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J Hagen Most Americans can't afford a surprise expense of $500--I highly doubt "many people" lost a "small fortune" last year. The stock market is not the economy. Maybe if the extremely wealthy were forced to pay their fair share in taxes they wouldn't be gambling on the stock market (when stock prices are entirely divorced from actual company value, it's gambling not investing).
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Around 2010, we were ensconced in our happy Los Angeles life, where we had met and raised our son. We had a lovely house on a quiet street adjacent to Marina del Rey. Suddenly everything changed. Google moved in about a mile south of us, the open land was turned into THOUSANDS of cheap apartments, and the land and real estate gold rush was on. The same thing happened in once sleepy little Marina del Rey. Thousands of new apartments. No change to existing roads. Waze brought speeding sports cars past our house, and the streets were clogged with too many cars for the infrastructure. It became a nightmare. In 2017, we bailed. Sold the house and left. I hear nothing but bad reviews of the apartments. As the lady said in this article: "bottom of the barrel materials" were used, and you could hear conversations throughs the walls. And charging top dollar. Who wins here? This was certainly not affordable housing, trust me.
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Profligate Penguin These companies are not collectives, they’re corporations. When the workers who are paid $200,000 are given stock options as part of the compensation package, they share in the profit. It’s ridiculous to frame techies as underpaid, overworked factory workers who work for minimum wage. You could ask any of them about their perks if you could catch one of them who is not on a golf cart tooling around the Google campus to pick up their dry cleaning, taking a cooking class at noon and waiting for a lightsaber class immediately after their free dinner. The tech bros really enjoy the rich frat boy lifestyle.
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Most colleges/universities are tax exempt. As an example, this from Harvards website:"President and Fellows of Harvard College is exempt from federal income tax as an educational institution under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended."it has a 53.2 billion dollar endowment and billions in revenue but does not pay taxes- or a significant amount of taxes.
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K. Bloomfield I have a really hard time seeing Citizens United as the cause of this, about as a hard as I do seeing 5G as the cause of COVID.Both sides spent a lot of money on independent expenditures last election. I got regular emails from IE groups asking for money to spend on ads trashing out Marjorie Taylor Greene (and this was on top of the $3+ million Marcus Flowers raised for his campaign—somehow we don't find that objectionable), among others. The sin here is that both RedStone and Rise NY seem to have spent money in ways they are not permitted to (and in the former case, avoided making even the minimal disclosures they were required to). The laws they appear to have broken were in place before 2010 and are still very much in force, as the article says.
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Karin A neighbor and I attended the same High School in the 1970s, though we were not close friends. She was tall, as am I and she constantly wanted to borrow my clothes, though she was a size larger. I always told her no as I did not want my clothes stretched out, nor did I wish to loan them. Once when I was not home, she went to my house and rang the doorbell. When my mother opened the door, she stepped inside, brushing past my mother and telling her I had said she could borrow some dresses. She left with three as my mother was gob smacked by the intrusion. When I arrived home and was told what happened, I marched up the street to her house, rang the doorbell and stepped in past her mother when she opened the door. I announced that I was retrieving my clothes. Her mother actually tried to stop me by saying they were her daughter's clothes. I left with my dresses and I don't think I ever again said but a few words to the girl.
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John Because it IS a solution to logistics. The company is able to much better predict how many cars, and when, it'll have them available. Customers are far more likely to show up, or call and cancel, when they're going to lose $50 or $100 if they don't. A deposit is the only way.
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A HUGE part of the problem is that hiring is a pain in the behind. And time consuming. For any opening, dozens of people can make themselves look good on paper. Which one can actually get along with people, show up on time, stay late when needed, learn on the fly, and keep plugging away until the task is done?People doing the hiring look for evidence for qualities like these. A degree is an imperfect proxy. Job experience is a better one. Professional references are even better but historically have resulted in old-boys networks that excluded many. If you want to match talent to opportunity, find a way to make hiring work better. Otherwise the people doing the hiring will just stick with their imperfect proxies.
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I'll be 80 this month. In 2006 after being downsized shortly before 65, I started a small business with my husband who was still working. A year ago we moved to a smaller storefront with fewer hours and no more trade show stands, but we are still turning a nice profit to supplement our pensions and love what we do so much that we will continue to keep this open as long as we can. The interaction with walk in customers as well as the International nature of what we buy and ship has been an intense source of pleasure for many years. And when it started, we considered it a 3-5 year "thing" until we really retired.A gentleman we knew told us, don't ever fully retire - that's when the world forgets about you.
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Who really cares anymore.Cut Israel loose and we save 5 billion a year in aid.An ally like Israel we can ill afford.Bye bye Bebe.
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Congress covers each other’s backs on illegal actions and business. Yes, that’s certainly true. While we can’t hope to clean up the Senate and House with one investigation, can we at least know who gave Santos the limo ride into the House? And seriously, Santos owes somebody $700,000 plus in future voting the “right way.” Let’s pick up the rock and see what or who is under there. See who crawls out.One fact in our technology driven society, nothing ever truly goes away on the web.Texts, emails, photos, messaging, call logs.Let the investigations begin. Dig deeply, please. If Santos had taken care of his court case in Brazil and come back to the USA and lived a decent life, he could have run as HIMSELF! I think Santos has serious defects of character made much worse by mental illness. But he must be made accountable and this investigation should go forward.
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When we say "Money is Speech" and can be considered such when it comes to campaign financing, this is the end result. Money has no scruples. Money has no ethics. Money simply seeks a Return On Investment. And Mr. Santos' vote in the US Congress was exactly that, a ROI for a political party.Money also buys customized, partisan, district maps (aka gerrymandering); it finds ways of getting decent people to start cutting corners; and, by being allowed to finance (as we're discovering) individual candidates independently from the Party that is supposed to be sponsoring the candidate, Money undermines and undercuts whatever leverage a political party is supposed to exercise in the mission to provide legitimate representation for the project of American democracy.Money, so directly applied to a political process that is so dependent on Trust, will corrupt that Democracy, as history has told us happens to any Government that opens itself up to Money's siren call without oversight.The George Santos Saga should be telling America: This is the future of your Democracy, if you do not take corrective measures to rein in Money's place in American politics and electoral system. Beware. We have been warned!
