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thezaz - I would do the following.1. Remove Harris from the role and replace her with Mike Pompeo or Ron DeSantis.2. I would cap the number of asylum approvals at 5,000 per year to dissuade people from coming here.3. I would build a robust wall and use every electronic monitoring device possible.4. I would restrict traffic flow to three entry points and greatly expand them. Staff with inspectors, police, military, drug sniffing dogs, and detection device.5. I would lean on the Mexican government harder than ever including sanctions for their lax approach to border control and tolerance for drug lords.That is where i would start. What would you do?
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There isn't a good US airline choice. We took flights on Delta late last year because pretty much everyone said don't take American, and after having our supposedly selected seats moved apart from each other on all flights, on the next to last flight I was put in a seat that was damp and smelled of urine. Since the flight was full, I had to stay there long enough for it to be soaking into my clothes, over 15-20 minutes. Then I was moved to a small seat at the back of the plane, which for some reason had an empty full size seat with cell phones in it right next to it. During all of this several flight attendants asked for my contact information and proclaimed loudly enough for nearby passengers to hear how they would 'make this right'. We had to run to the connecting flight since I had to wait to get off from the very back of the plane (already forgotten about I guess), and I didn't have time to change clothes. The 'making it right' by Delta? A $25 discount on a future flight sent from a no-reply email address. I might as well go with the cheapest carrier possible next time, since even the expensive, supposedly good airlines are terrible now.
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ATL When we toured the factory in Everett, the tour guide specifically mentioned that the last items installed on an aircraft were the engines, as they cost a bazillion dollars, and Boeing didn’t want to have to pay for them one more day than necessary- “Just In Time” inventory management in action.
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What about a mental illness program for politicians in Albany? Is anybody even keeping track of all the money they’re spending? Progressives in Albany were giving out money to everyone leading up to the election, which was to be expected. The difference is, they haven’t stopped since. Every day there’s a new program out. $25 billion for maintaining people’s private homes was the last one. NYS is spending money like crazy. We can talk about the merits of various projects but my God, how much money are we spending? It’s just an endless black hole. I cast my first ever vote for a Republican in November because at some point this just has to stop.
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I'm still baffled that the CCP didn't acquire the best vaccines available and force all their citizens to get them as a condition for reopening or going to public places. They instead spent years locking people down trying to snuff out infections. A large vaccination campaign seems a lot simpler then the road they went down. Now millions are likely to die, for what? Pride and political posturing? Just senseless.
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Sun Valley is not a difficult mountain, but it does have consistent, nice pitch. It is a great mountain if you have thighs of steel and want to roar down in non-stop GS turns (ask Arnold Schwatrzeneggar!). Limelight used to be THE place to do bumps under a lift. The bowls are open and it is a nice place to learn to ski powder because of the consistent but not overly steep pitch.
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Astrid De Clercq The market believes otherwise for Microsoft to be worth almost $2 trillion in market cap.Here are but a few of Microsoft's innovation in this millennium:- Surface hardware line- Bing search engine- Azure cloud computing- Xbox gaming console- Software as a service (Microsoft 365)- Windows Phone operating system- Zune music player- HoloLensThis is but an incomplete list of course. There are many more behind-the-scenes innovations most people wouldn't be aware of.
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It is just incomprehensible to me that supposedly pro-America "business leaders" of every political stripe remain so averse to raising prices that they are blind to the long-term benefits of returning manufacturing to these shores.Yes, it would require following more stringent American environmental protections. And investment in new American manufacturing infrastructure. And paying living wages to American workers. But now that it is universally accepted that the climate is at a tipping point and our legacy manufacturing infrastructure is toast, I had hoped these "leaders" would see that higher prices are actually a small price to pay for a cleaner environment, in which we produce American products, and sell them to well-paid American workers who take pride in making and buying them.Am I missing something, or aren't these the very which politicians of all stripes regularly espouse to voters on the campaign trail - only to cave on them when elected, so their corporate benefactors can continue doing business as usual?
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In my mostly white mostly older progressive community there are people that believe that racial identity issues are the most important attitudes that must be addressed above all else and at the same time there are people who see the problems of society in a more general way as existing in economic and prejudice that go far beyond the issue of black racial politics. these differences are as old as our society itself and the anti slavery movement.but in my community at least the debate is not either or, but only a matter of emphasis in that we can fight racial in ustice and the issues of economic and other avenues of prejudice at the same time. So thiis debate while very real does not drive us a part but is only an internal debate that does not take away from the issue of injustice in our society. We picket as one, but debate among ourselves and to me this is the way it needs to be.
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Hanes.com - you can get t's for under $15.00, and they wear and wash like iron and keep their shape and color.
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Bret and David seem to have missed some important factors in their critique of Republican Party dynamics. I kept waiting for some reference to corporate greed and institutional racism. Aren't these something like core values of Republicans today? It seems impossible that two smart guys could have overlooked this. Maybe they plan to devote "part two" to an extended discussion on these subjects. I look forward to reading that.
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Ale It is not correct to say that induction ranges do not caramelize or fry well. Induction hobs can do everything a gas hob can. They are every bit as flexible as gas, in terms of turning the heat quite low for caramelizing, and they have plenty of power for frying. Also, since they do not have an open flame, they are much safer if there are children around. The hobs do not heat up at all (although reflected heat from a pot can make the surface hot). Since I bought one, I have never regretted the purchase or wished I had gas again.
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A Jaundiced Eye I was just looking at real estate in Litchfield county. It's gotten patently absurd. Yes, it's beautiful, but good grief! $16 million for a property in Warren, $13 million for one in Cornwall, another for $12.75 million in Cornwall, and still another there for $9.5 million, and on and one. Just absurd.
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Robert You're absolutely right. Which is why this won't be a voluntary thing. Do it with the tax code: if the company you run spends x% of what it costs to operate on goods and services outside the US, then x% is the tax rate on your total compensation. If 0% of your operating costs are spent on goods and services outside the US, then your tax rate is 0.This is not an actual tax code; it's an idea. It's not perfect; it's where we start. There will be hundreds of loopholes that will be found and must be addressed. Trivial example: Let's say you assemble everything in the US, but buy all of the parts and raw materials abroad. You just set up a shell company based in the US that does all of that buying, and you buy everything from them. You are buying nothing from a foreign company. The shell company can have a 100% tax rate on its CEO's compensation, but who cares? That person (an AI robot) can be paid $1/year.And so many other loopholes to imagine, find, plug. But you get the idea: create the incentive to do what's right with the tax code. Every CEO in the US will be happy to shoot for a 0% tax rate. Let the board pay them as much as they want. They'll still be bazillionaires, but Americans will be getting paid. Don't even need trade tariffs, either.
