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Lea Lane, agree. My husband and I are newly retired at 70. We're both healthy and plan on traveling the next 10 plus years as long as we stay healthy. Others make different decisions. My boss at my law firm is still practicing at 80 and is the managing partner of the firm. He's healthy as a horse and runs every day and enjoys camping on the weekends with his grandsons. I have a friend who is an active professor of landscape architecture at 82. Dr. Fauci is in his 80's and only just retired. Nancy Pelosi is in her 80's. We should have all just died at 70? This is nuts.
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"content": "Lea Lane, agree. My husband and I are newly retired at 70. We're both healthy and plan on traveling the next 10 plus years as long as we stay healthy. Others make different decisions. My boss at my law firm is still practicing at 80 and is the managing partner of the firm. He's healthy as a horse and runs every day and enjoys camping on the weekends with his grandsons. I have a friend who is an active professor of landscape architecture at 82. Dr. Fauci is in his 80's and only just retired. Nancy Pelosi is in her 80's. We should have all just died at 70? This is nuts.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 8,108 |
I can't wait — but I'll have to — for Robert Caro's final volume on LBJ. His marvelous depiction of how he got the tight-lipped residents of the Hill Country in Texas to open up about LBJ and his family history— by actually moving there with his wife and gaining their trust — perfectly illustrates the extraordinary lengths he'll go to get the story right.His memoir WORKING is an ideal supplement to this new documentary with Robert Gottlieb, reinforcing the need for journalists and biographers to "turn every page."
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"content": "I can't wait — but I'll have to — for Robert Caro's final volume on LBJ. His marvelous depiction of how he got the tight-lipped residents of the Hill Country in Texas to open up about LBJ and his family history— by actually moving there with his wife and gaining their trust — perfectly illustrates the extraordinary lengths he'll go to get the story right.His memoir WORKING is an ideal supplement to this new documentary with Robert Gottlieb, reinforcing the need for journalists and biographers to \"turn every page.\"\n",
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| yes | Classification | 5,746 |
Naomi "We are not policing the world. There are no NATO troops in Ukraine" 100 billion in aid and weapons is what I'd call proxy policing the world. It's akin to saying the rebel guerrillas we funded and equipped in South America were acting on their own volition. Imagine how we'd react if a Russian backed mercenary force overthrew the Mexican government in a coup and was posturing on our boarder. Yeah, that's what I though.
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"content": "Naomi \"We are not policing the world. There are no NATO troops in Ukraine\" 100 billion in aid and weapons is what I'd call proxy policing the world. It's akin to saying the rebel guerrillas we funded and equipped in South America were acting on their own volition. Imagine how we'd react if a Russian backed mercenary force overthrew the Mexican government in a coup and was posturing on our boarder. Yeah, that's what I though.\n",
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| no | Classification | 4,680 |
There is only one reason the American dollar is so sought out worldwide. Only one reason that one of the safest investments in the world are US Treasury Bills (T-bills). And that reason is the high unlikelihood of the world’s richest country defaulting on its debts. I am truly afraid that these rebel lawmakers who just want to throw bombs & tear down the system really do not understand the implications of what they are doing. Are we really going to allow 15 to 20 representatives to bring down the whole country? We shall see.
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"content": "There is only one reason the American dollar is so sought out worldwide. Only one reason that one of the safest investments in the world are US Treasury Bills (T-bills). And that reason is the high unlikelihood of the world’s richest country defaulting on its debts. I am truly afraid that these rebel lawmakers who just want to throw bombs & tear down the system really do not understand the implications of what they are doing. Are we really going to allow 15 to 20 representatives to bring down the whole country? We shall see.\n",
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| no | Classification | 3,447 |
Futbolistaviva Exactly. Since they opened a satellite in Boston, it's the gold standard in town with Galleria Umberto a daytime winner, too.
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"content": "Futbolistaviva Exactly. Since they opened a satellite in Boston, it's the gold standard in town with Galleria Umberto a daytime winner, too.\n",
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Greg a from Lynn. Fair point. I wasn't crying crocodile tears for the owners :). My point - perhaps better made - is that it's distorting the fan experience. The family of 4 from Saugus will have to pony up $400-500 for semi-decent seats at Fenway.We're a long way away from the $4 bleacher seats that I paid for when in high school!
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| no | Classification | 4,291 |
I'm sorry but I'm having a tough time making any sense of this well written and illustrated soup expose. It's bad enough that we cannot taste, let alone sniff the delectables which the author has generously described with such a subdued, yet poignant, aplomb. I could have easily been persuaded to fork over a handsome sum just to experience the tiniest spoonful. The only option left to me is to traipse down to the market for the necessary ingredients and make a misguided attempt to apply my mediocre culinary skills in an effort to make something near the orbit of these exquisite soups. Alas, I find yet another barrier of entry into this arena, the need to plop down 40 bucks for a subscription to the NYT food section. This is entirely too much for me to bear. The Times teases me into a rich soup lather only to dash my hopes that none of these delicacies shall never cross my table top. Perhaps the next go round the NYT leads off with a statement that none of the dishes described herein shall be yours without a subscription to their food club.
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| no | Classification | 4,264 |
Aff The cost of eggs has jumped a $1.25 or so around here. Not sure how many times a week you eat eggs, but let’s say you are like my brother-in-law. A protein, lactose intolerant fanatic, he has eggs six days a week, three at a time. That’s two dozen eggs every two weeks, and added $65 a year. Please.
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| no | Classification | 1,091 |
A good induction range will cost you in the $3,000 range and up. Most people won't switch because of cost.
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| no | Classification | 4,759 |
All business is cyclical, even high tech, With many offices going paperless, MS office type products There are plenty of high tech software jobs at John Deere, Ford, GM, other automakers, major chip suppliers to the automotive industry, and automotive suppliers. The push for ADAS (advanced driving assistance systems) continues unabated with John Deere marketing autonomous farm equipment and automotive/trucking industries pushing for autonomous driving.
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| no | Classification | 3,380 |
Bret is an unrepentant supporter of Lazzies Faire income discrepancy. For us living on a mere $75,000 a year the idea of $400,000 is unfathomable. And no, they are not driving Camry cars or laying off cooks, nannies and gardeners. They seldom shop at Safeway or any local market. They are constantly shuffling their schedules to accommodate cocktail parties and must be seen at events at the country club. If they are indeed understating their taxable income then of course they should be audited!
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| no | Classification | 3,478 |
NorthernVirginiaIf it were not for H-1B visa holders over the past few decades there wouldn't hardly BE a tech industry in America. There simply are nowhere near enough American born people willing to work hard enough to obtain the education required.To assume there are enough American born workers whose parents (or now, even grandparents) weren't immigrants to fill the openings in tech in the US required suspending your sense of reality.The alternatives are few.One alternative is for "American" parents to increase discipline and focus on education in the home -- but that isn't going to happen quickly and would take 20 years to bear _any_ fruit and 40 years to bear sufficient fruit -- even if the transition to such a culture was immediate.Another alternative is to cede the tech industry to India and China - and along with it massive tax revenue and many, many jobs that are in the trail of those employed in tech (including such jobs as dog walkers, baristas, construction workers, and auto factory workers).At least when an H-1B worker is laid off they (in theory) go back "home" if they can't find another sponsor rather than consuming tax revenue from American taxpayers via our social programs as a permanent resident might.
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"content": "NorthernVirginiaIf it were not for H-1B visa holders over the past few decades there wouldn't hardly BE a tech industry in America. There simply are nowhere near enough American born people willing to work hard enough to obtain the education required.To assume there are enough American born workers whose parents (or now, even grandparents) weren't immigrants to fill the openings in tech in the US required suspending your sense of reality.The alternatives are few.One alternative is for \"American\" parents to increase discipline and focus on education in the home -- but that isn't going to happen quickly and would take 20 years to bear _any_ fruit and 40 years to bear sufficient fruit -- even if the transition to such a culture was immediate.Another alternative is to cede the tech industry to India and China - and along with it massive tax revenue and many, many jobs that are in the trail of those employed in tech (including such jobs as dog walkers, baristas, construction workers, and auto factory workers).At least when an H-1B worker is laid off they (in theory) go back \"home\" if they can't find another sponsor rather than consuming tax revenue from American taxpayers via our social programs as a permanent resident might.\n",
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Jennifer Schiff knew it would take $40-50 million to win a Senate race in CA. He wanted to get a big head start so he wasn't trying to raise all of that money in 23/24.
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Alexander the good A whole bunch of un-rich not-ruler Americans have invested in savings bonds and the like.
