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Deaths from covid in US just passed 1 million. Who has "mishandled " covid?China opened up because Omicron is much milder.The jury is still out if the decisive action in opening up is correct. The market is already cheering it!
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Incorporeal Being are they still open? I saw an excellent documentary on them a few years back.
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I'm from a small rural community and still live in a smaller suburb of Oklahoma City. The truth be known, there are no more small family farms. They have been bought up by larger family farmers. Case in point, a schoolmate retired from Hertz with a $1M bonus and excellent benefits. He moved back home to the farms he inherited from his father and grandfather. A few years back when farmers received drought relief to buy hay for their cattle, he got $60,000 and promptly traded his late model 1-ton and 1/2-ton trucks for new ones. Recently, 9 electric generating windmills were installed on his places at an income of $9,000 per year each
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What makes a great investment for a smart, sensible investor? Increasing your returns by a guaranteed one percent. (Spare me your cryptocurrency or stock-picking or real-estate miracles)How can you find this investment? By firing your financial advisor. I don't doubt the value of sound financial advice, and some people need the hand-holding. But if you can figure out the basics for yourself (save, invest in index funds, don't spend too much) then you should be fine. (Ok, come back in 30 years and ask me then)
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No, their COULD be greater shortfalls in the future. Non football or bball sports have always run deficits. The question is whether in the future the revenues generated from football and basketball can continue to subsidize these sports at the same level. Right now, these teams are doing pretty well. Matson was the biggest NIL earner on campus at UNC and the field hockey team just opened a state of the art new stadium. Same for swimming, tennis, golf, and soccer over the past decade. Bubba is smart and these institutions are too important to the university - they will survive and thrive at Carolina.
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Wow, we only overspent by $1.4 trillion in one year. Some day, the U.S. will have to pay the piper either by inflating the currency or defaulting on the $31.3 trillion (> 115% of current GDP and rising) national debt. No country has ever escaped horrific economic consequences once debt is over 100% of yearly GDP.
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I'm 75 with fond memories of the grade and middle school lunches in the 1950s and 1960s in Arbutus, MD. The "lunch ladies" were unsung heroes ... Salisbury steak, mashed potatoes, green beans, yeast roll, pat of butter, and a 4-oz dixie cup of ice cream.In the late 1960s and early 1970s I enjoyed cafeterias at Domino Sugar in Baltimore, and U.S. Navy R&D facility in Carderock, MD. In the 1970s and 1980s I enjoyed Marriot Hot Shoppes cafeteria in our U. S. Army office in Falls Church, VA. Marriott has strict profit guidelines, if they can't net 15% at the bottom line from food service operations they shut it down or sell it off, so it went away.Many of my trips into DC contained a visit to that city's legendary Scholl's Cafeteria, also long gone.Public cafeterias are sadly missing. The all you can eat places are dreadful and even they aren't doing well.Perhaps Hallmark could open its cafeteria to the public?
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I also litigated and negotiated non compete agreements. I agree that such clauses should not be routine, but there are several specific circumstances when they are appropriate. When a person sells a business, the buyer can justly include in the deal that the seller not immediately reopen a competing shop. In addition, employers should be able to protect against employees from taking genuine trade secrets and using them in new job.
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Right out of college, when my husband and I shared an elderly Toyota Corolla, paid student loans, and, combined, earned $40k/year, we started working with a financial advisor for retirement investment. Some of our friends chose to invest in real estate - rental properties. They have also done well. My friends who did not invest are starting to worry about retirement funds.
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Fine dining experiences like Noma are really only accessible to the wealthy. Like couture luxury goods, they'll pay whatever makes them feel special. In fact, the higher the price, the more exclusive they feel.By simply raising the base price to $1000, Noma could treat all their staff much more fairly and very likely improve all aspects of their operations.It would be hard to believe that those who desire culinary exclusivity would not pay. Interesting to think about whether there is a limit?
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There are many pensions, insurance funds and others that are required by *mandate* to only, or mostly invest in risk-free US bonds. Everyone has always given the US a pass by even attaching the term "risk free" to the name (which has always been ridiculous since the 1971 Nixon default on gold, clearly the US has defaulted before so its not risk free). So those who are mandated to buy must go down with the ship because I doubt they can make changes fast enough even if they wanted to to avoid disaster. From here on out, the only risk-free asset will be bitcoin because that understanding has been made painfully clear to Afghanistan & Russia (and the world) that money you don't self-custody isn't really your money afterall. So "risk-free" will be forever redefined, as well it should.
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"Consider San Francisco, where the median household earning $126,187 a year would need 10.5 years to save the required $265,000 down payment for a median-price home costing $1.325 million."Does this take into account that the San Francisco home will cost substantially more than $1.325 million in 10.5 years time?
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Did you know - Today is National Kazoo Day! A kazoo is a tubelike musical instrument with uncovered ends; one end is flattened and the other end has a small circular opening. About two-thirds of the way down from the circular opening there is another circular opening; it has a chamber where there is a wax-membrane that is able to vibrate… Soprano kazoos are the standard sized kazoo, and there are also alto, tenor, and kaboom kazoos, which are larger and have lower pitches. Noise can be made with kazoos by singing or speaking through them, but not by simply blowing through them. They make a humming nasally sound that can be varied by partially or completely covering the membrane.Kazoos are classified as a type of instrument with vibrating membranes called mirlitons. Kazoos are based off of the African horn-mirliton, which was made from the horn of a cow, and was used to distort voices at African tribal gatherings. The first mirlitons in Europe were eunuch flutes, and they came about in the seventeenth century. In the nineteenth century, instruments similar to the kazoo that were based off the African mirlitons were used for folk music in America.<a href="https://www.checkiday.com/5ded3859e95443cbd02cad8da3fde46d/national-kazoo-day" target="_blank">https://www.checkiday.com/5ded3859e95443cbd02cad8da3fde46d/national-kazoo-day</a>The word kazoo has appeared in only one Bee, January 2, 2019.<a href="https://www.sbsolver.com/h/Kazoo" target="_blank">https://www.sbsolver.com/h/Kazoo</a>Star Wars fans might especially appreciate this impressive kazoo rendition of Star Wars themes:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29hWXkk4bb0" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29hWXkk4bb0</a>
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Want to cut something? Bombs and bullets make up half of all discretionary spending, over $800 billion last year alone. Runaway war spending does not make us safer or more competitive, it only lines the pockets of parasitic lobbyists and “defense” contractors. Republicans are great at talk of “fiscal responsibility”, but watch them squirm when anyone dares propose even modest cuts to the Pentagon’s bloated budget. They would rather tank the global economy and put Social Security recipients on the street. 
