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Face it. We are now addicted to cheap, low quality stuff that we can toss in the dump. The C-suite responded accordingly. They stopped investing in their US manufacturing assets. They stopped investing in their US labor force. They stopped investing in their US marketing channels. Admit it. Over the years prices stayed low (i.e., inflation was "under control"). Over the years the middle class jobs slowly disappeared. Over the years the downtown slowly succumbed to Amazon. Own it. We sold our soul for high profits and cheap shiny objects delivered to our front door. Addiction is always too easy, and rehab is always too hard.
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Londo Bell American politicians regularly switch votes on key legislation for campaign contributions less than $100,000. It's not just china, its us too.
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"content": "Londo Bell American politicians regularly switch votes on key legislation for campaign contributions less than $100,000. It's not just china, its us too.\n",
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At best, managing construction in NYC is incredibly difficult. DEVELOPERS, people often like Trump and his fellow crooks, are the people that have the money to build, and they want the best returns on investment that they can get. Any housing that they construct has to be high-priced to do that - huge rents or purchase prices that few can afford except the very rich. Enter Bruce Teitelbaum. This article should make it very clear to everyone how people like this pressure their way into billions of profits on high-income housing when what NYC needs is AFFORDABLE, SAFE housing. Little by little the City is becoming a bastion of the rich and influential while ordinary people must move father and farther from where they need to work to serve these rich residents. We see the everywhere.Our government MUST make the commitment to provide affordable housing. Issue bonds as needed for VERY WELL-SUPERVISED, GRIFT-FREE residential development. It has become a fact of building these projects that huge graft and corruption are often found in them - so we need someone as unlike Trump as possible, to oversee this. These people exist and NYC has had some of the best in the past. DO IT AGAIN!
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"content": "At best, managing construction in NYC is incredibly difficult. DEVELOPERS, people often like Trump and his fellow crooks, are the people that have the money to build, and they want the best returns on investment that they can get. Any housing that they construct has to be high-priced to do that - huge rents or purchase prices that few can afford except the very rich. Enter Bruce Teitelbaum. This article should make it very clear to everyone how people like this pressure their way into billions of profits on high-income housing when what NYC needs is AFFORDABLE, SAFE housing. Little by little the City is becoming a bastion of the rich and influential while ordinary people must move father and farther from where they need to work to serve these rich residents. We see the everywhere.Our government MUST make the commitment to provide affordable housing. Issue bonds as needed for VERY WELL-SUPERVISED, GRIFT-FREE residential development. It has become a fact of building these projects that huge graft and corruption are often found in them - so we need someone as unlike Trump as possible, to oversee this. These people exist and NYC has had some of the best in the past. DO IT AGAIN!\n",
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It's amazing to me that no one here or in government is discussing the cause of a majority of deteriorating bridges and thousands of overpasses in over half of the states. The primary cause is the salt used incessantly on our roads at the slightest hint of a trace of snow in the forecast. Not only does the salt corrode the exposed steel beams that we can see, it seeps into the concrete and corrodes the reinforcing bars - eventually making the concrete much weaker. New York was recently "treated" to a replacement of the Tappanzee Bridge at the price tag of $4 billion. This could have been avoided if salt was not used within a few miles of the bridge. Eliminate salt from the roads and you save the cost of the salt, the cost of replacing bridges and overpasses, and our cars will last a lot longer as well. Use sand instead, and install snow tires on your car if necessary.
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From Matt Stoller's newsletter (edited for flow):LastPass was purchased by two private equity firms, Francisco Partners and Evergreen Coast Capital Corp. Typically, PE firms raise prices, lower quality, harm workers, and reduce customer service. They then decided to charge customers $36 to access the cumbersome passwords. This particular pricing move sparked a backlash from customers, and the two PE firms pledged to spin off the company and make it independent. But that hasn’t happened.Poor quality is common within private equity owned software firms, which means cybersecurity vulnerabilities quickly follow. We’ve seen this with PE-owned software firms facilitating the hacking of the NYC subway, nuclear weapons facilities, and criminal ransomware. And now it’s happened with LastPass. Lovely.
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Contrary to the "notion" of freedom, carrying a firearm in public is for one reason: intimidation. First, you are carrying it to overcompensate for your insecurities, and second, carrying a firearm will never fill that void. It denies the freedom of everyone around the "armed" person. Why? Because I believe if you have to open carry, there's something mentally wrong with you. It's the same way with the noisy jacked-up trucks. Why would you own one unless you think yourself "less than" (insecure), un-endowed, and need to overcompensate? It's obvious as a flashing neon sign to everyone else, why is it you don't get it?
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"content": "Contrary to the \"notion\" of freedom, carrying a firearm in public is for one reason: intimidation. First, you are carrying it to overcompensate for your insecurities, and second, carrying a firearm will never fill that void. It denies the freedom of everyone around the \"armed\" person. Why? Because I believe if you have to open carry, there's something mentally wrong with you. It's the same way with the noisy jacked-up trucks. Why would you own one unless you think yourself \"less than\" (insecure), un-endowed, and need to overcompensate? It's obvious as a flashing neon sign to everyone else, why is it you don't get it?\n",
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| no | Classification | 2,907 |
Thanks for the great article! I hope the Pentagon and other US national security organizations are actively planning for the strategic implications of a privately-owned, armed force becoming so powerful in a nuclear-armed state. For example, if this Wagner organization somehow got their hands on a tactical nuclear weapon, would they have the same inhibitions about using it as opposed to a state actor? President Putin has opened a giant can of worms by using Wagner in his desperation to gain ground in the Ukrainian conflict; can he put the lid back on when he needs to?
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Richard Blaine I liked Trump's climate change action. He halted the export of one million barrels of oil a day from Iran, while allowing them to continue their zero carbon electricity research. Coal use to produce electricity dropped from 30% to 20% while he was president. He also put carbon tariffs on carbon intensive imports like steel, aluminum and manufactured goods from China.Trump expanded our diplomatic relations with foreign leaders of color, foreign countries of color and traditionally disadvantaged ethnic white countries. He openly ridiculed white leaders of predominately white countries.Countries in NATO and the EU are increasingly electing neo-fascists and far right populists. This has caused the Democrats to strengthen our relations with far right white extremists while reducing international diversity in our foreign relations.This has coincided with a dramatic increase in antisemitism and anti-Asian hate crimes since Biden took office. Anti-Asian hate crimes were up over 300% in 2021, mostly concentrated in deep blue cities. We learned from Trump's presidency that the liberal media attributes this to the president and his political party.Twice the Republicans authorized lethal aid, including the javelins, to Ukraine. Twice Obama vetoed it. Thank you for finally joining us. The Democrats may very well have outflanked the Republicans in their move to the extreme right in support for war in Ukraine.
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Obsolesce is more common to software than hardware. I still have unsupported cell phones and laptops galore. I converted the laptops to Linux a few years back and they run better than ever. My next cell phone will be open source based Linux and it will run for many years, if I don't drop it.
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| no | Classification | 3,685 |
mshobe The pilot implies direct contact through tendrils. You see the infected neighbor seemingly eating her daughter in the typical "zombie need brains" way, only to reveal she has fungus tendrils coming out of her mouth. From that point, I think you're meant to assume that whenever you see an infected "chewing" on a body, they are trying to spread the disease. Additionally, Ellie shows the scars of a healed wound from 3 weeks prior to prove that she got infected, but is immune. This also implies that direct contact with an open wound will infect. Finally, we see a corpse of an infected that is "done". Joel and Tess aren't worried about being close to it. This implies that there is no danger of airborne transmission (a change from the game as the showrunner realized than an airborne infection for this type of disease would likely give humans 0 chance for survival)
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Rupert Harry inherited about $US 74 million, so I think that would go a long way.
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This has to stop. I am so tired of having to give up our most cherished freedoms to appease a small number of complainers. If you want to live and go to school in this country, you have to understand that FREE SPEECH, and the open exchange of ideas are two of our most important principles. What about the vast majority of students who were enriched by seeing that painting? Fayneese S. Miller should be ashamed of herself, what a cowardly act.
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"content": "This has to stop. I am so tired of having to give up our most cherished freedoms to appease a small number of complainers. If you want to live and go to school in this country, you have to understand that FREE SPEECH, and the open exchange of ideas are two of our most important principles. What about the vast majority of students who were enriched by seeing that painting? Fayneese S. Miller should be ashamed of herself, what a cowardly act.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 9,922 |
John D Warnock Thank you.And not only that but animals have an instinct for when the cage is too crowded and become unwilling to mate or, if the young are produced, there is inadequate dedication to mothering due to severe stress. Why we can't see that this is happening to us puzzles me.And yet I do live in a neighborhood where the houses are big and the families are having 3 or 4 children but someone is making a lot of money.The stress seems under control and there is a lot of focus on making it all look perfect. This is much harder in the most expensive megacities. Once the house costs $1,000,000 plus and you can't trust the public schools, and getting back and forth to work is an ordeal, more people will opt out.
