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Johnathan Agree.What has changed is the greater urgency to become part of the E.U., and for that, Ukraine must clean up its acts, if only on the surface.What I consider cause for suspicion, however, is the sacking of the top prosecutor, the Intelligence Chief, and "...other senior officials" allegedly for "reasons related to treasonous ties with Russia". Zelensky has impugned their character, and therefore their credibility, should they testify one day in what the Ukrainian government was actually up to at various stages in the conflict. For example, false flag operations, etc.Zelensky is nothing if not a shrewd, astute politician, who understands his audience, and is willing to give them what he intuits that they want in order to give him what he wants. He has managed to shut down the entire opposition apparatus that usually continues to function to some degree, even in times of war, without a murmur from the democratic allies who spout a lot of nonsense about transparency while allowing the opposite to transpire. Recognition of the truth is long overdue. Who knows? Maybe it will lead to a greater effort and resolve for diplomacy and negotiation. As Kissinger stated, "demonization of Vladimir Putin is not a policy, it's an alibi for not having one".There are 1,400 open cases prosecuting alleged "collaborators" and those accused of treason, mostly in Donbas region, where Ukrainian separatists waged civil war, resulting in the creation of two republics.
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I’d include a 6th area - the Central (western) section of Florida - sometimes called the Nature Coast. The widening gulf of old time rural Floridians, increasing numbers of homeless or near homeless, and recent Northeastern transplants with deep pockets has created quite an an eye opening juxtaposition.
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Again Republicans show their fiscal credentials by insisting on lowering the budget deficit and setting a stringent debt ceiling, only when there is a Democrat in the White House.Trump inherited a budget deficit around $650 million, and quickly blew it up to over $1,000billion before Covid hit.Trump also pushed through unfunded tax cuts at a cost of over $1,500 billion. These unfunded tax cuts were heavily skewed to the mega rich like Trump.Trump’s administration also added over $7 trillion in government debt, which is a significant contributor to the debt ceiling.
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Lee Siegel A RaspberryPi is $10-$75 depending on the model. You can probably make your own crude vertical motion sensor with a magnet and a coil for a few dollars + solid state accelerometers (MEMS devices) for not much more. But it takes expertise, calibration + lots of trial and error and software to put it all together in a product that works reliably and consistently for many people. And such devices are never going to sell in millions to benefit from economy of scale. In my opinion $300 is a very good price. Note: I have no connection with the company, nor do I own this device or plan to.
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I know two cardiologists. With all due respect, neither would work for $300k. I suspect your numbers are at least a decade off….
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I have an interesting insight on this. I recently graduated from Texas A&M and frequently had to travel between where I grew up in Dallas to College Station. The distance is almost exactly the same if I take I-45 or I-35. Some of you may know that the state has spent a fortune and decades widening I-35. Parts of I-35 were unfinished when I first started going to college, so I used I-45 because there was less congestion. As I-35 began to be finished, I switched my usage. I say that to make the point, that expanding freeways only reroutes traffic, it does not ease congestion as I-35 is still a nightmare to travel on.
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As families struggle to make ends meet during inflation on $20,000, 40 or 60,000, Bret finds room in his heart rather to mourn the plight of the $400,000 couple. He has shown his true colors and we know that there will always be a party for him, whatever its current dysfunction. After all, the rich need a party like anyone else. Once a Republican, always a Republican.
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Disappointed in this opinion.I work in the area. While I am completely depressed as NYC - especially Manhattan - has been hyper-gentrified, I definitely understand the desire and need to protect the little open space that still exists.A few important things to note:Over the past 10 years, there has been massive luxury overdevelopment in the area particularly around Fulton/John/Beekman/Nassau Street. Small, pre-war buildings have been torn down and replaced by new high-rise luxury buildings and hotels.Unbelievable to see 30-40 stories on these narrow streets!Pace University has expanded.Fast food chains are everywhere.There is no place to walk on the sidewalk when the garbage is put out.The streets - which used to be empty - are now congested with vehicles (Uber, Amazon) servicing the luxury residential - Uber, Amazon etc - and Pace students.Ambulances, police and fire trucks cannot get by.The narrow 2/3 platform at Fulton Street is an accident waiting to happen. There is no way more people can fit.It is actually criminal that the City has allowed the zoning that permits this dangerous overdevelopment.And criminal that Mitchell-Lama has been mostly lost in NYC
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This is the opening act in a dysfunctional Congress. It will only get worse. Beyond national security and U.S. standing in the world, my only concern is the debt ceiling. The same kind of nihilists refused to raise the debt ceiling in 2011 and managed to get U.S. bond ratings downgraded. Hideous. Lord knows what damage they will do later this year.I'm sure Putin and Xi love this.
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"If you think of a middle-aged professional couple living in, say, New York City or San Francisco, each making about $200,000 a year, filing a joint tax return, already in a high bracket, paying through the nose for rent or maintenance or a mortgage, you’re probably not going to describe their lifestyle as “rich.” I live in one of the most expensive cities in the world, and yes, they are living richly if they make 33 thousand dollars a month pre tax, and have absolutely no excuse for not paying for a tax attorney if they are that concerned. How incredibly tone deaf.
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NY Times food writers seem to have a big budget. I can't imagine wine (and food) being affordable in London to people like me that don't think a glass of wine should cost more than 5 Euros which is the case in Europe, e.g. Italy, Greece and some in Paris. Some restaurants in Paris have started charging more by the glass (7, 8 or 9 Euros) having discovered a la New York way. I think charging a glass of wine for $20 in some NY establishments is high way robbery. I just spent 10 days in Paris and if my partner wasn't a tea totaler, we could havre very good bottles of wine for 20-30 Euros in most restaurants instead of $60 a bottle for the cheapest wine in New York. I suspect London is not far off.