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John Pavlosky sir we are the largest contributor of weapons behind the US. And the largest when it comes to Economic and humanitarian aid to Ukraine. We have taken and welcomed one million Ukrainians (three times Pittsburg) to our land with open arms and massive solidarity. Please be a little more reasonable and look at the entire picture. Regards from Germany
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She can combine her billion dollar mental health plan with Bill DeBlasio’s billion dollar mental heath plan and drive every taxpayer completely crazy. What happened to all that money anyway? No answers.
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These same companies ignore older candidates, with quality experience and a desire for longterm stability, so I don't feel for them one bit. Agism in this contemporary job market is rampant. You folks want a sound investment in a loyal employee: try for the 50-year-old candidate, instead of the 35-year-old.
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Thank you for an intelligent, well written article. As a Jesuit educated, long ago lapsed Catholic. I identified with your perspective on a man who was somewhat of an enigma to me. You made me question my own perspective on my faith. I believe in God, but fell away from the unfulfilling & often negative church that I was raised as a part of. I always hope for renewal, but still don't see it coming. It's good to realize that a man who I perceived as a throwback was in fact more complex & open than I knew.
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Undoubtedly, online (and in-person) vitriol played its part: no New Zealand Prime Minister had faced anything like what Ardern was and is subject to. The more basic - and still to some extent Covid-related problem - is that, following the 2017-2020 coalition government with the "New Zealand First" party - a party led by an ageing populist with few policies but strong support among malcontent older socially conservative voters - in which Ardern could achieve little in the face of NZF intransigence, Ardern/Labour have faced two problems since winning the 2020 election by large margins:- the Covid public emergency both sapped public patience and political capital, but also saw a curious level of political and policy ineptitude: many large reforms and spending increases showed no discernible outcomes, at least in part because Ardern and her ministers either did not do the hard work of implementation or could not communicate that. Even simple matters failed regularly and persistently - for example, repeated chances to take steps to train and retain more doctors and nurses -during- a pandemic were missed and then angrily defended.- coupled with that, there has been an unwillingness to answer blatantly dishonest critics - and even to play into their hands: for example, infrastructure reforms have been effectively demonised on racist grounds, but never explained or defended.9/10 for empathy and crises; 6/10 for good intentions; 4/10 for communication; 3/10 for implementation.
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Cemal Ekin phone screens may well be better calibrated than most monitors, at least on iPhones.Most can't carry a camera better than a smartphone with them everywhere. Newer smartphones do a better job than compact cameras under about $500, and carrying an ILC generally isn't justified. So, yeah, the best camera, in practical terms, for most people, is a (relatively modern) smartphone.That differs if you're taking certain kinds of uncommon or particularly demanding photos, especially if you need high resolution or large prints/displays.For the usual picture, displayed up to 8x10, I'd argue a smartphone is often more than enough.
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"Mr. Scholz and his party “want to keep a relationship with Russia and with Putin for the future".Why is it so that some leaders continues to equate Russia with Putin? Russia will probably remain as a country and people. But Putin and its terror regime is on the wrong side of history, now and forever. Why do any sane person want to invest in a future with Putin on the other side of the table, even if Russia would win the whole war in Ukraine? Russia can be a very different country in 10 years. Better for themselves and the rest of Europe. If the Russian army is beaten in Ukraine it will be so. Does Scholtz and Germany want to be remembered as one of the countries that contributed to this or as the country that dragged its feet and ended up on the wrong side of history...... again.
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The NFL is a bit like modern-day politics. The rich seem to get richer, with a wink and a smirk tied to any required fair share benefit payments. An initial NFL contract is based on a sliding scale and a player’s draft position. The higher you get drafted, the more lucrative your initial contract will be. The pay for players whose career extends beyond the 3-year NFL avg. and are into their second or third contract exceeds the NFL minimum exponentially. Those higher paid players—generally in the so called “skilled positions”—should be required to pay a higher amount into the league benefits pool. Come in, it’s not like any required increase will even marginally affect their standard of living. Of course, we all know how well taxing the rich plays out in the real world, so, sadly, this probably is a non-starter. Let’s face it football is a team sport, well, until it isn’t.
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If Amazon were a little less greedy (ha!) they would form alliances with physical bookstores whereby a store would get a small fee (50 cents? A dollar?) for every book sold within a radius of that store. Book stores are a vital part of the eco system of reading and buying. The physical stores support Amazon and other online sellers, why shouldn't they share at least a little in the revenues? Put another way, what would happen to Amazon if all of the stores closed? The world would be a duller place and Amazon's sales would gradually decline.Amazon, a typical half brain dead corporation, realizes the value of stores by opening some of its own. This is the opposite of what should be done. They should help existing stores. Some stores, in fact, might be able to serve as distribution centers for books ordered online, giving them another chance to participate in the flow of money.Meanwhile, Barnes and Nobel should consider opening some smaller stores in smaller towns. Why should Durant, Oklahoma, and other places only have a Wall Mart or a Target with only the most popular books or only right wing books praising Trump and Republicans? Let some air in. Try some small stores. The investment would be modest.Local television stations, to jump to another field, are thriving today because they got Congress to force cable to pay cold hard cash for carrying local programming. That can't be done in terms of book stores but the example of how to do well in changed times should stick.
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I can't go with the, "looks like too much in retrospect" claim. Why? If we look at western Europe, we see that many countries there also have (brace yourself) - post-covid high inflation. If we look at GDP/capita (linked, we see that this number peaks in Q2 of '20, during Donnie's presidency. It's been trending downward somewhat since then. So, Biden spends some money, which likely makes it so the debt doesn't go back down quite as quickly as some would like. Others (self) think that investments such as reshoring electronics productions, which makes sense militarily (look at Russia to see why) and investing in renewable energy development are solid. The student loan forgiveness? Is that fluff? Hard to say - if these students are making more money, they'll be paying more taxes. Dunno. At any rate, I don't think it was the end of the world, and could quite possibly result in boosted education and productivity in the future. The research funds should result in lower CO2 emissions sooner. Most climatologists (not to include Tucker Carlson) think CO2 is the most dangerous problem our species faces right now. Write this column again in ten years. <a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEGDQ188S" target="_blank">https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEGDQ188S</a>
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I have a plastic Casio watch. It cost $15. I think it’s actually a sensible use of plastic, considering I would like it to last for many, many years. However, plastic bags should be banned. Nobody really reuses them, so they should be under the category of single-use (although plastics companies and grocery stores have successfully lobbied in California against this categorization). Shame.