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| yes | Classification | 5,548 |
I have a pretty tight regime thats been effective in managing these issues. I use a Protonmail email account for all personal communications - it is free, encrypted and blocks all ads and spam. I have a Gmail email that I share occasionally with businesses for sites that require email info, I receive spam by the bucketload to Gmail and delete it by the bucketload too - never opened. I also strictly use Duck Duck Go for search and browsing, never Google - no ads, and all search history and cache can be deleted after each use (zero tracing). I have switched off all the locational permissions for apps I use, and never consent to a website knowing where I am. As a result of all this work, my main email account is completely free of spam and ads, and when I load a website, I don't get any ads (DDG blocks them all). I essentially use the Web and email privately and without being followed. It takes work but totally worth it
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| no | Classification | 2,068 |
Erik Frederiksen Do you cook any "ethnic" foods? Many non-Western foods rely on open flame. Sure you can get a pretty good approximation of those foods with electricity, but nothing like foods done on an open flame--the searing, the heat level, the char, the concentration of the heat. As a very small, but perhaps relatable example, have you tried roasting a marshmallow over an electric burner? It's just not the same. Sure, you can do it, but hey, why would you? If you believe that this is a small issue, at least 1/4 of the world's population uses equipment that depends on an open flame. Because I cook food from non-Western tradition, I personally will not ever switch to an electric stovetop.
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In 2018 I had a shoulder replacement. While I was in the hospital, an expensive housekeeper came in to refresh and clean my apartment before I came home. Did it look and smell nice? Yes. But. She threw out things I needed and wanted without consulting me, “reorganized” (again, without my consent or request) my 5K books by color and size, stacked my mail and clips (I’m a journalist who saved my work in print) in assorted boxes so high and bulky that I still can’t open the vertical blinds in my home office because they’re blocked), and lots of other gratuitous things. It is now 2023 and I’m still searching for my passport, birth certificate, and collection of Walker Percy books. Sometimes asking for help backfires. And I’ve been depressed and overwhelmed by how much I have correct ever since she came in here. Sigh.
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Tolly a lot of those big clamshell packaging that are almost impossible to open are for loss prevention and the stores are trying to reduce theft.
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| yes | Classification | 7,462 |
Rather astounding that she has $120 million and still wanted more, and still fought long and hard against common sense legislation that would prohibit lawmakers from trading individual stocks. Keep in mind they could put all their money in a blind trust and and have somebody else trade stocks. But no, Ms. Pelosi wanted to craft legislation that would greatly influence business AND still be allowed to have that knowledge and trade stocks.She may have done some wonderful things, but she had a tremendous failing here.
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I think ADUs are a great idea. They are good for extended families, as in the article. They also increase the housing supply, especially as rental apartments for young single people and couples without children.Twenty years ago, I served on the planning commission for my hometown of Durham, NC -- a city and county of about 300,000 people. I believe that many zoning regulations are too restrictive. And that these restrictions have contributed to the housing unaffordability.Many of the most stable and attractive pre-war neighborhoods include granny flats. And a mix of single-family homes and duplexes. And often some small apartments. And they often have small neighborhood commercial districts, with a couple of restaurants, stores, hair salons, etc. All within walking distance. Sadly, it is illegal to build these types of neighborhoods or to do infill development in this tradition in many places today. Because of overlying restrictive zoning laws.My great grandparents built a house in the Trinity Park neighborhood in Durham in 1929, and raised four daughters there. In retirement, they sold the house and moved a few blocks away into a duplex. Later, they moved into an apartment in the same neighborhood. They were able to stay in the same community throughout all these phases of their life. Including connections with their neighbors, of various ages and generations.
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I am fed up with all of the non-sense about how farmers and rural folks are suffering. Take a look around. You will see a $50,000 Pick-up truck, late model SUV, kids in the nations best colleges, an office in Florida, another office in the Wiscopnsin North Woods, and Mexicans doing all of the work. Subsidies and crop insurance are financing the gravy train for the 'poor-suffering-farmers.' There is plenty of money going to the red-rural areas, and it is being horded by the trust-fund inherited family farm off spring who are clearly not out "sweating with the oxen."
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"content": "I am fed up with all of the non-sense about how farmers and rural folks are suffering. Take a look around. You will see a $50,000 Pick-up truck, late model SUV, kids in the nations best colleges, an office in Florida, another office in the Wiscopnsin North Woods, and Mexicans doing all of the work. Subsidies and crop insurance are financing the gravy train for the 'poor-suffering-farmers.' There is plenty of money going to the red-rural areas, and it is being horded by the trust-fund inherited family farm off spring who are clearly not out \"sweating with the oxen.\"\n",
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"Because the United States runs budget deficits, it must borrow huge sums of money to pay its bills."What?... What?! Because the gov't CAN run budget deficits, it NEVER has to borrow money to pay its bills. The "debt ceiling" is a manufactured constraint that's meant to prevent our gov't from pursuing social programs that would help the less fortunate among us.The only true constraint on gov't spending is a lack of AVAILABLE labor and resources to complete the project without unnecessarily bidding up the costs of that labor and those resources. In other words, if a gov't program is inflationary, then it's probably not a good idea to fund it. But who cares if gov't spending on a worthy project increases the deficit if it isn't inflationary? Our so-called "national debt" (a silly concept because it would be disastrous if we ever tried to pay it back!) was about $28 trillion in the days before the pandemic. And yet the economy was humming along with interest and inflation rates BELOW 2%. And then covid gummed up the works. We're currently working through that, and recent economic data is encouraging.The only deficit we need to worry about is one of intellectual rigor.
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"content": "\"Because the United States runs budget deficits, it must borrow huge sums of money to pay its bills.\"What?... What?! Because the gov't CAN run budget deficits, it NEVER has to borrow money to pay its bills. The \"debt ceiling\" is a manufactured constraint that's meant to prevent our gov't from pursuing social programs that would help the less fortunate among us.The only true constraint on gov't spending is a lack of AVAILABLE labor and resources to complete the project without unnecessarily bidding up the costs of that labor and those resources. In other words, if a gov't program is inflationary, then it's probably not a good idea to fund it. But who cares if gov't spending on a worthy project increases the deficit if it isn't inflationary? Our so-called \"national debt\" (a silly concept because it would be disastrous if we ever tried to pay it back!) was about $28 trillion in the days before the pandemic. And yet the economy was humming along with interest and inflation rates BELOW 2%. And then covid gummed up the works. We're currently working through that, and recent economic data is encouraging.The only deficit we need to worry about is one of intellectual rigor.\n",
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Santos was born in Queens to Brazilian immigrant parents.He said so.It should be easy enough to verify if he was born in Queens or not. If he passed the NY State Regents to earn a NY State high school diploma.To me, the Big Question is: where did all the money he gave his campaign come from? Who was buying a seat in the House for $700,000. and what do they expect to get for their money?There are lies... and there are crimes - some of the involving national security.
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This column expresses a nice thought, but it is a little bit naive. Biden would be crucified by the GOP, Fox News and probably CNN as anti-Israel if he tried to call Bibi on the carpet. No matter what he does (including trying to torpedo an element of a U.S. president’s foreign policy), Bibi is always treated as a reasonable statesman by much of the American political and pundit class. On the eve of the election that put him back in power, Bibi was given an essentially open microphone on the Bill Mahr and Fareed Zakaria programs. And those guys are not exactly MAGA Republicans. Imagine what Trump and MAGA would say and do if Biden made the slighted move in the direction of following Friedman’s advice. No, the time to stop Bibi was before he was re-elected. But at that time, Zakaria and Mahr and many others were acting like teenagers given an audience with the great wise man of the Middle East—a man they would never dream of asking a difficult question.
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What kind of allies do we have in the Middle East?Israel is largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign assistance since World War II. Between 2015 and 2020 the U.S. sold Saudi Arabia 64 billion in weapons. When a beneficent ally like the U.S. asks their Middle Eastern allies to support the war in Ukraine, maybe Saudi Arabia could help out with the oil shock caused by the conflict, or Israel could let us ship our ammunition from depots in Israel to Ukraine, one might expect a more positive response than we got. Saudi Arabia chose to keep production down embarrassing the U.S. and helping Putin. Israel seemed more concerned about damaging its relationship with Russia if arms were shipped from their country. These are not the actions of allies when asked for help.
