess Social Security revenue cannot be spent by Treasury since it belongs to Social Security. Social Security uses the excess revenue to buy Treasury bonds. The bonds which are an asset for Social Security are of course debt to the Treasury.Social Security ran big surpluses every year since the Reagan Administration which hid the true size of the deficit. For example, the Social Security surplus in 2001 was $163 billion.
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Didn’t we have a reserve and capital requirements banks had to meet, also set by the Fed? Indeed, the Fed set the reserve ratio to zero in 2020, a step which means that a bank, at least in theory, need have no deposits at all to issue loans. We were told that reserves aren’t significant to the health of banks anymore, even though FDR’s people thought they were, in 1933. This loan-writing is how money is created; private banks are the largest creators of money in our economy—and the money supply is, by and large, the only controllable factor behind the inflation rate.I don’t claim to understand the Federal Open Market Committee, or business & economics in general. Much of it seems like a priesthood using esoteric terminology to keep the unwashed masses out of the inner sanctum. But things have gotten looser than ever before, with a near-zero Fed Funds rate for most of a decade, ballooning public & private debt, and calls to make the Fed a tool for social justice. Doing the latter will surely politicize the Fed. Existence of self-fulfilling prophecy in our system suggests it’s not responsive enough to objective constraints such as availability of energy, raw materials, labor power and trade contacts; it’s way too dependent on finance.Still, 2% is a tight inflation target reached only in 1986, 1998, 2002, and low-interest 2012-16 and 2019-20, making me not so sure that tolerating 2.5 or 3%, if needed to protect employment, should be declared unacceptable.
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"content": "Didn’t we have a reserve and capital requirements banks had to meet, also set by the Fed? Indeed, the Fed set the reserve ratio to zero in 2020, a step which means that a bank, at least in theory, need have no deposits at all to issue loans. We were told that reserves aren’t significant to the health of banks anymore, even though FDR’s people thought they were, in 1933. This loan-writing is how money is created; private banks are the largest creators of money in our economy—and the money supply is, by and large, the only controllable factor behind the inflation rate.I don’t claim to understand the Federal Open Market Committee, or business & economics in general. Much of it seems like a priesthood using esoteric terminology to keep the unwashed masses out of the inner sanctum. But things have gotten looser than ever before, with a near-zero Fed Funds rate for most of a decade, ballooning public & private debt, and calls to make the Fed a tool for social justice. Doing the latter will surely politicize the Fed. Existence of self-fulfilling prophecy in our system suggests it’s not responsive enough to objective constraints such as availability of energy, raw materials, labor power and trade contacts; it’s way too dependent on finance.Still, 2% is a tight inflation target reached only in 1986, 1998, 2002, and low-interest 2012-16 and 2019-20, making me not so sure that tolerating 2.5 or 3%, if needed to protect employment, should be declared unacceptable.\n",
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Kate In NorCal - I do most of my reading now by checking out library books on my e-reader, too. So much of what I enjoy are mysteries that are worth one read and that’s it. What’s the point of buying them and keeping them around if I’m never going to touch them again? By checking them out via Overdrive, they’re delivered straight to my Kobo e-reader and I only have to hit a tab to return it. Even better, if I forget, it “self-destructs” on my reader and returns itself when it comes due! And Kobo—and Barnes and Noble’s Nook—uses the open source EPub reading software, not Amazon’s proprietary Kindle software, which I find ethically dubious, so it’s even better.When I find I want to reread a book, or it has graphic content like maps that work much better in physical rather than digital form, or for some other reason need a hard copy of a book, I tend to order it from Biblio.com, an online clearinghouse of used bookstores much like ABE.com but independent of Amazon and, I’ve found, with better functionality.