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Superb essay by Kurt Streeter. May I remind him and the more than 330 million people in the US that the US remains at war, with four open "Authorizations for Use of Military Force," or AUMFs, officially the law of the US since August 2, 1990. The public doesn't know the full extent of the people killed, wounded, injured, traumatized, displaced or forced to become refugees. The US ignores the trillions of dollars spent, mostly on defense, yet more and more on our disabled Veterans. The real issue is the US remains at war, losing lives, money, and opportunities ... while people watch football on TV. War should be on the front page. And let's hope for a speedy recovert for Damar Hamlin.
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It is a fallacy to think that all white or Asian American kids are privileged. Many come from divorced homes, many are bullied in school, may have unconcerned or overworked parents, may not have the social support of extended families and on and on that is crucial for mental health and good life outcomes. Some children despite these handicaps pour their hearts into schoolwork and want to succeed. I know, because I come from such a home and was also endlessly bullied for years. If someone says I come from a privileged background, it shows their blindness to human disparities. Legacy admissions and early admissions should be eliminated but meritocracy should be honored. Communities should also improve K-12 education and make college prep coaching available to all kids to level the playing field.Financial assistance should be made available to needy students. I also qualified for a coveted scholarship but it went to a person of different skin tone.
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Why show McCarthy and the GOP? They had nothing to do with it! And the first bill they want to pass will INCREASE the deficit by $114 BILLION dollars!
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Mary Ann ~Your response reminded me of a friend who had been loaned money ($14,000) toward a car purchase by a long time married friend who was well off. It was a loan, not a gift.My friend mentioned something or other that she was going to buy or do. I asked her, what about the money you owe your friend? "Oh, I'm not worried about that" was her reply.I found her cavalier attitude disrespectful to her good friend's generosity.
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As others have pointed out, Weisselberg's sentence is laughable - 5 months (or less, with time off for good behavior) for guilty pleas to "scheming to defraud, grand larceny, conspiracy and tax fraud.” Also laughable is a fine of 1.6 million for the Trump Organization, which doubtless has scads of money stashed in tropic tax havens. These people are weasels. Weisselberg is sorry for his family and for the Trumps. Apparently he has no appreciation of the effect of his criminal activity on the public good. I hope the prosecutor does pressure him until he cooperates on the Stormy Daniels hush money business. Why should Weisselberg be given a pass on charges on insurance fraud if he participated in it? Can you imagine what kind of sentence a regular citizen would have gotten for the crimes he’s already acknowledged?
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First, Ukraine should have had tanks months ago, Leopard tanks!...And there are plenty of leopards nearby and absolutely no need, political or otherwise, to send the Abram's. After all that we have provided and Mr. Scholz thinks he needs the political cover to unlock the door to their tanks? He's doing nothing but playing games and it is absurd. In addition, we are to believe that it will take months, possibly "after" the spring offensive, to get these tanks, that are sitting all around Europe, over to Ukraine?For those of us reading and watching, daily, the news of the deaths and destruction in Ukraine, it is mind boggling to see the glacial pace, particularly Germany, of supplying the necessary air and ground defense weapons.President Biden should not have catered to Mr. Scholz. Perhaps he should have said this, "Olaf, would you like to go turn Nord 1 and Nord 2 back on to get some cheap gas,... you know, those pipes you signed on to while undermining Ukraine? Do you want to do that, Olaf, and keep on playing footsy with Putin?"I know that I will never feel the same about Germany being a responsible partner in the EU and the NATO alliance.
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nerdrage no. Please do not partner with Amazon or Netflix and give them an even greater share over what people watch. These companies have proven time and time again that no matter how much money you throw at things you can’t produce art. Off the top of my head I’m thinking the Harry and Meghan hagiography (Netflix) and that terrible Lord of the Rings prequel (Amazon) they sunk billions into.
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The jet aircraft industry and the 747 remain the gold standard for what a corporate/private partnership can accomplish. Given the amount of R&D that was underwritten by the US government, this leviathan of the skies would NEVER have been possible without public investments underwriting the financial losses of SEVERAL precursors to the final product. To this day, I cringe at the term "corporate welfare" and do so for 2 basic reasons; it undermines the GOOD that CAN flow from public/private partnerships while at the same time demonizing VERY important social safety nets. In this day and age of the "rediscovery of the miracles of the marketplace" (please heed a sarcasm alert here) - we'd do well to remember that MANY of the advances of mankind were engineered WITHOUT regard to market concerns.
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ultimateliberal Elvis and Priscilla were divorced at the time of his death; Lisa Marie was his sole heir. Priscilla helped manage the estate which grew from $5m when Elvis died to $100m when Lisa Marie turned 25 and took control
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The article fails to mention a root cause of new highways becoming congested--human population growth. US population, now 336 million is up 54 million since 2000, and double that of 1954 (worldometer). Most of US population growth, for decades, is due to high rates of immigration and the higher birth rates of immigrants. World population is now 8 billion, and will be 9 billion in 15 years (UN).6000 acres of open space are lost every day in the US to development, mostly to accommodate a growing population. And still we have a housing crisis and congested highways.I have no children, and if other were like me in this country, and the world, we would be abandoning and tearing down highways rather than building more, as US and world population approached zero.
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Biden's case is interesting. First off, he probably knew he had the documents all along. Why else send lawyers to pack up his closet? I bet the bill for a couple high end lawyers is over $1000 per hour.Second, he left boxes of documents in an unsecured high traffic area, namely his or his son's (not really sure who owns the house) garage, while his son was living there. Photos have recently surfaced showing his son driving his Corvette. Reports indicate that some documents referenced Ukraine and other places where his son did questionable work.Third, like Trump, more documents kept surfacing after we were told that his lawyers had searched and found them all.Fourth, the FBI was not present for the search, and the search was not documented by photographs (at least that we have seen). In other words, the lawyers went in and muddied up a crime scene. Any evidence has been spoiled by Biden and his lawyers.Biden supporters want to say "move along, nothing to see here" but no one has the data to make that case.
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I recently finished a book on Stand Out Leadership in School Administration. The books describes the traits that make a very few school administrators stand out from their colleagues. The trait that serves as the foundation for the functions I describe in each chapter is a sense of purpose, a purpose that is higher than themselves. Watching McCarthy this entire week we saw in open display a prospective leader whose only purpose was serving himself, which, as I point out in the book, will always end in transactional leadership moves, but, never transform the institutions they lead.