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General Chaos I knew coyotes were in the area but we're in a built up suburban area. I wasn't sure they travelled this far into suburbia given there are lots of easy pickings just a tiny bit farther out. Then one night our spotlight camera caught a pair of them going between our's & the neighbor's house. The camera announced "you are being recorded" which caused them to look directly at it. Awesome! I much prefer having these guys keeping control of rodents & other pests. We could have used them during the Covid restaurant shut downs when the rats came into the development looking for the food they used to get from the restaurant dumpsters. I had to stop feeding the birds & I'm still too afraid to restart feeding them. I haven't seen a rat since the restaurants reopened but... It was a horrid affair which I'd wish on no one.I'm one who would welcome back the cougars. I was lucky enough to see one gracefully cross the road up by Grand Canyon just before dawn. It was misty, eerie & magical. I love seeing all wildlife but we have way too many deer. We need these top predators. Education is critical. Cougar attacks against humans are extremely rare. Fatal ones even rarer. Car accidents (some fatal) caused by deer in the road are frequent. My hubby scoffed at my warnings. He believed driving at the posted speed limit meant he was safe. Thankfully, his 35mph collision only resulted in car damage. Deer are a much greater threat. We live with bears. We can live with cougars.
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"content": "General Chaos I knew coyotes were in the area but we're in a built up suburban area. I wasn't sure they travelled this far into suburbia given there are lots of easy pickings just a tiny bit farther out. Then one night our spotlight camera caught a pair of them going between our's & the neighbor's house. The camera announced \"you are being recorded\" which caused them to look directly at it. Awesome! I much prefer having these guys keeping control of rodents & other pests. We could have used them during the Covid restaurant shut downs when the rats came into the development looking for the food they used to get from the restaurant dumpsters. I had to stop feeding the birds & I'm still too afraid to restart feeding them. I haven't seen a rat since the restaurants reopened but... It was a horrid affair which I'd wish on no one.I'm one who would welcome back the cougars. I was lucky enough to see one gracefully cross the road up by Grand Canyon just before dawn. It was misty, eerie & magical. I love seeing all wildlife but we have way too many deer. We need these top predators. Education is critical. Cougar attacks against humans are extremely rare. Fatal ones even rarer. Car accidents (some fatal) caused by deer in the road are frequent. My hubby scoffed at my warnings. He believed driving at the posted speed limit meant he was safe. Thankfully, his 35mph collision only resulted in car damage. Deer are a much greater threat. We live with bears. We can live with cougars.\n",
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Luxembourg Not investing in your country and citizens also has a cost. Not something that republicans talk about much though do they.A great example of the most hot button topic.Medicare 4 All. By having one large pool that everyone pays into we can cut medical costs and put a check on them. Insurance companies rob us constantly with jacking up our costs. Added benefit is it also spurs competition in the market place driving down costs as a whole. Why do I say this? Because it allows small businesses and labor to compete with big businesses toe to toe on benefits.Do you people want healthy capitalism or not?As an old school actual libertarian republican from decades ago you folks have lost your way. You tax the rich to push down and break up concentrations of wealth that destroy capitalism. You do this or the system becomes leveraged and costs rise.The pandemic costs we recently saw were from price gouging not wages. There is a ton of data showing this if you are honest and willing to sit with it. They can do this because there isn't enough competition in the marketplace. We have way too many massive companies.I don't actually see capitalists in this country. I see crooks.
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I'm sure Liberty University, Notre Dame etc. (Not to mention the MILLIONS Joel Osteen received in PPP Loans) don't take, nor request, a dime of Public Money. Sure....
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The man has become a caricature of himself, a joke, and I believe most of his "supporters" just enjoy humoring him. It's all open theater from now on, he can't even pretend being real anymore. Hilarious, if not so serious.
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From the GOP Playbook:GOP Hypocrisy 101: Whenever the Democrats want to close the gigantic loopholes for the rich in our IRS tax code, what do the Republicans say? The IRS should just collect the money that is owed. But, of course--wink-wink--the IRS can't do that on a "starve-the-beast" IRS budget the Republicans always push and vote for.I have a question about the Trump low-education GOP working-class base re rich people and big corporations--who, in the interest of profits and pleasing investors, seek cheap labor all over the world because they begrudge paying American workers a living wage and benefits. Remember, it wasn't the government that took away union and blue-collar workers' well-paying jobs.So when the now economically stagnant middle- and working-class pay their taxes and vote for the Republican Party, they are enabling the rich and powerful to: avoid paying their fair share of taxes, work against us having clean air and water, and constantly trying to cut/end Social Security/Medicare/Medicaid , affordable health care for all Americans on which middle- and working-class families depend. A vote for the GOP is a vote for the 1% and corporate largesse, irresponsibility, and unaccountability. Don't tax-paying, hard-working, struggling middle- and working-class Americans voting Republican know this?
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"content": "From the GOP Playbook:GOP Hypocrisy 101: Whenever the Democrats want to close the gigantic loopholes for the rich in our IRS tax code, what do the Republicans say? The IRS should just collect the money that is owed. But, of course--wink-wink--the IRS can't do that on a \"starve-the-beast\" IRS budget the Republicans always push and vote for.I have a question about the Trump low-education GOP working-class base re rich people and big corporations--who, in the interest of profits and pleasing investors, seek cheap labor all over the world because they begrudge paying American workers a living wage and benefits. Remember, it wasn't the government that took away union and blue-collar workers' well-paying jobs.So when the now economically stagnant middle- and working-class pay their taxes and vote for the Republican Party, they are enabling the rich and powerful to: avoid paying their fair share of taxes, work against us having clean air and water, and constantly trying to cut/end Social Security/Medicare/Medicaid , affordable health care for all Americans on which middle- and working-class families depend. A vote for the GOP is a vote for the 1% and corporate largesse, irresponsibility, and unaccountability. Don't tax-paying, hard-working, struggling middle- and working-class Americans voting Republican know this?\n",
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617to416 Because the Republican politicians raise campaign funds on it -- just like abortion and continuation of fossil fuels and tax cuts for the 1%.We could have the country we want if everyone would vote in every election.
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"content": "617to416 Because the Republican politicians raise campaign funds on it -- just like abortion and continuation of fossil fuels and tax cuts for the 1%.We could have the country we want if everyone would vote in every election.\n",
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I have significant asthma, and im open to the idea that indoor gas might contribute. But…the power goes out at my house at least 10x per year. Without gas we’d have no heat, hot water, or hot food during those times.Gas is MUCH more essential as reliable backup heat and energy than as “better than induction” or “cheaper than upgrading to a heat pump”. Until I have rooftop solar and battery backup, I wouldn’t even consider giving up gas.
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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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E M Dalton If you are adept at coming up with an original thesis, designing experiments to unambiguously confirm or deny its correctness, interpret the results, and determine what the next direction in your research should be, then you will beat the machine and your PhD will be worthwhile. If you can partner with the AI machine to produce results better than man or machine alone, you definitely will be employable and earn your keep.There is nothing new here -- only different, an extension of the machine capabilities of laptops and mainframe computers that students and researchers have been using for decades. Current researchers would be almost unemployable if they couldn't make effective use of those computers. When you are an active researcher, AI will be as necessary a tool as the 1970s mainframe computers and electronic chemical analysis equipment was back then. No PhDs to be had for manual calculations and strictly test-tube chemistry.
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"content": "E M Dalton If you are adept at coming up with an original thesis, designing experiments to unambiguously confirm or deny its correctness, interpret the results, and determine what the next direction in your research should be, then you will beat the machine and your PhD will be worthwhile. If you can partner with the AI machine to produce results better than man or machine alone, you definitely will be employable and earn your keep.There is nothing new here -- only different, an extension of the machine capabilities of laptops and mainframe computers that students and researchers have been using for decades. Current researchers would be almost unemployable if they couldn't make effective use of those computers. When you are an active researcher, AI will be as necessary a tool as the 1970s mainframe computers and electronic chemical analysis equipment was back then. No PhDs to be had for manual calculations and strictly test-tube chemistry.\n",
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This is certainly an interesting, thought-provoking essay. Russia seems to be in a very weak position despite Putin's rhetoric. There have been signs of increased resistance amongst the population of Russia, and even some generals have voiced disapproval of Putin's policies. Whether these manifestations of discontent will lead anywhere is an open question.The West should continue to provide defensive, powerful weapons to deter and destroy Russia's missiles and aircraft. There is probably much more that can be done to blunt Russia's economic strength, and the West should continue sanctions. Russia has already lost thousands of soldiers; are they really ready to lose many thousands more? To what purpose? Ukraine has shown itself able to prevent success by Russian soldiers.There will be a breaking point for Mr. Putin; we simply don't know where that might be.
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LW 1 - you are not alone. many people with uteruses struggle wit this. The biological clock is a lie from the 1700s from a time when people didn't live long and now it's a pronatalistic talking point. and tbh I'm disappointed the adviser's response. it's clearly a topic he knows nothing about. people who know nothing about the history, the process, or the affect of adoption on adoptees always say "just adopt." Notice that the adviser didn't mention egg donation or embryo donation bc he probably doesn't have experience or know of anyone who built their family with donor eggs or embryos. Adoption doesn't cure the yearning to carry and accepting that one may never carry. Donor egg is an option. Freezing your eggs is only option if and only if your ovaries can produce at least 20 eggs to be collected. i know a few people who have donor egg babies and while it wasn't their first choice, they love their choice. At age 40 myself, after almost a decade of trying, i had a missed miscarriage with my own eggs. consider finding a sperm donor independent of your dating life so you fulfill your dream on your own terms and not relying on a partner.