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So Weisselberg is repaying $2 million in NY taxes, yet the most the company can be fined is $1.6 million. I know that's NYS law, but I thought companies were people too these days. And will we find out what his 'severance' payment is? Inquiring minds want to know.
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These tech companies need only look at the histories of Kodak, International Harvester, the Bell Telephone local companies to see what happens when a company reduces its non-monetary benefits as well as its research work forces with the idea of improving its capitalization & stock prices to satisfy investors.
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Steve LIt's historical. IBM came out with the "IBM PC" computer and it ran PC-DOS which Microsoft created from an earlier DOS. Microsoft had the right to produce its own version, MS-DOS, and computers that ran MS-DOS were said to be "PC compatible" . Over time, they just became known as "PCs".
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stefanie I am the Tiffany in the article. You are absolutely right, and in a Court that might be true, and it should be true in arbitration... but in reality, it only matters if you can afford to fight for that ruling. My attorney's have given more of themselves than could ever have been expected, but UB and DLA Piper have a blank check. For every $10k in time my lawyers give, they bury us in $100k in new filings. It feels impossible most days, but the prospect of giving up feels worse, and The franchisees need to see that it can be done, that their voices matter. So we keep fighting, with everything I have, and everything I am.
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Philippe Egalité If we had more public investment in in science, it would just provide more scientific evidence for conservatives to deny."Public" investment in the U.S. is deemed socialism. Right now the GOP is threatening to refuse to raise the U.S. debt limit, not because they care about the debt, but because they want to reduce spending on things they don't want to pay for - public things. They are willing to destroy the U.S. economy to get what they want. Private things, on the other hand, they will fund because it puts money into the pockets of wealthy individuals and corporations who support them. They will approve billions for the military-industrial complex, but nothing for public healthcare. Capitalism now controls the purse strings of scientific spending. Pure science and "eureka!" are out. Corporate profit is in. All of this is sold to the conservative base as supporting "real American” values. Don’t fund public education, but fund private education that teaches creationism. Don’t fund secular science that produces "wokeness." "Woke" has become the new conservative swear word. If you are educated and “woke,” you are smeared as an "elite." Scientists are part of the educated "elite" class. According to conservatives, scientists who battled COVID produced "fake" science. Science is a dangerous thing in the conservative mind – it produces findings that don’t mesh with the conservative world view.That’s not what “real Americans” want.
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Nicholas Kristof, Thank you for writing about a mostly taboo subject. Rape is a global epidemic. The stories you shared are all too familiar to me. I am a white, American woman, age 66, who has been healing from the trauma of having suffered multiple rapes throughout my childhood. All occurred during my early years - ages 4 - 11. I knew my rapists, (all white, well-educated adult males, who were respected in their professions) including; a close family member, a dentist and a neighbor. I reported the earliest incident to my mother (I was bleeding, in shock and pain) and later to a teacher and a friends mother, and was told by all to never talk about "such awful things". I was shut down and learned young to disassociate from these random, violent events. I felt dirty with shame and it has taken most of my life to heal. When I was a young adult and strong enough to confide in friends about my past, I heard many equally horrific stories and learned that rape of children in America, young girls and boys, is a reality that is mostly silenced. News articles about rape often highlight foreign countries, which may further the illusion that our country is exempt. Rape is a taboo, global subject that needs to be brought into the light of day, boldly and honestly in order for change to happen. The "Me too movement" opened a door, yet, there are many more to open...
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Happy in La Paz I got hearing aids a few months ago. I can now hear my phone through my hearing aids, which not only helps me hear the caller, but gives me a hands free experience. They aren't cheap, but my insurance paid for 2/3 of the cost. I realize not everyone has insurance that would help pay for them, or the wherewithal to make the co-pay. I am just reporting on my experience and wishing insurance was universal for all of us!
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Is there a legitimate reason for deficits? Certainly. Borrowing money to finance the construction of an aircraft carrier might be a good example.But since 2008, in every single year (with the lone exception of 2015) the federal deficit, expressed as a percentage of GDP, has been greater than the year over year growth in GDP itself. (stlouisfed.org)Think about that statement for a moment. Also consider this. When GDP is calculated roughly 1/2 of all government spending is considered an addition to GDP. There is no room in the comments to explain this to you, but if you do a search you will come to understand how the calculations are made. The economists out there will also understand how the money multiplier used to increase GDP when debt was relatively low but barely does so today with such high debt levels.We have a debt ceiling. But it's just eye candy for the masses. It's a political game. If the Treasury Department can play games with federal financial obligations, does the debt ceiling even matter? Of course not.Meanwhile, as a nation we go further and further down the debt hole. What we are seeing today is debt racked up in large part to fund day to day operations. Think of a business borrowing money in order to make payroll.This is the result of Mr. Bernanke's grand economic experiment. Most signed onto to his grand plan because it was the easy way out of the financial crisis. Today Ben is gone. Someone will have to make hard choices.
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China is being a brute.In the short term, it works. In the long term, resentment often builds and destroys initial gains.In general, China is over-extended in many areas. China is expecting other countries to repay the investments; they should realize that most will not be able to.
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Here ya goDefense budget 857 BillionNASA budget 25 BillionWhy ?We need to save our planet, not go to Mars.We certainly have enough to defend ourselves already.Case closed.
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Nearly 14 years ago, I started a new job, in a new town, in a new state. My husband and I had left our home/jobs/friends of 23 years. My new colleagues were very welcoming, which helped me to be uncharacteristically open to input. I left that job after about two years, but kept in touch and developed connections between my old and new places of employment. Four years later, I returned to my original job in this town - I had really missed my team! To this day, although some of us are retired, I remain good friends with three of those colleagues, and reached out to new colleagues who joined our team, who also became good friends. Most of these friendships have to do with our status as colleagues. Happily, though, two of my friends are much more than work buddies!