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"content": "Kate In NorCal - I do most of my reading now by checking out library books on my e-reader, too. So much of what I enjoy are mysteries that are worth one read and that’s it. What’s the point of buying them and keeping them around if I’m never going to touch them again? By checking them out via Overdrive, they’re delivered straight to my Kobo e-reader and I only have to hit a tab to return it. Even better, if I forget, it “self-destructs” on my reader and returns itself when it comes due! And Kobo—and Barnes and Noble’s Nook—uses the open source EPub reading software, not Amazon’s proprietary Kindle software, which I find ethically dubious, so it’s even better.When I find I want to reread a book, or it has graphic content like maps that work much better in physical rather than digital form, or for some other reason need a hard copy of a book, I tend to order it from Biblio.com, an online clearinghouse of used bookstores much like ABE.com but independent of Amazon and, I’ve found, with better functionality.\n",
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Had to chuckle at how Mr. Appelbaum, after running through Federal spending programs that are "popular" and and therefore apparently untouchable, blithely dismisses two items: "the rest is defense budget and interest payments." Oh yes, those two little things. Well the defense budget isn't "wildly popular," other than with defense contractors. And, as it has been for decades, the DOD budget is GIGANTIC, at $783 billion, last year—and Biden wants to raise it to $814 billion. Those interest payments, now an annual $400 billion or so, are there to maintain that $31 trillion national debt, an enormous line item in the Federal budget that offers zero benefit to taxpayers, other than assuring that the US government does not default on its loan obligations.
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"content": "Had to chuckle at how Mr. Appelbaum, after running through Federal spending programs that are \"popular\" and and therefore apparently untouchable, blithely dismisses two items: \"the rest is defense budget and interest payments.\" Oh yes, those two little things. Well the defense budget isn't \"wildly popular,\" other than with defense contractors. And, as it has been for decades, the DOD budget is GIGANTIC, at $783 billion, last year—and Biden wants to raise it to $814 billion. Those interest payments, now an annual $400 billion or so, are there to maintain that $31 trillion national debt, an enormous line item in the Federal budget that offers zero benefit to taxpayers, other than assuring that the US government does not default on its loan obligations.\n",
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David Ewing - I agree except for Ron Johnson’s effect on Medicare. No one believes that Republicans would ever take away Medicare for seniors. My parents think of it as an investment that they already paid into and are now making their entitled withdrawals. Seniors do appear to be open, however, to destroying Medicare for younger generations — as long as they remain grandfathered in to their own entitlements.
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"content": "David Ewing - I agree except for Ron Johnson’s effect on Medicare. No one believes that Republicans would ever take away Medicare for seniors. My parents think of it as an investment that they already paid into and are now making their entitled withdrawals. Seniors do appear to be open, however, to destroying Medicare for younger generations — as long as they remain grandfathered in to their own entitlements.\n",
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Franny I'm a 60 year old weaver and knitter, and I just got my Baby Wolf open for for the first time in 10 years. Saying that I nearly wept for join when my warp tightened evenly and I could remember how to read a draft would be an understatement. DON'T sell your loom! You will feel as though you are missing a part of yourself.
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Colleen Mc a cost benefit analysis doesn't break your way here. Especially as the prognosis is very similar to your cancer patient at the end of your comment. A quick bit of research on SMA reveled that there are five sub-type classifications. Three of them are mild or later onset (Types 2, 3 and 4) but Types 0 and 1 are aggressive and some symptoms begin before birth. Types 0 and 1 are the only candidate for the aggressive gene therapies, but they aren't a cure. Without treatment, life expectancy is less than 5 years. With treatment life expectancy might be 15 years (not enough data to conclude, yet). So what is the expected economic contribution of a child with a debilitating disease? Zero? You can't include the mother, in this particular case, since she already has another child with the same genetic disease, born before treatment was available. So $1.7M for zero years of economic contributions. A terrible investment. As a society we don't want to make every decision solely on a cost-benefit basis, but it does matter, along with quality of life, and other factors.