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"content": "LW 1 - you are not alone. many people with uteruses struggle wit this. The biological clock is a lie from the 1700s from a time when people didn't live long and now it's a pronatalistic talking point. and tbh I'm disappointed the adviser's response. it's clearly a topic he knows nothing about. people who know nothing about the history, the process, or the affect of adoption on adoptees always say \"just adopt.\" Notice that the adviser didn't mention egg donation or embryo donation bc he probably doesn't have experience or know of anyone who built their family with donor eggs or embryos. Adoption doesn't cure the yearning to carry and accepting that one may never carry. Donor egg is an option. Freezing your eggs is only option if and only if your ovaries can produce at least 20 eggs to be collected. i know a few people who have donor egg babies and while it wasn't their first choice, they love their choice. At age 40 myself, after almost a decade of trying, i had a missed miscarriage with my own eggs. consider finding a sperm donor independent of your dating life so you fulfill your dream on your own terms and not relying on a partner.\n",
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Is this, ultimately just a timely escalation for the military industrial complex, which is the one the biggest benefactors (with nothing to loose with this possible tactical direction). Needless deaths of untold thousands. Simple war profiteers. All for what? I don't pretend to know the history of Crimea, but it certainly isn't cut and dry. It's not a heroic game of RISK, Axis & Allies, or even “Shoots” and Ladders.Crimea is getting Deeper in the Big Muddy. Perhaps, let that one go and an invest in education, the homeless/housing problem, universal healthcare, etc. The money is obviously there.
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"content": "Is this, ultimately just a timely escalation for the military industrial complex, which is the one the biggest benefactors (with nothing to loose with this possible tactical direction). Needless deaths of untold thousands. Simple war profiteers. All for what? I don't pretend to know the history of Crimea, but it certainly isn't cut and dry. It's not a heroic game of RISK, Axis & Allies, or even “Shoots” and Ladders.Crimea is getting Deeper in the Big Muddy. Perhaps, let that one go and an invest in education, the homeless/housing problem, universal healthcare, etc. The money is obviously there.\n",
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Mr. Brooks and Mr. Stephens are intellectuals who care deeply about what it means to be a citizen of the United States. What shouldn't be lost here is how much the two of them got wrong, even with their status, jobs, access to information, and the power structure. This is the instructive part of their dialogue today.None of us have a pipeline to the truth. As we wonder about what has gone wrong, we probably should be wondering even more about what is coming next.I don't recall reading about climate change in this dialogue today. Mass extinctions is missing from it. The threat of nuclear weaponry being used was absent.Which is to say that the threat of violence from the rank and file Republicans is not the main issue the rest of the citizens of this country are facing. The fact that Republicans today have no soul, no ideas, and nothing to contribute is troubling; and likely the least of our problems.We should be thankful that these two men have opened up their thinking, and shared with us where and when they believe the Republican Party went into the weeds, becoming a national nightmare of noise and ignorance.Our lives, this time, are bigger than any one country. For there to be a future, we must put aside our violence against each other, mitigate climate change, protect our environment, and figure out how to live within the bounty of our planet, and not dredge it, cut it, trawl it, explode it, into nothing more than a rock oozing with the sludge of dreams.
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20 million American citizens out of work and you want to open the doors to massive immigration? The reason Americans don’t take those dishwasher jobs is that they pay so low that Americans cannot get by on them. Immigrants who live in a shelter or a tent might take them because they are better than nothing and they know that welfare services will keep their families at least barely alive. Americans are a step ahead and are trying to fix the economy and add dignity to work, an effort that wholesale immigration of starving people will sabotage. There are plenty of people already here who are ready to do all of these jobs once the pay is raised above starvation wages. If we are going to have an economy rather than a slave plantation, the immigrants must be kept out. Raise the minimum wage to $20/ hour and all these open jobs will immediately be filled.
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"content": "20 million American citizens out of work and you want to open the doors to massive immigration? The reason Americans don’t take those dishwasher jobs is that they pay so low that Americans cannot get by on them. Immigrants who live in a shelter or a tent might take them because they are better than nothing and they know that welfare services will keep their families at least barely alive. Americans are a step ahead and are trying to fix the economy and add dignity to work, an effort that wholesale immigration of starving people will sabotage. There are plenty of people already here who are ready to do all of these jobs once the pay is raised above starvation wages. If we are going to have an economy rather than a slave plantation, the immigrants must be kept out. Raise the minimum wage to $20/ hour and all these open jobs will immediately be filled.\n",
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And a few years later, the expanding, profiteering University of Vermont medical center ramped up its attacks on our exemplary patient-centered free-choice midwifery providers who offered the healthiest, most fun, natural organic birthing experiences that were exemplary in outcomes and patient approval; we had independent privately-trained midwives backed by a few good independent docs who supported both patients and midwives, - with continuity of care, which means knowing the patient well - who’d be on call in case the patient required transfer to hospital - as I did with my first-born, who became a face-presentation at the onset of labor, & my midwife said “We’re going to the hospital NOW!” and our backup doc coached me through the surgical birth - inviting my babydaddy amd midwife into the lovely warm OR amd explaining every step as if I were in training - it was the best hospital birth I ever imagined. But the hospital OBGYN manarchy later banned independent midwives and blocked home births and even independent birth centers; and Vermont’s surgical-birth rates and worsening outcomes soared, with record revenues for a corporate management cult whose ‘compensation’ includes multi-million-dollar salaries in a state with under a million people whose median household income is in the $50,000 range only because of the gross dysfunctional overcompensating inflation at the top.
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Ms. Rivera's alarming news about Sapphire Rapids could have been worse. Just ask Intel engineers of the alarming news they got about their newly released state-of-the-art Pentium chip - with the notorious FDIV bug - a few decades back when the chip was already out the door and in the hands of users, like me. I remember getting a replacement chip in exchange for the defective one for my new and very expensive Gateway tower computer. Intel incurred a write-off of $475 million in 1994 dollars. Expensive bug!The Pentium bug was relatively straight forward to detect and find. With the complexity of today's chips and adding processing capabilities specific to AI, some bugs may never be discovered - indeed that AI creativity in some platforms may simply be the result of a bug.Good to know Intel will not release a chip before it is well toasted ... er, tested.
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"content": "Ms. Rivera's alarming news about Sapphire Rapids could have been worse. Just ask Intel engineers of the alarming news they got about their newly released state-of-the-art Pentium chip - with the notorious FDIV bug - a few decades back when the chip was already out the door and in the hands of users, like me. I remember getting a replacement chip in exchange for the defective one for my new and very expensive Gateway tower computer. Intel incurred a write-off of $475 million in 1994 dollars. Expensive bug!The Pentium bug was relatively straight forward to detect and find. With the complexity of today's chips and adding processing capabilities specific to AI, some bugs may never be discovered - indeed that AI creativity in some platforms may simply be the result of a bug.Good to know Intel will not release a chip before it is well toasted ... er, tested.\n",
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How many billions of dollars is Biden going to waste on this endless endeavor? As with all our foreign escapades there is no exit strategy or formulation as to what victory will look like. Next year we'll be asking the same questions while Biden and the rest of our politicians throw more of our money at the military industrial complex.
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"content": "How many billions of dollars is Biden going to waste on this endless endeavor? As with all our foreign escapades there is no exit strategy or formulation as to what victory will look like. Next year we'll be asking the same questions while Biden and the rest of our politicians throw more of our money at the military industrial complex.\n",
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George Santos is a liar and complete fraud. He isn’t who he claims to be. Yesterday, it was reported that approximately $3,000 of a GoFundMe account that was raised money to help a veteran’s sick dog was not turned over by Santos to the veteran.Today, it’s this story about Harbor City Capital.Santos is a con-man and a thief. He’s not to be trusted by anyone.What’s next to discover: his involvement in online romance scams?
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Back in the late 1950s and early 1960s when I attended college, State Universities in Texas and Oklahoma provided a first-rate education at a price that I could pay with earnings from a summer job and being a janitor/delivery boy for a pharmacy during the school year. Then, the University of Texas and the University of Oklahoma had a mission to educate the people of their state. Many if not most students whose parents had struggled through the Depression and World War II knew that a college education was their personal path to a better life. Those of us who got what was basically a free education have repaid the nation by paying taxes worth trillions of dollars from income we otherwise would not have made as uneducated workers. The U.S. needs to return to policies that recognize that a free education is actually the best investment it can make in its human capital. And students need to be made aware that a university education is more than a carefree social life -- it is their path to a satisfying and prosperous life. It is an ethos we seem to have forgotten but must relearn.
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Peter Wait, they’re giving him $145,000? To do what?