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John Siegfried Your statement echoes Al Gore’s ‘lockbox’ metaphor from 2000. Social Security is not truly separate from other federal government programs because the ‘assets’ of the program consist entirely of US Government bonds. Remember that money is fungible. It’s the statutes that created Social Security that give it the patina of being separate, i.e., the illusion of a trust fund that when depleted would negatively impact benefits. I read this was FDR’s idea to put an imaginary fence around Social Security so that participants would believe that their benefits were protected. As a US debt holder it is open to discussion where Social Security’s position is in line with other unsecured creditors. In the end it’s politics which will determine the outcome, which has to be higher taxes (which I support). Extending the full retirement age would disadvantage the working class who usually aren’t able to work past their mid-60’s.
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Dr. C.K. Patient here (posting under husband's name). Actually, I was prescribed steroids by a family doc before I saw the neurologist, but it was only 10 mg for a few days and apparently that was too low to do any good. (Kocharla's initial prescription was for 60 mg a day; that's what put me in remission.)
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So, as the default drama plays out, short-term Treasury bill yields go up and long-term note and bond prices go down. For those big financial firms that invest billions in the government bond market this predictability will yield huge profits. My guess is that those firms are big contributors to the Republicans. If so, perhaps this explains their seemingly irrational flirting with default.
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Fred Duvall Ironically, in today's NYTimes article about China's future in the face of its falling birth rate, we read this:"The societal issues run deep. After Tuesday’s data release, some on the Chinese internet said that despite government promises of a fairer deal for women, many employers did not want to employ women in better, steady jobs, because they did not want to deal with maternity leave and child care.“In the job market, they worry that if you’re 23-30, you’ll get married and have a kid, that if you’re 30-35 you’ll have a second or third one, and if you’re over 35, then sorry,” read one comment. “This kind of social setting is already the best form of contraception. All those policies to encourage births and open up will amount to nothing.”"Contrary to what you wrote, China still has plenty of societal barriers keeping women at home, rather than in the work place. India seems to be much more oppressive overall toward women, however, something that I have noticed in my travels in India and China and in discussions with my Indian in-laws, colleagues, and friends, vs. Chinese colleagues and friends.
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I know firsthand how the hiring practices in Memphis for police officers need to be improved. About 15 years ago I wouldn’t hire a guy full time for my company because I felt he lacked the maturity to be able to work alone. We delivered and set up computers in classrooms. He was in his late twenties but he lacked the focus and attention to detail needed for the job. And he had a penchant for weapons. He wanted to use a Bowie knife to open boxes instead of a box cutter. This young man applied to be a police officer and when he took the psych exam he told me he answered twice he heard voices. Instead of it ending there they called him in for an interview and accepted him into the academy. (It helped his neighbor was a sergeant on the force, his words not mine). Well I felt he surely he would fail training as I thought that would be the time to weed out those who lacked maturity and focus for the job. Later that December he is inviting me to his graduation ceremony from the Memphis Police Department Training Academy. He lasted less than five years as he was dismissed after he was charged more than once for domestic violence. The need for officers has become great in Memphis and across the country but we must do a better job of training officers and weeding them out before they get a badge and a gun.
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$31 Trillon is a big number. What is the flash point Professor Krugman? How much is enough?Reviewing comments from the left, they all have the same answer, more taxes.But what if you raise taxes, and you spend it all and then some? Which is basically where we are right now. Treasury revenue is at an all time high, the growth in tax revenue is astounding since the '17 tax reform.it's a spending problem
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whitebuffalo Actually CapitalOne has an online savings acct right now that pays a little over 2%. I-bonds pay the rate of inflation. Actual balanced retirement investments pay well over time. So leaving one's "nest egg" in a plain savings account is being lazy.
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Florida Man V Too much money in politics? And Republicans oppose this?It was the right wing Republican who brought issue to supreme and the right wing Republican supreme court that affirmed “speech equal money”.I contribute $7 to a candidate; Betsy Vos, the Walton’s, Koch Bros, etc contribute millions and millions.The mythologizing about Republicans and free speech and “money out of politics” won’t wash.
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Eric B Wordle 563 3/6* Skill Luck W/L🟩🟨⬜🟨⬜ 91 97 4 "Strong, Lucky"🟩🟩⬜⬜🟨 99 34 1 "Excellent"🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 99 "Well Done"Skill 99 Luck 66I have been on a roll with 3-solves. This is the fifth in a row. I began this one with an old, vowel heavy, favorite opener that was very lucky today. I considered the solution for the second guess but went with another that I thought would be more likely. I came close to a two-fer, but I am still glad to have beaten the Bot by one step.Yesterdays Wordle 562 3/6* Skill Luck W/L⬜🟨🟩🟨🟩 90 99 2 Wrist🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 99 25 1 Shirt🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 99 Skirt Skill 99 Luck 62I sprained my wrist shoveling snow, and it is still sore the word "wrist" was on my mind. There were just two words left, and I picked the wrong one. Thes 3-step solve beat the Bot by 1-step. As it did today, making the wrong guess yesterday elevated the skill score. If I had a two-fer on either day, the skill score would probably have been significantly lower while the luck score would have been higher unless the Bot happened to pick the solution on the second guess as well. In that case, the skill score would presumably have been 99. Cheers and happy Tuesday to all.
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Democrats have all the power in New York State. Yet, we- are still a right to work state- gave a $800 million gift from taxpayers to a wealthy sports team owner and his employees at the expense of funding for affordable housing, infrastructure repair etc.
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eheck My personal belief is that Libs of TikTok and some other lesser known and more blatantly political sites are enabling some folks deeply in denial to witness things that they deem naughty. I am aware of one video of a boy performing gymnastics in drag (at a charity open stage), posted by a proud mom, that was spread by haters for political gain. The Mom immediately took the video down, shut down the FB presence and so forth. The video, however, remains online--courtesy of a right-wing site that has been fighting "pornography" in schools (they consider any education related to human sexuality to be pornographic) for decades. The video appears to be the most popular part of their site--lots of hits. Apparently giving cover to some drooling and nasty voyeurs.
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Wall street and its investor/speculator class should be very grateful to Janet Yellen for the stimulus she helped provide as former Federal Reserve Chairwoman and now Treasury Secretary which has helped provide the impetus for the large stock market rally of the past decade. If not for all the cheap and basically free printed money coupled with manipulation of the inflation numbers over the past 10 years, the markets would not be anywhere close to their current and in my opinion, still overvalued levels.