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Good, and I hope that Pres. Biden follows through on his demands. To say you're going to make spending cuts without specifying what those cuts will be is utterly ridiculous. It's like someone who brags that tomorrow morning they're going to have $10,000 to put in the bank but who, when pressed, can't explain where the money's coming from. Such a person shouldn't be taken seriously and neither should McCarthy. By far the biggest chunks of the federal budget go to defense, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Steep cuts will not be possible if those areas are off limits. If McCarthy wants to make substantial cuts in those areas then we deserve to know that. If he doesn't want to make cuts in those areas then it's all just talk.
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Socrates ....and so much of the "high-tech boom" of the past few years was based on the Fed's zero interest rate policy, the creation of trillions of dollars that flowed mostly into the stock market (particularly in high tech shares on the NASDAQ), and millions upon millions of people mostly housebound for a couple of years and "living" for the most part on the Internet. As you pointed out, Salesforce has close to 40% more employees than it did three years ago. The same goes for Amazon, Apple, etc. The NASDAQ was down some 33% in 2022, a much needed correction from its historic highs achieved during the zero interest world. But with 1 yr. CDs paying upwards of 4.75%, there is some competition for investors cash for the first time since 2007-08.It was only natural for these companies to cut back on employees given the great loss in stock price and slowdown for their services. On the other hand, there are still some 11 millions open jobs out there, many of which are in health care and other services. The economy hasn't fallen off a cliff....it is still growing despite higher interest rates that have helped millions of savers finally achieve a bit of interest income to help them out.
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"...leave white Christian men *feeling* disempowered."Let's put a finer point on that: It's working-class white guys that are upset about their perceived loss of status. Sure, management/investor types like me have had to sit through diversity training, but the actual impact on culture and salaries is -- as far as I can see -- pretty overstated. Instead of tormenting their tormentors by voting for Democrats who would expand the social safety net and maybe try to get them broadband, training, and a decent education for the kids, they vote for the GOP whose only job is to reduce the taxes of the people who off-shored their jobs, financed the corporate consolidation of farming, and hollowed out their towns before turning them into opioid dens. Why? Long story short: They're suckers who let their outrage be used against them by the likes of Trump, Desantis and the "Freedom Caucus" via Fox News and talk radio. Until these folks realize who is yanking their chain -- and maybe they never will -- it is going to be hard to get anything done in this country.
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Thank you NYT for posting the significant excerpts from the book so I don’t have to put out $20 for a one time read. I’ve been waiting for that and now I’m done with the saga.As the subtitle most accurately describes, nothing new here, just filler and maybe a little context. It’s all been explored (spilled?) in the interviews and leaks. In fact, it’s of note that Harry’s answers to Anderson Cooper were almost verbatim the text of the book, as if he memorized a script so as to keep the story consistent. Hmmmm. A script. Wonder who might have been at hand to help with his lines.Hopefully the torrential rains now pummeling the west coast will wash away his anger and bitterness and allow family on both sides of the Atlantic to move on.
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The Federal Budget deficit increased each year of the Trump presidency, reaching the largest deficit ever in American history during his final year, over $3 trillion. You would think that Republicans, who always argue for lower deficits, would have made an effort during those years to prove their point by reducing the deficit, but they didn’t. Now, Republicans might argue that they had to spend $3 trillion in 2020 to save the nation’s economy during the COVID pandemic. But it’s also true that we run deficits all the time in order to maintain a stable economy. 2020 was simply an extreme example of the way government in advanced democracies works.
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Well the good news about Trump is, even if the case against Trump were dropped because of the new revelations about Biden's handling of classified documents, there are still 4 other criminal cases and 18 civil cases still open against Trump. That gives us a good cushion that something will eventually stick against Trump.
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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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Whatever it is called, we surely need this investigation. The FBI used its' influence to censor information on Twitter that affected the outcome of a Presidential election. DNI, CIA, CDC, and many other federal agencies did similar things. Even individual members of Congress pressured Twitter to ban reporters who published critical stories about them. The twitter files show just how much effort was put into censoring unfavorable stories. The FBI even paid Twitter over $3 million for its censoring efforts on behalf of the FBI. The FBI paid Twitter to do things on the FBI's behalf that the FBI was prohibited from doing. The FBI paid Twitter without public comment, and without putting the work out for competitive bidding.Most, if not all of the censoring was to aid the Biden campaign, which means many three letter agencies violated the Hatch Act.Of course it should be investigated. Heads should roll.
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Is he even gay? Is his name really George? Is he a US citizen? He seems to lie like other people breathe.I'm writing this in my new 12 bdrm home in Toronto's exclusive Rosedale neighbourhood. The price? $199.99!
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This is quite irresponsible article that sounds more like Microsoft and OpenAI PR than neutral analysis. Teaching students to use ChatGPT, instead of using their own brains and efforts, would lead to a generation more dependent on the product owned by a for-profit company. We already have generation damaged by Google and Wikipedia that has led to the rise of fake news, as most of the public no longer has the bandwidth to dig deeper, which older generations used to do in newspapers and libraries.Moreover, ChatGPT is not accurate, and, by not divulging sources, backtracking of these answers are harder, not to mention sending the wrong message that you can learn or use someone else's work without compensating or crediting them.In conclusion, by asking schools to learn to live with ChatGPT is a recipe of disastrous consequences.
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This situation with debt ceiling is lunacy.Congress approved spending, and now Congress doesn’t want pay for it?Solution? Wait for your turn republicans, get the WH, Senate and the House first. Then pass for what you may claim mandate.Simpler solution for future debt management? Collect owed taxes, easily 300-400 billions of new revenues. Also, this would be the best way for inflation management.
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Allan It's possible he was hoping to monetize the documents. There is a $2 billion precedent.
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LAM Slowly? It seems to me they've completely destroyed their own legitimacy quite quickly. The only question is how much further down they want to go (or can go) before there is open revolt in the streets. Alito should think very hard about what he wants, because he might just get it.