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Your commenters are not well informed. There is a reason ~50% of Medicare recipients freely choose Medicare Advantage—Blue Cross and all the other secondary insurers screw them. It will cost you almost $300 a month for your supplemental policy. It’ll cost you nothing for an advantage plan. I just had my cataracts operated under my Advantage plan. I paid a total of $200, $100 per eye. And I should pay Blue Cross $300 a month for what?I’d be happy with traditional Medicare if they cut out the outrageous “co-insurance”. Increase my Medicare Part B by $50/month and we’d all go back, at least most of us because we wouldn’t have to get the mother-may-I referral every time we see the specialist. Medicare is a very good thing. Offer it to everyone like the Advantage plans and see over 50% of those under 65s rush into it. No $10,000 deductibles like employer plans. No prior auths. You would essentially have a national health plan and no one would be forced to use it. They’d rush into it.
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John Oh, sure! My point is that none of the potential charges are directly related to committing fraud by running for office and that is the biggest problem. The $700K he loaned his campaign is only a problem because it may not have been declared income.Citizens United is only one aspect of the Swiss cheese that is our constitution. I highly recommend people read Prof. Sanford Levinson's Our Undemocratic Constitution. We are in even deeper trouble than most of us know.
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John Median income in the US is $31K (2019). The 50% you reference make that or less. There's not much you can make off that group without leaving them utterly destitute.
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Both parties are corrupt. I'm ok with higher taxes but it would be nice for some accountability. We spend trillions of dollars and we seem to be going backwards or at least not improving. Look at infrastructure. California is trying to build a high speed train and it is way over budget and has no realistic completion date. Oregon and Washington need a bridge over the Columbia River and they have spent over $400 million arguing about it. We spend more per student than any other developed country and we are falling behind. Right now it seems like the only thing we are good at is making weapons for war.
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The ARM microarchitecture is overwhelming used in microcontrollers today. I agree with your point however bear in mind that chip companies seek more advanced fabrication technologies (10 nm and below) for cost reasons, and those economies of scale impact microcontrollers just as much as the latest Nvidia deep learning ASICs with their 50 billion transistors.
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Landgirl Spot on! Pay attention to the big elephant in the room:cheap, built for obsolescence, & obscene shareholder profits $$$. LOL...deconstruct the price tag of a $100 pair of sneakers: minimal labor & materials cost, big marketing costs, big shareholder dividends, big executive salaries. The consumer pays for not all.
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Addicted I can vouch for both sides. We bought a car from Carvana. It was a great car, exactly what we wanted, got delivered to our door, and cost at least $1000 less than a similar vehicle anywhere else. Their policy that you could return it within a week was reassuring; we had a mechanic look at it and got a seal of approval.However.... the big problem came when it was time to get the car registered. This was supposed to be handled by Carvana and to happen within a couple of weeks. (Our temporary plates would expire soon after.) But it didn't happen -- though we called, and called -- and we couldn't even get the materials from Carvana to go and take to the DMV and deal with it ourselves. It took them several weeks to get our car registered -- so long that we were driving with expired temporary plates for two or three weeks. That was after multiple complaints and phone calls.It's not that Carvana was selling cars that didn't belong to them, precisely. But their handling of paperwork around titles and registration seemed like an absolute mess. It seemed like they just didn't have enough employees assigned to do the job thoroughly and properly. Do I regret the purchase of the car? Certainly not, it was a great car. Do I think the company had major problems with how it filed paperwork? Absolutely.
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dave That must have been frozen farmed salmon. Out here in the Bay Area, wild salmon runs over $25 a pound. Even at TJ's, the frozen salmon costs more than $11 a pound.
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Mike Allan I agree. There have been air quality concerns regarding poorly vented, low-end gas ranges for decades. Now everyone is jumping on the bandwagon against ALL gas ranges, when we know they are superior for most cooking. We tested our air quality and found no issues with our high-end Wolf gas range top. My $1500 free-standing induction burner is reserved for situations where temp control is absolute, like deep frying. I could never char peppers on it. I was really initially pleased to see that the NYT Wirecutter came out with a fairly reasonable position on gas ranges, but then I was shocked when they retracted it to toe the party line. I'm pro choice on ranges, just like I am on social issues.
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What happened to "Live and Let Live". I have always viewed Montana as a place that represented American freedom, great outdoors and the beauty of an unbounded population. Now it has become a refuge for the small minded who view the USA as; "There is an open war on Christianity in this country."So sad that what was once a place viewed as a last hope for people seeking the serenity. It has become a place of confinement. Rules, moral judgement, and loss of freedoms, all led under the notion of religion for all.(Oh, our family lived in Flathead County for years before this group got it's hook in the area).
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Thank you Gail Collins for doing more than just feeding Bret Stephens straight lines. It's a breath of fresh air.Especially this: "...raise taxes on high-income earners and corporations that have used the current laws to avoid paying their fair share."We have record levels of inequality in this country - yet we have people like Elon Musk who can casually toss away billions running a company into the ground to gratify his ego, or Jeff Bezos whose fortune would continue to expand at an incredible rate simply from piling up interest.It might be nice to mention a modest proposal from Senator Warren:The Ultra-Millionaire Tax would bring in at least $3 trillion in revenue over 10 years - without raising taxes on the 99.95% of American households that have net worth below $50 million• A 2% annual tax on the net worth of households and trusts between $50 million and $1 billion• A 1% annual surtax (3% tax overall) on the net worth of households and trusts above $1 billionInstead we have the dead on arrival (hopefully) "Fair" tax that would hit that 99.95% hardest - and hardly be noticed by the rest.
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Jorge Cubicle? This concept is also at the root of the problem. For so many "office" workers an OFFICE used to be provided with the ability to call forward to another team member (a.k.a. a secretary) who was familiar with you and your work and could coordinate the team's communication and work flows along with being a liaison to the team's manager, etc.And "call forward" meant just that, no interruption. And a closed door meant just that, no knocking or opening.How simple all this used to be. I even remember when the number of personal calls tended to be quite limited because office workers, secretaries, and managers used to spend most of the day WORKING.And "working" also meant talking "face to face" with other ten member(s), which tended to be quite productive!Lunch was also taken by all in most jobs. Eating was done without interruption and generally with other team members, all "face to face". . . Another radical concept!