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"content": "Colleen Mc a cost benefit analysis doesn't break your way here. Especially as the prognosis is very similar to your cancer patient at the end of your comment. A quick bit of research on SMA reveled that there are five sub-type classifications. Three of them are mild or later onset (Types 2, 3 and 4) but Types 0 and 1 are aggressive and some symptoms begin before birth. Types 0 and 1 are the only candidate for the aggressive gene therapies, but they aren't a cure. Without treatment, life expectancy is less than 5 years. With treatment life expectancy might be 15 years (not enough data to conclude, yet). So what is the expected economic contribution of a child with a debilitating disease? Zero? You can't include the mother, in this particular case, since she already has another child with the same genetic disease, born before treatment was available. So $1.7M for zero years of economic contributions. A terrible investment. As a society we don't want to make every decision solely on a cost-benefit basis, but it does matter, along with quality of life, and other factors.\n",
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Bill (cont.)It has become a regular focus of my conversation, to my Partner's continuing annoyment. Phrases like AT SEA have entered my use-vocabulary, as in "At the store today, trying to decide between regular and Double-Stuf Oreos, I was totally AT SEA." I regularly speak (but not shout) in ALL-CAPS.I don't remember at what date I began reading the Wordplay column, or what prompted me to post a comment: it's unlike me to comment on news articles, and participating in Wordplay remains as close to "Social Media" as I get. In the meanwhile, my life has become filled with voracious flightless ratites, deceptive Meso-American foodstuff, towns in East-central Massachusetts and volcanos in Hawaii. And especially, I have found a group of acquaintances who are literate and witty, and in the main positive and polite. Thank you all.Health and Happiness, Peace and Prosperity in 2023 to Deb, Caitlin, Rachel, all constructors, and all my fellow Wordplayers.
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"content": "Bill (cont.)It has become a regular focus of my conversation, to my Partner's continuing annoyment. Phrases like AT SEA have entered my use-vocabulary, as in \"At the store today, trying to decide between regular and Double-Stuf Oreos, I was totally AT SEA.\" I regularly speak (but not shout) in ALL-CAPS.I don't remember at what date I began reading the Wordplay column, or what prompted me to post a comment: it's unlike me to comment on news articles, and participating in Wordplay remains as close to \"Social Media\" as I get. In the meanwhile, my life has become filled with voracious flightless ratites, deceptive Meso-American foodstuff, towns in East-central Massachusetts and volcanos in Hawaii. And especially, I have found a group of acquaintances who are literate and witty, and in the main positive and polite. Thank you all.Health and Happiness, Peace and Prosperity in 2023 to Deb, Caitlin, Rachel, all constructors, and all my fellow Wordplayers.\n",
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Gordon "I would think AA wold have been glad to pay $17K just to avoid this bad publicity."I was thinking the same thing, only about this trip mate, so i took a very quick google and this popped right up. Imo the insurer should have paid the customer and if had legal recourse to do so should have gone after the airline for committing the error which resulted in the lost trip. But that's my own thinking, certainly might be off base. "Trip Mate is an expensive insurance sold by Viking Cruise Line and has very poor customer serviceReview of Viking CruisesReviewed January 12, 2022 via mobile"<a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g1939161-d10813724-r824728656-Viking_Cruises-Lignan_De_Bordeaux_Gironde_Nouvelle_Aquitaine.html" target="_blank">https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g1939161-d10813724-r824728656-Viking_Cruises-Lignan_De_Bordeaux_Gironde_Nouvelle_Aquitaine.html</a>
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Best article in the paper on this first day of 2023. The $200 billion private investment in semiconductor expansion in some 20 regional technology hubs, coupled with last August's bipartisan passage by Congress and the Administration of the $280 billion CHIPs bill excite me. My 6-year-old grandson's prospects for a career as a mechanical engineer in some field of science and technology could very well change civilization . . . for the better!What better way to challenge the rapacity of Russia and the insidious mercantilism of China? Not to forget the threat of man-made climate change. And the social and cultural demands of vibrant and thriving democracies. Can it be the aging and decrepit Joe Biden who is actually forging this inspiring policy direction for the United States? Naaaah, can't be. Yet, who else?
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"content": "Best article in the paper on this first day of 2023. The $200 billion private investment in semiconductor expansion in some 20 regional technology hubs, coupled with last August's bipartisan passage by Congress and the Administration of the $280 billion CHIPs bill excite me. My 6-year-old grandson's prospects for a career as a mechanical engineer in some field of science and technology could very well change civilization . . . for the better!What better way to challenge the rapacity of Russia and the insidious mercantilism of China? Not to forget the threat of man-made climate change. And the social and cultural demands of vibrant and thriving democracies. Can it be the aging and decrepit Joe Biden who is actually forging this inspiring policy direction for the United States? Naaaah, can't be. Yet, who else?\n",
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Darko Begonia Believe me,I would love to see the capitalist real estate consortium brought to their knees,but I’m not holding my breath. Our city coffers are in thrall to real estate dollars,here and everywhere else in this country.