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judithla And it's not just one sheriff. "At least 30 county sheriffs are refusing to enforce the newly-passed assault weapons ban because they contend it violates the Second Amendment.""The Protect Illinois Communities Act (HB 5471) bans the sale of all ASSAULT WEAPONS and MAGAZINES in the state. It also requires owners to register existing guns, among other provisions. Gov. Pritzker signed the bill into law on Tuesday."Counties refusing to enforce the law include: Clay, Edwards, Dekalb, Dewitt, Franklin, Fulton, Greene, Grundy, Iroquois, Jefferson, Jo Daviess, Kankakee, Knox, LaSalle, Lee, Logan, Massac, McLean, McDonough, Ogle, Perry, Piatt, Pike, Randolph, Richland, Stephenson, Tazewell, Washington, Wayne, White, Winnebago, and Woodford.Oh, and get this: Peoria County Sheriff Chris Watkins released a statement opposing the legislation and said it will only hurt law-abiding citizens.“This is another example of Chicago policy being pushed downstate on responsible gun owners. This bill does not solve the root cause of the problem. The real focus should be on the Mental Health Crisis that’s plaguing our communities that I see increasing every day in Peoria County.”It's always something like: "the real focus should be on .. Mental Health Crisis . ."(These quotes I took from the reporting of WMBD TV today.) When the story aired, a gun-shop owner was lamenting the passage of the law by stating he would probably lose $40,000 worth of sales per year.
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When Harry said "it could have been worse" and "I left out a lot" ain't exaclty subtle. My thought was "Wow. Angling for the second book. Did they go through $100M already?" You're right Maureen. He is obsessed with Mum-and he has not matured past the age of 12 with a wife who has played him beautifully. So very sad.
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Joan Erlanger As long as you don't have dental insurance, dentists are motivated to charge prices that people can afford to pay out of pocket. Don't wish for dental insurance, prices will skyrocket. An hour in the dental chair might only cost you $200 for some fillings. An hour in the emergency room might cost you $10,000
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In NJ Gov. Murphy wants to widen the NJ Turnpike approach to Holland Tunnel, while decrying the idea of congestion pricing in NYC, and not investing in NJ Transit both trains and buses. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/nyregion/holland-tunnel-turnpike-extension.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/nyregion/holland-tunnel-turnpike-extension.html</a>
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This is like something out of a Marx Brothers movie.We start with the ridiculous proposition that social media platforms are anything other than massive advertising forums, and that the algorithms driving users is intended to educate, inform, enlighten, rather than just generate clicks that boost advertising rates and revenues.From there we move on to the reality that because these platforms have ZERO incentive to control anything that's posted, as long it drives clicks, rates, and revenue, they provide an open forum for anybody to say anything they want.And we conclude with a stern faced Constitutional question being brought before the Court about whether these platforms are shielded by 1st Amendment rights, or whether they should be held accountable.Groucho would have had a field day with this, casting himself as the Chief Justice, Chico as the lawyer defending the social platforms with zany circuitous logic, Zeppo his foil as the prosecutor presenting sober arguments about rights and other such nonsense. Any questions about who Harpo would play? (hint: He's the silent one with the horn, sitting to the right of Groucho on the bench.)I realize this is serious business, but there is a strong component of the absurd in trying to find the constitutional basis for either protecting or indicting a business that traffics in toxic waste for the purpose of generating ad revenue. Only in Freedonia.
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mdbeck I hear you singing on the wire. This is such a lovely rumination on your youthful desire for the freedom of the wider world, and for the high climber you hope to find out there. I love that you lead us to the song in your closing line. Brilliant ambiguity too-- did you find your lineman?(I love Glen Campbell's "Wichita Lineman". Rather silly, but on the right day it can make me weep. Jimmy Webb wrote it, along with "By The Time I Get to Phoenix" and "Galveston". Quite a partnership.)
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A VERY good induction costs that much, but they start around $1000 and prices are dropping as they become more popular
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I've retired to a "college town" where the energy of the students is palpable. There are tons of things to do, from art openings, to lectures, to (as recently reported in the Times) a "Geezer Happy Hour". I walk with a meetup group, have taken up pickleball (don't knock it 'til you try it) and joined the local Audubon Society. This Monday, I'll be playing trivia with a bunch of college students. I'm lucky.
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Jennene It now looks as though Mr. Santos' $700K windfall loan came from a Russian oligarch; so Mr. Putin must be thrilled with the hand puppet he bought.
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Sid - Actually, the AGU and Exxon Mobil are no longer allied. In any case, Dr. Abramoff worked for Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and with government going the way it is, protest is being stifled at speed.I'm with you on the ties that bind, but the only corporation I could find that might be questionable was Lockheed Martin.However, COP27 in Egypt was sponsored by all kinds of vested interests and stifled protest at scale.
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Viv 1. You may be correct that some large single family McMansions are built to become boarding houses. That said, I believe that the houses in the central Atlanta neighborhoods I am describing are sold to owner-occupants. They are in desirable locations. 2. If families with children buy these redeveloped large $1+ million houses, I am okay with that. They are using the space and square footage. But many of them are being bought by single people or childless couples, wasting the square footage. (Mostly just to buy the location.)3. Having an accessory building for long-term rental or for extended family to live in absolutely does increase the supply of housing. And does help to address the issue of housing affordability.4. Including renters does not destroy neighborhoods. And homeowners are not always good neighbors. There are good and bad residents in both categories. Having a homeowner rent out an accessory building on their own property is one way to ensure that the renters are good neighbors to everyone in the community.
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The Nassau GOP party opened the doors and welcomed a wolf into their hen house. That stretch of Nassau will be blue for a very long time after he gets voted out. The area is still very competitive and the voters will not forget this debacle.
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MB Blackberry I've decided to take an interesting, modest paying job as a childfree person as well. I honestly have no idea how people afford children unless they're doctors or lawyers or have families that they can live with to provide round the clock childcare. The only people I know with kids are extremely well off, or extremely poor and on government assistance. This is clearly not great for the future of our economy, but I don't see what the alternative is, many people will continue to behave rationally and not have children if it puts them in a precarious position. If the government was serious about increasing the birth rate they'd need to extend major assistance to middle class people. In NYC that would have to extend up well past $100k for a couple's income before it started to have an impact.
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I scour the flyers for the two grocery stores in my town. I make a list of ‘bonus buys’ and specials, and don’t deviate from the list (even though I’m tempted when I walk down the cookie aisle). I also look for soon-to-come-to its buy-date, and we recently grilled filet mignon the day I purchased it for $6.99 a pound vs $9.99 a pound. We’ve got a stock of canned soup, tuna fish, tomatoes and pasta that were on sale. I pick up salad greens, eggs, fresh vegetables and milk whether they’re on sale or not because they’re good for our daily diet. We freeze the buy one/get one free bread, and enjoy French toast a lot. Truly, it’s like a treasure hunt, and my husband and I are fortunate to be able to participate while Corporate price gouging does its best to put many items out out reach for so many others.