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As a Canadian living in the USA I will say that a lot of this is driven by fear. Americans seem to think they need to defend themselves (I guess Republican or Democrat they don’t trust the police). They allow the wealth inequality to fester and then don’t trust their neighbours. Household security is often justification for a weapon at home. Personal safety the justification for open carry or carry on your person. While living in Canada I never assumed that in an emergency the police wouldn’t help me. That the response wouldn’t be quick enough. I also never assumed my neighbours were a threat. In fact I assumed they were more likely to come to my aid and I certainly would have come to theirs.The pervasive message of fear sold by the media and likely funded by those profiting off this violence, not just gun manufacturers but those who are in the business of safety and security, have led the average person to feel so unsafe they think they need a weapon.It also doesn’t help that the strong man is the image sold to men. The number of men who have said to me if they had a gun they would protect me is ridiculous. I don’t think Canadians put a lot of value in outwardly aggressive behaviour. Certainly my opinion of these individuals when they said this declined. I’m not so sure culturally that’s how many of my peers here see it.
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At this juncture China and USA need each other financially, which preclude unfettered hostilities verbally, or physical from getting out of hand. When USA reduces its need of China to supply manufacturing goods for our increasingly poorer citizenry; after China's growing middle class status have more sustainable financial underpinnings than currently massively unsupported assets and values of US Treasury's, (they hold) is of less concerning to its leadership, it is then that doorways to unbridled conflicts will open.
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That’s right. You can still get your deposits back… in FTX Monopoly money. Take a ride on the Reading; do not pass go; do not collect $200; get out of jail free.
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"I know that might sound wildly premature, even fanciful: Abortion access has vanished across the South in the wake of the Dobbs decision, and anyone anywhere in the world remains free to pursue Texas women seeking abortions, along with anyone who helps them, for a minimum $10,000 bounty under the state’s S.B. 8 vigilante law."Maybe it's time for other states to pass vigilante laws, establishing minimum bounties of $100,000 for anyone interfering with a woman's right to control her own body - to include judges and jurors.Extreme? Of course it is. But maybe it will help the Republican justices on SCOTUS recognize what they've enabled.
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I quit my job three months ago to try to focus on a passion project and be a true businesswoman. Its been hard. Its tough to raise capital, even as a person with 10 years of experience in my industry. Its tough to find partners. It tough to watch my bank account dwindle. But its worth it to try to change my life. If I fail I can always get a job, but Im working on living out a dream and Im doing my best to make it into a reality.
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Looking forward to what Charlie Munger has to say next month about cryptocurrency. He loves the cryptography, but disdains the use of it as a currency. He and his partner Warren had it figured out and called it out.If anyone was capable of recognizing the value of cryptocurrency, and capitalizing upon it, it would have been those two youngsters. Hopefully, like alchemists trying to turn lead into gold, there may be some tangible benefits, but as a currency no more than tulip bulbs.Regards
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UpperEastSideGuy You're gave it away in your open with "fossil fuels". One needs to read no further.
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KeninDFW Profit is a pretty accurate reflection of efficiency, accuracy, creativity, diligence and other "deliverables" that are difficult to measure. Generally speaking, Profit=Revenues-Costs. I have yet to see a job that does not affect profit. In a so-called non-profit we're still talking about work that yields more of an output than the investment. Either your work contributes to increasing (or maintaining) profits or to decreasing (or controlling) costs. If a job does not produce some kind of profit, it will be eliminated or the organization will go out of business.
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So $4 trillion added in two years and roads are really bad .. lol By the way I looked at the payout of certain restaurants on the Upoer East Side and some got $4 million tax free. Many got $1 million tax free.Lol . Why doesn’t the NYTimes print out a list of restaurants that hit two ppp loans and Biden money . It is shocking . For they got tax free money , many closed and it changed locations . Ellios on second avenue got approximately $4 million tax free. How much did their workers get. Why isn’t this information made public ?
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Yet it's laying out $10 billion for Open AI. Capitalism at it's finest.
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“In a thriving marketplace for pet apparel that was valued at $5.7 billion in 2021, dog owners account for a majority of sales.”I for one take some comfort that the dogs themselves are at least not making the purchases for themselves.
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I have never heard of candles being outright prohibited in a New York City coop or condo, so I am skeptical. Yet who would make up a question like this? So I am just going to assume it is real (though you know I am very skeptical). Shabbat candles are odorless, at least to me they are, usually there is just one little odorless wax one, you are not likely to be caught using them. Since when is high quality incense not odorous compared to low quality?? This whole letter has me skeptical. Okay, who would make this up? My inside New York advice is to burn your incense and do some practical measures to lessen the odor such as opening a window, using an air purifier, limiting use to 15 minutes, not using a particularly odorous brand of incense, not lighting the incense in a room that has a vent because the vent probably connects to other apartments above and below. Usually the vent is in a windowless room such as a kitchen or bathroom. Don't have a heart attack if you are fined $100, it is worth the risk. If you really have a problem with all this, take the condo to court after you are fined, represent yourself and don't spend a lot on court costs. Be civil.
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As I understand it, the whole point of crypto was that your ownership of a particular "currency" is recorded in a PUBLIC blockchain record, that can not be spoofed. And yes, adding the transaction to the blockchain generates new crypto for the entity that adds it to the blockchain. (another story there)If you own crypto, you can sell it, and ownership is changed to the buyer in the blockchain. End of story. Just like owning stock. Risky, but at least you can prove that you "own" the shares. But since it is hard to find buyers, exchanges developed, to match buyers with sellers. So if the exchange changes a fee, and the buy/sell transaction is recorded in the blockchain, the new owner can check the blockchain to see it was recorded. That's the whole point, the record and proof are public.But to give real money to an exchange, that purports to purchase crypto FOR YOU, but "holds it" in your name (not recording YOUR name in the blockchain) is just plain stupid. It's like giving your money to a stranger, who says they will hold it for you, and when you need it, they'll give it back. Banks have FDIC, brokers have the SEC, at least there is some type of regulation. I have money in IRAs, mutual funds, etc.. I don't have physical paper shares, but there is enough oversight of the institutions, that I am willing to invest that way.But why would anyone use the FTX type of exchange? Ellison is 29 and BF is 30. Billions lost by greed and intellectual complacently.