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When will workers wake up and realize that companies aren't going to take care of them? In fact, that's the polar opposite of what they try to do. Employees are a necessary evil, and the fewer of them (and cheaper) the better. This is why unions were created, to try to offset the total power over worker's lives that exists without their mediating presence. And if you want to find the root of the great chasm in America, look at when war was declared on unions and the working and middle class under Reagan.We've endured over four decades of this assault on jobs, wages, and the respect for workers. From that the ever widening wealth gap grew, turning us from a nation that had seen the greatest expansion of the middle class in history, to one where today's "middle class" is closer to poverty. Meanwhile the top 10% has seen their fortunes rise exponentially. Yes, there are lots of other big problems. We still have racism, perhaps greater now than even 50 years ago, and we've seen the roll back of women's rights, and increased numbers of mass murders, not to mention yet another shock to our economy with rising inflation that wages don't keep up with. But underneath all of those big problems lies one that is always there, affecting everyone regardless of skin color, gender, age, or religious belief:It's the economy, stupid!As Bill Clinton once said. Thirty years later, it's as true as ever. It's time to end unchecked capitalism and our "trickle down" economy.
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Another major reason why the Supreme Court’s integrity and reputation has been called into question. So far Chief Justice Roberts has done nothing to stem the public loss of confidence in the Court. I don’t know what he is waiting for because the longer he waits the worse the situation will get. The Supreme Court has several festering, open sores on its standing. Just like with the wife of Justice Thomas, the Chief Justice has a situation. Very different of course, but still another situation that brings a stench of impropriety. It is quite interesting that the Court is loaded with top legal minds that went to top law schools but they can’t see possible legal improprieties staring them in the face. Eyes they have, but see they cannot. Quite interesting, indeed.
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Tax attorney here. Although flat taxes are simpler than progressive taxes, they are unfair and shift the tax burden to the lower and middle classes. First, wages are double taxed (through income and payroll taxes), but dividends are only taxed once, so workers will feel the pinch while the investor class gets a break.Second, we use tax deductions to encourage desirable behavior, such as saving for retirement, buying a home or giving to charity. Without those deductions, people will be even less likely to be able to retire or purchase a home, and most charities and arts programs will wither on the vine.Third, one common flat tax proposal is a national sales tax. Sales taxes are regressive because someone making $50k per year necessarily has to spend a much larger percentage of their income on necessities than does someone making $500k per year.The IRS does need to be better funded, including for audits. The tax gap (the difference between taxes owed and taxes collected) is almost half a trillion dollars a year. Before the government raises taxes on anyone, I would prefer that they collect back taxes already owed but not paid. Most wage earners pay their taxes through withholding from their paychecks. The super rich, however, are able to shift their income into tax planning vehicles or overseas. Closing the tax gap, which can only be achieved by auditing the upper class, will go a long way toward paying for things we need without raising taxes too much.
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ASPruyn The funds from Social Security are diverted into the general tax fund.. Time the government worries less about war machines and return to investor by the companies that make them and more about provide proper affordable housing of variuos inds- young single, family, senior - each group has its own special needs.And out eucational system is failing us in many ways. as is the media. which needs to get over Democrat versus Republican and takl about ithe issues themselves and how they can be solved instead of dwelling on that tthey cannot be solved.
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Tim Thumb Your suggestions are great during the prime earning years, but what about retirement? In retirement, we had trouble shifting from a saving mentality to a spending mindset and we were still invested 90% in equities and 10% in private placement. The planner we have now balanced our portfolio with bonds, calculated how much we could withdraw without depleting our accounts and manages our portfolio for maximum tax advantage. He's also managing a separate "legacy" account for money we'd like to leave to charities. It's a bargain for clarity and peace of mind I didn't need in my working and saving years.
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I recently needed some oatmeal for a recipe. Quaker was $6 a pound. The store brand over $3 a pound, but I found an off brand for even less than that. It was just as good as the Quaker brand. I’m never buying those name brands as long as the prices are ridiculous. No names are just as good.
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Thank you for raising the child poverty rate issue. In 2022, it stood at 17%. This will have a profound impact on the competitiveness of America and our society.We need to focus on education which will lead to innovation and new business creation. Transition from fossil fuels to renewables, climate mitigation technologies and infrastructure spending will create many well-paying new jobs, export opportunities for the products and services and create wealth.When Trump left the office, the national debt was at $31.38 Trillion and last month the debt ceiling was raised to $31.40 Trillion and we have already reached the debt to this level. Trump added $7.8 Trillion to the debt close to 25% of $31.38 Trillion. GOP threw out the debt ceiling out of the window and gave generous tax cuts to the wealthy and the rich corporations. Time to sunset these tax cuts and fund the IRS to raise tax collection.
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Rory Yes. It begs the question why didn't he just create another imaginary currency to cover the $8B shortfall. His productivity would have soared!
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Richard Blaine My brother lives in a college town. One of his neighbors, a professor, is very active in a local evangelical church. For years, this professor has attempted to "interest" the students in his church. He recently told my brother that the students used to "politely decline" his overtures - but that now they respond with open anger and "even argue" with him. There is hope!
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mdbeck How lovely! Thank you. I usually open with least🧐
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“To show the world that the only way to keep him from winning nearly any tennis tournament is to not let him play.”“Nearly” is working hard in that sentence. Djokovic demanded special status at the Australian Open last year before he even entered the country. He was dishonest and expected he would be exempted from standards other players met. He is a great player, a real master. And he could have played. It was his choice to step away, his responsibility.
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Verbally and physically abused his employees, mistreated foreign workers in particular, all in order to serve $500 per person plates?Why is this guy not locked up? Goodbye and good riddance.
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Somewhere about 40 years and 500 funerals into being a minister I thought - I don't have a life, life has me. There are parts of my living process that are local to me, life with a lowercase l, and parts that are greater than me, Life with an uppercase L. When we are young we are immersed in life (lowercase), but with age and maybe wisdom, we begin to integrate Life (uppercase) into our identity. My parents and older brother have all predeceased me and, frankly, in each case death was a friendly door that opened to relieve them of their suffering. I think I think if we rightly understand life and LIfe, death will lose its sting.