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Jack 'If you are working full time in a job that is your primary source of income, you shouldn't be earning anything close to minimum wage. 'Why?Why do you think everyone should be making bank working menial jobs?People should train for jobs they can who which can earn them a living. The trades are hiring and any one well qualifies can make a very nice living in the trades. But an MBA as a librarian should not be delusional to think she will be making 80k by shushing kids at the school library, nor should a folk who flips burgers think they will get rich that way.Train up, earn some skills and get a job that pays. Don't sit there thinking you deserve to drive a Mercedes 'cos you have an MBA in Racial Inequality from a Liberal arts college, because such a 'skill' is not needed by any one in real life.
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I don’t get it: one headline says Microsoft to spend ten billion on Chatbot, and this one tries to rational massive tech layoffs at its massive rivals. Amazon wasn’t willing to lose money to get customers for “several years” but several decades. Apple hoards hundreds of billion, Google had money all over the place. Sales force maybe spent way to much for an app, and Carvana may be trying to sell used cars in a way that looks like a vending machine, but that doesn’t justify why the super majors are dumping ten thous
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Restaurants have jumped the shark, at least here in Seattle. Prices have skyrocketed, where a simple dinner now routinely sets you back $100 or more. Eating out has become unsustainable. Thank god my partner and I are excellent cooks, we have cut back our restaurant visits by 50 percent or more since the pandemic.
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Because only $16.5 billion in profit next year would be a catastrophe!
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Drspock In one case, a person took money from an ATM and got an extra $1,000. They immediately and voluntarily took the money back into the branch and returned it the same day when they realized the mistake.In the other case, the branch manager took $50,000 out of the vault and had it shipped to his house when he lost his job. Then when the bank asked for the money back, he denied he had it, then admitted he had it but refused to return it claiming it was his money. All the time fighting subpoenas and ignoring repeated inquiries.Please tell me how these two cases are even remotely similar.
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A $10K coat and it's not mink? Puh-leeze! Warmest coat I've ever owned. (I love the Ritz Thrift Shop!)
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Hochul to Unveil a $1 Billion Plan to Tackle Mental Illness in New York In a State of the State address, the governor will seek to create new beds for people with severe mental illness and offer more mental health care to children. ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. Kathy Hochul will unveil a far-reaching billion-dollar plan on Tuesday to close some of the many gaps in the care system for New Yorkers with mental illness. In a State of the State address, the governor will seek to create new beds for people with severe mental illness and offer more mental health care to children.
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RS Imagine you're a politician and you've got a choice:1) You can accept a briefcase full of money in exchange for keeping the price of an Epi-Pen at $700.2) You can refuse the briefcase and do what's right.I would suggest that for 8 out of 10 of our current politicians the answer would be, "How much is in the case?"
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I have been in sales all my life. This is a scenario. I employ a sales person. Together we develop a territory. Now remember it costs money to develop a territory. Many times it takes a few years where the company does not see a return on that investment. They continue to pay that person in the hopes it will pay off. It is called an investment. Finally the territory is making money and a competitor swoop’s in and offers that person a lot more money to cover that same region. Not they can because they have put no investment in that person. My point here is it costs money to bring on new people. Even if they are highly skilled every company has its own way of doing things. There is also proprietary information that the employee can use to comprise your business. He or she knows your pricing, delivery schedule, how you operate. A non compete is a way to protect employers against losing all the time and money they invest in employees. This goes for all professions. If an employer fires an employee that’s different. That employee has the right to work where they choose, unless they agree to conditions in a severance agreement. But employees just job hopping for more money need to be responsible for the employer that trained them.
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Ann So "non-profits" take it out on those who can't afford their services. See Wall St. Journal's investigative reporting on this: Big Nonprofit Hospitals Expand in Wealthier Areas, Shun Poorer Ones <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/nonprofit-hospitals-deals-tax-breaks-11672068264" target="_blank">https://www.wsj.com/articles/nonprofit-hospitals-deals-tax-breaks-11672068264</a>
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Paul All will be investigated you can bet on the small majority that is the Republicans. But no investigations into other family shenanigans will take place of the Trump family by them. The mind swirling corruption that was and is the Trump's circus luckily is extensive enough that the Justice department will handle them. The Saudi Arabia $2 billion deal with Jared Kushner never got any scrutiny at all.
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In a way AI, in its current form, is just an extension of google search, but now it just ties up information in a bow. Is this just a question of more ornate delivery of information? If so, I do not see the threat, just yet. If we are talking about degrees of decoration, who cares. People are fickle about decorations to begin with. It can only crunch data and present options, solutions, ideas with already created data patterns. It does not have intuition, imagination, spirit. If it creates art, so be it; If people like it, so be it. Someone will be there to collect the profit. And there will always other more organic options. Profit. That gets me thinking. Perhaps the ethical issue is the companies that profit from PUBLIC data points. Maybe the law should be AI profit is a type of public utility, the money put in a public fund to help community, infrastructure.
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Ricko yes we went with Schwab and they charged $300 to review all our accounts and assets and make recommendations. Open an account and go to a branch. Might also Work for you. We are 38 so it was a nice reassurance before having another child. PrettyIn depth and they made some good suggestions that we then executed.
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kateB your son is either not making such salary, has crappy financial skills or has a very expensive lifestyle… you can live very comfortably in NYC making anything over 100k + health benefits. And thats partying, traveling and eating out. What I’ll never understand are the people complaining while at the same time spending upwards of 5k a month in rent… you don’t need to live in SoHo, Chelsea or a penthouse to live in NYC .
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Mr McCarthy, You have stated that the people elected George Santos. I beg to differ. The people elected someone who supposedly:Attended Horace Mann High School.Earned degrees from Baruch College and NYU.Worked for Citigroup and Goldman SachsWas on a panel discussion for renewable energy and global warming the largest private equity conference in the world.Managed his family 13 rental properties.Mother was Jewish.Mother was the first female executive at a major financial institution.Maternal grandparents fled Jewish persecution in Ukraine.Traveled to Israel numerous times.Mother died as a result of the 9/11 terror attacks. Four of his employees died at The Pulse nightclub shootings.Founded and ran a tax exempt charity, Friends of Pets United.Was mugged in 2016.Voted "nay" on the House fiscal 2023 spending bill before he was ever sworn in.Instead, they elected someone who lied about all of the above and:Has a criminal case filed against him in Brazil for fraud.Has most certainly violated election law reimbursement claims.Had a gross income was $55,000 in 2020, but was able to loan his campaign $700,000.00. They elected a swindler, but did't know this until after the election unfortunately.