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Sorry but the author's advice to the laid-off banker is extremely weak. Banker - if you're reading, here's what you do: you get an employment lawyer to communicate with the company on your behalf. You explore all possible options for litigation, and use that leverage to negotiate for your bonus payment (this is assuming there is a bonus available worth negotiating for). A couple of things that many don't understand: 1) you don't *have* to accept an employer's terms in a severance letter -- you can attempt to negotiate. In reality the cost of litigation -- even if the company prevails -- will far outstrip the amount an employee seeks, so they will often settle. 2) When it comes to bonuses: companies *accrue* bonus payments on their financial statements as part of normal budgeting. So while the one-time cash hit of paying your bonus may annoy a company (a large bank would hardly notice) the reality is they've already planned to pay out those monies as part of their normal financial forecast. That is often *not* the case with litigation tied to large layoffs (which obviously were not planned in advance - or budgeted). So when it comes to the impact to the bottom line, it's easier to pay out the thing the company already planned to pay out (a bonus, e.g.) than to take on the cost of litigation, which can wreck a forecast. Lastly, you needn't do any of this publicly; so you can make the employer pay with limited reputational risk to yourself and your job hunt. Good luck.
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Jorge GW Bush took a surplus from Clinton and then it became a deficit, because of "temporary" tax cuts. Trump piled $1T (or more) in tax cuts on, with no funding mechanism to replace the income.Then we had COVID. We also had two wars that went on the national credit card. Defense spending has increased year over year and will hit $1T/year sooner rather than later.Medicare is unable to negotiate prices on pharmaceuticals -- they pay list price. Other countries (and even the VA) negotiate bulk discounts on common medications.We have companies and billionaires who are paying $0 in taxes. We don't fund the department with actually collecting taxes enough, so they underperform.It's ridiculous. Enough. At this point, programs that have budgets in the millions or tens of millions are rounding errors, although the GOP is going bring them up as "wasteful spending". Yes, they might be "wasteful", but when is the last time the DoD actually audited where the money went?
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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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The left offers what seem to be what they believe are clearly necessary public policies to establish a more perfect union. They see no reason that any reasonable people would disagree except to preserve unjust advantages which benefit themselves. Thus any who challenge their public policies are not honest partners in governance but people who are determined to preserve their advantages. What might any say to such heartless people?And the never listen to any who disagree for long because they see them to be wrongheaded or selfish.The Republicans have different priorities and they are just as recalcitrant and the leftist Democrats because they see themselves to be right and reasonable. No basis for discussion let alone negotiations.
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There are so many patent protected drugs for which pharma companies keep on "ever greening" its patent protection. Most recent diabetes & COPD drugs follow that pattern. One diabetes drug, Jardiance (and many other) now cost >$1655 for 90 days supply!That practice by filing & getting fraudulent patent protection is not unique to pharma or biotech sector but present in agriculture/seed/pesticide, & more in tech sector besides almost all other industries. That practice has worsened by consolidation of companies in every sector. It all actually reduce innovation as companies don't see much need to 'waste" money in R&D when they can kill competition and make insane amount of profit with existing product and extending its protection beyond its original years of protection after getting the patent. These companies also force many new innovative entrepreneurs and/or development of rival products/technologies to engage in costly and lengthy legal battle that broke almost all of them. In most cases, such new companies/products are forced to retreat and sell the company/product to that more affluent rival. The very purpose of patent to promote innovation and help consumers to get better and/or cheaper product are being destroyed by the practice of patent protection in the USA and in many other nations. And such influential companies with deep political connection and deep pocket fight tooth and nail to reform patent system in every sector.
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The letter writer shouldn't have to spend $17,000 to experience that kind of kafka-esque bureaucracy. Next time, just head over to your local DMV and you can experience it for free.
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Maybe this is part of a broader structural problem? Modern corporations tend to be large and integrated (encompassing many functional areas) to deter competition, which has enabled Capital to incrementally prosper at the expense of Labor for many recent decades, in terms of GDP share. Collaboration between these internal functional areas - which have different agendas to continually reconcile - is much less efficient than it would be if the corporation outsourced most functions, and empowered their key function to dictate priorities to the other functions (now as outside vendors). The result - a world of small, highly specialized companies - would make for more productive, focused workplaces. Multi-tasking stress must be highly correlated with enterprise headcount size? I recently retired from large dysfunctional asset management business, which would have benefitted by either deeming investment or sales as the "key function", and allowing key function to outsource the other and dictate priorities. The politics and endless "micro-negotiations" between functions were took up half of everyone's time.A world of small entities might have less profit for investors because of more competition, but more GDP share for labor and less stressful white collar work too
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Beth Grant-DeRoos Colorado ran a test program (LARC) to give lower-income women quality birth control products and it cut unwanted pregnancies and abortions by ~50%. See: <a href="https://cdphe.colorado.gov/fpp/about-us/colorados-success-long-acting-reversible-contraception-larc" target="_blank">https://cdphe.colorado.gov/fpp/about-us/colorados-success-long-acting-reversible-contraception-larc</a> But the state legislature, with a 1-vote GOP majority, killed funding. The $2.5M cost of the LARC program saved $70M in public assistance costs. Solutions are available to abortion, but the GOP wants only total victory, no abortions ever, not even birth control.The war on women goes on in the GOP and religious right.
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Yikes, it is not LW1's place to get involved in SIL's mental health concerns, especially after all this time, and when the motives are so obviously attached to this complicated housing arrangement. LW and husband made a mistake. They entered into this arrangement seemingly without a contract. There's no easy fix that won't result in hurt feelings and strained relationships. If finances are the priority, sell the home. If the relationship is the priority, perhaps open up the discussion to see if they have suggestions for how to resolve it, and be prepared to accept what they propose.
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Imagine an action movie where the antagonist takes up hostages. When the mediator comes in to negotiate terms, the antagonist can’t name exactly what he wants. Then the antagonist goes back to his $187K taxpayer funded job.
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i could never understand why i was being paid 6 figures, twice what the teachers in my old schools, or first responders i know, made as a software engineer. and the incompetent over-their-heads "managers" were getting in the range of $200,000-$250,000.does that explain why software is so expensive but the "capitalists" who own the companies are some of the richest misers on the planet from gouging and backstabbing as standard business practices?
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If you want to put an end to this knavery, just announce that before we default on our bonds/bills, that the administration will start putting the nation's reserves of gold and silver bullion up for sale on the open market to raise cash. Half the GOP caucus is made up of hard-core gold bugs. They will go nuts.