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fact or friction the trump tax cuts cost 190 billion over 10 years- 1.9 trillion in total. Not accounting for any economic gains that is the amount we lost from these cuts. However, if you consider the fact that unemployment fell pretty far and we had other economic gains, then I am not so sure that we lost anything from those cuts. We did, however, continue to expand government beyond any former budget we had in history (and continue to do so). So, my point is that the deficits are almost entirely a result of too much spending and only modestly from the lack of revenue collected.
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Fred - your comment was the first I read and gave me an “awe” moment! My spouse and I live in NM too! We’ve only been here 1 year and a half. The hikes in our open space (and everywhere in NM) have been giving me such a deep remarkable feeling of “awe”. So much that if I miss the walk (was just suffering with flu after Covid last month) I get depressed! Hiking & nature provide remarkable moments of “awe”. Cheers to hiking in NM ! Best medicine ever! So fortunate to live here.
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Decades ago, I was driving in Barrington, IL, which was somewhat rural back then, although the roads were paved. I saw several cars pulled to the side of the road and people standing watching a long, sloping, open field. A blanket of mist hung low over the grass. I pulled over too, and asked a man what was happening."Just watch," he said. "It'll be worth it."Minutes later, I heard the baying of dogs, and a pack of hounds surged over the hill, followed by the 'master of the hounds' in a red jacket on a galloping gray horse, followed by two dozen other riders in formal gear. It gave me goose bumps. It was a fox hunt, only there were no foxes involved, the man said. Somebody would have gone out that morning, dragging a pot roast behind a dirt bike, and that's what the hounds were following. I pictured that when I read this. I hope Chatham keeps its dirt roads.
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This whole article is hilarious. “It’s okay, yes we lost all their money but we can give them the same value in this imaginary currency I invented.”“It’s okay, if more people loan us money and all those massive losing bets we made suddenly make a dramatic turnaround, we’ll be fine!”“Well, actually there is this other secret account that we lost another $8 billion…”Etc etc etc
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Chip Young Oh, it's $50M now? The number keeps changing, which is what one might expect since this never happened. University spokesperson Stephen MacCarthy denied the validity of the complaint, however, calling the allegations “completely untrue.” There were three donations around that time all totally about $1,100.
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My favorite piece in a while. I lost a ton of whatever faith I had left in much of the Silicon Valley venture capital community when they rushed into crypto and funded any Web 3.0 company promising to do this or that in “the metaverse”. There are a ton of smart people with a whole lot of money who are just as fallible as any 19-year-old undergrad.
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Celso Martins Or put another way, more specifically: $772.5 billion for nondefense discretionary programs and $858 billion in defense funding
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Sparky no, I'm not "unaware" of that. She got caught up in the culture war between Team Blue and Team Red. Team Red, which controls UNC, doesn't like the 1619 Project. If she'd been at a university controlled by Team Blue, which likes the 1619 Project, then she'd have been welcomed with open arms and granted tenure.The difference with criticism of Israel is that the condemnation by institutions is often bipartisan, and the situation that occurred at Harvard, which is largely liberal, could just as easily have happened at a conservative institution.
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This is another example of the rights and needs of women and young children not being met despite scaled national policies and programmes at the intersection of gender equity and early childhood development. While Kenya and many Sub-Saharan African nations have developed extensive early childhood development policies, which include access to health services, this article highlights how these policies fall short when scaled without adequate human and financial resources to administer them and reach marginalized populations like the mothers and children featured in this article. Moreover, the gendered barriers to seeking and accessing treatment which could prevent inter-generational development and disease transmission are a crisis within a crisis. These barriers require significant investments being made in gender-responsive or transformative behavior change and communication programming in addition to treatment/drugs access, adequate health system policy operationalization and access. Importantly, policy makers must understand the grave human development, economic and social costs of inaction if not addressing testing and treatment for parents/caregivers and young children in their early years - likely astronomical costs in comparison to if they focused investments now into financing the early childhood and women’s policies developed.
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Luxembourg A default on the public debt by the US would have long-term as well as short-term repercussions. Specifically, treasury bonds would no longer be seen in the financial markets as an essentially zero-risk investment. The Treasury would have to offer the bonds on the market with higher interest rates, which then increases the costs of borrowing, further fueling the public debt. In my opinion, a default would truly mark the beginning of a decline of US influence and power on the global stage.
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I think security guarantees means that we co-sign loans for Ukraine, in the same way we sign a $500,000 federally guaranteed parent plus loan for our children every year so they can go to one more year of college at Kennesaw State University like Newt Gingrich. Just do it, it‘s not really a big deal anymore since all monopoly money anyway at this point.
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Jan I live in Manhattan. It's extremely expensive. But you could easily find 1 bedrooms for less than half that amount. $6k could get you a REALLY nice 2 BR you could easily share with a roommate, which honestly (I think) is more fun when you're young & single. You're not crazy rich, but $200k as an individual in NYC you'll be absolutely fine, living a moderately luxurious lifestyle, without a doubt.
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Every investment is speculative: dollars, Euros, real estate, stocks, bonds, gold, Bitcoin - it is all speculative. You can hide cash in a mattress and your cash is speculative - will it get burned up if the house catches fire? Will inflation cause it to be worth less in the future? You can buy US government bonds but it looks like Republicans will soon destroy the full faith and credit. You can buy Bitcoin and be assured that you hold an asset that will not be diluted in value by the inflationary creation of ever more Bitcoins. And Bitcoin is here to stay. The US government cannot shut down or even regulate Bitcoin any more than they can shutdown or regulate the flow of information. At its very essence, Bitcoin is information. Bitcoin is a public ledger that's protected by bunch of computers solving cryptographic codes. The genie is out of the bottle and there's no going back.