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To paraphrase John Paul Jones, we have not yet begun to tax.Taxes peaked around 20% GDP under Clinton. Think of 1% GDP as $210 billion today. The Bush and Trump tax cuts take about 2% GDP revenue away total, about 40% of the annual deficit.1. Go back to the Clinton rates and then create a 45% bracket for income over $1 million, 50% over $10 million.2. Remove cap on payroll tax to cover 70% of Social Security shortfall for 75 years. This only impacts income over about $147,000, the top 6% or so.3. Billionaires pay 3% wealth tax per year. Put that in Social Security Trust Fund.4. Treat capital gains as ordinary income for amounts beyond $3,000 per year.
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"content": "To paraphrase John Paul Jones, we have not yet begun to tax.Taxes peaked around 20% GDP under Clinton. Think of 1% GDP as $210 billion today. The Bush and Trump tax cuts take about 2% GDP revenue away total, about 40% of the annual deficit.1. Go back to the Clinton rates and then create a 45% bracket for income over $1 million, 50% over $10 million.2. Remove cap on payroll tax to cover 70% of Social Security shortfall for 75 years. This only impacts income over about $147,000, the top 6% or so.3. Billionaires pay 3% wealth tax per year. Put that in Social Security Trust Fund.4. Treat capital gains as ordinary income for amounts beyond $3,000 per year.\n",
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Making North America Great Again? I'm staying in Mérida, Yucatán and spent yesterday travelling from Cancún to this city on the west side of the Yucatán peninsula. Our trip took much longer due to the extensive construction work being done on the Tren Maya, an example of the Mexican government supporting its infrastructure. Meanwhile, the Mexican peso (the most stable in Latin America) has gained in value relative to the dollar by about 5% in the past few months. I have heard and read that the shift from China has increased investment in Mexico. The president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is considered a leftist, but one who is tight-fisted with the people's money. Could you write a column that examines the possibility of NAFTA finally delivering on its original promise?
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While your own circumstances were clear-cut, and I feel for the anguish you went through, please don’t lump all “parents” into one, all-purpose group. My daughter, now 25, was at war with me, her mom, when she was a teenager, as many teenage daughters are with their mothers, that is a natural phase of development. She might have withheld information about transitioning from me, even though I would have been completely open and supportive, and in fact have made queer family part of our wider chosen family since the beginning, and now talk with her routinely about the issues faced by her friends who are transitioning. I agree that teens in hostile situations are at great risk of suicide — again, this is clear. But the problem lies in defining all “parents” as identically incapable of handling information about their child’s transition. Not true. The lines around privacy and support are far more blurred than you may believe.
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"content": "While your own circumstances were clear-cut, and I feel for the anguish you went through, please don’t lump all “parents” into one, all-purpose group. My daughter, now 25, was at war with me, her mom, when she was a teenager, as many teenage daughters are with their mothers, that is a natural phase of development. She might have withheld information about transitioning from me, even though I would have been completely open and supportive, and in fact have made queer family part of our wider chosen family since the beginning, and now talk with her routinely about the issues faced by her friends who are transitioning. I agree that teens in hostile situations are at great risk of suicide — again, this is clear. But the problem lies in defining all “parents” as identically incapable of handling information about their child’s transition. Not true. The lines around privacy and support are far more blurred than you may believe.\n",
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WilliamRegarding Paul Manafort:“In an affidavit attached to the July 2017 application, an FBI agent said he had reviewed tax returns for a company controlled by Manafort and his wife that showed a $10 million loan from a Russian lender identified as Oleg Deripaska.”“Manafort had $10 million loan from Russian oligarch: court filing”, June 27, 2018, ReutersOleg Deripaska was also reported to be the recipient of the polling data Manafort conveyed to Russia by way of Konstantin Kilimnik.“Paul Manafort's big, accidental reveal: He shared Trump campaign data with Russians”, JANUARY 9, 2019, Salon
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"content": "WilliamRegarding Paul Manafort:“In an affidavit attached to the July 2017 application, an FBI agent said he had reviewed tax returns for a company controlled by Manafort and his wife that showed a $10 million loan from a Russian lender identified as Oleg Deripaska.”“Manafort had $10 million loan from Russian oligarch: court filing”, June 27, 2018, ReutersOleg Deripaska was also reported to be the recipient of the polling data Manafort conveyed to Russia by way of Konstantin Kilimnik.“Paul Manafort's big, accidental reveal: He shared Trump campaign data with Russians”, JANUARY 9, 2019, Salon\n",
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This entire story is a money laundering operation propped up by media lies. Has anyone seen any real evidence of 80 billion being spent? All I see are a few small arms and limited artillery. I guess I should not hold my breath for any coverage of the Twitter files. Meanwhile Americans are getting poorer by the day, and there is talk of banning cooking stoves.
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"An even better system would be a low universal flat tax that radically simplifies the job of doing, collecting and checking taxes."A flax tax will give a break to wealth taxpayers and cost everyone else. It is entirely possible to have a progressive tax rate schedule, dramatically simplify tax rules regarding deductions, credits, pass thru's, etc. and produce an automated filing process for most taxpayers.Also, the 90% plus Americans who don't live in Manhattan think $400,000 is a lot of money and frankly if you are making that much hire competent tax help and file a return that will withstand audit. It's not that hard.
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Where do these people live? I was in a 4 room apartment in Washington Heights for 8 years and when I left (to escape the pandemic) my rent was $2000/m. + 300?m for garaging my car (which I needed to visit my family in Westchester at least once a week --- without it the trip took 2 hours each way.) and both rising. (In the 8 years i was there my rent increased by 30%.) There was also In addition the city tax, the utility bill, car insurance, and groceries, all going up at a rapid rate. If I were not on Medicare some procedures (like a stent in a coronary artery) would have nearly bankrupted me. I make around 100K/y in pension, SS, and investments and I was hardly in the lap of luxury, although I never missed a meal, so I guess I am middle middle class. How does someone live in NYC on $50,000/y?
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Davebarnes Average public school teacher salary in Mississippi is $46 K. In Illinois the number is 57K. Those "insane" property taxes in The Land Of Lincoln provide teachers a sane return on their investment in the students in the classroom.
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I'm sorry Biden have not decreased the national debt at all. In fact so far he has added 3 TRILLION DOLLARS. it was at 27.2 when Biden took office and now is over 30 trillion
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Eric B Allow me another post to comment on Bob the Bot’s comment in the side by side analysis yesterday. I wondered before about the comments re “What other Times readers did” , and I think the data from yesterday confirms that the Bot looks at only the immediately preceding step rather than the whole path. And that step may be the pattern rather the word in the first step. (Did that number of people really use CREAK as an opening?)Anyway the number of people faced with my scenario changed drastically from step to step, with the ATTIC trap obviously a common one.1stCREAK is a strong opening guess. Not only is this a good guess for any Wordle, but it was also a lucky one today: You’ve eliminated all but 34 of the words in my dictionary.….Here’s what 82,603 other readers did who faced the same scenario as you.2NDLATCH was a solid guess here. It looks as if you’ve narrowed it down to only two remaining words: ATTIC or ANTIC.Here’s what 24 other readers did who faced the same scenario as you.3rd ATTICWith two words to pick from, the best strategy is to guess whichever one you think is most likely. Unfortunately, ATTIC wasn’t the right answer this time, but it’s exactly what I would’ve guessed in this situation. ….….Here’s what 629 other readers did who faced the same scenario as you.4th step ANTICThere was only one possible solution left — and you got it! ….Here’s what 9,551 other readers did who faced the same scenario as you.What sez you BotWatchers?
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Ryan Cosgrove He definitely recived 10% or more . How is his House worth 50,000.00 $ a month in rent ? That is the Money laudering scam to get the 10% to the big guy
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michael sullivan I got the same impression. I don't see any significant improvements to our health care system from the article either. The Omnibus spending bill, unfortunately, eliminated the Covid era enhanced food share [a/k/a food stamps] effective this coming month. This will have far reaching effects on low income Americans. Not only will the monthly allotment be drastically reduced for participants, but subsidies will be cut to food pantries just when their utilization will go up because of the cut in food share amounts to recipients. On the other hand, the Inflation Reduction Act (passed 8/16/22) extended the increased premium subsidies under the ACA for another 3 years. It will also authorize Medicare to negotiate the prescription drug prices for certain drugs, and caps the monthly out of pocket co-pay for insulin at $35. for Medicare beneficiaries.
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They aren’t “family landlords” they are wealthy people who purchased an extended family with a house and one is now dissatisfied with the results. Pretending that it was a one way transaction based on money alone is simplistic and ignores the emotional value, that for a time, was the return on the investment.