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Traditional work managers are merely paid pawns used by capital owners to extend their influence over paid workers who set aside their own aspirations in exchange for a salary. This article excellently points out the huge fly in the ointment when it comes to digital work. It describes the impossibility of the traditional manager in a digital world of work. It ends with the very anodyne conclusion that managers probably won't change though.What then. Lets extrapolate.The obvious answer is to eliminate these paid pawns. But then how does capital exert its influence to get stuff done and make more capital? Would capital then have to hire many paid workers directly on a laissez faire basis? Obviously, that is not going to get much complex work done. How about everyone does his own work with his own capital? Those that make the best decisions get more capital. Those that make stupid mistakes won't get more capital. The invisible hand of market at work for real. But mercantile life is not a Monopoly board where everyone starts at Go. etc etc.But what if we could use digital technology to fairly and cooperatively divvy out the digital work? Oh, if we only had that capability! But we don't.My point is, instead of hoping or expecting managers to change their behavior, it would be more appropriate to think about eliminating them all together.
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The host was a total turnoff with a series of unfunny jokes attacking the very organization he agreed to work for in exchange for $500,000. Why are you even there if you feel that way? And using George Floyd’s name as part of your monologue as if he’s a party trick?? It wasn’t funny and set a downer mood to the whole thing. I was done after that.
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I"m okay. But are they.Hi. Individually and jointly Biden and his press secretary havedemonstrated they are incapable of doing even simple arithmetic. Does Bidenknow the difference between a billion dollarsand a trillion dollars. Biden is arguably the least capable person in USA to solve themassive budget deficit.
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James Ryan Here is what a couple earning $400k/ year get each month.Earnings: $33,333.33Taxes: −$12,847.16 Federal Income Tax: −$6,400.00 Medicare Tax −$483.33 Social Security Tax −$2,066.67 State Income Tax: −$2,370.10 State Disability Insurance (SDI): −$2.60 Family Leave Insurance (FLI): −$151.67 City Tax: −$1,372.79Benefits: $0.00Rent: -$4500That is about $16K/month. Give or take. Which is pretty good. Yes, paying full freight for a private college will hurt. Probably not "rich" in that you are going to Aspen, but your flying coach.
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One of my parents left a review of Stonehaven, a campus housing apartment building that University of California Riverside uses. It is owned by a non profit and it was horrible. I know, I lived there all of 3 weeks.There was no furniture provided beyond a bed, desk and cafeteria chair yet it claimed to be "fully furnished." They nickel and dimed you for everything, laundry cards were $5 just to buy the card and that was non-refundable; it was run down, had mold in the bathrooms (with threatening note upon move in that mold was MY problem) bugs in the kitchen and was very poorly run. Yelp writes to my parents and says the review will be removed because, get this, they were not the customers. They paid for it, so yes, they were the customers.Yelp is just one of many problems online to find anything resembling truth.
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It's very good to understand that not everyone who works in tech is making "obscene" money. And by that I mean some laid off may have made down to the more "comfortable" (to some ears and regions) 40-60k.Not everyone is a coder in the Bay Area.
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Before you run for the board or find an ally who will, make sure that you are actually willing to do the work that the current board member is doing. We've had exactly this situation in our building (the only difference is our board president did not participate in vetting the buyers when he was involved in the sale, I know that for sure), but still some people were concerned about the appearance of impropriety, so he resigned. Guess what, two years later we were begging him to come back. No one else was willing to invest that much time and effort in running the building.
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“anger at perceived unfair distribution of resources by government”Although, living in a coastal blue state, my family receives less than .70 for every federal dollar contributed, while rural regions receive far more than they contribute. Is that what all of these “resentful” rural folks would deride as socialism?
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To this reader, a Democrat, a lot of the negative drift of the party started with Reagan: "government is the problem, not the solution." This set the table for tax cuts for the wealthy under the auspices of smaller government, wrecking the environment as "it was better for business," berating bureaucracy as the antecedent of the "Deep State," bashing unions as anti-business, and ending or greatly curtailing the Soviet threat: "tear down this wall, Mr. Gorbachev." Although, there were roots in Birch and Goldwater which formed strands that stuck around, were nurtured by Gingrich and Fox News, and got added juice with Sarah Palin's rise.Reagan showed that a grandfatherly politician could handle the press while advancing conservative ideas, and then clean the clocks of "those darn liberals" at the polls. Patriotism, union-bashing, and positive jingoism ("Morning in America") could sell, and allowed for two terms and a follow-up in Bush Sr.It was the Gingrich/Palin/Tea Party wing of the party that sat on the sidelines, madly fomenting as Barack Obama shook them up mightily, and those seeds got planted and sowed with Trump and Trumpism: revenge, liberal-loathing, press-pummeling, Obama-bashing, Hillary-hating. Today's House is the mean extension of the most recent group, showing that emboldened and aggressive leadership could light the fuse that sets back liberals and Democrats, and gives new life to the warped policy goals of the Right.Morality and decency died.
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Me Agreed. I've used these paints before, and they are well worth the expense. I think they run around $50-$60 per quart.
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Dancer's Mom - I can't speak for the author, but I had a fifth floor walkup in Manhattan during the late 80s that I HAD to open the windows during the winter. There was no way for me to control the heat and being on the top floor everyone's heat from the apartments below came my way. I would spend my time in the apartment during the winter wearing a t shirt and shorts.
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T ...But here is the problem. The pharmas compete every day on the New York Stock Market with companies like Disney and PepsiCo for investment dollars. If you cut their profit margin, the price of their stock will necessarily decline compared to their stock market competitors. Cut the pharmas' profit margins and, intended or not, you are in essence saying that you want more movies and soda pop and fewer new drugs.
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Rod Serling, a really good writer and 100% human, wrote an episode of "The Twilight Zone" that aired in 1964, entitled: "The Brain Center at Whipple's."It opened with this narration by the author:"These are the players — with or without a scorecard. In one corner a machine; in the other, one Wallace V. Whipple, man. And the game? It happens to be the historical battle between flesh and steel, between the brain of man and the product of man's brain. We don't make book on this one and predict no winner. But we can tell you for this particular contest, there is standing room only — in the Twilight Zone."Mr. Whipple is the cold-hearted, profit-obsessed factory owner with a mania for replacing human employees with machines. [Spoiler alert] After he's replaced every human in the factory, the episode ends with him seated at the bar in a nearby tavern bemoaning the unfairness of machines replacing people -- because he himself has been replaced by a robot. The episode ends with this narrated epilogue:"There are many bromides applicable here: too much of a good thing, tiger by the tail, as you sow, so shall ye reap. The point is that too often man becomes clever instead of becoming wise. He becomes inventive, but not thoughtful. And sometimes, as in the case of Mr. Whipple, he can create himself right out of existence. Tonight's tale of oddness and obsolescence from - The Twilight Zone."Sci-fi writers are coal mine canaries -- and we never heed their warnings, do we?