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"content": "Alexander the good A whole bunch of un-rich not-ruler Americans have invested in savings bonds and the like.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 9,746 |
Trump's administration added approximately $10 trillion to this tab in four years. compared to Obama's administration which added about $8 trillion in 8 years and also ended a hyper recession. We are to believe the GOP is concerned about spending?
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"content": "Trump's administration added approximately $10 trillion to this tab in four years. compared to Obama's administration which added about $8 trillion in 8 years and also ended a hyper recession. We are to believe the GOP is concerned about spending?\n",
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| no | Classification | 1,359 |
The issue is not AP African American History but one of where do you draw the line on the raging liberal left. At what point do you say enough is enough!!!!! Should a biological male who identifies as female be allowed in a woman’s locker room? The liberal left will adamantly say yes!! Why are conservative speakers banned from college campuses because they offend a liberal viewpoint? What happened to open discourse? Why do snowflakes need safe zones?DeSantis and the Florida Legislature passed laws to prohibit the teaching gender identity to children in kindergarten through 3rd grade. Are third graders really emotionally and socially developed enough to understand gender identity?Isn’t that right of the parents to decide? Apparently, the liberal left believes otherwise!!Liberals flutter from one perceived slighting to the next achieving nothing but creating turmoil and dysfunction in their wake!!!
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"content": "The issue is not AP African American History but one of where do you draw the line on the raging liberal left. At what point do you say enough is enough!!!!! Should a biological male who identifies as female be allowed in a woman’s locker room? The liberal left will adamantly say yes!! Why are conservative speakers banned from college campuses because they offend a liberal viewpoint? What happened to open discourse? Why do snowflakes need safe zones?DeSantis and the Florida Legislature passed laws to prohibit the teaching gender identity to children in kindergarten through 3rd grade. Are third graders really emotionally and socially developed enough to understand gender identity?Isn’t that right of the parents to decide? Apparently, the liberal left believes otherwise!!Liberals flutter from one perceived slighting to the next achieving nothing but creating turmoil and dysfunction in their wake!!!\n",
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| yes | Classification | 8,620 |
The Biden economy is doing great.It is very solid. Unemployment is at 3.5 percent,a 50 year low. Inflation seems to be 2 pct by Dr. Krugman's analysis, though the news says it is at 6.5 pct. Where most of us can agree is that inflation is falling. What about all the headlines about layoffs at tech companies ? Tech stocks have been rising since 2011 or so and tech companies did a lot of hiring. The layoffs are about 5 pct or so at most, and the job market is still good. Companies cut costs when profits fall, in this case because of rising rates, which makes debt more expensive. Then the profits go back up and the stock bounces back up. Many big tech companies are still very profitable. I analyzed my own financial position in 2021 vs 2022.We all have our w2s. Tech shares fell a bit so 2021 was probably slightly better but some pharmaceutical share prices have gone up significantly since 2021. Value stocks are also up in value. People moved to more defensive positions when interest rates rose.My bonds lost value, and also tech shares overall-maybe 10 percent.But tech shares have kept rising for years.Hopefully they will bounce back, and maybe I am buying cheaper bonds. My position reflects the economy for me,and the economy is doing fine.Long term prospects are still very good. I don't know anybody who has been laid off. News agencies report negative news,whether it is local crime or the next storm coming.That's how they stay in business.The far right extremists are just liars
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"content": "The Biden economy is doing great.It is very solid. Unemployment is at 3.5 percent,a 50 year low. Inflation seems to be 2 pct by Dr. Krugman's analysis, though the news says it is at 6.5 pct. Where most of us can agree is that inflation is falling. What about all the headlines about layoffs at tech companies ? Tech stocks have been rising since 2011 or so and tech companies did a lot of hiring. The layoffs are about 5 pct or so at most, and the job market is still good. Companies cut costs when profits fall, in this case because of rising rates, which makes debt more expensive. Then the profits go back up and the stock bounces back up. Many big tech companies are still very profitable. I analyzed my own financial position in 2021 vs 2022.We all have our w2s. Tech shares fell a bit so 2021 was probably slightly better but some pharmaceutical share prices have gone up significantly since 2021. Value stocks are also up in value. People moved to more defensive positions when interest rates rose.My bonds lost value, and also tech shares overall-maybe 10 percent.But tech shares have kept rising for years.Hopefully they will bounce back, and maybe I am buying cheaper bonds. My position reflects the economy for me,and the economy is doing fine.Long term prospects are still very good. I don't know anybody who has been laid off. News agencies report negative news,whether it is local crime or the next storm coming.That's how they stay in business.The far right extremists are just liars\n",
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| no | Classification | 3,998 |
Can we talk about Rebekah Mercer and Peter Thiel's involvement in OpenAI? I have concerns.
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"content": "Can we talk about Rebekah Mercer and Peter Thiel's involvement in OpenAI? I have concerns.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 7,950 |
Try using an EHR(electronic health record), while talking to a patient, while emails and Microsoft Teams chats are dinging away. And no, eye contact with said patient is not possible…
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Oh he had so many choices, but he chose big money $125M instead. He’s not trying to modernize monarchy, or address tabloids, it’s all about his very dysfunctional life. It’s not Williams fault he was born first, nor is it his fault he’s smarter or more successful than Harry-not-the-intellectual. Harry seems to possess little to no intellectual curiosity, maturity and emotional intelligence. It’s why nobody’s offered him executive position either side ocean.
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When I visited the Resistance Museum decades ago I was immediately struck by the opening posted quotes of ordinary citizens, and how they reacted to the Nazi invasion. Some people rationalized it, saying the German economy was doing well and the Netherlands would gain from it. Others downplayed it, saying the Germans were so akin to the Dutch that they wouldn't really harm them. Still others just wanted to maintain their lifestyle and not rock the boat. It seemed there were only a few who really named the danger for what it was.I walked away realizing how often we minimize what's really happening as a way to hold onto the familiar. Most people just want to hold onto life as they know it, and are reticent to face and name existential threats, much less change their behaviors and take action. That change can happen over time, but even then, the emotional attachment to "life as we know it" and being "right" can make that change difficult. Our response to climate change is a current day parallel.As a daughter of Dutch immigrants, after visiting the museum I left feeling even greater awe of my grandmother who ran a transit home for Jews and Dutch resistors. Her clear-eyed vision of what was really happening was pragmatic and courageous. I wondered, if I had been in her shoes, if I would have done the same. My hope is that I would have.
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It's the height of irony that Mr. Krugman - in an article basically accusing the Republican Party and (in particular) its electeds of being fantasists ... that PK indulges in some intellectual legerdemain that is every bit as absurd.There IS a reason that the Fed prefers to look at measures of inflation that de-emphasize energy prices. 2022 was certainly a year in which "the price at the pump" was a very misleading measure of inflation.So, PK's seizing on "the tide going out" in that connection is every bit as deceptive!Worse, Mr. Krugman's optimism about the COST OF HOUSING is a kind of blindness or DISTORTION - very much on purpose on his part.I don't know if he's in the NY metropolitan area or DC's, but talk about "living in a bubble" - Mr. K., if your $500K starter home in most suburbs of either city comes down to $450K, that may make inflation look "beaten," but ... really?Americans get no vote, of course, on the tradeoffs between interest rates and employment rates, but if they did, I think even the average Democrat might see that food costs are still trending up, and it hurts! Ditto, RENTS.Last, there are $TRILLIONS in the current US Budget that aren't the IRS or Social Security. I tend to agree with PK that slashing most of them is a terrible idea - while putting the military on a diet would be good - but maybe most voters feel differently.His making it seem like the Republicans are all and ENTIRELY wacko makes for a fun read - but a dishonest one.
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"content": "It's the height of irony that Mr. Krugman - in an article basically accusing the Republican Party and (in particular) its electeds of being fantasists ... that PK indulges in some intellectual legerdemain that is every bit as absurd.There IS a reason that the Fed prefers to look at measures of inflation that de-emphasize energy prices. 2022 was certainly a year in which \"the price at the pump\" was a very misleading measure of inflation.So, PK's seizing on \"the tide going out\" in that connection is every bit as deceptive!Worse, Mr. Krugman's optimism about the COST OF HOUSING is a kind of blindness or DISTORTION - very much on purpose on his part.I don't know if he's in the NY metropolitan area or DC's, but talk about \"living in a bubble\" - Mr. K., if your $500K starter home in most suburbs of either city comes down to $450K, that may make inflation look \"beaten,\" but ... really?Americans get no vote, of course, on the tradeoffs between interest rates and employment rates, but if they did, I think even the average Democrat might see that food costs are still trending up, and it hurts! Ditto, RENTS.Last, there are $TRILLIONS in the current US Budget that aren't the IRS or Social Security. I tend to agree with PK that slashing most of them is a terrible idea - while putting the military on a diet would be good - but maybe most voters feel differently.His making it seem like the Republicans are all and ENTIRELY wacko makes for a fun read - but a dishonest one.\n",
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This is happening because the Lauren Boeberts of the world found an open window. It's not because anyone cares about fiscal policy or they think Kevin McCarthy shouldn't be speaker. It's all a cynical exercise in self-aggrandizement and headline grabbing, and they're too warped to understand the risks or implications.