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Russ D regularly challenges us with his perceptions. Many times I just shake my head and wonder how his view can be so conservative and limiting, though I respect that he creates the reflection point. Time allowed me the opportunity to watch the Pell-McElroy debate live it’s cycle at St. James church in the heart of Rockford, IL, an industrial age boom-town that lost its swagger and, like so many others, seeks the path to a hopeful future. Father David, a scrappy left-handed shortstop (an early sign that he ignored traditional “rules”), became head pastor at a church in the heart of a town that was grappling with racism, fear and overcoming traditions that ignored their impact on people. He, like Jesus, found ways to welcome all, no matter their race, gender preference, marital status or church-giving or attendance records. Daily he preached hope and inclusion, and he filled the pews on Sunday with people of wildly different life experiences, opening eyes and minds and possibilities. He counseled families and newlyweds and gave them a common language to grow together. He retired, and his housemate and fellow seminarian, the bishop, appointed a series of conservative priests that found the words in their reading of scripture to preach guilt and absolutisms that led to mostly empty and very gray pews. If the church must look back to justify its rules, than look to Jesus himself, and Mary, and their actions, not the self-protective “thou shalt not” clerics.
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"content": "Russ D regularly challenges us with his perceptions. Many times I just shake my head and wonder how his view can be so conservative and limiting, though I respect that he creates the reflection point. Time allowed me the opportunity to watch the Pell-McElroy debate live it’s cycle at St. James church in the heart of Rockford, IL, an industrial age boom-town that lost its swagger and, like so many others, seeks the path to a hopeful future. Father David, a scrappy left-handed shortstop (an early sign that he ignored traditional “rules”), became head pastor at a church in the heart of a town that was grappling with racism, fear and overcoming traditions that ignored their impact on people. He, like Jesus, found ways to welcome all, no matter their race, gender preference, marital status or church-giving or attendance records. Daily he preached hope and inclusion, and he filled the pews on Sunday with people of wildly different life experiences, opening eyes and minds and possibilities. He counseled families and newlyweds and gave them a common language to grow together. He retired, and his housemate and fellow seminarian, the bishop, appointed a series of conservative priests that found the words in their reading of scripture to preach guilt and absolutisms that led to mostly empty and very gray pews. If the church must look back to justify its rules, than look to Jesus himself, and Mary, and their actions, not the self-protective “thou shalt not” clerics.\n",
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Dog I think this overlooks the huge aspect of the issue: understanding and compassion is a two way street.Charles Blow wrote a wonderful and heartbreaking column on coming out to his parents when he was 40+. He had spent his whole youth thinking that his family was going to judge him negatively and shun him from being bisexual. Yet when he introduced him to his long term partner, both were welcomed with open hearts. His fears all these years were unfounded. Secondly, being a tomboy or lacking interest in the "traditional" gender preferences does not mean you were born the wrong sex and that you need to change your name or wear a wig/makeup to indicate that. The fundamental problem with trans kids today is that they are enmeshed with traditional binary gender expression models more than ever. Lastly, there is also the issue that any school-aged kid needs to accept that they need start behaving like a professional at their job, i.e. school. School is for learning, not for dress-up or "experimenting" with identity. A work outfit is just a work outfit, not a symbol of one's entire entity. People who work at many places are required to wear a uniform, and have learned that their job is not their identity. The sooner a kid learns that, the easier time they will have with growing up.
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Honestly, that final quote says it all: a bookstore where "our focus is on books." Just imagine! And it applies to so many things that "tech" has dipped its greasy, venture capital-saturated hands into -- they're almost never in it to make a product or market a service that's actually better than peers, just cheaper, more targeted, and as such disruptive to an existing industry. Then ideally they use that momentum base to pull newfound customers into the next growth-oriented market they're "disrupting" or rather upending in search of wild year over year growth and profit. VC of course loves this, at least so long as it works and is relatively cheap. So what Uber and WeWork and Snapchat are unprofitable and unsustainable? They're generating new users every month! I'm sure they'll figure out the money part soon... Only they won't; they figured out years ago that growth means more investment. Now that the gig is up, suddenly we wonder why all these companies that offer nothing of value are tanking and laying off thousands.
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"content": "Honestly, that final quote says it all: a bookstore where \"our focus is on books.\" Just imagine! And it applies to so many things that \"tech\" has dipped its greasy, venture capital-saturated hands into -- they're almost never in it to make a product or market a service that's actually better than peers, just cheaper, more targeted, and as such disruptive to an existing industry. Then ideally they use that momentum base to pull newfound customers into the next growth-oriented market they're \"disrupting\" or rather upending in search of wild year over year growth and profit. VC of course loves this, at least so long as it works and is relatively cheap. So what Uber and WeWork and Snapchat are unprofitable and unsustainable? They're generating new users every month! I'm sure they'll figure out the money part soon... Only they won't; they figured out years ago that growth means more investment. Now that the gig is up, suddenly we wonder why all these companies that offer nothing of value are tanking and laying off thousands.\n",
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I recommend the following prioritization of who NOT to pay.1. All congrssional salaries & benefits.2. All Justice department salaries & benefits.3. All Executive branch salaries & benefits.4. All non-military government utilities and operations.5. Bond holders. Everyone else gets paid to keep lives and national security in tact.I have a strong recollection of "investing" in a system for national social security for 60 years.Let the politicians live in the cold and dark amid personal economic insecurity first and explain it to their personal creditors.
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"content": "I recommend the following prioritization of who NOT to pay.1. All congrssional salaries & benefits.2. All Justice department salaries & benefits.3. All Executive branch salaries & benefits.4. All non-military government utilities and operations.5. Bond holders. Everyone else gets paid to keep lives and national security in tact.I have a strong recollection of \"investing\" in a system for national social security for 60 years.Let the politicians live in the cold and dark amid personal economic insecurity first and explain it to their personal creditors.\n",
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Alternate Identity If you have an advanced engineering degree and a good job in California, you can definitely afford a $1.3M house. $260k down-payment and $5000 monthly payments is not a stretch. If the down-payment is a barrier, you can get a 90% mortgage and shrink your upfront requirements.
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I have been pointing out this advantage of cougars for literally decades. 'Scientists estimate a recolonization of the Eastern United States by cougars could reduce deer-vehicle collisions by 22 percent over 30 years, averting 21,400 human injuries, 155 human fatalities and over $2 billion in costs. The return of cougars to South Dakota in the 1990s, for example, reduced costs of deer-vehicle collisions by an estimated $1.1 million annually.'
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| no | Classification | 618 |
Microsoft executives and shareholders should be forced to publish their salaries, bonuses, and all their perks. Perhaps there are other ways to 'trim costs'.It irks me that while Microsoft charges a lot of money for their software, gets their operating system on PCs, and goes after small businesses like social media and games to purchase them, when their profits aren't high enough, they call for cuts to staff via layoffs or givebacks.While they did help the economy by hiring, especially during the pandemic, spitting out employees when times are rough instead of asking for salary and/or benefit cuts to their executives and shareholders is abhorrent.
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"content": "Microsoft executives and shareholders should be forced to publish their salaries, bonuses, and all their perks. Perhaps there are other ways to 'trim costs'.It irks me that while Microsoft charges a lot of money for their software, gets their operating system on PCs, and goes after small businesses like social media and games to purchase them, when their profits aren't high enough, they call for cuts to staff via layoffs or givebacks.While they did help the economy by hiring, especially during the pandemic, spitting out employees when times are rough instead of asking for salary and/or benefit cuts to their executives and shareholders is abhorrent.\n",
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Patrick, this was many years ago, but when I was at Michigan Law School, it was quite obvious that the admissions office had thrown substantial scholarship funds to Black students from very wealthy backgrounds (children of neurosurgeons or partners in larger law firms) in order to buy window dressing for affirmative action while not undertaking the effort of reaching out to students of less privileged backgrounds. One fellow student, the daughter of a UP miner and stay at home mom, was loaded up with student loans and little else. I very much support assistance based on economic status, I don’t for affirmative action because I think it gets manipulated.
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According to Douthat, cutting entitlements works "so long as the savings can be used to make it easier for young people to start a family, open a business, own a home. "And when has that ever happened?
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Think you want to live to 100? Be careful what you wish for.Rather than all this life-extension and anti-aging industry, better we spend more money and effort on: (1) health, education/learning, and a better life and more promising future for children and the upcoming generation; and (2) providing a better quality of life (not just for the affluent and wealthy) but for the overwhelming majority of Americans (health care, quality affordable housing, gun safety, clean environment, social services, paid family leave, and cleaning up white-collar crime and corruption such as the in the nursing home and hospital industry).
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Even prepaying for a reservation doesn't help. Last October, I prepaid for a car reservation with Avis. I reserved and paid for the reservation because I needed the car in 2 days at the LIT airport at 8pm. I assumed that Avis would know the availability 2 days out since they accepted my $386 prepayment. When I got to the airport, my Avis app would not show me I had a car and the Avis counter at the airport closed early with a hand-written sign that they were sold out. I received no notifications of any kind. To pour salt on the wound, I had to call to ask for a refund.