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After allowing a $816.7B Defense Budget for 2023, a moment of zen, please: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight Eisenhower
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There should be a 2% wealth tax on Americans with more than 10 million in net worth. Trump, Bloomberg, Gates, and the rest of the gang have gotten away paying nothing in comparison to the increases in their wealth. The money should be used to pay down the national debt and reduce taxes on the middle class. It should not be used to increase government spending.
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"She will redeem existing investments and suspend new investments in the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund and the Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund. And she will suspend reinvestment of the Government Securities Investment Fund of the Federal Employees Retirement System Thrift Savings Plan."How is this legal? Playing games with worker's retirements?
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snm The deficit in 2022 fell compared to 2021 - the year Congress spent trillions more than they took in; i.e. response to pandemic. December data show that the deficit will be growing as it was much higher than December 2021, and Congress just agreed to expand their role and spending with the conniving omnibus and 'inflation reduction' act. I feel readers of the nytimes don't understand data and facts. Guess they went to public schools over the last 15 years, were academics are racist and history is based on stories.
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The stock market is not a US government policy initiative, and the Federal Reserve has autonomy from the Executive branch of government, so Joe Biden has nothing to do with your investments.
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Edmund L ‘ In 2021, 8.6% of total U.S. exports of $1.8 trillion to the World were exported to China and 17.9% of total U.S. Imports of $2.8 trillion were imported from China.’ Add that to the amount we would lose by sanctioning all the other countries trading with China and we definitely have a problem!
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We All Thought The Harley Was A Fictive Device Stu would show you his motorcycle if you were curious. It was in parts, in two greasy metal tubs, kept at the bus garage. He talked about fixing it up but the years went by and it seemed closer to a dream than actual, real world, transportation. He was one of the charter drivers, sort of the elite core at Campus Bus Service. He was the sole driver of the double decker bus from London. Most of us drove exclusively on I.U.'s campus. Stu drove to Evansville or Louisville KY w/ 35 string players for their symphonies. He went part time, started on a law degree, ran for student body president AND fixed the Harley. He was very cynical and anti-political. If elected, he promised to hand every single student a cookie and then resign. He and the veep of the Cookie Party would ride to the dorms on the Harley and tell everyone that student politics was a crock. The serious candidates were debating and posting signs; for transparency, each slate had to divulge their campaign expenses. Some were spending thousands. The Cookie Party: $ 2.56 for poster board (they drew a picture of the absent treasurer for newspaper group photo) and gas. Stu et al came in third place, beating out several serious candidates. I'm sure some students who were normally too apathetic to vote, voted for him just because his cynicism matched their own. He convinced a group of bus drivers that some dreams do come true.bee word: fictive
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Lauren Boebert and her husband opened a restaurant in Rifle, Colorado, that lost hundreds of thousands of dollars. She lies and buys into conspiracy theories. It’s no wonder she identifies with Donald Trump. I feel sorry for anyone who has to endure her shrill squawking in real life. She is the walking talking embodiment of fingernails on a chalk board. The end.
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joe Intrater, Vekselberg, Wilbur Ross, Cyprus: I keep hearing these names linked together. Intrater and Vekselberg in particular have a gift for “losing” large sums of money into financial black holes through shady actors like Santos and Michael Cohen<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-12-07/viktor-vekselberg-met-michael-cohen-then-he-lost-billions" target="_blank">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-12-07/viktor-vekselberg-met-michael-cohen-then-he-lost-billions</a>And, of course, there’s that ultimate financial black hole— TFG!— lurking amidst the cosmic dust at the core of this galaxy of grifters. Well, maybe one more over in Moscow…I hope that DoJ, Letitia James or someone will look into this and put my weary mind to rest. Paranoia is hard work…
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Patrick The federal government spent $6.27 trillion in FY 2022. Please, get your facts straight. Where do you get your "$1.6 Trillion budget?"
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#4 I will honest say, you are thinking more about this than she is. Ask her one more time and say, you owe me $400, Venmo is my friend. If she doesn’t she’s not a friend.
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It is very important that the authorities refrained from shooting, beating, or brutalizing anyone. Also, that none of the rioters carried firearms, although Bolsonaro had made that easier. The government must press charges, but do it in an orderly, transparent, and completely legal way. Lula stayed in Brazil when he was unjustly convicted. He went to jail. Bolsonaro fled Brazil before he was even charged. He has called for the rioters to stand down. Given that all this does not change, I don't think this violence will spread. If he handles the situation right, it could even strengthen Lula. He's going to need it. Oh God, if I could just explain it here, and prove it! The governance of Brazil is riddled with corruption, from the cop in the street up to the highest echelons of government. It's a way of life; people live with it. A truce between the laws on the books and customary practices. Lula can't change that overnight. So, in order to survive, he will have to live with it. This leaves him open to the charge of corruption himself.Also, he's made more promises than he could possibly keep. Finances are in bad order. The fracas that took place yesterday could frighten foreign investors.
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dem You said there was no light between the two parties. Guess which party wants to raise your taxes, increase your gas prices, increase your electricity and heating bill. Which party supports the fundamental transformation of our country, does things that help criminals, law-abiding and who is allowing our open border to flood us with fentanyl.
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Shame. Look at the robust discussion that ensues when we discuss subjects that are controversial. The article and this comment sections are evidence of why the open discussion of charged issues promotes deeper understanding. Especially when these conversations are respectful and all view points are welcome, we all learn from each other. That said, the comment section (and frankly the article) is missing the voice of someone who would defend the offended.
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Misplaced investments. Would an intelligent, alien race study us and place AI at the top of our to-do list? How would they explain our priorities to themselves? James Lovelock called it in "Novacene." Which side of Gaia's immune system are we on? The March of Folly beats on. By the way, is the drive to create AI guided by many women? Forgive the stereotype, but it smacks of testosterone-fueled antipathy.
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A moderate Democrat candidate is to the left of Ms. Sinema, seeing she failed to vote for $15 dollar minimum wage with a thumbs down, failed to allow Medicare negotiate Rx drug prices, and is basically an ally of the Republican party.
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So David and Bret have no problem with Victor Orban wannabe Ron DeSantis tuining FL state government into a thugocracy (Jennifer Rubin's term) where the power of the state is used to punish anyone who refuses to kowtow to DeSantis or his presidential ambitions. DeSantis has tried to punish private businesses, including cuire lines and Disney, for refusing to go along with his Covid denial and culture wars targeting the LGBT community. He has threatened school officials for taking measures to liimit the spread of Covid because they did not comport with his "FL is open for business" mantra (deaths and hospitalizations from Covid be damned). He created an election-fraud police force that has persecuted ex-felons for trying to exercise the right to vote after the people of FL voted to restore that right. He has removed a duly-elected state attorney from a blue county for questioning the legality and enforcceability of proposed anti-abortion measures. And now he iworking to to pack the board of a respected state college with non-Floridians openly committed to turning that instiution into a public "Hillsdale College" where intolerance and Christian nationalism are the order of the day. These are mere "personality defects" that are "pretty surmountable". Spoken like true Republicans.