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Luckily the PM has £700M in the bank. And the chancellor, another oligarch, who was formerly caught claiming parliamentary expenses to heat his stables, has now been revealed as a tax dodger. He even paid a fine, but when journalists got wind of this, he threatened to sue them. It also emerged today that the British government last year waived sanctions so that Vladimir Prigozhin (yes, that guy) could hire British lawyers to sue British jounalists who wanted to report his Wagner ownership.Britain may be dropping down the international rankings on living standards, and on freedom of expression, but it's certainly shooting up in the world corruption league.
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| no | Classification | 3,541 |
George I know recent grads that got their offers rescinded. I.e. people who have never experienced these perks. Any compassion for them?I know people who quit their current job for a new one and had their offers rescinded. How about them?Yes, there are also plenty of people with expensive homes with equity and savings. But a bout of extended unemployment will wreck most people's finances, especially if you're living in a high cost of living area where lots of these jobs reside. I certainly feel a lot less compassion for these layoffs than people working lower wage jobs. But, it's odd to have little compassion for people who may be experiencing a radical, forced, unwanted recreation of their life.
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| no | Classification | 3,442 |
Minting a platinum coin with a face value of $1 trillion, and then depositing it in the Treasury's checking account at the Fed so the gov't could continue to pay its bills is a swell idea. But this tactic alone doesn't hurt the GOP fat-cats.Why not take that $1 trillion and hire an army of IRS auditors to go after the top 1%, with the goal of raising a trillion dollars by April 15. And then retire that coin--smelt it, bury it--or simply declare that it's now worth one dollar. Ouch!
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| no | Classification | 3,098 |
Unless something is done about social security, this is what American retirees can look forward to.They've been keeping social security going with bandages all along.The latest is increasing income subject to withholding by another $13,200.00. That adds up to about $800 taken from the employee and $800 taken from the employer to send to social security.Since social security checks are larger on a percentage basis for the lower earners, this extra $1,600 is just a transfer from the larger earners to the smaller ones.Congress has been buying votes by thinking up all sorts of different ways to give out benefits to more and more people.Three women married to the same man for 10 years before divorce can all 3 get social security on his record.Even with the bandages, the surgery (The Rock and the Hard Place) is not too far down the road.And, the Democrats are going to throw rocks at Republicans as they try to fix this.
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How much is Harry's self respect worth?
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reaylward Yes, I just read an article by a Consumer Reports editor; if I buy a new gas range it will cost $600. If I buy an induction range & all the electrical hook-ups, it will cost $2-3,000 plus replacing 1/2 of our pots, all to get a flat stove-top that someone in this household will almost surely break--that's an added $300-800 to replace. No asthma in our entire extended family, that has been cooking with gas for 80 + years. I'll stick with gas.
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Fred Duvall Don't lump India in with Africa and the Middle East, especially when it comes to growing population. India’s population will grow another 20% before leveling off mid century around 2050 or 2060. It will then begin a slow decline and return to today’s level of 1.4 billion early next century. That’s the result of the reduction in children born to near replacement level (about 2.1 now I think), mostly attributed to rising living standards and female education, and changing cultural norms.Africa with 1.46 billion today will reach 3.92 billion by 2100. The Middle East is a minor player by comparison and a mixed bag as well. Only Egypt, Iraq, and Afghanistan continue to grow unabated into the next century, adding less than 1/4 billion to the planet by 10 billion population level of 2100. Of note, Pakistan is projected to contribute nearly 1/4 billion of added growth by 2100 too, nearly doubling, though some leveling off towards the end of that trend. Bangladesh however follows India's pattern, leveling off in the next 30 years 20% larger, before trending downward a bit faster, reaching today's level of 172 million by 2100.
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So a middle class family that makes $165K takes home after taxes, social security and medicare, and property taxes takes home $10,000 a month. One has a chronic illness so after premiums, copays, deductibles, and out of pocket charges, they pay around $1,700 a month in healthcare. $2,000 a month for childcare and after school care for a 3 year old and 6 year old. This is EVERY daycare in a 45 minute commute radius - remember they both work. Now let's layer on a $1,700 a month mortgage and this is because they got a less than 3% interest rate. If they move, their mortgage will more like $3,000 because of rising interest rates. Now let's shell out $2,000 a month for food and this is because they feed their two children and themselves fresh fruits and vegetables and lean meats. Let's factor in the price of heating and air and water and upkeep on 2 cars with 100,000 miles on them. So maybe another $500 a month. And how about gas that last year was running them $350 a month? Clothes for the children, repairs for the house and cars? Can you see how they are now down to maybe $1,000 to $2,000 a month left in discretionary income without even saving for college (hundreds of thousands per child) and retirement?Now tell me how a couple (both parents MUST work) making $80,000 or $100,000 is supposed to have children and not go into severe debt just trying to live a healthy life with their kids? Politicians cannot do the math nor can economists.
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Having viewed "The Lying Life of Adults" I find this article curious, for the author often alludes to "having read the book." Granted, Ferrante's readers may have a different reaction to the series than those, like me, who only exposure to this story is via the Netflix series. As a result, I found myself wondering about such things as "hold old is Giovanna?" (apparently 12 in the book, though we learn she is 15 turning 16 in the final episode), "when does this take place" (no cell phones), the prevalence of open misogyny, and learning that Matteo is a professor in Milan, given Giovanna's age, the seeming casual acceptance of underage relations. For me, this series hints at several things not fully realized, although they may well have been more fully articulated in the book, as Giovanna explores her identity, sexual, political, and intellectual, with flawed role models from the adults.
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People like me who are old had more job security, more unions, and more helpful government regulation. It was possible to earn a great living in corporate America, without worrying about being arbitrarily fired some Friday morning. Occasionally I reflect on wlhat I'd do differently based on today's conditions that would be different.Self-employment is the answer. I tried it at the end of my career, and it worked remarkably well in pre-retirement. Creating your own job through a business of your own (whatever that might be) is a great alternative to the cog-in-the-wheel stay-in-the-chatbot-queue of today's world. There are many business sectors where a small operator can thrive. The abject stupidity of today's corporate service businesses also creates openings for entrepreneurs. Even if you start out small and begin a collection of strip malls, it can beat punching a time clock at Boeing. Two of my fellow students from grad school--both with Ph.D's in Electrical Engineering, forged careers owning 7-11 stores. For them it was a very smart move.
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| yes | Classification | 6,653 |
From what I heard in the serving liquor business the popular spot with waiting lines and over priced drinks has a well known life cycle. If it hits it is printing money. Then the line starts to shrink and the poor start smuggling in cheap liquor and buying no overpriced drinks. It’s over. Shut down and open a new one with some wannabe footing most the bill. At the lowest end a dive bar. The pours are generous. The liquor clear. The regulars alcoholics. Not a cent spent on the place that doesn’t have to be. Cheapest rent possible. Can last twenty years. Scraping buy with the alkies. Then the beer bar. Get regulars can last a generation. Restaurants are no different. Selling a fevered dream of what royalty had for dinner is a high end niche market. Odds are it won’t last unless modern royalty like to go there regular with price no object and prices that bar the riff riff are welcomed. Foodies? You got a kitchen at home.
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mark Yeah, sure -- but the World wants Russia's Gas and Petroleum, its extracted minerals, its grains and fertilizers. I wouldn't recommend getting too ambitious with demands for reparations. A Russia without Putin leading it may well agree to a levy of 10% of the profits of proceeds from extractions of fossil fuels, but not much more. The economic sanctions are the only lever which the West has to induce Russia to ever pay anything. A best case scenario is that Russia will pay relatively modest annual reparations, spread out over over the course of Decades,
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Alan Americans are not capable of following directions. They lack precision and focus and are generally poor workers compared to those in East Asia. This is a nice absolute fact. I have taught at the university level in the USA and Hong Kong, and there is simply no comparison in the attitude toward work, commitment, directions, and authority between students and staff in both locations. This difference extends to every element of society: pharmacies, small businesses, banks, electricians, house cleaners, everything! The level of overall competence in every respect is ten times higher in Hong Kong than in the USA. Of course, we aren’t making chips here, but the fundamentals of the cultural and behavioural aspects are the same. I am saying quite literally that people here make fewer mistakes in everything they do. Because there is little room for error and failure is unacceptable.