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Bad, bad idea. He’s going to split the vote and allow the most hardcore election denying Republican to win. Sinema isn’t perfect by any stretch, and she may have no moral center. It’s hard to say because she’s not very open about what she believes. But, she votes with Biden more often than Bernie. She’s the best option for Arizona right now.
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Michael Greason Boycott Microsoft and any other corporations that lay off tens of thousands of employees while the big shots don't take a pay cut.
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If Biden has no regrets, he should have come clean before the elections. He first said that they were unimportant documents. He later said he didn't know what were in the documents. His credibility is withering even with the Dems. This is an optical nightmare of the highest order. The coffee has already been ground and there's no returning to the bean. Only an artful tightrope walker could navigate these misjudgments. I'm afraid he's fallen without a net into a crowd of wide open eyes.Would this weren't the case.
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I first tried to buy Bitcoin when it was selling for $160. I went on to Mt. Gox site hoping to invest $10,000, and couldn't get over how dodgy it looked. I waited a day, the day Mt. Gox was hacked and most of the people with Bitcoin custodied there lost everything. Bitcoin fell way below $100, but at that point I couldn't care less.Years later I tried again through Coinbase, hoping to invest $50,000 when Bitcoin was selling at around $5,000. I had $50,000 as the target price at which I would sell half, $100,000 for the other half. Fifteen X my investment was fine with me.Try as I could, I couldn't get them to acccept my credentials. They suggested using the app to take a photo of my license. No luck.I tried again the next day, no luck. I was going to take my bitcoin offline, protected by a complicated password. There are 22 million potential bitcoin, less 4 million for which the password is irretrievably lost. Kind of stupid, don'cha think?
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Republicans will allow default to protect their donors from higher taxes. To them the choice is not a real choice. They are paid to keep taxes low for the very rich. No wealthy family draws a substantial portion of their income from social security or depend upon Medicare. These safety net programs can go broke. These trust funds in total have over $6 trillion in them. That money will be drained well before any long term revenue deal is struck. Relying upon borrowing is preferred by the super rich as it creates an asset class to invest in.Overwhelmingly the fault lies in the unfunded tax cuts by Presidents Reagan, Bush 2 and Trump but it doesn’t help when Democrats tried to push thru only partially funded Build Back Better as well as Student Loan forgiveness which again was totally unfunded and not even quantified. Social security should be ring fenced away from the budget completely. It has been funded since the 1930’s. It’s not an expense by taxpayers it’s a pension fund. It might help is Democrats allowed SS to invest in some assets aside from US government bonds. It would be far header for Republicans to steal your shares in Microsoft or Apple. The trustees of SS should be well known and have wide spread community support. Norway has a trillion dollar wealth fund but there are many other countries examples
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Jane K I am fairly certain giving up the title would have also terminated his annual payment of 450,000 $ or £...That would be like winning the lottery for life and canceling it with 38.
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Deregulation in theory lowers prices but in practice it is a different story.It can lower them but if you have a few big companies running the show you can get the opposite.To be fair, a ticket for a movie theater in 1960 cost me 25 cents, the price of a gallon of gas was about the same.Now a ticket costs 10 or 15 dollars or more but a gallon of gas is only about $3.50.
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Dr. K, Your essay is about the folly of crypto and gold. You are in good company (Dimon at Davos) and understand you can't buy anything with crypto but gold has an industrial and fashion market because of its properties. I like your hypothesis. Your roll-out reminded me of George Bernard Shaw's work. My undergraduate college professor who taught partial differential equations was also the official biographer of GBS, I read the book so I could discuss something other than partial differential equations. Anyhow, as a young newly married father of two boys struggling with family challenges. In 1968, I became aware of economics. I was up the river a piece from you but I was exposed to a book of charts called Horsey's Guide by a fellow but wealthier student. It was expensive to subscribe so I used his charts to take his course on how to invest by watching the behavior of corporate insiders who sold their stock to drive the price down when they were aware of future unannounced earnings. My student-teacher friend showed me how to look for the characteristic "notch". So, reading this riff, "Even where outright fraud wasn’t taking place, there were strong pump-and-dump aspects to the whole thing. We now know, for example, that even as Peter Thiel was proclaiming “the end of the fiat currency regime” and suggesting that the price of Bitcoin could rise by a factor of 100, his venture capital fund was selling off almost all of its Bitcoin holdings." blew my mind. BZ
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"Globalization" is a dirty word in some quarters, but that is unfortunate. When oligarchs control companies across borders, yes we get unfair trade practices. However, if the global economy is open to all participants, and small companies are able to compete on the merits, globalization can lead to true free markets, and not the crony-capitalist kind.
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Bill For 13 years the Conservative party has been under-investing in and selling off parts of the NHS. The NHS was created by a Labour government in 1948 and from then till at least 2008 was a world leader< easily in the top 10 of health care systems. The Conservatives want to sell it off so that they, their family and friends can pocket the money and or buy up the most profitable bits. To sell it off they have to wreck it to lower it's value to the market and also convince the public that it is finished. It's the sort of thing supply side neo liberals do best: Smash things and sell off the bits.
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Look Ahead I'm in Germany and just checked online to see how much Humira costs here. It's a 10€ (11$) copay if you have public health insurance (about 90% of the population). If you are privately insured (the remaining 10% of the population), you pay about $3,000 upfront for 6 x 40ml - depending on the doctor's dosage recommendations, about a three-month supply. But the $3,000 gets reimbursed at 100%.Oh, and there's no such thing as Medicare here: you are either publicly or privately insured for your entire life, so you don't have to change your retirement plans due to concerns about affordable health care.