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"It’s a toxic cultural myth [Work] that contributes to the bizarre valorization of people sacrificing almost everything at the altar of an extractive economy." This statement presupposes that work is separate and disconnected from things of value. It is part of a "me" culture that attempts to justify prioritizing self over others. By setting the ideal as selfishness, you end up with a culture that treats relationships, work, and ethical commitments as disposable.I have never found, nor has my sizeable extended family ever found the need to choose between personal relationships, work, or commitment to the community. The deprioritization reflects items like playing golf, watching sports, etc. This is a false choice. I fully expect to work until I am no longer able to (my parents worked until their late 70s) while fully engaged in meaningful, deep, family and friendships.
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K this is the point I had hoped would be brought up in the article, people receiving disability benefits can never have more than $2000 to their name, ever. If they have $2001 they lose their benefits. People working sometimes need these additional benefits to cover their at home needs. The number of $2000 has not changed in over 20 years. When we change the rule around sheltered workshops we must also increase this number of how much they can have and still get benefits. When the cost of living and the minimum wage increase, so should that number.
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Np He certainly looks like that, most of the time.I think he does have abiding beliefs, of a general nature. Things like the role of government, especially in relation to making money.Sitting underneath it though is something one-off. This individual was elected president, is now running again for president - and who really knows him?Anyone? It's fair to say that any politician who's aware a camera or tape recorder is in front of them employs a particular persona, aware of how they're presenting themselves, but you do get a good sense of who they are in their own right. Especially after many instances over many decades.With Trump, however, it was all performative. A con, as we know. Yet beyond that. He sought and found his self-worth in his image as he imagined was held by the audience. Through a conjuring.And his relationships appear as transactional.Without getting into his personal life, away from cameras, my impression of him is that he still requires an audience and self-validation through image-making. He doesn't come across as someone who shares intimacy with an honesty and openness, at least to any significant extent.His whole adult life, if that term is suitable, could have been an inner world struck through with paranoia and fear. And vicious hatreds. The stuff of conspiracies and QAnon.QAnon and the like may be to him his kindred spirits; his feeling of real, to him, inner belonging. Maybe now he's needing their comfort.Who knows? Literally.
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Why show the 1040 as a visual with this article? It isn't the working class (who generally use the 1040 to file) who needs to pay more, it is the investment class. Tax stock trades, tax inherited property valued at more than a determined amount, tax luxury items, increase the amount of salary paid into social security. Common sense tells you where the money can come from. Politics makes that difficult.
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I saw Iggy & the Stooges in Cleveland at the old Allen Theatre in 1973. The band started playing and Iggy walked out bare-chested guzzling a quart of Miller High Life. He finished it, flipped the bottle into the air, it smashed to pieces on the stage, and he jumps up, stretches out, and lands flat on his chest in the glass.He stands up, grabs the mike and starts singing with glass stuck in him and blood running down. He was the opening act for Slade, and they looked like choirboys when they came out after that display!Epic!
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MidtownATL 22-year-old Elvis Presley purchased his Graceland estate on March 19, 1959, for $102,500 or more than $900,000 in today's money.......I don't think many people were spending $102K on homes in 1959.....I think my parents first home around same time was $10K
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Mainstream (legitimate, professional, centrist) media's he-said, she-said habit leads to Republican statements that "the debt needs to be addressed" given equal status with "disaster if the debt limit is breached." But this isn't really fair, because "the debt" is spun as a spending problem, when it is, by any measure, a tax problem. The U.S. recovers 25% of GDP in taxes, at all levels. The OECD average is around 35%. The deficit would be eliminated if the U.S. was at 30%.Why can't this be stated as often as "cutting spending"? Because, since the Reagan era, the U.S. social contract has become despised. Only 11% of the federal budget is for poverty reduction, but that's enough to pillory. Americans now consider taxes an unfair burden, something they shouldn't have to pay. A President even boasted about not paying.This didn't evolve from nowhere. It's the result of repeated messaging, with the debt ceiling fiasco a direct consequence. The Times and others needs to rebalance. When "spending cuts" get mentioned, don't pair this with "tax policy". Spend a sentence or two on tax revenues, historically and comparatively.
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Why do all of the so-called experts never mention FHA loans, with 3.5% down? I really object to omitting this very important resource and continuing the inaccuracy that home ownership is out of reach for most people.Most locations have at least a few condos that are under $350k, which would only require about a $12k down payment.
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In 20221) inflation was 7.1% 2) the federal interest rate rose from 0.25% to 4.5% to tame a 40 year inflation high3) The US strategic reserve ended at 370 mil barrels from 638 when Biden assumed office. Also to tame inflation4) Nasdaq was down 33.10% (-38% in real terms)5) S&P down 18.11% (-24% in real terms)6) real average annual earnings shrunk 2.1% 7) The GNP fell in 2 consecutive quarters in 2022. The classic definition of a recession8) The unemployment rate is at the same level it was pre-pandemic 3.5%9) We paid $3.42 trillion in taxes in 2020 and $4.05 trillion in 2021. I stupefying 19% increase. and yet the debt increased from $29.6 trillion to $30.8 trillion10) The US trade deficit increased from $1.08 trillion to $1.20 trillion11) The supply chain speaks for itself12) We spent trillions on an "infrastructure" package that is going down the drainThe economy is unquestionably a disaster. I wish the Republicans were in some sort of denial. Clearly Dr. Krugman and the NYTimes echo chamber are deluding themselves.Homage to The Party did not work in the Soviet Union, Maoist China, is not working in North Korea, Cuba and Venezuela and it isn't working here either. Come into the light and deal with reality, please.
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It's not hard to see Dr. Jim as a hero and to feel compassion for the people whose stories were shared in this profile.However, here in Seattle we spend billions on homelessness and are treated to parks, playgrounds, and sidewalks taken over by tents and strewn with needles, nightly break-ins, property damage, manic episodes, aggression, illegal camps with fires, shootings, rapes, etc.Meanwhile here, homelessness aid groups have huge budgets, pay their management exceptionally well, and one "mismanaged" their budget by millions and had to come back to ask for more. The city even lost $800k to blatant fraud which the city then paid again to the right recipient.It's a shame to feel that these groups are nothing like the helpers profiled here and that the homeless industrial complex is just another grift on the taxpayer.