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There is a potential upside to Santos returning to his assigned committees. When someone is summoned to testify, they can find ways to include references to Santos fables in their opening statement. And when the chair pounds the gavel, they can reply, " But Mr./Madame Chair, I'm quoting one of your esteemed committee members."
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“From 1972 to 2021, the government, on average, spent about 20.8 percent of gross domestic product while collecting about 17.3 percent of G.D.P. in revenue.”“After all, Americans don’t want large spending cuts.”The first statistic hides the fact that the majority of the debt was recently accrued. It’s not from 1972. The second quote is simply not true. There are articles in Todays NYTimes that feature the gross waste of government and frustration of the American people on bloated wasteful road construction projects…Billion dollars a mile, and wasteful defense spending.
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| no | Classification | 4,258 |
The letter writer whose friend has skipped payment should ask if perhaps the friend could pay over time. Forty dollars a week for 10 weeks is $400. Also, letter writer number one forty dollars a week for 10 weeks is only four hundred dollars— slow down.
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BenT Wonderfully pithy and concise! Strunk & White would give you an "A."...However, I still might suggest a revision or two...Consider reversing the order, of your opening and closing sentiments: "Be grateful" - and perhaps also, "Be humble" because Grace gets much too little emphasis in America - therefore make it the first rather than the last sentence; maybe also add an extra clause for emphasis: "Know thyself as you thoughtfully practise the Golden Rule during every moment, while always keeping in mind both the fullness and the littleness of Time." I think sleep requirements vary a great deal more than, "sleep 8 hours" allows because getting the right amount varies quite a bit so I might suggest, 'Be sure to get your own 'right' amount of sleep every day and don't worry if that includes napping! Definitely spend ten miutes every day in a state of Reverie getting absolutely nothing useful accomplished.'And somewhere in the mix, I would offer, "Constantly engage your common sense in all matters."
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Harry and Meghan vilify the British monarchy for being outmoded, dependent on the tabloids, racially insensitive (a down grade from the Oprah interview implication of full-blown racism) and hierarchical (!), and yet they haven't proposed renouncing their titles and Meghan still wants Archie and Lilibet to be styled as "prince" and "princess". Harry calls his step-mother a "villain", ridicules his brother's baldness, shares his sister-in-law's text messages and says he wants his father and brother back (!). H and M pal around with celebs, monetize their royalty adjacent status to the tune of (what is it now?) $100 million and cry victimhood. How long can they sing the same sad song? When are these two going to grow up and admit they are incredibly privileged and played their own petty part in this tawdry drama?
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Cantrell is being investigated by the FBI for many things. The first-class flights all over the world for dubious conferences to which she flew with her police officer boyfriend, with $39,000 in "upgrades for her security," which is in violation of city regulations requiring coach-class travel. The money from campaign funds she gave a local hairdresser to buy her thousands of dollars worth of clothes. She has a previous history during her tenure on the city council of having charged personal expenses on a city credit card. Donors have given her money to pay back some of these travel and personal expenses, but the violations still occurred. It's doubtful she'll be recalled: 54,000 signatures out of an adult population of about 290,000 is a very high bar to clear. But that doesn't make her a good mayor, and that fact has nothing to do with race or gender. It has to do with behavior. She obviously doesn't care, or there wouldn't be reports of her sitting in a bar with her boyfriend at night after being closed up with him in a city apartment all day. And Mr. Blow, you should have looked for some of her newer, "made up and dressed up" photos, not the old ones looking sober-minded. She's obviously going through a midlife crisis.
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DecliningSociety No country in the world has "open borders," including the U.S.A. There is a crisis at the border BECAUSE we don't have open borders. Who's "simply lying."
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Gigi My husband made the maximum for Social Security nearly every year. If that cap had been higher it would not have had any impact on our standard of living. And most people who earn over the income cap for Social Security are not dependent on that money to ensure they have a decent standard of living for retirement. They will yell and scream about the extra they are taxed but those people generally don't want to pay any taxes at all. Perhaps gradually increasing the cap rather than removing it altogether and changing the way Social Security benefits are computed to reduce the weight of higher earnings on the benefit computation would be fairest. But at some point, higher wage earners will have to realize that Social Security is a necessity in our society and that allowing the system to fail, go broke or force seniors into destitution is not a way to ensure a functioning society and economy. As a frame of reference- a person who worked the bare minimum amount of time and earned the minimum amount required to receive retirement benefits would receive a princely $45 a month, the average retiree receives $1700 and the maximum a retiree could receive this year is $4600. I used to work for Social Security. A man once had earnings so high he had the excess reported under his mother and fathers Social Security numbers. He was happy knowing that his high earnings would make their old age more comfortable. Sadly, I told him that was illegal.
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"content": "Gigi My husband made the maximum for Social Security nearly every year. If that cap had been higher it would not have had any impact on our standard of living. And most people who earn over the income cap for Social Security are not dependent on that money to ensure they have a decent standard of living for retirement. They will yell and scream about the extra they are taxed but those people generally don't want to pay any taxes at all. Perhaps gradually increasing the cap rather than removing it altogether and changing the way Social Security benefits are computed to reduce the weight of higher earnings on the benefit computation would be fairest. But at some point, higher wage earners will have to realize that Social Security is a necessity in our society and that allowing the system to fail, go broke or force seniors into destitution is not a way to ensure a functioning society and economy. As a frame of reference- a person who worked the bare minimum amount of time and earned the minimum amount required to receive retirement benefits would receive a princely $45 a month, the average retiree receives $1700 and the maximum a retiree could receive this year is $4600. I used to work for Social Security. A man once had earnings so high he had the excess reported under his mother and fathers Social Security numbers. He was happy knowing that his high earnings would make their old age more comfortable. Sadly, I told him that was illegal.\n",
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Panic Buttons, Classroom Locks: How Schools Have Boosted Security A new survey shows increased investments in safety measures over the past five years. Yet there are more campus gun incidents than ever. When Adam Lane became principal at Haines City High School eight years ago, there was little to stop an attacker from entering the school, which sits alongside orange groves, a livestock farm and a cemetery in Central Florida. A new survey shows increased investments in safety measures over the past five years. Yet there are more campus gun incidents than ever.
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Paul Carroll Actually, Microsoft already makes a wonderful operating system that loads in under 10 seconds. Buy a Surface laptop.If your PC isn't loading in under 5 minutes, it's because you bought from an OEM that loaded it with unnecessary bloatware or your employer has loaded multiple other apps to track your activity.
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Christopher The profit margins for Defense contractors are below 10% For investment banking they are close 100% So...if you are after money, do not go into Defense industries. Go into pharma, or finance. And no one forced East Europeans into NATO - 50 years of leaving unde Russia was the reason tehey sought NATO membership.Have you ever wondered why virtually every Russian neighbor hates and fear it?
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Serious question…really hoping someone can help me understand this.Why are some many companies laying off people by the thousands when they are still profitable? I’ve looked up quarterly net incomes for multiple companies such as Meta, Google, Microsoft, etc., and I’m seeing that they are still profitable (albeit not as profitable as they were in previous quarters) and yet that are laying people off like their companies are on the brink of a financial collapse. Why is this?The only thing I can think of is that the drops in income lead to drops in share prices and executives are fearful of shareholders outsting them for underperformance, so they cut costs to show they are solving the issue? Is that is, or is there more to it?
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"content": "Serious question…really hoping someone can help me understand this.Why are some many companies laying off people by the thousands when they are still profitable? I’ve looked up quarterly net incomes for multiple companies such as Meta, Google, Microsoft, etc., and I’m seeing that they are still profitable (albeit not as profitable as they were in previous quarters) and yet that are laying people off like their companies are on the brink of a financial collapse. Why is this?The only thing I can think of is that the drops in income lead to drops in share prices and executives are fearful of shareholders outsting them for underperformance, so they cut costs to show they are solving the issue? Is that is, or is there more to it?\n",
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Silas Campbell It also doesn’t tell us what every Republican member of Congress is doing for their pay, either. Of course, if taxpayers are only paying them $1 per day, and they are responsible for their own parking, then my question will be what ar thee doing for the money flowing into their pockets from lobbyists and wealthy donors. When I get those answers, I may be mildly interested in the contractual agreement between Hunter Biden and this or that company.