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Susan FI agree we must change the narrative and stop calling these entitlements.Similar to a 401k or IRA that is paid into over time for a future benefit, these are investments made by workers, an investment via taxation that is owed to tax payers.There is ZERO entitlement here.
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He made $15m hitting a little ball into a hole with fancy sticks. Then he got paid another $25m to not hit a little ball into a hole with fancy sticks.Maybe he's just living a nice cushy life. The article said he has broad investments (whatever that means) so he probably keeps busy. I dunno, if I could make $30m in a few years I'd probably retire too.
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I would call the police. $70k? That's not too high by any stretch.
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The symbolism of extending the voting well into January 6 was not coincidental. It was on purpose. The coup begun 2 years earlier has now reached Chapter 2.Those who supported the assault on the Capitol now are in control.These are not two unconnected events Had Trump accompanied the mob, the Capitol police could not have held back the assault, they would have been forced to open the doors and welcome the President This time, Trump did accompany the mob and his influence has walked right in, with McCarthy dutifully following behind on a leash. Zoom out a little and stop the wishful thinkingThis is strategic
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This past Wednesday my wife and I bought a dozen large grad A eggs at Trader Joe's for $2.99.
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I surely can donate much more than $55. However, my concern is how it will get to the poor children. Like the author said it was so difficult to travel outside the safe zone, how can it be safe to deliver the aid to people in need? In that 1.3b, how much was used to help poor family and how much did it fund the corrupt government or the on going war? To me, this matter is not just money, but peace. Any solution to help stop the war, and help those poor children get the basic needs, I haven't seen it mentioned in the article. While I will wait for a suggestion (not any time soon I guess), I will donate to those poor children and mothers.
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Drug companies spend more money on marketing and advertising than on R&D. Think about that for a moment. And while you are thinking, here's additional food for thought. Almost all of the basic research on which drug makers base their products is done at universities and is funded by Government grants; i.e. tax dollars. so why do we permit drug makers to charge outrageous prices for new drugs? Two words: Citizens United. visit the Federal Election Commission website for an eye-opening look at how much drug makers are giving to Congressional candidates.
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My mom always says it's about quality of life. Then she says follow the money. 14 (c) certificates are a safety net for disabled adults. Why would anyone want to take it away? An example of work : the local college had an event and needed printed material put in a folder to hand out to attendees.The life cycle of a disabled person is maybe head start, then k-12, and then 3 additional years till age 21. The last 3 years are spent on life skills and job skills. Some people can get a job and stay employed. Some can not.The money part is between 18-19 to apply for Social Security. $800 per month. If you do get a job SS allows you to earn $20 then your pay comes out of your SS amount. If your job offers Health Ins. then you move to that also. If you lose your job you have to reapply or more likely have someone reapply for you.Your employer receives a state tax credit (maybe 2k) for hiring a disabled person. They also receive a federal tax credit up to maybe 10k. The credit depends on how long the person is employed. Let's say roughly 12k is funded. (I did not see that in the article).Social Security -$9600 per year plus medicare maybe snap at $1500 and maybe some housing subsidy but only if they can live independently another 4K.I am not seeing how this would be any savings to a taxpayer or how this adds to the quality of life for a disabled person. What scares me is an adult child who has been taken care of finding himself alone without a safety net.
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And all these investigations crawling down rabbit holes will cost us millions and millions in tax dollars. Remember when Ken Starr spent $52 million investigating Clinton for something that seems rather small in comparison to all of Trump's crimes? Well, that's a drop in the bucket compared to the probable cost of all the Republican revenge coming our way. For a party that claims to want to spend fewer tax dollars, they sure have a way of racking up the bills.
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Honest question: How is most of the described behavior in this article by FTX any different from the usual and legal business of investment bank security underwriting (i.e. bringing firms to the public market)? The roadshow and book-building, the artificial scarcity that is created in sales pitches, the price support by the underwriters in the first weeks, the lockup periods for investors on the primary market, the benefits from having a (supposedly) reputatable investment back doing the advising, etc. Why is not just FTX publicly underwriting an ICO?
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Where did Mr Santos get the $700,000 from to loan to his campaign. Sounds awfully similar to $625,000, doesn't it?
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It’s the hype around these industries, the epicenter of which is NYC. Big tech will pay you 200k total comp (112k base, 70k stock, 20 k signing bonus) as a 22 yo. The bubble is starting to collapse though
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IOW deficit spending is not all bad in the long term. The lack of investment by means of borrowing is a recipe for an unpalatable desiccation in the menu of choices. But there is something to the aversion to national debt on face value. It doesn't sit well with those who control the money and who face an ever increasing tax burden. They want their future cake while they eat it every day. Cake Eaters don't necessarily have an angle on what's best for the country, everybody in it, even themselves. They just own the politics of the right.Do liberal countries, the social democracies, face such stagnation?
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peter s 1) the US agreed to uphold Ukraine's territorial sovereignty when they gave up nukes in the 90s. if we want less nuclear proliferation, we have to not incentivize nuclear prolifieration 2) best return on investment the American military has spent in decades. 0 American service members killed, Russian power decimated, allies galvanized both in europe and asia.3) its not really "spending" either - its giving away outdated weapons that we're not going to use anytime soon while the US replenishes with newer materials.4) no one said ukraine is a model democracy, but it wants to be a democracy and is being invaded by an authoritarian regime.
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Out of 2.74M Indians that are interested in professional higher education only 64K make it. So imagine the resource and workforce power India could be generating if it figured a way to engage everyone of this 2.74 M people. Large scale investments both by the private and the public sectors, in high-quality, higher education is what is needed in India.
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I settled for being a lesser person when in college I refused to read past the opening page of "The Making of Americans." Gertrude Stein is an even bigger fraud than Ayn Rand--Rand writes horrible but at least understandable prose. As Ms. Stein might say about this opinion piece: There is a book for everyone but not everyone for one book.