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David Richards based on your scale and qualifications, if would seem Robe Abramoff should not have been fired.Allowing fire arms foropen carry on state house grounds - and inside the building (Michgan) legal or not, are asking for the breadown of democracy...And those civil rights protests which turned violent in the wake of the Civil Righst Legislation being passed in 1964-65 undeer LBJ - the riots - starting frequently as a direct protest of police actions - surely backfired on the Civil Rights movement and Democrats more genrally, fuelling the campaigns of G. Wallace and Nixon. I think you underestimate the impact that laws fairly passed have on civil life in the US...how about the six year old who pulled a gun and shot his teacher in VA after physically struggling with her...? I think that watching the demolition of Nature, species and biodiversity, bio mass as well as the rising swell of weather/climate disasters is bound eventually to change the existing deference to the far Right's worship of entrepreneurial "Liberty" over all other considerations. I don't see how the current Republican Right's values get reconciled peacefully in the long run with the Democrats, even the centrist ones...as we will find out during the coming Congressional confrontations over debt and deficits. When the next financial crisis hits and the stakes go up with this Repub. House, it's 1860-1 "land." Stephen Marche's "The Nex Civil War" sketches out for us the possible scenerios.
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What came to mind for me was why would someone suddenly "loan" Hunter Biden $2 Million? How will it be or was it repaid? What quid pro quo took place for this timely bail-out? That's the real question to be asked.
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I wanted to finish this article, but I couldn’t. My vision is blurred by tears for the couples who earn $400k/year but still drive Camrys.
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Terry The problem is that every improvement over "original insulin" is independently patentable. Improvements on extended release, reactions, injections, etc. Many people would not tolerate "original insulin" well. But, yes, it is still price gouging, via oligopoly.And the mere fact that people with insurance only pay $30 /month out of pocket, does not change the fact that the Pharma companies still charge the insurance companies 100s to thousands, and that all gets passed on to your employer and hence, effectively, out of your paycheck. It just buries the cost where you can't see it.
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Jeckyll Exactly. They could probably quadruple the price and none of the people who were willing to pay $500 would bat an eye or even notice.
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Don't forget to remind your readers that that country of financial rectitude, Japan, has a debt to GDP ratio of over 250% v today's US ratio of about 120%. And the dollar is still the world's reserve currency. But if the MAGA nuts prevent the raising of the debt ceiling, nobody will want the dollar ( it is not only bonds and bills that are debt of the US, so are currency and dollars in banks around the world which are nothing but IOUs from the US) and there will be a worldwide panic into the yen and the Euro like the world has never seen. Beyond that, anything is a guess, but it won't be a good outcome for anyone in the world.
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With the way our constitution is written and amended, there is no way anything remotely progressive will come out of anything. The DP represents the one half of the oligarchy and the GOP the other. The GOP is more reactionary but where it matters the DP is just as bad. Check the 1.7 trillion bill that passed without a whimper. 858 billion was defense!! Got it? This is a known known but wrapped as “let’s not talk about it”.Oh well, Paul is a liberal. When push comes to shove the status quo is ok with him. No Bernie’s please!
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Non-competes are abused and over-used. No doubt. But they also are very appropriate in many small businesses. Without them, you will dis-incentivize small business from investing in employees. Training an employee for a year and sharing work-product and know-how that may have taken years to develop is an investment. Whole-sale bans like the one proposed here make for an easy fix and press for a congressperson but it bad government - it is an overly simplified "solution" to a difficult issue. If this happens, I suspect in 7-yrs we will have a new slew of articles in the NYT of the rashness of this decision and all "unforeseen" issues affecting small businesses. But these issues are actually very predictable.
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Pandora "What are the factors impeding the moderates from working together?"The main impediment is that there are not nearly enough moderates. 2/3 of Republican representatives voted against certifying the 2020 election, even after the Capitol was stormed on 6 Jan 2021.According to the Cook Political Report there are only 36 truly competitive races in the House -- the other 92% of representatives are elected in the primary rather than the general election. Primary voters represent the extremes of their parties. Open primaries, ranked choice voting, and (ideally) multimember House districts would go a long way towards electing moderates. But of course both major parties oppose these reforms, because they empower voters rather than the parties themselves.
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The strategies of communicating weather as news are no different than the tactics deployed by Fox News, MSNBC and the fast food industry… fear produces ratings. The only way to sustain public fear is to gradually increase portion size, similar to the strategy of the fast food industry, which gave us the 48oz (and bigger) soda. A ‘large fries’ today is much bigger than the large of 30 years ago. Fast food was selling at a threshold exceeding the caloric needs of its customer base. Therefore, the only way to increase demand was to encourage customers to consume ever larger portions by gradually making dangerous excess the norm. In the media, Fear is calories. Even the NYT writes about “bad news bias.”(The dynamics of fast food R&D, marketing and delivery are well documented— Fast Food Nation; Omnivore’s Dilemma; et al.)I have lived through so many Storms of the Century that I am the same age as Noah when he died: 950 years old.So, I guess meteorological hyperbole extends life expectancy. Or is it empty calories?
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It’s perfectly natural to lay the blame on the pharma companies, however they are doing what businesses do: ensure profits.The real blame lies with our elected officials, and by extension, the people who vote them into office. They have the power to stop price gouging.Democrat politicians have tried for decades to reign in these amoral practices, but they are consistently and aggressively stymied by Republicans over and over again.Republican voters, this one is on you.
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Debt grew by $8 Trillion under Trump. Spending is one of the rare bi-partisan areas of agreement.
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Billy WalkerWhile I agree consumerism is responsible for a lot of societal ills, this person doesn't work in retail. He works in a vital job. He is no different than those who work in hospitals, nursing homes, police forces, firemen, EMTs, utility workers, HVAC servicemen and other necessary industries that serve the public. You don't need to buy a car on Sunday, but you do need your prescription Eliquis that may only be available, due to insurance constraints, by mail. You might not need to buy a pair of shoes on Sunday, but if your heat goes out in the dead of winter you can't wait until Monday to get it fixed. Your heart attack won't wait until the hospital is open. Your burning house won't wait, your medical attention won't wait if involved in a car accident on Sunday. Your mother can't go without nursing home care on the Sabbath. My husband worked in HVAC his entire life. As a Catholic he worked many Christmases, Easters and countless Sundays. It was part of the job requirement and all were expected to share the burden of being available for emergency on these religious holidays as well as the Sabbath. What happens if every worker wants Sunday off for religious reasons? Where is the line drawn? Close down hospitals on Sunday? Fire departments? Police? Send nursing home residents home for the weekend and religious holidays? As others have stated if this litigant doesn't like the work schedule he's completely within his rights to find another job.