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The Visionary Robert Moses My husband and I are boomers and I'll readily admit it's a lot harder for our children than it was for us. My husband had a job in the trades. We built a custom home in 1985 on one income and three children. Two more children later I was still a stay at home mom. Our son in law makes less per hour at his factory job than my husband made in 1985. We paid under $100K for our 2000 square foot new home in 1985. The same house today would be $500K yet pays haven't quintupled in that same period, which would be the equivalent of $75/hour for the field my husband worked in. I don't think the pay is even double what my husband's hourly wage was in 1985. Cost of living has risen exponentially, yet pays are not keeping up at all. Anyone who argues otherwise is just a lying, disingenuous fool.
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I do wonder how work relationships will evolve. I still look back fondly on weeks like Christmas week where all the managers were off and us youngsters could take two hour lunches like “the adults” and get to know each other. Same for Friday evenings where many of us went to a bar a few blocks from our NYC office to chill for a bit. That faded away as we matured, met life partners, started families and moved to the burbs but their were younger employees to take our bar stools.I now work for an international corporation and work with many outsiders around the planet. But thanks to social media I still remain in contact with work friends I made in my youth. Many I no longer work with, one is a very high up executive in the company I stayed in and am comfortable chatting with her, something that wouldn’t be possible if not for our work relationships in our youth.That said, even when younger in a much less social media world, I did manage to make professional friendships with those I never physically met. It was mostly by email and phone calls back then. It was just natural for friendly chat before getting into the reason for the call and before long, if it was someone I was in contact regularly, we’d discuss other matters, such as children, sports or whatever before getting into the purpose of the call/email.
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Eric B Wordle 579 4/6*⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜🟨⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Not a stellar outcome today, but then this was no ordinary word. A go-to word for when the opener tanks helped a lot, along with the follow-up third. But then came the head-scratching time—looking at letter after letter until reaching the 'what else can it be?' moment. And there it is.Yesterday's words:STARE 17 words leftWHARF 3 words leftCHARD — words leftIt helped a lot to know that CHARM had been a solution already, which kept this from maybe going one more step. That the bot remains unaware of previous solutions is evidenced by its continued use of them as suggestions when analyzing the player's choices.And with that I take my leave; but not before congratulating all who solved today and in particular, those who solved in only a few steps.
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I think the big point here is illusive...Facebook is dying, despite it's potential to last forever, FB has alienated almost every customer in some nagging or malicious way, and is losing them at a rate of 10K per week, in some areas, more populated cities, like LA or NYC even faster, as other platforms, and the demise of Tw (at the hands of an individual) we see here that there is indeed, a lesson for us all to remember: This pandemic, which is far from totally over, in fact this winter will be very revealing-but this thing has affected..."Everybody, Everywhere, without exception and it has been adverse, we should all be aware, no one is..."as they used to be" and people are very frazzled". Let's all be kind to someone, each day...Stay Well
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Claire I’m a trans woman, too.I’m also a survivor from a domestically abusive home, from which I left at 16. My public school principal and counsellor, in the principal’s office the morning after I escaped home (with active help from several sets of parents worried for my safety), arrived to a difficult, but life-saving decision: they let my parents know, by phone, that I was safe, under care of responsible parents, and in class, but she wouldn’t release me, nor would she inform them of which parents they were.Ultimately, I moved to a different district and lived with my grandparents until graduation.That experience, followed by my own of voicing as trans at 18 and transitioning then, stuck with me. This all happened before the World Wide Web or social media. I didn’t know anybody else who was also trans. I was completely on my own.I share this because I don’t share Dr. Anderson’s opinion, however couched in professionalism and lived authenticity hers may be. In fact, I liken her published positions on coming to terms with trans and non-binary kids as an extension of the positions of the discredited Dr. Kenneth Zucker before her. Hers, like Zucker’s, is an excessively reactionary and conservative position.Between you and me as trans folk, Dr. Anderson resonates consistently as a bit salty for not having voiced as trans sooner than she was able; taking that out on trans and non-bnary kids now, under the guise of professionalism, is not a position made in good faith.
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We act like we're simply spectators to this authoritarian government that has convicted criminals in charge of the law, that aims to further oppress an occupied population in Palestine, and that uses the cover of "democracy" to justify brutal and repressive policies and actions.We, the United States, can influence this very easily by a) ending our $4 billion in weapons and other support of this right-wing government; and b) no longer exercising our veto at the U.S. Security Council to protect this government from censure and worldwide criticism.When will we turn up the heat on Congress and the Biden administration to explain why we cannot do either of the above?
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Mark McIntyre Actually, Heller did plant a mark in the ground that wasn't there before, but it did not open any floodgates to guns. It was strictly focused (from a legal basis) on the individual right to self-defense, which is not in the constitution, but which Heller made a reasonable connection to from the 2nd amendment. Heller was concerned strictly with handguns inside the home and nothing else. It explicitly stated that the ruling did not cover long guns and that they could, and should, be regulated. The court was forced into this stance by the extremism of the District of Columbia gun laws that prohibited all ownership of firearms for any reason at any time. It was a clear breech of the 2nd amendment made urgent by the fact that armed gangs were conducting home invasions in the area where Heller lived. He wanted the right to protect himself, which the court allowed.That in no way added to the flood of guns in society. That was caused by guns becoming a political issue where one political side has endorsed their use in bars and churches and elementary schools just to make a point. Every state in this country has the right to regulate firearms for the safety of their citizens as long as they don't go so far as to make a complete ban. NY recently got in trouble because their laws were tantamount to a complete ban. They are now dueling with the court on ways to technically word bans that pass muster.
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Hongrad Zeid if using his father's name as leverage to open doors and make money is the extent of his offerings to Burisma, you'll have to investigate pretty much everyone in government large or small. They all do it.Many, many years ago, when I was just out of high school, I wanted to take a job offered by the city. My father told me I could not do this as he already worked for the city and there were laws on nepotism in place. How quaint that seems to me now.
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It's funny how we are constantly told that there's a worker shortage in the U.S., accompanied by absurdly low unemployment numbers. And then we are informed by this article that the Government is spending trillions on public works projects. And in the background we're aware that there's some $1.6 Trillion in outstanding college loans, most of which will never get paid because the university educations they bought don't even provide a living wage. Not to mention the massive homelessness problem in the U.S.So, is there or isn't there a worker shortage in the U.S.? Or is the shortage, and the unemployment statistics, just another disinformation campaign?
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If there’s one thing that is clear about Santos, it’s that he’d “tilt” hard right, hard left, up, down, or diagonally if he believed that doing so would help him. The fact that he apparently sees the most personal gain in aligning with the far right extremists says a lot. The fact that they are welcoming him with open arms says even more.
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As with everything our foreign policy touches, it will come back to bite us and make us less secure. We never seem to learn from our mistakes. I see this happening with Japan. While China builds its Belt and Road trade policy, developing trade relations and investing in infrastructure at home and abroad, we bomb and arm countries. It's over. We could build twenty aircraft carriers and arm the world, it's not going to stop China's rise because they are building relationships based on mutual respect and trade. Europe is an economic mess from its proxy war with Russia, its descent into de-industrialization and recession pretty much sealed, and the U.S. is soon to follow with its bloated debt, trillion dollar deficits, and, the nail in the coffin, the end of the Petro Dollar. What's that? Most Americans are clueless but it's the end of our empire and hegemony as we know it, and sadly, our standard of living. We blew it. In a way, it may be good in the long run for world peace not to have us invading countries and stirring unrest and coups.
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it made me physically recoil and feel sick when reading $800 for an Episode-pen....whereas I suspect Sen Manchin and his CEO daughter gets an endorphin rush when reading about costs of lifesaving medicine for Americans
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Agree that MicroSoft could have and should have handled this differently. However, all these companies operate under the system we call capitalism, with ruthless focus on bottomline every quarter, consistently to generate maximum shareholder value. Shareholders first, customers second, employees third, and society/planet last. We chose this system, and do not like the 'socialism' in some European countries. We oppose government regulations for many baseline worker benefits. We get the system we want and deserve, with its pluses (make a lot of money for some when good), and minuses (fall with no social net for many).
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Jimmy This is 100% what happens in order to "accommodate". My school's evening cleaning crew is made up entirely of people with disabilities. To call their cleaning sub-par would be generous; We're all genuinely shocked that we haven't been clocked by the health inspector, yet.Despite being Early Childhood Education, where hands are touching everything before being placed in mouths and much of the day is spent on the carpet and floor rather than seats, I have seen the floor mopped once, yes, only once, in the evening and that was after asking/begging, politely, for months for it to be done--I've worked here for nearly 3 years.The daily cleanup is unevenly vacuuming the carpets for 30 seconds and taking out the trash, but sometimes in a way where food falls out and is left behind to ferment into something horrifying over the evening/weekend.My colleagues and I have learned to adapt and accommodate for the lack of any real cleaning/disinfecting by doing it all ourselves! We all pitch in to a fund that buys communal cleaning supplies like a shared vacuum, mop, pledge, window cleaner, rags, etc., so that we can spend our lunch breaks and many times evenings cleaning on our hands and knees.