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My husband has a chronic lung disease that requires him to alternate between home infusions of antibiotics 2x a day for several months each year and taking oral meds when he is not infusing. Medicare does not cover the type of home infusion therapy he receives, because the drugs are not delivered in a durable medical equipment (the only type that Medicare covers). There is no choice in the delivery system. The company that specializes in infusions, charges $1500/mo to monitor his care and shipping supplies and drugs every week. This is a cost that Medicare simply won't cover no matter how much you spend in a year. The drugs themselves (which Medicare does cover) cost another $1700-$1200 a month. When he is not infusing, he has to take oral meds, one of which costs $2750 before reaching catastrophic phase and $807+ once he reaches it. Additionally, he spends another $200+ monthly to treat other conditions he has. As of now, we've been able to pay for these from our savings but it is not tenable over the long term. Perhaps we will at some point become impoverished enough to qualify for Medicaid, which I am told does cover home infusion costs.
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Owed but unpaid taxes amount to One Trillion a year!!!! Let's corral the tax cheats and make them pay up current and past amounts due! That would be resolve the present debt crisis and prove the GOP can be less soft on crime!!!
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Moe - There is virtually no communism among the American people - and what there is is just on the extreme fringes. The "Progressives" are more like Rockefeller or Eisenhower Republicans than the New Left of the '60s. Since Reagan & GHW Bush, the entire United States has moved steadily, with increasing speed, to the right. Bill Clinton & his supporters saw that the Republicans, with a minority of the electorate, used massive doses of money to rally a greater percentage of his minority to beat the Democrats. Their leadership formed the Democratic Leadership Council, made up of Dems who believed they should adopt the GOP's methods of funding campaigns through Corporate & wealthy donors. The only way to do this was to shift right, into the centrist vacancies left by increasing right-wing Republican leadership. Clinton de-emphasized support for trade unions (can't get corporate donations if you back unionism) & the working class in general. They tried to triangulate groups in the "center" with policies like WorkFare, NAFTA, & "Don't Ask/Don't Tell." Clinton signed the GOP Gramm-Leach-Bliley act, which nullified FDR's Glass-Steagall act that separated commercial & investment banks, making GWBush's further deregulation & his Great Recession possible.Bernie Sanders is the closest thing we've had to somebody from the near left in recent times & Hillary, the DLC & the DNC killed his bid for the nomination.When viewed by people so far to the Right, their right foot is hanging
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Thanks to Torres and Goldman for this request.Amid the recently roiled Republican House actions, it is doubly important to have Santos investigated. No secret that McCarthy stayed silent on Santos so he could have his vote but now, in the aftermath of the speakership chaos, let us know what Santos did or did not do, where his $700,000 came from and who helped him in his bid for the House. I want the facts of this unsavory, and most probably illegal, election of Santos. Btw, Santos walked about the floor of the House during the televised speaker voting, shame written all over his face.
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OOPS! I skipped this section in Part IGO• Abby Sciuto is a brilliant forensic scientist well known for sleeping in a coffin and dressing like a GO(4).• My bro-in-law and former frat boy Fred completely changed his diet: among other modifications, he won’t eat red meat and doesn’t drink alcohol. Why? He experienced a very painful bout of GO(4).AND the last section of Part I is really GR (1-2).GR (3-4)• I am still working on cleaning the black mildew that grew on the GR(5) in the shower while we were away for a few days. What was my house sitter doing in there?!• I don’t understand why anyone would refer to food as GR(4) unless, of course, they were eating six legged white insects known as GR(4)s.GU• My yoga group adore our GU(4) whose flexibility is a thing of beauty.OU• I OU(5) to be embarrassed about messing up on Part I, but well, I’m not as it's late and I'm really tired!• She had a very OU(5)ing personality and loved to make jokes and laugh, which is why her friends loved to invite her to their parties.• Sometimes in a debate the politician was a bit too clever and OU(10) himself, which left him wide open to defeat on arguing that specific point. RO• Another name for hooch or moonshine whiskey? RO(6) • Things were financially RO(5) for about 15 years while the couple made monthly payments on their grad school loans AND paid down a mortgage, but once the school loans were repaid, their finances were much more stable.
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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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All we need to know about how this guy will operate was exposed in his answer to Matt Gaetz as to the source of the $700K he gave his campaign. It is clear that there is no legitimate source for this money. That is a clear ground to expel him from Congress.
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Unless the people making under $100K commute from a distance or have family money, how can they make ends meet in NYC?I make considerably more than that but when I look at housing costs I could not afford more than a hovel without doing without luxuries like food.
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Benioff - worth $8B on paper - equivocating layoffs to death. That’s rich. When will tech workers realize that their labor arbitrage for billionaires and shareholders?
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Just sayin If a cost of $300 is your idea of being reserved for the privileged, then pretty much everything is reserved for the privileged, including cellphones and internet access.
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Paul Krugman Yep... He and Jimmy Carter are neck and for greatest President ever . Lets see ,he spent us into inflation . He really messed up the Afghanistan withdrawal . He ended remain in Mexico and told illegals to surge the border in his run for office giving us a border that no longer is .. He has been trying to kill fossil fuels while asking Iran and Venezuela to produce more .His weakness has now given US a war in the Ukraine . Oh and now he has clessified DOCS locked in his garage . A huge success
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Austin Do you just cut/paste these comments for any article on compensation?His "executive buddies"? That sounds like juvenile anti-capitalism eyeroll material.He makes ~$5M in cash comp. A lot of money but less than any starter on the SF Giants."Ruined lives"? They are 1000% better off than anyone at Twitter and most will simply go to another software company.When companies struggle or don't meet expectations, then of course they will consider reducing headcount and other costs. Doesn't every CEO also bear responsibility to the rest of the workforce? Should the other 90% receive smaller bonuses so 8k people can sit around underutilized?