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As an AV (Audio-Visual) Engineer who quit his job in October, I disagree with the writer's premise that Employers are gaining some sort of upper hand over Employees. The truth is that there's a very limited supply of talented Engineers, Coders, etc--all of whom remain in very high demand in DC and other major Metro areas. I left my old job after 10 years without something lined up. I posted my resume on 7 job board sites. This led to me being contacted by 120 different Recruiters. All of them had great jobs, which paid A LOT more than my last job did. All with fabulous benefits that are practical, such as covering all Health Insurance premiums.While there are layoffs at companies like Facebook, there are a great many other Organizations who have openings for Coders, Engineers, etc. ]Right now, for anyone with a great set of IT Skills, this is still a "Job Hunter's Paradise". Doubly if those skills are rare and hard to find. For proof, just search the job posting sites like dice.com, montser.com and others. There are still far more openings for talented IT Pros than there are qualified people applying for them in places far from "Silicon Valley'.
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Here's a quote from Ms. McDaniel:"Ronna McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, opened the winter meeting with a crack about Pelosi and the Republican recapture of the House. “Why are we in California? Because I just wanted to rub Nancy Pelosi’s face in it one more time,” she said, this morning, shortly after the videos were released online."If this is the voice of the GOP I am happy to read that they don't want to participate in the "biased" Presidential debates....
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Just went through an open carry state and saw more than 3 people carrying. I suppose that will be one of the new great rest stop equalizers .If so I am going to start packing as much of my own food as possible on my next road trip.It’s a very strange sight to see a person who is not in law enforcement openly carrying a firearm.
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Jeremiah Crotser Hmmm.Separating children from their parents, forcing your family planning to conform to my preferences, defending clearly criminal politicians, providing ‘stewardship of God’s Earth’ by advocating earth-destroying public and private policy, judging others without hearing them…where’s the room for any ‘possibility of common ground’? No, those who feel ‘coming together’ means I surrender my decency to their ‘stop picking on me’ cries need to put down the Christian Soldier sword. First. We’ve trusted their ‘good faith’ far too long. Time to believe them when they show us who they are.This story is exceptional because a Christian had an open mind. A little bit.
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Years ago at the opening of Nancy Graves’ retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum, Nancy placed him next to her and introduced him to everyone who greeted her. She expressed her genuine appreciation of his contribution to the success of her vision.
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Alternate Identity Where I have a home in CA the average starter home price is now $1.2 million and the average professional couple who are buying those homes have annual incomes of $300K-$500K. Our engineer friends in the area make near $200K to start, and closer to $300K after 10 years. That's in the medical device, bike and solar engineering sectors. Our friends who are senior engineers at Apple all make above $300K. (Even our specialized contractor friends--tile layers, flooring contractors, etc.) make in the $300K-$500K range. At salaries/remunderation like that, you'd certainly be able to afford a $1.3 million home. Which--and this is the point--is what is driving and holding up expensive housing prices in CA and other pricey areas. You could have afforded the house you grew up in. You might not have wanted to deal with a lot of other aspects--population growth, traffic, air pollution, crime, etc. but you are fooling yourself if you think--with those degress-- you could not have become a CA homeowner of a home lsuch as you grew up in.
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Let's start cutting expenses with the members themselves before any other cuts. Here are a few:- Cut their average $174,000. annual pay by 20%- No more free air travel (paid by us taxpayers)- Make them pay for their own health care like everyone else that makes over $100K per year. - No more insider trading- Reduce their pension from $59K annually to $15K
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He relegates the addressing of climate change's causes as "Left Wing stuff"-though supporting various mitigation expenditures. He has also done much harm to the elderly with his hypocitical posturing on vaccines. And immigrant restrictions further hurt elderly care as pointed out here.He has made investments in public education- though teacher's salaries are 48th in the nation and teacher vacancies are rampant. By bullying school administrators during the Covid pandemic, he has also twisted education for political show. "He has also limited what teachers can say in classrooms about race, gender and other topics and appointed anti-public education figures to his administration, including a QAnon supporter, and, as education commissioner, an employee of a charter school management organization. He has also legally empowered parents to sue school districts as part of his “parental rights” initiative and micromanaged and limited the power of local school districts. He also appears to heavily support privatization and voucher efforts over public education." - Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 8/22.He has done nothing for Florida's housing crisis. So what is his appeal?His strongman image has been carefully tailored to appeal to MAGA supporters and give the air of success- without the substance. Democrats also need to do a better job with grass roots organizing in the state. DeSantis has gotten away with way too much in his priming for a Presidential run.
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The picture captioned "Flooding along the Sacramento River" needs more explanation. That is the Yolo Bypass, an area that is farmland when it's dry and wetland when it's wet. During heavy flows in the Sacramento River that might threaten the levees protecting Sacramento weirs (gates) in the levee are opened to flood the Yolo Bypass. In the past this might occur in more years than not but this year is the first time the Bypass has filled in ten years. Long-time Sacramentans are used to driving over the water on an elevated causeway as they head west from the city. There other similar flood-control structures elsewhere on the Sacramento River.
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They aren’t “family landlords” they are wealthy people who purchased an extended family with a house and one is now dissatisfied with the results. Pretending that it was a one way transaction based on money alone is simplistic and ignores the emotional value, that for a time, was the return on the investment.
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"Without Hesitation, Ukraine Goes Toe to Toe With Russia in Bakhmut"In the past, Ukrainians were hesitating to go toe-to-toe with Russians because they were skeptical of the Western support. In fact, at one point, Pres. Zelenskyy openly agonized over the possibility that western powers may negotiate with Russia an end to the war without Ukraine's participation (à la Trump negotiating with Taliban in the absence of Kabul's government). Then Ukrainians heard the US officials making statements such as: "we want to make Russia weak". Those statements were not helpful in building Ukrainians' trust. They implied that some western powers are using the war to improve their position in the on-going global chess game, and, in reality, liberation of Ukraine and Ukrainians was secondary to their objectives. Now with the US providing advanced weapons to Ukraine, US Senate approving $45 Billion for assisting Ukraine's war effort in future, and the US facilitating the flow of volunteers into Ukraine to join the war, Ukrainians know that are not fighting this war alone; hence, they are ready to go toe-to-toe against Russia, as long as a single Russian soldier is on their land.