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"content": "Darko Begonia Believe me,I would love to see the capitalist real estate consortium brought to their knees,but I’m not holding my breath. Our city coffers are in thrall to real estate dollars,here and everywhere else in this country.\n",
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Clearly George and his cohorts did not expect any of their shenanigans to come to light. And it seems reasonable to suspect that someone with a lot of funds and influence came up to him and promised him all that he needed to get elected while probably downplaying the risks. Who that was remains to be seen. But we do know that George didn't have the $700k he "loaned" to his campaign.
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"content": "Clearly George and his cohorts did not expect any of their shenanigans to come to light. And it seems reasonable to suspect that someone with a lot of funds and influence came up to him and promised him all that he needed to get elected while probably downplaying the risks. Who that was remains to be seen. But we do know that George didn't have the $700k he \"loaned\" to his campaign.\n",
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"Permissive gun laws and ubiquitous open carry are more than a challenge to law enforcement; they’re a challenge to the very possibility of an open, democratic society."On the contrary, the concept that the natural right to self-defense is inalienable and can only be denied through due process is evidence an open, democratic society--not a challenge to it.
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That was the inflation hangover from decades of military spending on the Vietnam War. We will likely experience something similar for the next ? years until citizens politicians decide to invest in the things that lead to long-term growth and prosperity: education, healthcare, infrastructure, and food security. Until then you can watch the country’s roads, bridges, railways, airports, hospitals, schools and overall wellbeing continue to crumble.
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Whatever her motivation to pursue public office, there is a valid point to be made here. The spectacle of a proven liar and fabricator with no comparable experience being elected to our House of Reps where he will earn $350K for two years of service has sparked the imagination of millions of highly effective folks working long hours with few benefits for much much less. And his coworkers have announced they will not work with him, and he can’t be fired. Why not me? I predict a surge of interest in public service by those who have hit the wall due to the Peter Principle. They have risen to the level of incompetence, but here is a good gig where competence is not required.
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MJN The Squad is four members and are not part of a formal caucus, and they keep with the majority on important issues of their party. The Freedom Caucus is a formal body with 54 members and it has leaders and voting etc... 20 members of this caucus have broken off and are realizing the slim margin of the Republican Majority to install their agenda starting with the seating of the Speaker. In a body like the Congress, there are wide differences of POV and desired outcomes and preferred methodologies on how to achieve outcomes. In the House there are 222 members who wish for leadership positions and preferred committees. Leadership is wobbly. It does not rely on merit or seniority. It matters on getting the votes and extending influence. It's not unlike some reality shows. It's messy. Being a Party leader is akin to cat herding and being the leader of elimination style reality TV show.A better comparison that is more recent is Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin, Democrats in the Senate. Both of whom hold views which are not center of their party and held out on key legislation. This is the template that will go forward in the House for this next year. Chaos and disruption without accomplishing much for the country.So there you go, this is one of the ways a minority can control a majority.
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"content": "MJN The Squad is four members and are not part of a formal caucus, and they keep with the majority on important issues of their party. The Freedom Caucus is a formal body with 54 members and it has leaders and voting etc... 20 members of this caucus have broken off and are realizing the slim margin of the Republican Majority to install their agenda starting with the seating of the Speaker. In a body like the Congress, there are wide differences of POV and desired outcomes and preferred methodologies on how to achieve outcomes. In the House there are 222 members who wish for leadership positions and preferred committees. Leadership is wobbly. It does not rely on merit or seniority. It matters on getting the votes and extending influence. It's not unlike some reality shows. It's messy. Being a Party leader is akin to cat herding and being the leader of elimination style reality TV show.A better comparison that is more recent is Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin, Democrats in the Senate. Both of whom hold views which are not center of their party and held out on key legislation. This is the template that will go forward in the House for this next year. Chaos and disruption without accomplishing much for the country.So there you go, this is one of the ways a minority can control a majority.\n",
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Pippa Have you looked at modular homes? There are so many cool options on the market right now.We built an ADU and I became 100% convinced that modular was the way to go. And we have a lovely 18th century farmhouse - it wasn’t going to be some tacky looking clash.In the end, we had to go with stick built because we needed to conform to a particular foundation from an old cabin on the property to be grandfathered in. But there were so many innovative modular options these days for under $200K (including labor)
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American airlines eh? I have just had the experience of Chicago O'hare closing down the terminal trains on Dec 23, waiting in line for almost 3 hours and then being told by American Airlines that they only 'take care of their own passengers first' (as any regular AA passenger can say, this is also not true), and told me I had to to contact Aer Lingus through whom I had booked the flight. Aer Lingus has now told me that EU rules will not apply as it was not an EU origin flight. I am now waiting on the insurance. My family had booked a flight for the next morning, judging correctly that AA would not be able to complete contractual obligations. $233 later for the hotel and 16,000 air miles for the flight it seems nobody is responsible (and no, there was a dusting of snow and no wind - this weather report brought to you by me waiting for a $17 taxi ride 2.4 miles away). O'Hare must have some of the best lawyers on staff and many a politico in their pocket if they can install a train system that can't run in cold weather. Newspaper accounts show this has been happening for months (including warmer months).The return trip was with another airline through another airport and was excellent. But, unlike JF from PA I will avoid AA at all costs and O'hare as if it is a plague pit. I will use EU based carriers which do have compensation laws.