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For a list of the California Water Commission water storage projects and timelines see:Proposition 1 Water Storage Investment Program: Funding the Public Benefits of Water Storage ProjectsProposition 1 of 2014 dedicated $2.7 billion for investments in water storage projects. The California Water Commission is administering the Water Storage Investment Program (WSIP) to fund the public benefits associated with these projects. In July 2018, the Commission made maximum conditional eligibility determinations (MCEDs), which is the amount of Proposition 1 funding available to a given project, for eight projects that collectively would boost California’s water storage capacity by 2.77 million acre-feet. The projects range from expanding existing reservoirs to boosting groundwater storage to building 21st century surface storage facilities. Since July 2018, one project withdrew from the WSIP and the Commission adjusted the remaining projects' MCEDs. Through a rigorous selection process, the Commission chose the eight projects based on the public benefits their projects will provide, such as flood control, ecosystem improvement, water quality improvement, emergency response and recreation. Applicants must now complete the remaining Proposition 1 requirements, including final permits, environmental documents, contracts for the administration of public benefits, and commitments for non-Proposition 1 funding<a href="https://cwc.ca.gov/Water-Storage" target="_blank">https://cwc.ca.gov/Water-Storage</a>
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I followed the National Ignition Facility's quest for fusion for about 10 years, and although their recent news about achieving one milestone in fusion was exciting and gratifying, it was disappointing over the years to read about its strict government oversight, bureaucracy and cuts to funding.If the US took fusion as seriously as fission, as it did with the Manhattan Project, we may have had a working prototype fusion reactor or at least own the majority of the underlying technology, today. The Manhattan project cost $24B in 2021 dollars and employed a literal army of scientists and engineers and shifted global power to the US until Soviet sympathizers took the technology to the USSR. Imagine if the US owned the secret to fusion and the retrenchment of our country's power by solving any and all energy problems.Besides fusion, we're building innovations in quantum computing, discovering tantalizing breakthroughs in experimental physics (Remember that QM experiment last month? Where they "simulated" a wormhole?), and so much more but let's not forget these are not national goals. Other countries have made these types of technologies and sciences their national priority with the funding and resources to match. Why are we not doing the same?While we still can, the US must fund another billion dollar Manhattan Project to leap us into the future.
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Robert Jennings Because all 3 of the persons cited were government employees, doing personal business on government time at government expense, and entangled US policy with their business dealings. Evidence, you say? After Trump finally left the White House, Kushner received millions of dollars from the Saudi Crown Prince for a newly formed private equity firm, despite the fact that Saudi investors advised against it.Was it payback for Kusner's efforts for the Saudis while working in the WH or perhaps seeking future favor if Trump is re-elected? Hunter Bider was not a government employee at any time, nor is there any evidence he tried to steer US policy.
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EdManhattan’s BB&B stores in Chelsea and on the Upper West Side (on Broadway opposite Lincoln Center) were fantastic when they opened! New Yorkers shopped there all the time. Especially when the greatest houseware store in all Manhattan closed. We all mourned the loss of our beloved GRACIOUS HOME, especially when it was a superbly run family owned business. Nothing in Manhattan came close. BB&B successfully grabbed many of Gracious Home’s high end customers when they closed. That is until the stores discontinued having friendly check-out counter employees, who were replaced by Do-It-Yourself-Checkout stations…expecting customers to do their own lifting and scanning! Like you see at a CVS or Walgreens. But deodorant and toothpaste are easy to scan. Not a BB&B item like a heavy home appliance box or a cumbersome hallway runner.What a dumb customer UN-friendly idea that was!
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I left New York in 1966. Before that, I had visited many housing projects throughout New York City from the age of 16. I was selling a weekly socialist newspaper for 25 cents a copy or $1.00 for a year's subscription. It was dismal work that I was totally uncomfortable with. I hated asking people living in these filthy, dilapidated, urine-soaked buildings, elevators and hallways for money. (The urine was the result of children playing outside and needing to go to the bathroom and not making it to their apartments in time.) These buildings have been filthy and dilapidated even then and are, of course, much worse now. And the city is complaining about unpaid rent? How about compensation for being forced to live in sub-standard housing for decades? Housing is a human right, not a privilege!
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Bill And then our CEOs ramped up overseas investments so their shareholders (and they) could cash in with lower paid employees. Are you saying we should not expedite our own investment in technology?What do you want our government to do? Nothing?
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Well, then have an American Democrat propose something along those lines: a "universal healthcare levy". At present spending levels, it would have to raise about 20% of GDP.That would NOT be so low that no one notices; it would be so high that no Democrat would dare propose it. Which is why we get airy statements based on wishful thinking and fairy tales. (Australia doesn't provide that benefit to illegals; TRY getting an American Democrat to exclude illegals from taxpayer-funded programs. Australia spends about half as much as a % of GDP than does the US. The average Australian primary care MD earns $101K; in the US, $243K. TRY getting a Democrat to suggest paying MDs at Australian levels.)Policy is HARD. That's why we get wistful sentiments and gauzy statements of intention rather than actual proposals. Doing what Australia does -- taking you at your word -- would cost a lot of Americans a lot of money. If that's the price an advocate believes we have to pay, she should say so. And let the people decide.
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I have to take an medication and it used to be available OTC at a reasonable price. The Pharmaceutical companies decided that they should get that business so now my co-pay is $500 a month and that's with Medicare D . I'm taking half the prescribed dose and it will still run $5000 or more a year! The cost to Medicare and hence taxpayers is huge because most people over 65 are reducing their dosages or just not taking prescribed drugs due to the cost. How many thousands of people need to take statins or BP medicines but can't afford them?The results of not taking these meds is often heart surgery and long term medical care which is costing all of us a fortune while the drug companies get rich. The medical "care" in the US is dangerous and is rated as one of the worst "systems" in the world!
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I think that the most disturbing aspect of the situation described in first letter is the transactional nature of the relationship between the gay couple and the extended family that they essentially purchased. That the “family” (goods and services, ie playing the role of extended family) isn’t perfect and that the uncle wants to discharge the service providers for failure to perform properly is essentially the nature of the question. Part of the answer is in pointing out the idiocy of the uncles expectation in the first place. They (him) created the situation in the first place and then benefited from it for years and now that the “family” has evolved into a more troublesome version it’s time to move on. The second most disturbing aspect is that the gay couple are essentially so wealthy that changing the conditions of the arrangement isn’t predicated on need as much as dissatisfaction on the part of one individual. It’s like buying a puppy and whining that it grew into a dog that hasn’t been properly housebroken and damages the furniture. He has had literally years to change the dynamics shaping today’s results and instead got the expected benefits of a extended family without the work needed to make it a long term viable situation. Wealthy people believe they can buy anything, no, a functional family isn’t something you can buy.
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As it pertains to the debt ceiling, Trump's tax cuts added untold trillions (5.5) to the debt limit. Republicans said nothing. Ok, get them in a room to hash things out, and place a large poster in the room with the above fact.
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Has China backed itself into a corner ? Below is the opinion of Ambrose Evans Pritchard, World Economy Editor, The Daily Telegraph. UKThe Telegraph, UK"China's apparent return to the fold at Davos raises hopes of a quick economic rebound “Vice-premier Liu He, the economic plenipotentiary of Xi Jinping’s China, told a gathering of business leaders and ministers in Davos that China is back inside the tent and eager to restore the money-making bonhomie of the golden years. “We must let the market play the fundamental role in the allocation of resources, and let the government play a better role. Some people say China will go for the planned economy. That’s by no means possible,” he said.The green shoots of the next Chinese economic boom are already emerging. China's vice-premier Liu He stressed that the country was open for business again after two years of disruption “The technology sector is moving full steam ahead. We’re seeing the inflows come back through our China Connect and have got a hundred tech companies lining up to go public,” said Nicolas Aguzin, head of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange The Telegraph, UK, Jan 17AEP, if it were 'backed into corner' sees it emerging thereofAs to the economic consequences of a shrinking population we *do* have data (see my other post) And they show that the size of share of the economic pie per person, the GDP per capita increases.Good for the people of China
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Great tips - I've been doing the rotisserie chicken thing for years. The skin and bones alone make two quarts of delicious stock in no time and that would cost $5 off the store shelfs. The breasts are two entrees and the shredded parts are for chicken sandwiches and soup from the previously made stock.A no-brainer for sure.