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wes evans Which of this Wikipedia posting do you disagree with:"President Clinton oversaw a healthy economy during his tenure. The U.S. had strong economic growth (around 4% annually) and record job creation (22.7 million). He raised taxes on higher income taxpayers early in his first term and cut defense spending and welfare, which contributed to a rise in revenue and decline in spending relative to the size of the economy. These factors helped bring the United States federal budget into surplus from fiscal years 1998 to 2001, the only surplus years since 1969. Debt held by the public, a primary measure of the national debt, fell relative to GDP throughout his two terms, from 47.8% in 1993 to 31.4% in 2001."
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At last someone is speaking sense.When inflation was high, the Feds raised interest rates so that more money would flow out of the system but that also hurt employment because new businesses were hard to start or old businesses were reluctant to expand.Why did the Fed not mop up the extra cash in the economy by raising taxes on the wealthy? That would have upset a far smaller number of people and kept the unemployment figures low.Is it because the Fed officials, though not in the top 1%, are in the top 10% or even top 5%? They surely are not in the bottom 25%, the ones who are hurt the most by rising interest rates and rising unemployment.People must realize that the ones who set the rules and make new ones have more in common with the rich than the middle class, forget the poor. The rule makers are looking out for themselves, counting on the rest to be divided by less important cultural issues like race and gender.Both the Democrats and Republican lawmakers play the game.
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The author is to be commended for bringing attention to the players’ and their peers’ attempts to wrest the presentation and the narrative away from the lucre-obsessed phalanx of grift-entities that currently dominate the sport. It’s always refreshing and edifying to see how young people are choosing to recontextualize a series of stories, whether the results are merely innocuous or ultimately confrontational and provocative. One hopes that this kind of coverage will extend to all of the buttoned-down endeavors of our time: what do soldiers want to show about the wars they have to fight; warehouse workers and the backbreaking shifts they must work?
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If only it would result in sending the H1b and similar packing that would be to the good. Tech companies are already screwing with vacation by not stating a specific number of days, when you leave there are no UNUSED days to pay you for... Nice trick just adopted in both Microsoft and Meta. Be warned.
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Was there no money to hire editors or researchers in their $22 million budget? Sad to think egos got in the way of honoring those who fought.
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"content": "Was there no money to hire editors or researchers in their $22 million budget? Sad to think egos got in the way of honoring those who fought.\n",
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Yvonne I've had an exit interview for every position I've left. One of the questions that's asked is "why did you leave?" Nothing seems to ever change.People are 100% conditioned by decades of poor corporate behavior to not accept counter-offers when they announce they are leaving, not to mention seeing in many cases anyone who makes waves being showed the door.There's also been a non-trivial amount of benefits erosion over my career. Pensions used to exist, they were replaced by 401k. Sick time used to be separate from vacation time, now it's glommed together into "PTO" -- as if you can schedule when you are sick. In the past, if you called out sick (for a salaried job), it was not a problem unless you abused it.The other biggie is health care premiums. I've seen them rise without fail year over year without fail, while the numbers of co-pays, fees, and other out of pocket expenses has continued to rise. When I had my kids (2000s), a birth was a $250 copay and that was it. Nowadays, having a kid is something like $3K out of pocket. Of course in countries where many of my colleagues work, they have socialized medicine so not only are births pretty much covered, but they also get payments and state-subsidized childcare.Here in the US we get $800B/yr in defense spending and lectures about socialism.
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"content": "Yvonne I've had an exit interview for every position I've left. One of the questions that's asked is \"why did you leave?\" Nothing seems to ever change.People are 100% conditioned by decades of poor corporate behavior to not accept counter-offers when they announce they are leaving, not to mention seeing in many cases anyone who makes waves being showed the door.There's also been a non-trivial amount of benefits erosion over my career. Pensions used to exist, they were replaced by 401k. Sick time used to be separate from vacation time, now it's glommed together into \"PTO\" -- as if you can schedule when you are sick. In the past, if you called out sick (for a salaried job), it was not a problem unless you abused it.The other biggie is health care premiums. I've seen them rise without fail year over year without fail, while the numbers of co-pays, fees, and other out of pocket expenses has continued to rise. When I had my kids (2000s), a birth was a $250 copay and that was it. Nowadays, having a kid is something like $3K out of pocket. Of course in countries where many of my colleagues work, they have socialized medicine so not only are births pretty much covered, but they also get payments and state-subsidized childcare.Here in the US we get $800B/yr in defense spending and lectures about socialism.\n",
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Something is dreadfully wrong when you read that the Federal Reserve frets about if investors understand their policies. It shows that the Fed believes the investing world is important to the (Main Street) economy. Should it be? Certainly the Fed is important to the investing world. The Feds easy money policy since the 'Great Recession' fueled the exponential growth of the S&P. Well, the Fed had two mandates: full employment and keeping annual inflation below 2%. But it turns out they had three mandates, with the first one being: keep Wall Street happy at all costs!
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Could immediately tell the writer was not an expert when they call unlimited vacation an "initiative that prioritized the whole person".This is false, unlimited vacation is a scam that benefits corporations financially.Earned PTO sits as a liability on companies books and has to be paid out when an employee leaves the company. This payout is often in the $20-40k range at my company.Unlimited PTO limits the companies financial exposure. Also tons of research out there suggesting that employees with unlimited PTO take less time off.If switching to unlimited PTO was bad for a company no one would do it. Very telling that employers are tripping over themselves to make the switch to unlimited PTO.
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"content": "Could immediately tell the writer was not an expert when they call unlimited vacation an \"initiative that prioritized the whole person\".This is false, unlimited vacation is a scam that benefits corporations financially.Earned PTO sits as a liability on companies books and has to be paid out when an employee leaves the company. This payout is often in the $20-40k range at my company.Unlimited PTO limits the companies financial exposure. Also tons of research out there suggesting that employees with unlimited PTO take less time off.If switching to unlimited PTO was bad for a company no one would do it. Very telling that employers are tripping over themselves to make the switch to unlimited PTO.\n",
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Lucien What happens? People become so affluent that $1,000 pieces of equipment are considered disposable? There is so much abundance of certain things that people don't make a meager investment in learning how to DIY and just buy complete replacements?My partner will throw some appliance out and reorder it if I don't stop her and fix it myself. And most of the time, I can. A few toolkits, some small parts, and youtube can go a long way.
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David And their fortunes would be minuscule if they didn’t have the laws on commerce & other systems that facilitate & protect their investments and assets.
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I own a small preschool with a staff of 6. Prior to opening my business, I worked in various educational jobs, always imagining what I would do differently if I was the boss. I strive to live into those values honed over 25 years. I am so challenged by the task! I never expected to encounter the kinds of difficulties I see within the employer/employee relationship. I naively believed that if I offered employees freedom, support, a creative work place and more, that they would like their job. I have learned quickly that things are much more complicated. This year, I have an amazing staff, but last year was a nightmare. I had one teacher who was out of control with backstabbing and gossip - I was shocked at the speed with which she plowed through any sense of staff comraderie. I wish more journalists would write about this topic. While self-help books for business owners help some, they are usually written by business OWNERS. That perspective is not what is needed in this climate of much-needed worker empowerment. I want to hear from employees about what they want - employees outside of the corporate environment. I want to hear from the store clerk, the teachers, the nannies, etc. I am slowly finding my way as an employer with the help and feedback of my staff. When they are willing to talk about what they want and need, that information is invaluable.
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Ibn Guess where the University of Southern California got the money to build their medical school? A National Championship in College Football brings the victor ~$200MM
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| yes | Classification | 8,023 |
Grass Roots 150 years ago this country gave away vast tracts of land to encourage railroad building, a form of deficit spending. 100 years ago government spending and land grants provided funding for high schools and teachers colleges. 50 years ago high gas taxes, around 50% of the pump price, went to pay for building the interstate highways. These investments provided the basis for America's leadership role in the world. Now Republicans don't even want to pay for essential infrastructure, just look at the recent airline meltdowns.
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Because only $16.5 billion in profit next year would be a catastrophe!
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| yes | Classification | 9,266 |
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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Trebuchet $100K in the US for retired person is more than enough for a very decent living. A middle aged couple with $400K income has to save for the future, pay mortgage, send children to college, etc. Their expenses are totally different.
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| no | Classification | 533 |
public spending was scaled back in 2010 when the tory gov refused to understand that economic opportunity that the UK had, while being in the EU and global demand for UK services is and was still strong. the Brexit votes were mostly old people and uneducated benefit cheats who had no real skill or contribution to the economy of the UK and sadly they won. no we have worst of both worlds, the truth is it was cheaper to get workers now good luck finding someone to work for less than 10 to 11 pounds an hour.
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So many topics raised in this column today, but I will focus on Social Security:1) Yes, remove the cap on earnings that are subject to the tax.2) Also, put a floor under which no income would be taxed for Social Security. Tie it to the highest minimum wage in any state in the union X 2080 hours (full-time work). This would now mean that only people north of $190,000 income would actually see a social security tax increase. This would immediately give a tax cut to businesses employing people under $190,000, and to those employees, while raising taxes on the better compensated.3) Everyone whose earnings records are below the floor still would get a minimum social security check with 40 quarters of work.4) Put in a maximum social security amount, so that higher earners get capped at a certain average income.5) Adjust 3 and 4 for inflation6) And to mollify Brett, extend the retirement age for those whose average income over their earnings history is over a certain amount (those people are least likely to work in physically demanding jobs, and most likely to have other assets they can depend on).