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Less than 1 million people out of 1,421 million people - that's why this not the big enough straw that will break the camels back. The CCP plays the numbers game.Meanwhile, can I ask why the CA bullet train remains still not built - in a Dem state? It's already created 10 of billions of dollars in fabulous wealth, which surely has generated negative improvement in carbon goals, but no trains in sight. Where is the outrage?
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Caroline S I worry about their ability to find good jobs after graduation with a degree from a now-tainted college. What will be open to them? Worker at a right-wing think tank? Staffer for MAGA Republican member of Congress? Supply is pretty quickly going to overwhelm demand.
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By the way—those egghead academical types some of y’all are so pleased to be sneering at?Well, they told you this was coming starting about two centuries ago. Marx told you that commodification and the resultant melting away of every cultural institution was inherent in the logic of capitalism.Walter Benjamin told you that the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction was built on copies, not originals. Orwell told you that bureaucracies tended to just rewrite everything, endlessly.McLuhan told you that print was going bye-bye; “post-modernists,” (they’re not really, but who cares) from Habermas to Debord to Lyotard to Derrida told you what was happening to the whole idea of, “knowledge.” Foucault told you that technologies rewrite knowledge and people. Folks like Delany and Haraway told you decades ago that we were cyborging ourselves, and a good thing too. And what was it that you thought the rise of the Total Right-Wing Phony meant?As for a college solution, try this: do what the NHRA does, and separate classes into top gas and top fuel categories. On the record.Top gas, no tech at all. You get to talk, discuss, argue, write, take exams, hit the library. The prof and TAs are engaged, helpful, accessible, demanding. You cheat, we kick you out.Top fuel, anything goes. There is no cheating. Your instructors are every bit as intelligent, honest, thoughful, hard-working as you are. Which is to say they ain’t gonna do jack, go talk to your chatbot.
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Paul Then there's the one about the doctor meeting Henry, one of his elderly male patients, one evening at the country club. Henry had one arm around a young blond and his other arm around a gorgeous brunette. The doctor gasped and said "Henry! What are you doing!!". Henry came over and grasped the doctor's hand in a warm hand shake. "Doc! Thank you so much! When I came in to your office last week, I was feeling awful. But I've been following your great advice and it's made a new man of me!" The doctor looked puzzled and asked "The advice I gave you?". Henry said "Yeah. You told me 'Be cheerful and get yourself a hot momma!" The doctor said "No no! I told you "be *careful*...you have a *heart murmur*!" {rim shot, please}The above chuckle was the opening of a sermon I heard many years ago at Ft. Debussy chapel in Honolulu...the sermon was about the importance of really listening to the people with whom you interact....