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M. From Massachusetts Believe me, I have the best doctors possible. I'm thankful every day that they are taking incredible care of me. (I often get emails from my oncologist at midnight or later. She is a saint and can't be paid enough for all the good she does.)That being said, doctors can't care for their patients the way they want to if the administrative side is inaccessible and inefficient and more interested in delivering dividends. Maybe you're okay with crummy service, like that we've been seeing from the airlines, but most people are not. We're willing to pay our fees and fares, and for that we expect the product we paid for. Even JetBlue recently gave me an automatic $100 credit because they knew that they had fallen short in their service.The point is, time is valuable for all of us. Yes, pay doctors, nurses, and medical personnel (not hedge fund investors) more. I see all the time how things have changed for them in the past few years, and it's not pretty and it's very upsetting.P.S. "Other drivers" are not businesses delivering a product or service. They're stuck in the same traffic mess as you are.
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One thing McCarthy does not mention is that 25% of our total national debt occurred during the 4 years of the Trump administration. (Yes I know Bush, Obama & Biden have added to the debt too.)Let's get the debt under control but let's at least approach the issue honestly. And when we talk 'spending cuts,' let's talk about paring down our incredibly bloated military.
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David Anderson -- I have often wondered why it is legal for airlines to overbook. Just imagine if any other industry at all did this! "Ah, I see you have a ticket for the [fill in your favorite team]'s game. So sorry, we have double-sold that seat and the other ticket holder is already sitting in it, so you can't attend this game." Or, "Welcome to the Metropolitan Opera. Yes, I see your $350 apiece tickets for the opening night performance with a world-famous cast. Sorry, that seat has been oversold, and you can't attend tonight's performance." The public would not tolerate that sort of thing for a moment. Why do we tolerate it from airlines? Why is it legal? If the airline sells me a seat, they already have my money -- why should they care if I don't show up to sit in the seat?
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Alright, I'll play along with this article, the concept of the "art of the edit". Editing seems to me a pretty subjective art, for example I wrote as my opening sentence of my post here "I hope I never read or become involved in anything of the two, for all I've heard about them is if I'm some slave in Egypt who likes to scrawl occasionally on discarded papyrus while they're part of the official scribes of Egypt never too far from the Pharaoh."You can easily see that an editor would point out I left out the word "as" in the part of sentence where I wrote "...for all I've heard about them is if I'm some slave in Egypt..." I should have said "as if I'm some slave in Egypt". But honestly did anyone misunderstand what I wrote, was the addition of "as" really necessary? Consider for example the lack of my addition of "as" as if a silent space in music, a left out note, a note which didn't really need to be added for you to understand.And now I hope you understand the great difficulty of editing. What really is required for a person to understand a piece of writing, what has to really exist and what not? How far can you go in leaving things out and people will still understand? What has to be added for understanding? The art of the editor never really ends, for essentially it's the constant approach to the perfectly communicated and complex message.
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gregolio What specific influence does "the extreme right branch of federal legislators" have on this extreme far left part of California?With Democrats owning the state and $100 billion banked during the pandemic, California is quite capable of doing whatever it and county residents deem necessary with Santa Cruz County.
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As a physician, I get exhausted with the endless self promoting savior complex mentality of RNs, while they portray physicians as arrogant, negligent and money hungry. A good nurse is very valuable and I work with good nurses. I also work with terrible nurses-who are grossly negligent, spend work hours online shopping, cannot perform basic work obligations, and one who told me in a patient’s room that all i did was “sign papers.” If i said anything remotely similar in such an open environment i would get severely reprimanded. If nurses want physician support, stop leaving the nursing profession to become nurse practitioners (with no residency and changing fields of medicine on a whim) and acknowledge that physicians have a liability and work schedule you dont-my shift doesnt end after 8 hours. Not with an endless inbox of patient messages, taking saturday to review labs and imaging, and patients who all want a call back “ASAP.”
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Noncompetes are unconstitutional. They limit economic and personal freedom. Our family lost several months of salary and paid 10s of thousands of dollars to battle a non-compete clause in Philadelphia. Noncompetes benefit lawyers and administrators-no one else. They need to be federally outlawed.
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A single 155mm shell costs roughly $1,000.So for a mere billion a year, set aside these last 20 years... the US would now be sitting on a strategic reserve of over 20 million extra shells, as a 'rainy day fund'.I have no doubt the US does have similar reserves -- most of which we probably don't talk about/nobody knows exists -- but, nevertheless, Deterrence is about having options; and it seems to me like this would have been money well spent, considering. To add another arrow to the quiver, for pennies on the dollar...?Given that almost a trillion a year of taxpayer dollars is poured down the military-industrial complex 'memory hole' -- often for fancy problem-plagued white elephant projects or just run-of-the-mill bloat due to corrupt congressional 'pork' -- setting aside 1/1,000 of defense spending for artillery ammo, going forward... getting "back to basics", instead of overly-complicated bling-bling... seems like a valuable lesson to be learned.I'm aware of NATO doctrine, that we'd 'own the skies' etc.But still, 75% of casualties in Ukraine have been caused by indirect fires, and artillery's called the 'God of War' for a reason. We never know when it's a card up our sleeve we might have to fall back on... if only to help an ally.Ammo is an important capability the US should never overlook-- especially if we want to have the optionality to help our allies, who maybe don't benefit from our same resources....
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In general, in-person shopping is a miserable experience these days. Retailers need to invest in both the store and web experience and it starts with service.My local Walgreens is a nasty place to have to visit - dirty, cluttered and their pharmacy is often randomly closed with a handwritten note taped up to the front door. So I moved all my prescriptions to mail order.It has been ages since I've bought anything from Macy's - same merchandise every year. Dirty dressing rooms and no sales associates on the floor to help.And I think Americans are questioning how much stuff we really need - or want - in our homes.
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This whole “competition” thing idiotic - in chips and every other field the China hawks are pushing. The arrangement is simple - we make and design the chips, China using its low labor price puts the chips into computers and smartphones and ships it back, everybody wins. But someone, mainly the China hawks Trump appointed and Biden continued to rely on, had the bright idea of banning chip sales to China, the world’s largest electronics manufacturer. What exactly do you think it will bring? Of course they will now try and design their own chips. And no amount of lavish spending will make us competitive in chips once they’ve started to make their own - think nuclear bombs, space stations as examples where America tried to exclude China and they designed their own. It once again bears repeating - our labor costs are too high and too uncompetitive to manufacture anything. I recently saw an ad for a bus driver at $22 per hour - what do you think an electronics engineer in China gets paid? About that much…and they have huge amounts of engineers graduating every year. What we should do is try to attract the best and brightest of those graduates with work visas and have them work for us designing the chips - our country is still competitive and attractive in that regard. But America as a manufacturing hub? PLEASE. What a waste of money, the only thing Congress is good at. That and spending more and more on war.