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Brooklyn Lady I too think legacy admissions and should be banned also. That is how mediocre students like GW Bush and Jared Kushner got into Harvard although in Kushner’s case, it might have been due more to the $5 million donation Kushner’s ex con father donated to the school before his son applied. Schools like Harvard get billions from alumni every year. Certainly they can afford to turn down unqualified students. I often wonder why the schools would even consider these students. Their parents evidently had a good education and most have high paying jobs, allowing them to give their children everything money can buy, such as homes in neighborhoods with good schools, tutors, travel, and time for volunteer opportunities since their children didn’t have to work. Yet in spite of that, these students weren’t really up to par. That should say something.
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Anything that relieves the shocking daily over-crowding of people inside Penn Station (especially on the platforms) is a good thing. That crazy price tag though? It may scare future attempts to improve mass transit in NYC. The 40 billion in debt that the transit authority is in is a powder keg.
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I’m a big admirer of Prof. McCauley. His book, “Reading While Black; African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope” was one of my most important pandemic reads. His postings on Twitter (when I had an account in that trash heap) were always insightful and compelling about the Black spiritual, cultural and political experience. As someone who remembers Dr Kings presence on Americas black and white TVs throughout the 60’s and a reader and student of his life, legacy and philosophy I couldn’t agree with McCauleys description of MLK’s evolving arc of concern about American society and economy. Every Republican and Democratic politician who manipulates King’s name and words for political gains needs to read his Memphis speech and his post 1965 books. King was focused on moving beyond civil rights and rightly determined that economic freedom and liberty were the next targets for his movement. McCauley mishandles the intervening 50 years of American history and the changes in American culture, society and economics. Perhaps a lump sum amount of reparations using whatever formula one can imagine might have changed the arc of Black wealth, but I tend to doubt the impact of any lump sum payments on anyone. Generational discriminations can only be surmounted with generational solutions. One can argue that the trillions of dollars spent on health, education, income maintenance and other wealth transfers were just a drop in the bucket but their reality cant be denied.
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Speaking of inflation and the value of a dollar...I was excited when I read this today:"Consumer Prices Plateau as Inflation Slows to Prepandemic LevelsForty-year inflation high in June turned into relatively normal price growth in second half of 2022" by Dougherty and Rattner on WSJBasically it says that "overall," if you annualize inflation from the last 6 months, we are essentially back to normal at 1.9%, with most price increases occurring in the first half of the year. Or more specifically:"Labor Department data indicates that annual growth has eased to levels that existed before the pandemic. Inflation observed during the past six months would extend to prices rising 1.9% over the course of a year, close to the average annual rate of 1.7% between 2010 and 2020."Back to normal-ish by one measure anyway.Sure, there are several exceptions which are described, but given all of this, why is the Fed still being so aggressive with interest rates especially with the debt ceiling stunt that the GOP are pulling which poses such a grave danger to our economy?Shouldn't we be bracing ourselves and backing off?When I tried to point this out and post links on WaPo, my comment was removed. I was simply agreeing that now might not be a great time for state governors to be using up their rainy day funds. Was the WSJ article inaccurate?Also, can intragovernmental transfers be reclassified so as to not be a part of "total debt" so we are under the debt ceiling limit?
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Mark Just because you haven't heard of something personally, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Most people aren't going to walk up to their friends and say, "hey! My wife and I have a girlfriend together, and it's beautiful and fulfilling!" Relationships in general are tricky to navigate. I've been in open relationships, and enjoyed them. What made most of those relationships fail in the end wasn't the openness of the relationship, it was actually that the people I was in those relationships with were at different milestones in their life that didn't match up with my own. There's a HUGE difference between cheating and having an open relationship by the way: cheating is made up of lying and deceiving your partner, so of course those kinds of relationships fail: there is no foundation to a relationship built on lies and deception. But an open relationship needs to be grounded in strong communication and honest from the very beginning that's continued through the lifetime of that relationship. If your partner isn't open to the idea of an open relationship, then that's who they are, and you either learn to accept that or leave the relationship. The same goes for monogamy: you shouldn't force you or your partner into an open relationship if either of you feel uncomfortable with it. Dan Savage talks constantly about being honest with yourself rather than forcing yourself into a mold that doesn't suit you. That applies in every direction.
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My 16 year old daughter has had a core group of friends since the beginning of middle school. All identified as female throughout middle school but now in the 10th grade half of them identify as a different gender or non binary. My daughter has cut her hair and wears gender neutral clothes and says she’s bisexual(while also saying she’s never had a crush on someone of either gender). One of her friends who now identifies as male is dating a former male who now identifies as female. We are supportive parents, giving her space, but none of this adds up in my opinion. Additionally, while our daughter has been open with us she says her friends parents are not as open and most of this is a secret to them (while they really have to be not paying attention to see what’s going on). I have thought a lot around if I’m obligated to say anything but for now we are keeping a non judgmental space for my daughter and her friends. There’s more at play here than more trans kids coming out and it feels like it does the real trans kids a disservice while other kids are just try things on.