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Tom M So let's get this straight.We have had forty years of structuring in 'rationalize to the position of the oligarch' or if you like corruption to achieve a reduction of the three external costs of every corporation. Cost of Labor, Taxes and Capital. To accomplish that goal, corporations spent money on structured corruption (Fox Propaganda, WSJ Editorial Page, Austerity 'philosophy' in the Economics Schools, Originalism 'philosophy' in the JD schools, Republican Party). The manifestation of the financialize everything leads to non-linear increase in group dysfunction (heroin deaths, rejection of rational thought). So finally labor gets an opportunity to makes some gains and you want to prevent that. Why not look at the $1,000,000,000,000 profit the US banks made in the past 10 years. Profit not Revenue. What utility to they provide? hint: not much
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We had a staff meeting yesterday to discuss ChatGPT its potential use and abuse. It is impressive. It's not quite there yet, but it's multi-lingual function, translation, data mining abilities and text quality were an eye-opener. Knowing most roles in my organization I looked around the room and counted the staff who might lose their jobs once this technology really improves. It was about 10%. What's happening in terms of layoffs today is unfortunate, but industry specific. But we are soon to confront a tsunami as AI sweeps across white-collar work. We need to begin preparing for things now, and I hope these younger people will become politically engaged. The geriatrics who run this country need to step aside.
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Re the second letter:Friendship and money transfers do not mix well except under conditions of absolute clarity of terms. If it’s a gift, say it’s a gift, never again mention it and never expect anything in return. If it’s a loan, then BEFORE you offer it (or agree to it): First, create a delay so you have time to think about it — to make sure that you are not acting based on impulse or the implicit social pressure of the moment; then, if you decide you would be comfortable making the loan, tell the friend that you would be willing to lend amount X under terms X and Z. If your friend decides s/he wants the loan, then produce a simple piece of paper memorializing the money transfer, the fact that it is a loan and specific loan terms/repayment terms. Repayment dates are essential (even if generous). These can always be extended or even forgiven in a subsequent written memorandum.If you do not feel comfortable talking about the terms of a loan with a friend, then it’s not a good idea to offer a loan.PS: In the case you present, I would question whether I really want to maintain a friendship with people who are now spending money the way they are while ignoring the fact that you said that the money transfers you made subsequent to the first were to be paid back “when you can.“ These people, “wonderful people” or not, are now exploiting you. The resentment you are feeling is likely to grow with the passage of time.
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They will be complaining that the local supermarket doesn’t carry their $8 each bottle water and fake vegan meat products. How about the Park Slope native who opens up a restaurant up there serving $45 silver dollar sized entrees that closes in 8 months.
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Those of us who live in blue states have experienced the weaponization of government for a long time, since we pay all the taxes that support the rogue government that we didn't vote for. These taxes go up every year. They tried to raise my property taxes 25 percent last year, an increase of thousands of dollars. I appealed and won, which meant that they only raised them ten percent, or almost a thousand dollars. They will go up again next year and the next. Too bad we don't have a committee to investigate that, and all the rich tax cheats who pass the bill to us.
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A rarely discussed central fact is that GOP debt-funded tax cuts continue to add to the debt in perpetuity, whereas a spending program has a limited lifespan without reappropriation. So the debt-funded tax cuts of GW Bush have added to the debt each year since they passed in 2002. And the debt-funded tax cuts of Donald Trump have continued to add to the debt in 2021 and 2022.Debt-funded tax cuts are a damaging practice that should be exposed. Elsewhere in this edition, we see that Wall Street banks are pressuring the Treasury Secretary to prioritize interest on the debt in the event of default. Why? Because so much of U.S. debt is owed to the wealthy investors who benefitted most from those debt-funded tax cuts. For more on this deceitful circle, read Thomas Piketty, the economist who documents it all brilliantly.
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"content": "A rarely discussed central fact is that GOP debt-funded tax cuts continue to add to the debt in perpetuity, whereas a spending program has a limited lifespan without reappropriation. So the debt-funded tax cuts of GW Bush have added to the debt each year since they passed in 2002. And the debt-funded tax cuts of Donald Trump have continued to add to the debt in 2021 and 2022.Debt-funded tax cuts are a damaging practice that should be exposed. Elsewhere in this edition, we see that Wall Street banks are pressuring the Treasury Secretary to prioritize interest on the debt in the event of default. Why? Because so much of U.S. debt is owed to the wealthy investors who benefitted most from those debt-funded tax cuts. For more on this deceitful circle, read Thomas Piketty, the economist who documents it all brilliantly.\n",
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As ‘A Strange Loop’ Ends, Its Creator Looks Back on a ‘Supernova’ Michael R. Jackson discussed his Pulitzer and Tony-winning musical, which closed Sunday after a nine-month Broadway run. The musical “A Strange Loop” won a Pulitzer Prize even before it got to Broadway, and then it won the Tony Award for best musical shortly after opening. But on Sunday, it closed after only a nine-month run. Michael R. Jackson discussed his Pulitzer and Tony-winning musical, which closed Sunday after a nine-month Broadway run.