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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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It’s been obvious to anyone paying attention, but the biggest myth at the moment is that the Republican and Democrat Parties are equals.When in fact American business (and their transnational allies) supports the Republican Party and only uses the America as a base of operations.Here’s a recent example.<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-03/opec-production-cut-poses-new-threat-to-biden-as-election-nears" target="_blank">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-03/opec-production-cut-poses-new-threat-to-biden-as-election-nears</a>WTI November 2022 - $88 Now sitting at $73 magically dropping 17%
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Between 1972 and 2021, government spent about 20.8% and collected about 17.3% of GDP. The difference was covered by national debt of about $31 trillion.Since almost all of that deficit spending is too popular with the American public, it is all but impossible to cut the size of that spending. Therefore, only by raising taxes on the most affluent can we reduce the growth of the national debt.Why not raise taxes on the highest earners and the richest on their humungous wealth to limit the GROWTH of that national debt from about 3.5% or more of the GDP to say, no more than 2% the GDP.During the period of Truman & Eisenhower presidency, the top 0.01% of the earners paid near 50% of their incomes in federal income tax, which dropped all the way to 22% of their incomes by 2005! <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/US_high-income_effective_tax_rates.png" target="_blank">https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/US_high-income_effective_tax_rates.png</a> Inequality rose back to the Great Depression level.During the Eisenhower presidency, the top federal income tax rate was 91% on over about $1.5 million in 2020 dollars, which dropped to 28% on over about $65K by 1988. It is now 37%.Why not raise it to about 50%, not 90%, on over not $1.5 million but on over say, $10 million. And another two brackets on over 40% and 45%. This will raise several hundred $billion in revenue annually. The rich would only pay at the current level up to the $10 million or so on their incomes. A modest wealth tax, but less than what Sen. Warren suggested ought to be levied.
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There’s no harm in taking some basic security precautions, and many communities will welcome them. For example, it was common at my son’s school in New Jersey for parents and other family members to be in the school to help in putting together the school play. Everyone pretty much knew everyone else, and the police could have been on the premises in minutes had there been a need. Yet as I recall, all the classroom doors were locked, and some of the interior doors were closed to mark certain areas as off-limits. Even as adults we would often do errands in pairs. One of the core ideas was that no one should be alone - not out of fear, but to demonstrate visibly that every action was a communal action. Openness and accountability are the basis of genuine security. Locks and barriers can sometimes help, where they are used appropriately, and where their purpose is understood.
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Anthony Fauci A private equity enterprise purchased my mother's nursing home after she died. She was there for several years and as a nurse I was very happy with how the place was run. Good staffing ratios, well-trained staff who had been there for years who clearly cared, a director with an open door who walked around and knew patients and their families. But changes were already taking place before she died and now I think those changes were in preparation for being sold to private equity. New management whose door was never open -- you needed to make an appointment. Each aide had more patients, and care suffered, etc. The head nurse quit. Private equity is about profit at others' expense.
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I come from a family of mixed heavy and thin people, eat healthily and exercise, but have a large appetite that makes me feel hungry most of the time. But when I started taking phentermine last year (which suppresses the parasympathetic nervous system), intrusive thoughts about food that had plagued me my entire life evaporated as if by magic. It was such a welcome relief, and I lost weight steadily thereafter. I wish I’d known sooner - not thinking about food / not feeling invested in what I’m eating feels amazing and frees up my mind for more valuable things. The cognitive friction my own hungry brain caused me as a young adult shouldn’t be experienced by anyone, and phentermine ($20/mo without insurance) is an affordable measure for most.
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For those of you that don't live here, please note:- There's more to NYC than the Manhattan you see on TV or during your visit. The majority of these people live in the outer boroughs, or even New Jersey, Long Island, Westchester, etc, where parts of those places are still somewhat affordable in rent stabilized buildings with roommates, spouses, partners, etc, where rent, utilities, and other costs are split and that split makes a huge difference.- A monthly Metrocard is $127 a month which is still cheaper than gas and insurance for a car. Biking and walking, which many do to get to work too, is free.- The younger folks especially, stream instead of paying for cable, which is cheaper. Some of the younger folks probably still have a financial lifeline to their parents and families back home.- They go out to eat, drink, and have fun once a week or month. They are usually too busy with long working hours and commutes that they don't really have too much time to be going out often.- I can comfortably assume that at least half of them don't have children. So no costs associated with that.Overall, yes, you do need to make a lot to live comfortably and luxuriously, but you can get by here just fine with a lower salary if you're willing to forgo living in the hip and expensive parts of the city, do long commutes, and don't live and party like a rockstar and beyond your means.
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Seems like the tech world is no longer a safe bet. On the plus side, the 10,000 laid-off Microsoft employees are all invited to Bill Gates’s 120,000-square-foot lair for a wine and cheese ‘send-off’ party next weekend, complete with a PowerPoint presentation. Enjoy.
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We now start to get some trickling of info about the depth of the China Covid infection picture but still not the death rate. In a matter of pride and national economy, China is largely relying on home grown cures, Sinopharm and Sinovac, which both have lower efficacy rates than the mRNA units used in the US and Europe, et al.With the Asia megacities, a vast outbreak will happen and what China had thought was a flu like thing as with earlier strains(Alpha and Delta) was not the same with Omicron, Omicron is more robust having higher rates of spreads among new patients. China's economic back was against the wall so they had to open for business as public coffers were bare and they could not get ready. From data received from Hong Kong, the deaths will be much higher than early estimates even though all Asia has much better vaccination ratios than the US. The politicalization of vaccines is taking a heavy toll in the US, with 80% vaccinated and Hong Kong having 94%. HK has 10 times the US cases/cap but less than 6 times as many deaths. The US clearly could do better with more vaccinations.
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LennyN It's Florida. Everything costs more there. They don't tell you that, though. I paid less than $4 for eggs and butter. And gas is $3.29 and stable.
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Tennessee is represented by ‘cost cutting Republicans’ in Congress. The state of Tennessee receives nearly $3 in federal funds for every $1 its individual and corporate residents pay in federal taxes; as opposed to a state like New York, which pays more than it gets back.So here’s a straightforward solution. In future, Tennessee will receive not one dime more from the federal government than it pays into the kitty. The same goes for Alabama and the other states that happily feed at the trough while contributing little, bellowing all the while about ‘runaway spending.’I don’t care how many Republican politicos and voters that may offend. They’re like bums we’ve invited into our home for a hot meal, a shower and a nice warm bed to sleep in, who repay us by urinating on the living room carpet before running out with our wallet.It’s time to tell these hypocrites and charlatans to put their money where their mouth is. Put up or shut up. And don’t call us the next time a tornado blows through. We’ll call you. Maybe.
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Whenever I make a reservation at a restaurant, through Open Table, a third party company that makes reservations for tons of restaurants, my table is always there when I get to the restaurant. If that type of computerized system works so well, then why can't rental car companies have a computerized system that works that well. In this day of computers, it really wouldn't be difficult. So the conclusion I have made is that the companies really don't care. They get to rent out the cars they have and since there are very few companies that rent cars, they're pretty assured that's even if people don't get a car, they will come back at a later date.
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Eggs last over 5 months in fridge.All fish freezes perfectly, for later cooking.Costco Rotisseri chickens average 7 pounds, and cost $4.99. The chickens in super markets are about 2 lbs.and cost $5.99, or the $8.99! you mention in this article.My experience with cheese, is that they all freeze well.A large mutz, sliced in 1/4 inch slices, freezes perfectly.All berries and other fruits freeze perfectly.All bread, and the new Pepperidge Farms Swirl breadsfreeze perfectly.
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"content": "Eggs last over 5 months in fridge.All fish freezes perfectly, for later cooking.Costco Rotisseri chickens average 7 pounds, and cost $4.99. The chickens in super markets are about 2 lbs.and cost $5.99, or the $8.99! you mention in this article.My experience with cheese, is that they all freeze well.A large mutz, sliced in 1/4 inch slices, freezes perfectly.All berries and other fruits freeze perfectly.All bread, and the new Pepperidge Farms Swirl breadsfreeze perfectly.\n",
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to add to the wealth of iggy pop show recollections here: reims, france, in may 2022. yes, he still delivers an amazing show! great set list, fantastic band, and he brought an unbelievable energy to the stage and all his music. also very much enjoyed his reading of 'do not go gentle into that good night' by dylan thomas as the opener to the tibet house 2021 benefit. well aware that he's a mixed bag of goods & bads, as most of us mere mortals are, but he remains an absolute favorite maker of music and art.
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