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Regarding LW1, the lack of independence/responsibility by the sister-in-law and her husband only gets worse over time and odds are, their entitled attitude will be passed down to their kids. Sadly, I have observed this in both my husband's and my own family. Focusing on next steps. The goal is to make the couple stand on their own two feet and not enable their nephews/nieces to look to the uncles as the unlimited ATM as they grow older. - your husband should talk to his sister about her mental condition and encourage her to seek therapy. It may even require him to find a recommended therapist and more than likely he will need to pay for it; consider it an investment towards getting her being more independent. - give them the heads up now that you expect them to move out to a place financed on their own, once the last kid turns 18. You might want to offer hiring and paying for a 3rd party financial consultant to help them budget towards this. I know, another thing you're paying for but again consider it an investment toward paying less in the future- offer to use the rental income to pay for the kids' college tuition (but not paying for all expenses, they need to make an effort too)- make it clear that other than the above, you won't be funding them anymore. I suspect you and your spouse will get hit on for additional money, but continue to remain firm.Good luck!
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Jim Jordan raises a fuss about spending and balancing the budget and then wants to throw tax dollars into investigating law enforcement, specifically FBI investigations into Trump. McCarthy said he’d “use the power of the purse” to go after the Biden administration. He’s happy to use taxpayers’ money on sham investigations, but not on extending the child tax credit. And suddenly he has a keen interest in checks and balances as long as it’s not a check on Trump and his entourage. Hypocrisy is alive and well in the Republican Party.
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I’m all for reregulating airlines to the early 80s. Just recognize that a flight to Florida will cost you $2k. It’ll remove the Greyhound Bus style of flying that exists now.
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Lyndsey Marie Shanley 🫢 Trump had the deficit over $2.7 trillion with his rich man tax cuts.
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Maybe we have picked all the 'low lying fruits." One of he most elegant experiments in modern physics, the Michelson–Morley experiment, wes performed in the late 19th century with fairly basic tools. Now the budget for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN is estimated at 9 billion dollars.
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The reality is that this is a permanent solution to a short term problem. An ADU for an aging parent is a wonderful solution, but once that parent is gone, the harsh truth is that the ADU suddenly becomes an investment property. In an ideal world, a tiny home or some sort of temporary living space could be moved in, and when the occupant passes, it could be passed along to another household in need of a temporary ADU. As noted, not all that many families have the luxury of having a property or the money to build living space that can accommodate a parent or caregiver, but making it temporary and re-purposable, would make it possible for others who could not afford to build a permanent structure but have the property, and open up more assisted living for families who have neither the property or money to build.The idea of keeping parents close by as they age is great, building a permanent structure whose purpose will inevitably change into something ill suited to the neighborhood is not.
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Ithaca Reader In my home state (GA), we supposedly have similar protections. Despite our lax open carry rules, private businesses can post signs forbidding guns on their property. The problem with this is enforcement. If the grocery store forbids guns on their premises, but a 2A absolutist refuses to comply, how does the grocery store enforce their rule? The police won’t enforce the policy because no law is being broken.
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For those calling as racist the policy of countries requiring travellers from China to have negative Covid tests, just some points that may be relevant:1. China was not open about Covid when it originated, including harassing the doctor who tried to bring attention to it.2. They are not releasing accurate count of cases.3. Their count of Covid deaths is inaccurate and misleading.4. They are not doing enough gene sequencing to monitor variants.5. Their zero Covid policies may have prevented herd immunity, their approach to opening of the economy and society was not in keeping with the rest of the world.6. There were restrictions placed regarding travel that affected many countries at the height of the pandemic (e.g., Indian travellers during Delta wave).7. China had Covid restrictions and quarantines upon entry into their country.Countries that have opened up are looking at ways of avoiding another wave, especially if new variants are unleashed now.
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Great, just what we need -- another open senate seat as Michigan becomes ever more MAGA. Thanks a lot, Debbie. Great timing.Why can't she just quit so that Whitmer can appoint someone??? Do they not strategize at all? I hope Dana Nessel runs. Or Jocelyn Benson.
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It's not a good idea to use specious "studies" to frighten an anxiety ridden public any further; especially when you're being plainly dishonest about the real goals. If the health effects of "cooking with gas" are so bad the simplest solution by far is to crack open a window. Net Zero emissions might be a laudable goal but banning gas stoves isn't going to make much progress. And it's going to add to the public opposition toward the changes that might actually help. I would think that the public-relations fiasco of the near universal push to "eat bugs, not beef" would have taught some people a lesson. And many of us, considering how often the electric service is interrupted by bad weather or road salt, would rather have two seperate sources of power in our homes. I can't even imagine what it would be like to lose electricity, hot water, heat, and the ability to cook, all at once on a wintery day. And what do you mean by "certain types of cookware"?
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Cohen pleaded guilty to eight criminal charges: five counts of tax evasion, one count of making false statements to a financial institution, one count of willfully causing an unlawful corporate contribution, and one count of making an excessive campaign contribution at the request of a candidate (Trump) Why isn't this an open and shut case if Cohen was doing all of this for Trump?
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David Cohen Jordan received $1.65 billion from the US in 2021, not $165 billion as you mentioned.
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To echo Willy Stone: a business school does not require much overhead. $600 million provides more than ample funds to establish a charitable organization for impoverished families, run by the business students. This would bring them into contact with those who struggle to survive. They could mentor younger individuals whose promise would otherwise likely be wasted, with all the consequences that entails. In the process the students could be taught and see for themselves the basics of public health. In terms of education this would not be a one-way street. It would be a reform of business schools worth celebrating and emulating.
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The irony is that the #1 predictor of the victor in a general election is which candidate is perceived as the least radical whereas the #1 predictor of victory in a party election (primary) is which candidate is perceived as the most radical.The outcome of this conflict is a disillusioned electorate and a dysfunctional government structure.In 2016, before we knew him, Trump was considered less radical than Hilary Clinton (remember, he was a pro-choice Republican, he wanted a better health plan, he wanted to bring jobs to America for those left behind, etc. i.e. a Democrat).In 2020, Biden was no one's idea of a "great candidate", but through good grace he won and avoid the disaster of a Bernie-Donald election that would have likely returned Trump to office for a second term. The Democratic Party's system of delegate allocation allowed more moderate voters to overcome the hard core radicals on the left.Until the primary system is restructured so it doesn't reward the extreme candidates, we will be stuck in this cycle. Open Primaries such as they have in California is a good model, but difficult in the one national election (Presidential). It may be necessary to bring back the "smoke filled room" to eliminate the risk of both parties selecting radicals to run for President.