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"content": "Jimmy This is 100% what happens in order to \"accommodate\". My school's evening cleaning crew is made up entirely of people with disabilities. To call their cleaning sub-par would be generous; We're all genuinely shocked that we haven't been clocked by the health inspector, yet.Despite being Early Childhood Education, where hands are touching everything before being placed in mouths and much of the day is spent on the carpet and floor rather than seats, I have seen the floor mopped once, yes, only once, in the evening and that was after asking/begging, politely, for months for it to be done--I've worked here for nearly 3 years.The daily cleanup is unevenly vacuuming the carpets for 30 seconds and taking out the trash, but sometimes in a way where food falls out and is left behind to ferment into something horrifying over the evening/weekend.My colleagues and I have learned to adapt and accommodate for the lack of any real cleaning/disinfecting by doing it all ourselves! We all pitch in to a fund that buys communal cleaning supplies like a shared vacuum, mop, pledge, window cleaner, rags, etc., so that we can spend our lunch breaks and many times evenings cleaning on our hands and knees.\n",
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Tesla lost 700 BILLION dollars over the last few months. If Elon Musk can stomach that, he can pay more in taxes. All of Wall Street and Silicon Valley can pay more in taxes, this includes all the companies that pay ZERO dollars in taxes like Nike, Archer Daniels Midland and Amazon to name a few. While we're at it, just reverse the former guy's 2017 tax cuts for billionaires. Problem solved, now go enjoy the weekend.
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"content": "Tesla lost 700 BILLION dollars over the last few months. If Elon Musk can stomach that, he can pay more in taxes. All of Wall Street and Silicon Valley can pay more in taxes, this includes all the companies that pay ZERO dollars in taxes like Nike, Archer Daniels Midland and Amazon to name a few. While we're at it, just reverse the former guy's 2017 tax cuts for billionaires. Problem solved, now go enjoy the weekend.\n",
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conryw Why can't the DEMS just tell folks the following:Cumulative jobs under successive administrations:Biden + 10.726M Trump -2.738MObama + 11.070M Bush Jr. +1.096MClinton + 22.744M Bush Sr. +2.592MCarter + 10.339M Reagan +16.102MTotal 3 Dem +44.540M vs 3 GOP +0.950MTotal 4 DEM +54.879M vs 4 GOP +17.05MIt's to even a close race. Stock market gains and thus cash flows to the investor class tell a similar story.
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"content": "conryw Why can't the DEMS just tell folks the following:Cumulative jobs under successive administrations:Biden + 10.726M Trump -2.738MObama + 11.070M Bush Jr. +1.096MClinton + 22.744M Bush Sr. +2.592MCarter + 10.339M Reagan +16.102MTotal 3 Dem +44.540M vs 3 GOP +0.950MTotal 4 DEM +54.879M vs 4 GOP +17.05MIt's to even a close race. Stock market gains and thus cash flows to the investor class tell a similar story.\n",
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It's all over now, Coxsackie. There's the word "charming" in the article describing you.Next comes "quaint" and the rest of the real-estate-industry crutch words used to describe everything in the Hudson Valley that isn't a Walmart or a scrapyard.After that come comparisons to Hudson, Rhinebeck and Kingston, and then the inevitable appearance of paycheck-hoovering foodie pretense palaces.The scooplet of tater-tot-foam plantain gravy ice cream ($53) will reportedly be divine.
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Moved to Canada just after Sandy Hook. When my partner got pregnant the first time, they lived in europe and were unable to get US health insurance as pregnancy was considered a “pre existing” condition. The Medicaid system treated us like we were low lifes. We were grateful for the care but I also thought “This is how the US treats new families, when they’re most vulnerable p?”That was the first strike. Second strike was Sandy Hook. If the US couldn’t rally after that to change gun laws I knew nothing would ever change. We moved to Canada shortly thereafter. Our experience with our second child’s birth could not have been more different. We were cared for, had a beautiful experience. Our kids have been cared for. Health care was initially $75 a month for our family but there was a provincial surplus, so now it’s free. It’s not perfect here for sure, but we’ve never been scared, even when my partner had a cancer. Now that my kids are older, the concept of a school lock down is foreign to them. Third strike was Trump and his shambles response to COVID. While people in the US rallied against mask mandates I saw teenagers here urging people to wear masks…for the sake of our elders and not getting them sick. We became Canadian citizens last year.
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"content": "Moved to Canada just after Sandy Hook. When my partner got pregnant the first time, they lived in europe and were unable to get US health insurance as pregnancy was considered a “pre existing” condition. The Medicaid system treated us like we were low lifes. We were grateful for the care but I also thought “This is how the US treats new families, when they’re most vulnerable p?”That was the first strike. Second strike was Sandy Hook. If the US couldn’t rally after that to change gun laws I knew nothing would ever change. We moved to Canada shortly thereafter. Our experience with our second child’s birth could not have been more different. We were cared for, had a beautiful experience. Our kids have been cared for. Health care was initially $75 a month for our family but there was a provincial surplus, so now it’s free. It’s not perfect here for sure, but we’ve never been scared, even when my partner had a cancer. Now that my kids are older, the concept of a school lock down is foreign to them. Third strike was Trump and his shambles response to COVID. While people in the US rallied against mask mandates I saw teenagers here urging people to wear masks…for the sake of our elders and not getting them sick. We became Canadian citizens last year.\n",
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Remember George Bush and big oil? His administration member Condeleeza Rice once said she wanted to be NFL Commissioner. That was when oil prices went sky high precipitaing economic harm in 2008. Have you noticed Republicans have always presided over historically high oil prices? Even Nixon was President when the Arabs cut off our supply of oil in the embargo. George Bush oversaw the highest prices reaching 147 dollars a barrel in July 2008. Before Trump announced, a barrel was only 19 dollars under Obama/Biden. Do you also remember when George Bush had a private pickup drive with Putin on his ranch outside Waco Texas? Do you also remember Trump had a secret meeting with Putin too? And did you remember most Trump protege' foreign trips were to oil producing nations that are all now sabotaging economies?
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We're making a big mistake by taking this route. Instead of working with China, we're actively trying to cripple China to maintain our worldwide hegemony.Why is this bad? Because what we're doing will result in our being worse off than if we just cooperated with China. Why? At its simplest, China will build their infrastructure to make those chips we've been selling to them and this is business that we will never get back.Our arrogance led us to believe that China can never achieve this. Never is a long time. It won't happen overnight, but it will happen. Huawai has already patented technology to build the core EUV tech needed for nanochips.Secondly, we don't have the talent to make these chips, we'll depend on Taiwan talent for this. Even in Taiwan their yields are only around 50% for the 3 nanometer chips. With our native talent, you think we can get better yields than Taiwan?Lastly, by the time we're actually up and running there will most likely be a glut of chips on the market driving the price down. This makes our investment next to worthless.
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Another piece of evidence that I was born ahead of my time. My closet is half filled. Most of what is hung or otherwise stored in there is 10 years old or more. I still wear dresses and dress slacks I wore 20 years ago. Granted I only have occasion to wear them once every few years! My Mom was a Home Economics major at Georgian Court College in Lakewood, NJ in the 1930’s. She was not known for her fashion sense but she taught me how to feel and judge the “hand” of woven cloth used on finished goods as well as in bolts at a sewing shop. She showed me how to judge a seam, a hem, and the effect of dart shaping.I obviously failed in my duties to teach my kids! The number of sweats and hoodies, jeans and jackets they own is other worldly to me! And, yes, they will tear, stretch, and have seams open within a short span of time at which point they will be tossed into a landfill. Replacements instantaneously arrive in a box on their doorsteps without having to leave their homes or observe the kah-ching of the credit card transaction as funds are sucked from their accounts. It’s too easy, painless and seamless!Meanwhile the landfills are digesting the “disposable” clothing at a sloth’s pace. The mountains of waiting waste may be our undoing even before Climate Change. Just another example of shortsightedness with aversion to self discipline as a human necessity. The difference between “want” and “need” is not well understood.