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They will welcome Vlad with open arms
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according to the financial media, europe is going through a growth cycle. the mis-information campaign coming from wall street's shameless cheerleaders is in full force. inflation is "cooling"? gas prices are coming down? china is "re-opening"? recession? what recession? corporate earnings are flat this quarter? lay off 10,000 workers. do another stock buy-back. millions of americans lost their homes and their jobs during the great recession. thanks wall street.
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I have a great idea! Since The GOP wants Democrats to cut the budget in order to support the Debt Ceiling, why don't both parties cut the $4,000,000,000 we give to Israel!Why are we still giving them this money when their behavior is so evil and undemocratic???
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Homes for Sale in New Jersey and New York This week’s properties are a three-bedroom in Ocean Township, N.J., and a six-bedroom in Pelham Manor, N.Y. A three-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath, expanded 1948 Tudor-style house with a great room that has a floor-to-ceiling stone fireplace; a large primary bedroom suite with 14-foot ceilings and a new spa-style bathroom; an open kitchen connected to a den area; a screened porch, and an attached two-car garage, on 0.25 landscaped acres. Richard Martel, Berkshire Hathaway Home Services, Fox & Roach Realtors, 732-245-5616; foxroach.com This week’s properties are a three-bedroom in Ocean Township, N.J., and a six-bedroom in Pelham Manor, N.Y.
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Arthur Indeed. When the Republicans say we need to 'rein in' entitlements, they are being disingenuous. Social Security benefits do not add a cent to the deficit. It is appalling that Republicans in Congress are now making mouth noises about cutting Social Security when Congress 'borrowed' $2.9 trillion over the years from the Social Security Trust Fund and has NEVER paid it back. Social Security is a sacred trust, and Republicans in Congress who want to cut it are being cruel to the elderly, who have paid their dues, worked a lifetime and now expect monthly payments from THEIR MONEY that THEY PAID IN over a lifetime of work.
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Steve Deech - Plus, doesn't his campaign owe him that $700k or so that he loaned to it?
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Robert My sisters and I had the same experience in the 70s in Canada, of walking to and from school which was a long way off, to and from the shops, the playgrounds, etc. We were expected to be independent. The difference is that each and every one of us- at elementary school age- had encounters with men approaching us in quiet streets (or once, in an empty school playground in the late afternoon) while openly masturbating with fly open and everything out on display. The police were always called once we reached home, but this was an exercise in futility. And we kept on walking everywhere. Yes, "the good old days". Fast forward- I bought my daughter a cell phone at about age 10 and let her walk home from school- straight after school amongst the other children- but able to call me if she felt at all unsafe. Peace of mind for us both.
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"content": "Robert My sisters and I had the same experience in the 70s in Canada, of walking to and from school which was a long way off, to and from the shops, the playgrounds, etc. We were expected to be independent. The difference is that each and every one of us- at elementary school age- had encounters with men approaching us in quiet streets (or once, in an empty school playground in the late afternoon) while openly masturbating with fly open and everything out on display. The police were always called once we reached home, but this was an exercise in futility. And we kept on walking everywhere. Yes, \"the good old days\". Fast forward- I bought my daughter a cell phone at about age 10 and let her walk home from school- straight after school amongst the other children- but able to call me if she felt at all unsafe. Peace of mind for us both.\n",
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‘I Don’t Want to Die’: Fighting Maternal Mortality Among Black Women A St. Louis doula program, part of a nonprofit that received funding in the $1.7 trillion federal budget bill, looks for solutions in a benefit largely associated with affluent white women. ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Tara Ervin will never forget the week her sister Kelly died. A St. Louis doula program, part of a nonprofit that received funding in the $1.7 trillion federal budget bill, looks for solutions in a benefit largely associated with affluent white women.
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