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OneView Children aren't the only ones in schools. There are also teachers, administrative staff, and custodial personnel. They all had families too (including elders to care for). If schools had remained open, many of those people would likely have quit or died from COVID. What good is an open school when there are no adults there to run it? The only viable option would have been to flip the situation..... put the kids in school all day with a bare minimum of supervision, and put the instructors on a screen. Perhaps some of the parents who demanded schools remain opened could have volunteered to supervise.
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Mr Bouie -Nicley written gloss on the "Progressive Era" and the current anti-social safety net radicals in the current iteration of the Republicans.I'm very old now. but in my teens Richard Hofstadter played a major part in shaping my thoughts on American history,and particularly on the social tensions in society that slowly eroded the antiquity of 18th C governance. Neither Teddy Roosevelt or FDR were anti-capitalists. However both had the sense to see that an impoverished and dis-enfranchised working class was a recipe for political turmoil and radicalism. LBJ for personal reasons also saw the need to extend "civil rights" to American minorities. His "Great Society" was a mixed sucess/failure- but has been under a murderous attack by the GOP since the 1980 election of Reagan .The bogus concept of "the government is our enemy" become the mantra of the GOP,worsening by the hours it seems.I have never understood how the relatively free and fair elections in the US, the politicians elected, and those they appoint -all of which is essentially the concept of governance in a free society- how did our government become the Enemy? Ego-driven theatrical 1 term Representatives, and an incredible "dumbing down of the electoric- where people say "I like him" and the press talks about " Who would you choose to sit down a beer with?Frankly at this juncture in American politics ...I'd rather just drink by myself.
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David Cyphers investments in China have netted significant returns to American shareholders. In addition the significant improvements in standard of living for Americans came from weaker Chinese currency and strong US $. Outside of rust belt, much of America thrived with cheaper imports and exporting polluting industries to China. While the elite shop at places like Whole Foods (whole paycheck), much of America thrives with accessibility to cheaper goods at Walmart. Previously you could buy used shirt for $5. Now you can buy a brand new one without sale price at Walmart for $5. It affords dignity and respect for lower middle class Americans.
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Nancy G lol. Yep, sure. Things are going great huh! Only 100000 plus dead in Europe from this war. My money seems nearly worthless as I go to get some seltzers, brie, sausage, and chips for $36. The country is more divided than ever. He did get shots in arms, by threatening people’s livelihood. I’ll never forget how he spoke to the American people about those shots. Saying “your freedom” and scoffing. Republicans are bad? Dems spent a year putting down and defunding cops. And don’t tell me it wasn’t Dems, watched it happen on tv at meetings in my city. Well known local Dems fighting like heck to defund the police and actually cutting nearly a million dollars from the police budget against the advice of the chief of police and like it wasn’t nothing, snapped there fingers and the money was gone. Now we wait for our Community Care department or whatever.
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Why didn't dems prioritize this in December before losing the house? They could have raised the pointless debt limit to 100 quadrillion dollars removing any chance for a fabricated crisis, and sparing us from having to read about this stupidity again in our lifetimes.
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i'd go further than the correct interpretation that putin's "cease fire" was nothing more than "propaganda."i suggest that the russian attack on kramatorsk on january 7, which russia falsely claimed killed 600 ukrainian soldiers, reveals the expectation that a cease fire would gather ukrainians in a rest area where they could be killed en masse. the headline was preplanned before the event.i point readers to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) as an excellent daily summary of open source information by highly skilled military analysts. they point out that putin is using a "grievance-revenge" framing of russian military activities (e.g., kramatorsk was revenge for the grievance of russians killed in makiivka). the ISW points out that this has only worsened the antagonism toward the kremlin and military from pro-invasion russian commentators, who ask why any "grievance event" was allowed to occur in the first place.
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Ace The federal debt is far larger than the $31 trillion that is oft discussed. If one were to include the structural deficiencies in the funding vs benefits ponzi schemes known as social security and medicare/medicaid and the debt is approximately $125 trillion, or 4 times larger. The government doesn't include those unfunded liabilities on the balance sheet because congress can terminate those programs at any time, and the populace would have no legal recourse as there is no obligation (contractual, legal nor constitutional) of the government to fund such programs.
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Marti Bridges I am sure there are many affordable places to eat in the heartland/flyover country judging from Triple D. The new restaurant business model in Manhattan seems to be that they are only open a few hours for dinner during the week, no breakfast, lunch, brunch, or weekends. A typical meal will set you back several hundred dollars. I expect Noma will be getting in on the action soon, now that he is closing his Denmark starship for greener pastures.
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China is not in economic decline nor is it facing a population crisis. Its economic growth rate has slowed because its reservoir of low-wage rural workers is running out and it can no longer simply acquire (or steal) technology from more advanced economies. As the noted economic historian Alexander Gerschenkron pointed out long ago, this is exactly the same trajectory followed by other late-developing economies, including Japan, Korea, Russia. and Germany. It does not signal a decline but a more typical long-term growth rate. Nor does China face a population crisis. Almost all advanced countries now have birth rates below replacement rates - thank goodness - and therefore an increasingly older population. This requires a shift in resource allocation toward health and social care of the elderly, as has happened elsewhere. China, with its very high (and not very productive) investment rate can afford this shift. The real population crisis would have been if China, with 1.4 billion people, had continued to experience significant population increase.
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Years of fraud is not a “lapse in judgement.” Most convicted of Grand Larceny face years not months in prison. A $2M fine for Alan and only $1.6M for Donald? These are not financial penalties, merely the cost of doing “business.” Bragg’s office should be ashamed.
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LennyN They aren't paid a competitive wage for one. Who would give up everything for a mere $225K? So cheap.
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