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Nothing -- nothing! -- will change until we have publicly financed elections. Politicians beholden to moneyed interests, the donor class, have nearly destroyed our representative democracy. For at least a decade now it seems that every election cycle breaks the record for the most expensive election on record. In the just-passed midterms were reported to have cost over $16 billion!Other Western democracies and Japan have figured out how to do this. Politicians need be beholden to voters, not donors.
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What is happening economically in China is not hard to understand, if you realize how the Industrial Revolution started in the West. Specifically, Britain.By the early 1700's Britain had established a legal and a smooth-ish political system. England had established colonial markets around the world that supplied raw materials and served as consumer markets. The colonies also served to absorb Britain's excess population. A banking and insurance system allowed individuals to invest in risky, but not altogether financially devastating ventures. As the IR grew in England, it began to spread in the West. China's rise is not much different. Their economy has exploded since the 40s and 50's. The OCP seemed like a good idea at the time, but really wasn't. China doesn't have the foreign colonies in the same sense England had, but that is what the Belt and Road policy does.The economic road in China is not a smooth 10 lane highway. China doesn't have a legal and political system that is required to make their economy work. There is no punishment for political failure, because there is only one party. There is no counter force to correct political errors.And, when the housing bubble bursts, it will be nuclear.
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Having been in the industry when it was exported to China, throwing money at it is not going to bring the industry back. Ending tax benefits for exporting our industrial base will. No one can point to a Reagan style tax program to encourage investment in p&e. But now we’ve lost an entire generation and a half of people who knew how to do it. Those of us who did are dying off. Maybe we can pay the Chinese to train their replacements the way we had to train ours.
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Harry Haff I'd bet a fortune that this is a single mom.Maybe, the shooting victim can take every penny she has ... but again, I'll bet that probably wouldn't even cover her incidental hospital costs like the $20 bandaids.And ... I'm not sure the kid would do well in a foster home or similar if/when his mother was jailed.Most NYT readers would never "blame the victim," but in this case the TRUE guilty parties - ones who, like Alex Jones, might actually, be worth going after - are the NRA and the gun industry.Unfortunately, baked into our Constitution is/was a poisonous 2nd Amendment, and we'll probably see "the second coming" before we see a Constitutional Amendment that undoes that damage.More likely, we'd revisit 1861-65 with a second Civil War, ... and more good lives would be ended than even the current carnage can possibly justify.
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Exactly! I’m a disabled veteran who, in theory, could save to purchase a home with a veterans home loan with less money or even no money down. However, I would be in a bidding war each and every time, and I would also experience the possible discrimination against Asians as well. When it comes to things like increased natural disasters due to climate change and the damage those disasters can do to homes, where finding adequate homeowners insurance may be difficult, I decided that the investment in a home during the advent of climate crises isn’t worth the potential repair and loss costs. I’d rather rent, travel the continental US and the world, save for medical and other emergency incidentals (just in case our disability benefits get taken away by right-winged politics in the future), and invest elsewhere when our US economy isn’t held hostage by fringe republican extremists.
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That image of Pichai is so sad. Maybe he is using the same chair as everyone else in the company as a gesture of democratic solidarity, but can the CEO of Google not have anyone come in and tidy up the cables at his desk? It projects an image of carelessness and looks pretty low-tech (check out the generic webcam), which rubs off on the impression of the supposedly futuristic tech that Google would bring. These things matter. Apple's obsession with style carries over into usability and a pleasant user experience. The frumpiness and clunkiness of Microsoft's OS was paralleled in its functionality. Pichai looks like someone who's busy sending junky ads out to people. More reassuringly, maybe that means that there aren't actually any evil masterminds at Alphabet who can think up more sophisticated uses for the data they hoover up.
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MSF If one needs hints yes, using the Share button to identify the Permid (the address for a post and its replies) and opening a separate window with that address, and leaving it untouched, should preserve it in the temp memory of your device, as long as your device is active. However when you move away from the browser sometimes a refresh is forced on the page and then you get the dreaded “browser cannot find the page you are looking for” .Copying threads is possible. If you know the right time to do it … but then it cannot be reposted as is, just saved personally. PS. Saw the exchanges you had with others where Eric B helped you further with Find. It is very confusing. I will reiterate that one finds 2 instances for every name searched (top of the post not just the name tags in the body of the post). I think because there is, behind the name, a piece of invisible code that is used to copy the name of the person again when you answer. annoying but normal. Any other name tag will be found once only.
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Dr. Krugman wrote, “The U.S. Government last ran a budget surplus in the fiscal year 200. Since then, the government has borrowed roughly $20 trillion. He concluded, “But while our priorities were sometimes foolish, our borrowing was not.” I beg to differ. Because of out-of-control spending the per capita debt of every American is over $85,000. If debt not bad why don’ t we borrow another $100 trillion and give everybody a new car and house. Spending money you do not have is insanity and does not bode well for the economic future of the USA.The people most adversely affected by the excessive borrowing and low interest rates are senior citizens since their safe savings account are paying very low interest rates. That is not good economic policy!
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There was a time, along time ago, when corporations were managed with the understanding that their success was dependent on satisfying the 3 constituents responsible for their success: Customers, shareholders, and employees. In 1991 I attended a board meeting for a three letter fortune 5 company (I was a member of the executive staff support staff) where a well respected consulting company recommended that the successful management was the satisfaction of the share holders above either customers or employees. This was pure Milton Freedman libertarian drivel. Ironically they also promoted a new executive compensation strategy to “unlock growth” based on stock options. All I could think after the Board accepted this strategy was that this will not end well… thousands lost their jobs, the quality of the products declined, customer’s left, and the company was eventually sold at a discount based on asset value. I am now seeing lip service paid to diversity, customers, and employees but until the single minded obsession on short term stock prices goes away employees will be abused, customers will be taken advantage of and senior managers will be enriched for the destruction of their companies.
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no
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Is it too much to ask for hi-res images on your article that talks about visuals?!It’s 2023 and I have over $20 for subscribing for NYT. This feels like I’m reading a 90’s blog 🙄
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no
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