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I live in a place called the Hominy Valley near Asheville, NC, so I'm no stranger to stone ground grits or hominy. (In fact, my family used to make our own hominy, a messy process involving lye best done outside on an open fire.)Having said that, I have to admit I'm also a fan of instant grits. With a half cup of boiling water, a package of instant grits and a few seconds you can enjoy hot grits with your fried egg.
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Dadof2 Japan, for example, has a 2.5% unemployment rate. There are a couple of holes in your comment:1) If there were truly labor shortages real wages would not be falling2) Rather than importing workers from failed economies, we should be serving as an example and partner to them, so that they do not risk and often lose their lives trying to come here. Instead we are emulating their failed model.3) The Trump policies brought unemployment to historical lows and saw real wages for formerly marginalized groups climb. 4) A lot of these hazardous and low-paying jobs can simply be automated. Everyone can participate in the American dream, if we lose defeatist and envy-inspired policies and rhetoric. What the Democrats actually wants is a perpetually marginalized cadre of dependent supporters. And the abusive elite is happy to foster the false narrative is Socialism
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Emile In fact, 85% of the tax breaks that went to companies were used to buy back stock. Those buybacks did zilch for creating jobs, and just bumped the stock price (and lined the pockets of some of the fat cats who sold stock, and/or exercised stock options).Look it up.Link: <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/annemarieknott/2019/02/21/why-the-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act-tcja-led-to-buybacks-rather-than-investment/?sh=13a024c737fb" target="_blank">https://www.forbes.com/sites/annemarieknott/2019/02/21/why-the-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act-tcja-led-to-buybacks-rather-than-investment/?sh=13a024c737fb</a>Quote:For the first three quarters of 2018, buybacks were $583.4 billion (up up 52.6% from 2017). In contrast, aggregate capital investment increased 8.8% over 2017, while R&D investment growth at US public companies increased 12.5% over 2017 growth.End quote
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The Affordable Care Act, which Nancy Pelosi was instrumental in passing into law, improved the health and financial security of the American people.It expanded new health coverage to 20 million people and delivered better coverage to the more than 150 million Americans with health insurance through their employer by bulldozing the medieval 'pre-existing condition' excuse that corporate health insurers used to drop/prevent coverage of millions of Americans....and by extending health care coverage to millions of young adults under their parents' policies.The ACA is far from perfect, but given the powerful right-wing forces of greed, power and misanthropy that dominate our government, the ACA is a godsend.Without it, tens of millions of more Americans would lack health insurance, and lack of health insurance leads to worse health. And millions of Americans would still lack coverage because insurance companies would still be able to drop Americans with a 'pre-existing condition' like a hot potato.We should always remember what the Republican healthcare plan proposal was and is:ZeroNothing'Repeal Obamacare !'"the free market"Otherwise known as: "Drop dead, America !"Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama and the Democratic Party saved lives and made the country a healthier place.They deserve humanitarian awards for their valiant victory over Republican Death Panels.Thank you, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the greatest Speaker of the modern era.
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…I haven’t read through all the comments but I’m wondering…what if we (those over 50/55) would make age part of the diversity issue…as in the workforce must represent the population at-large…so that companies would be ‘forced’ to include those over 50/55. Remember ‘we’ also have the purse strings & vote, so use the power you have to make change…even Hollywood realized that the “Otto” movie (attend by those over 50/55) made 50% more money in the opening weekend then expected (recouped 30% production costs in its first limited opening weekend) and is bound to be financially successful. Use your power to make change…AARP should help lobby for this change!
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Jimmie - Unfortunately, eliminating the cap entirely would produce a relatively small amount of money compared to the size of the problem. It might raise $50 or $60 billion, which would be about a 5% increase in tax collected.
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Student Capital punishment galore and open carry.....what's not to like?
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I was an employee of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University from 1968. In the 1970s, I recall seeing posters for a gay club and this apparently marched in a Pride parade given the photos displayed. Various stories of Yeshiva's financial irregularities would circulate. I see they lost $110 million in the Bernie Madoff scheme. A dean of the medical school left under a cloud. Yeshiva eventually transferred the medical school to Montefiore Medical Center. It was always said that the medical school supported Yeshiva, but at this time, Yeshiva claimed it was losing money on the school.
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“ We price our products according to the value they deliver”, says the Amgen spokesperson. That is the big problem with healthcare in the US - what is the value of a life saving drug? Infinite? All the money I have? That is the immorality of a system with unregulated medicine prices, it extracts profits well in excess of a reasonable return on investment, to the detriment of patients and taxpayers.
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Gene Hurley I was a graduate student living in Washington Heights during the 1984 presidential election. I vividly recall Reagan's "Morning in America" television campaign with its depiction of a prosperous rural white family sitting down to a sumptuous dinner table.In 1984 Washington Heights had one of the highest homicide rates in the city. When I first moved into my neighborhood, the local drug dealers constantly hectored me to buy their wares for nearly a month, until they finally understood that I did indeed live in the neighborhood and that I was not a downtown boy coming to the neighborhood in search of drugs.I occasionally saw discarded syringes and hypodermic needles on the sidewalks as I walked through the neighborhood.I concluded that Reagan's "Morning in America" was not for the entire country: it certainly was not directed at people of color living in urban areas. To me this piece of propaganda was no different from Reagan's opening campaign speech in Philadelphia, Mississippi, where he advocated for states' rights.
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CB1s fight with the developers harkens back to the 1970s. The developers were given the chance to build a ten story structure years ago but there's too much $$$ on the table. Patience, time and a change of guards. Clearly Ms Bellafante leans towards the developers. In New York everyone can be bought. Politicians. Landmark Preservation Commission. You name it they'll be sold.
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From the article: “With the seniority-based pay systems that are prevalent across East Asia, companies want to push older employees off the payroll, not extend their time on the job.”Seniority isn’t exactly the same in the US, it’s just that annual reviews push experienced worker salaries higher than entry level salaries. In the US many of us get pushed out the door in our 50s. I’m an example and I’m not alone, there are a lot of us struggling to put food on the table and make Medicare without depleting our retirement savings before retiring. I doubt the post-pandemic economy will change that.
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