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The national debt increased by $7.8 trillion during the Trump administration. This was a 39 percent increase from the debt prior to his taking office. <a href="https://marketrealist.com/p/national-debt-under-trump" target="_blank">https://marketrealist.com/p/national-debt-under-trump</a>/If Republicans in the House of Representatives don't want to pay up, instead of pretending the Democrats are to blame, they should send the bill where it really belongs: to Mar-a-Lago.
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The recent revelation about access by obscure and privileged groups is what is more alarming. If, for years, organisations such ALEC and the Federalist Society and the Scalia 'mafia' alumni clerks circumvented the course of justice, by being open to influence, then the constitutional legitimacy of SCOTUS has been undermined and should be challenged. Now that all branches of government are proving to be as dysfunctional as the US Post Service, we should be very worried. I agree with another reader on separate news item, who noted that the SCOTUS is now on par with the Religious Council in Iran. The Court has issued proclamations that are out of step with democratic values and expressed wishes of the citizens. Expand it or gut it.♟️
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Diane B I just read an article, admittedly in one of the British tabloids (<a href="https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/style/1717812/meghan-markle-two-engagement-rings-trevor-engelson-prince-harry" target="_blank">https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/style/1717812/meghan-markle-two-engagement-rings-trevor-engelson-prince-harry</a>), comparing the engagement ring given to Markle by her former husband (13,000 GBP) and the one Harry presented her (120,000GBP).She modified the ring within 18 months, having the plain band removed and replaced with a thin band of diamonds. Guess it wasn’t fancy enough. Or maybe she just needed to out karat Kate’s heirloom from Diana.If this doesn’t show a woman who has to have things her way I don’t know what does.
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One laughable, maybe sad, aspect of the Santos case: our local paper is reporting that his big donors are outraged over his deceptions and want their money back. Of course, when they were exposed to his far-right, anti-Semitic and white supremacist leanings, they still opened their wallets wide and didn’t seem to be outraged back then. It’s an episode that tells you a lot about certain portions of the 3rd District.
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Bret, rather than a low universal flat tax, how about a high universal flat tax, but with one whopping standard deduction... say $500,000 (to pick an arbitrary, generous number). The flat tax rate could be something like 67%. Get rid of all other deductions, and you'd have a simple, and viable number. Nobody making less than $500K would pay a cent in taxes (including your suffering two-income coastal elite professional couple), and anyone should be able to live on $500K a year. Most tax returns could be postcards. Throw in an assets tax of 1% on all assets after $10M and you've got a decent tax code.
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"content": "Bret, rather than a low universal flat tax, how about a high universal flat tax, but with one whopping standard deduction... say $500,000 (to pick an arbitrary, generous number). The flat tax rate could be something like 67%. Get rid of all other deductions, and you'd have a simple, and viable number. Nobody making less than $500K would pay a cent in taxes (including your suffering two-income coastal elite professional couple), and anyone should be able to live on $500K a year. Most tax returns could be postcards. Throw in an assets tax of 1% on all assets after $10M and you've got a decent tax code.\n",
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My 27 year old son (with an ASD disorder) is employed full time for a local hospital system in their medical records division. Full benefits and $15.25 allows him to live independently in the community, while experiencing the richness of meaningful employment. He does not require accommodations now that he’s fully trained.I spent four years managing a facility-based sheltered employment non-profit, under a 14(c) certificate. Certainly, many of the persons working at the facility could work in competitive employment (with the appropriate initial and/or ongoing supports). We routinely collaborated with other agencies to place people in supported competitive employment. Often, these same people CHOSE to return to sheltered employment, for a variety of reasons, including a desire to be with their peers, the restricted work hours in competitive employment situations, and the daily stresses of competitive employment.It’s easy to be critical of 14(c) certificates. We served many people with severe ID’s that are unlikely to be successful in competitive employment situations, regardless of the supports. Persons with ID’s (in consultation with their families and/or guardians if applicable) should be free to make choices as to the direction of their lives, whether that involves sheltered employment or supported competitive employment. Abolishing 14(c) certificates may increase the number of people with ID’s in competitive employment, but it will adversely many others.
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saxon212 It is rare. There is still a considerable amount of gold though. By some estimates, over the eons, some 700 trillion dollars' worth have washed into the ocean floors alone. Some things are best kept rare. I suppose this is the theory behind diamonds. Gold, like bitcoin, is expensive to mine. Gold however, unlike bitcoin, has both an industrial and investment market. Both markets compete and as with any commodity (oil a case in point) thus, bringing too much into supply potentially decreases its value. The cost of production can't exceed its market value (I suppose speculative hoarding that may occur might influence this) to make a profit thus, the gold at the bottom of the sea will see (no pun intended) the light of day when it is worthwhile.
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"content": "saxon212 It is rare. There is still a considerable amount of gold though. By some estimates, over the eons, some 700 trillion dollars' worth have washed into the ocean floors alone. Some things are best kept rare. I suppose this is the theory behind diamonds. Gold, like bitcoin, is expensive to mine. Gold however, unlike bitcoin, has both an industrial and investment market. Both markets compete and as with any commodity (oil a case in point) thus, bringing too much into supply potentially decreases its value. The cost of production can't exceed its market value (I suppose speculative hoarding that may occur might influence this) to make a profit thus, the gold at the bottom of the sea will see (no pun intended) the light of day when it is worthwhile.\n",
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Thank you for shining a light on this. It happens here too, all too often. And we must talk to our kids about it.Those looking for ways to support Kara Olmurani, look them up and see the many ways to get involved and make donations. For example, they are looking for $20K to purchase a van so they have better transportation for the girls they shelter. Surely interested readers here can make that happen.
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Companies that follow ESG guidelines are trying to capture billions of dollars of investment capital, not because they’re “woke”. It’s capitalism in its purest form.The Inflation Reduction Act removed the immediate uncertainty around regulatory risk. If companies don’t follow the guidelines, their shareholders will suffer. Companies will be exposed to huge and avoidable tax liabilities. Their Boards have a fiduciary responsibility to the shareholders to not take on unnecessary risk and to maximize the returns.
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🌸🌸🌸 Same letter list, with mnemonics1/20/23aloof, falloff, foal, loaf, loofa, offalThe FOAL is so ALOOF, he didn’t notice how his FALLOFF of OFFAL forms a LOAF shaped like a LOOFA.gallop, galopThe GALOP dance imitates the GALLOP of a horse.goggle, google, loge, ogleThe best part of opera-going is getting to OGLE and GOGGLE at all the people in the fancy LOGE boxes and GOOGLE their deets.elope, lope, people, poleOur PEOPLE won’t let us marry, so let’s LOPE past the POLE and ELOPE.flog, golfThe street vendor was trying to FLOG used GOLF balls.googol, logoThe math nerds hacked the Google LOGO into the hundred 0’s of a GOOGOL.gloop, glopThe tarpit followed the occasional GLOP with an ominous GLOOP.goop, pogoGood thing GOOP doesn’t sell a POGO stick.lollop, loop, plop, poll, polo, poolThe POLO team took a POLL on how to make their entrance and choose to LOLLOP in a LOOP around the POOL and PLOP in all at once.Finding ways to link words sharing letters helps me remember them. I aim for drama and the bizarre, to make an emotional impact. Hope they help you. Good Bees 🐝🐝🐝to all!
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It is easy to read this headline as another fear mongering attention grabber, however, the danger of indoor air pollution from gas stoves is not a new discovery. In fact, indoor air pollution has been studied extensively and is know to be many times worse than outdoor pollution, even in the US and Europe. Though it is far worse in places where cooking is done on open fires inside or kerosene lighting is common.Indoor air pollution is not regulated and there are no federal guidelines or policies. It can be as much as five times (and sometimes 100x) higher than outdoor pollution. Gas stoves are major contributor to PM2.5, particles that are one of the worst for our respiratory system.It is always surprising to me that readers just dismiss this information without really seeking to do some research themselves.
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I’m glad to see that the restaurant lobby is finally coming under some scrutiny. It was incredibly frustrating to see them push their way to the front of the line to receive all sorts of assistance, both public and private, during the pandemic, while other industries, especially the arts, were shoved to the back of the line, which led to extended closures and huge budget cuts that are still impacting their finances three years later.It also does not escape my notice that the restaurant lobby was also a major influence on the decision to end pandemic benefits, as they wanted to force workers back into their kitchens and dining rooms.
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I don’t understand the incentive to find medical therapies to extend life to 150 years when so many we share the planet with will still be living in poor health. Money? Vanity?Really, it takes a special kind of arrogance to think the world would benefit from your life being extended to an extreme degree. Maybe the money on this research would be better spent trying to understand how to spread compassion and human solidarity. Oh yeah, and maybe spending a bit more time reconciling ourselves with Death.
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| no | Classification | 2,767 |
The Prosecutor got over $300,000 added to his budget and hired a Special Prosecutor to shield himself....He had to prosecute to keep that tax money and his Prosecutor.... Budgeted money can never be given back...The DA knows that just isn't done..He had to protect his budget and his people....It's not about justice here, it's about the money and the power!!
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Our 3rd period art class thinks it's a group of men who work together who are doing karaoke or other type of "open mic" things while off-duty on a boat. The microwave is bracketed down, and the tables look like they're on poles attached to the floor. The posters and signs on the back wall suggest a work environment (especially the "drug and alcohol warning notice'), but the presence of what appears to be beer on the tables suggest off-duty. The extreme angle of the handrail just visible in the opening on the upper right indicate the kind of steep stairs typical on ships, and the paneling on the walls is apparently common on ships (according to our custodian who happened to come in and comment on the photo). Clearly a non-military ship, as the men are dressed very casually.
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| no | Classification | 1,046 |
Tim and still "do-able" if both make just over $100,000. $135,000 in 2001 $s is not wealthy, but it was very "do-able".
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Usok I don't know anyone who is tired of supporting a country which has been invaded by its neighbor and is willing to fight to the death for its autonomy. We're spending roughly the equivalent of 5% of our annual military budget and the rewards have been orders of magnitude more effective. Our alliances with like-minded nations have been strengthened as we rally around our common ideals. We're watching a nuclear state go down the drain in real time like Twitter and for much the same reason. A single person in charge with a warped sense of morality and no accountability is wasting resources because their ego won't permit them to consider the error of their ways. It's simple, you either oppose fascists and dictators, or you don't.
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"content": "Usok I don't know anyone who is tired of supporting a country which has been invaded by its neighbor and is willing to fight to the death for its autonomy. We're spending roughly the equivalent of 5% of our annual military budget and the rewards have been orders of magnitude more effective. Our alliances with like-minded nations have been strengthened as we rally around our common ideals. We're watching a nuclear state go down the drain in real time like Twitter and for much the same reason. A single person in charge with a warped sense of morality and no accountability is wasting resources because their ego won't permit them to consider the error of their ways. It's simple, you either oppose fascists and dictators, or you don't.\n",
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Just read the self-justifying piece by Bob Good, in this space. No area of comment is open.We'll be seeing a lot of this -- pure sophistry, pretending to want to 'open' Congress to bleacher-member participation. He ignores the ability of his own caucus to hammer out its own rules of input and voting.It also ignores 30 years of Republican blockading as a partisan principle, which is one of the reasons why there's so little time for any input in the House. Good's final 2 paragraphs contain an amusing malapropism. Arguing for the end of one-size-fits-all laws (by which he means that omnibus or edited laws don't let red states opt-out of all federal regulation or tax) he cautions us against "on-demand society we live in" as if that's the same thing as one-size only. 'On-demand' means "made to personal order," exactly what a disorderly anarchist is looking for.
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"According to court documents filed by the S.E.C., Harbor City told investors that it had discovered a way to make guaranteed money by investing in digital marketing and advertising.""a way to make guaranteed money"Ding-ding-ding!Danger, Will Robinson!Alert! Alert!Someone promising 16% return during the very low inflation/interest rates of early 2021?Might as well put up the Wanted: posters right away.
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Judge Orders Trump and Lawyer to Pay Nearly $1 Million for Bogus Suit After the scathing ruling, the former president also dropped a lawsuit against New York’s attorney general that had been pending before the same judge. In a scathing ruling, a federal judge in Florida on Thursday ordered Donald J. Trump and one of his lawyers together to pay nearly a million dollars in sanctions for filing a frivolous lawsuit against nearly three dozen of Mr. Trump’s perceived political enemies, including Hillary Clinton and the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey. After the scathing ruling, the former president also dropped a lawsuit against New York’s attorney general that had been pending before the same judge.
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This is infuriating. If China and Turkey want partners like Russia, good luck to them long term. But they should not have the benefit of trade from us. And we should not count on them. They clearly cannot be relied on to act responsibly. Of course, as is often pointed out, the US did wage an extremely egregious war in Iraq, which is part of the reason why some countries dismiss our position now. That war was heinous, and Ukraine is paying a price partly because of our now-weakened moral authority. It was not, at any rate, unvarnished expansion of territory. And if countries cut off trade from us as a result - I would have applauded them. All the extra cost we are bearing to support Ukraine, and much of the rebuilding cost that Ukraine will require, ought to go back one way or another to Russia - and to those who are supporting Russia's invasion, notably China. War and reparations tariffs ought to be put into place post-haste. And any American company that is weasling profits out of sales that they have reason to know are intended for Russia - they should be prosecuted and shamed.If we have to undergo a recession to do the right thing, we still have to do the right thing. It's the best path for the long term.
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At the end of previous administration the debt was 26.7 Trillion not 4 Trillion - mostly due to freebies in millions doled out to business owners of which less than 30 percent reached the employees.
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Greg Wow, Greg, you really think capitalism is magic! I sup[pose you think low job openings will somehow solve all the other problems, too, why stop here.
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Actually, I don't mind it when judges are appointed by majority rule, R.P.It's when they're appointed by minority rule that you have a recipe for disaster.Five of the current justices were appointed by virtue of the Electoral College, and two of them were the beneficiaries of direct assistance by Jeb Bush's illegal 1998 and 1999 Florida central voter file purge and other 2000 GOP political hit squad voter suppression tactics.And tell me what was 'democratic' about Monarch Mitch McConnell's unprecedented obstruction of the Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland by a twice popularly elected President ?There's noting 'democratic' about the current makeup of the Supreme CourtThis Court is an 'democratic' practical joke.Lift your head up.Open your eyes.
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"content": "Actually, I don't mind it when judges are appointed by majority rule, R.P.It's when they're appointed by minority rule that you have a recipe for disaster.Five of the current justices were appointed by virtue of the Electoral College, and two of them were the beneficiaries of direct assistance by Jeb Bush's illegal 1998 and 1999 Florida central voter file purge and other 2000 GOP political hit squad voter suppression tactics.And tell me what was 'democratic' about Monarch Mitch McConnell's unprecedented obstruction of the Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland by a twice popularly elected President ?There's noting 'democratic' about the current makeup of the Supreme CourtThis Court is an 'democratic' practical joke.Lift your head up.Open your eyes.\n",
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Ben Goodness, so many assumptions make it so simple to construct an open and shut case!Baldwin was the producer. He was responsible for the entire production, yet he didn't check a potentially dangerous prop he was using himself.There's your first mistake.
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Some great things in the bill, but as usual no across the board prescription price cuts. Sure, Congress talks about how they’ve cut prices for some (appx 10 drugs) . They don’t take effect for several years and are a drop in the bucket and don’t even touch on the most used drugs such as Eliquis which continues to climb in price and there is a generic but the pharma folks keep making unimportant tweaks to extend their patents..It’s all just a shameless hustle
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dlb I wish the Democrats would come out and push for increased taxes to fund the investments we need to make as a country. Adding much more to the debt thru more deficit spending is not desirable much longer - in fact with rates going higher, that would be more expensive than financing thru additional taxes. Maybe do a short term surcharge?
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Paul Colson - Healthcare reform needs to start with returning to one visit/one bill (1V/1B). If I can go to the ER and pay the co-pay, I get 20% off. This tells me that 20% of my bills are for bill processing. 1V/1B would reduce billing expenditures. I go to the ER and then get a separate bill from each doctor, service provider and the hospital; some providers I never heard of. Everybody wants payment in full or a large monthly payment. For lower income people not on a government plan, it is difficult to make all these payments. 1V/1B would allow people to pay one bill each month with an affordable monthly payment. Maybe everyone wouldn't get paid as fast but everyone would get paid. This could result in lower health care costs
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Not sure if such a league will generate $11 billion in broadcast revenue or $4.4 billion in advertising revenue for media partners. Not to mention ticket sales, parking, merchandise, concessions, et al. But give it a whirl and start the league. You never know ...
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Moore Waite I'm not sure what information you're using to form these opinions, but for most folks actually living in Florida, his actions and policies are broadly reinforcing local agendas. Yesterday for example, he signed an executive order for $3.5 billion in spending on a variety of environmental protections. His handling of the Hurrican Ian emergency/devastation at a local level before and after the storm as any governor that we've had (I'm a native Floridian). Is he political...sure. I see you're from Mass...your folks are not? Somewhere in your information assessment you have to take into account his reelection margin and ask if that aligns with your narrative. Most Floridians find him supportive of local communities as a whole.
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