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The EU, U.S. and the West just boosted a new world order and significantly accelerated the new trading behemoth BRICS all while committing themselves into a long, deep recession with chronic, lasting inflation. Europe is descending into second world status as they have pushed Russia, the worlds largest commodities producer (energy, food, fertilizer, rare earth elements) into the open arms of China. And for what? To appease corrupt little Ukraine who can't and won't live peacefully with their nuclear-armed neighbor and settle issue of the ethnic population of Russians? Or for NATO's insane attempt to encircle Russia? It's over. The West and its U.S. back hegemony is over, or soon will be as a new multipolar world order takes shape. Oh, and when the Petro Dollar is phased out, kiss your standard of living, at whatever level it's currently at, goodbye. That $30 trillion debt and those standard $1 trillion budget deficits will feel like, and more importantly behave like, $200 trillion in debt and $3 trillion in deficit. The U.S. and the EU have finally sanctioned themselves into economic oblivion. Great going guys.
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Online platforms, first and foremost, are driven by profits and profits alone. Unlike newspapers, which are also profit-making companies, they have a public service purpose essential to an open and democratic society -- and they are subject to being sued for libel. But online platforms are a free-for-all and they also have massive traffic, far more than newspapers.In fact, it is their sheer size that makes it impossible to regulate what people post or share. We have reached a tipping point in online platforms where the cons far outweigh the pros. And it will only get worse as they continue to grow. If the Supreme Court decides to eliminate the cover of Section 230 -- so the platforms have no protections from libel and lawsuits -- they will either have to spend far more resources to monitor the vile and libelous content and defend lawsuits or simply close up shop. Either way, it would be better than the current situation.
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Here in Mississippi we are reading that the current and past Governors have been stealing over a million dollars slated for poor families and shuttling it to build a women's volleyball stadium, just so they can get cozy with reputed perv and Hall of Fame football player Brett Favre. (they've also concurrently stolen tens of millions of welfare funds for other pals). From a PR standpoint alone, naming this facility after Ms Harris seems well advised.I mean Favre was a fine athlete, but he was no Lusia Harris
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Maire Rep. Boebert paid off nearly $20K in state tax liens in 2020Delinquent unemployment insurance premiums dated back to restaurant opening in 2013BY: CHASE WOODRUFF - FEBRUARY 4, 2021 3:36 PM
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Curious about all the job openings that are going unfilled, I decided to look and see what the openings were. The vast majority were under $20 an hour ($12 for a caregiver in a nursing home). Our local hospital was looking for nursing with salaries from the mid 40ks to around $70K, which was darn good money, but required training. Our local college has a very highly selective nursing program. But the vast majority were call center jobs ($12-$15 an hour), gig jobs, or retail. Many had no benefits. Most of the ones that did required a bachelor's or master's degree--often in social work. And some in that area paid about $50 but had no benefits at all, but contracted workers who had to pay self-employment taxes on that amount.If Brett thinks the couple making $400k is struggling, what does he think people like this do? And you know what, if they all had Phds, there would still be the motel cleaner ($10 an hour). While he's worrying about that, he might want to rethink his stance on "entitlement" programs.
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The Biden economy is doing great.It is very solid. Unemployment is at 3.5 percent,a 50 year low. Inflation seems to be 2 pct by Dr. Krugman's analysis, though the news says it is at 6.5 pct. Where most of us can agree is that inflation is falling. What about all the headlines about layoffs at tech companies ? Tech stocks have been rising since 2011 or so and tech companies did a lot of hiring. The layoffs are about 5 pct or so at most, and the job market is still good. Companies cut costs when profits fall, in this case because of rising rates, which makes debt more expensive. Then the profits go back up and the stock bounces back up. Many big tech companies are still very profitable. I analyzed my own financial position in 2021 vs 2022.We all have our w2s. Tech shares fell a bit so 2021 was probably slightly better but some pharmaceutical share prices have gone up significantly since 2021. Value stocks are also up in value. People moved to more defensive positions when interest rates rose.My bonds lost value, and also tech shares overall-maybe 10 percent.But tech shares have kept rising for years.Hopefully they will bounce back, and maybe I am buying cheaper bonds. My position reflects the economy for me,and the economy is doing fine.Long term prospects are still very good. I don't know anybody who has been laid off. News agencies report negative news,whether it is local crime or the next storm coming.That's how they stay in business.The far right extremists are just liars
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From a Treasury report in 2021:The top 1% of tax payers are responsible for 28% of the nation's unpaid taxes. That amounts to an annual shortfall of more than $160 billion. Give the IRS the funding it needs to do its very important work!Taxes, after all, are what we pay for civilized society.
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My favorite line in this piece: "Jones is making only $8.4 million (against the salary cap)...."As a Bengals fan, I can't imagine the discussions and planning going on by Mike Brown & co. to find all the money they're going to have to unearth for Joe Burrow :-)
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He's 100% correct.Here in Nebraska, rural voters vote for candidates who oppose Medicaid expansion then complain that their elderly have to move far from their family if they need nursing home care.Rural voters in one of the 11 counties in which voting has been done ENTIRELY BY MAIL for the past several elections, in many of which Republicans got over 90% of the votes, just elected a state senator who proposed that nobody be allowed to vote by mail because of the fairy tale of fraud they are told exists despite their own experience showing it is a lie.Taxpayers are now being required to pay for broadband for rural areas where the private sector would never do it.We spend massive amounts of pubic funds to clean the water of rural resident need because their agricultural business practices poison it.And of course we build beautiful highways to places where (I am not exaggerating) fewer than 100 vehicles a day use them.Their Congressional representatives uniformly voted against the infrastructure and covid relief funding and then celebrate its spending for the good it does to their constituents.NOBODY is more dependent on public resources than our rural residents, and they are oblivious to and show no appreciation of that fact.I have come to the conclusion that the only way to get through to them would be to actually give them what they say they want. But Democrats aren't that cruel.
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Using citations is a reasonable metric for scientific advancement, but there is a problem with the interpretation of the metric used here. Citation indices sample the middle quadrants of a distribution of publications that has a tail of ultra-cited on one end and under-cited on the other end of the curve. Because obtaining funding and keeping a research job have grown to require staying within the boundaries of the middle quadrants of incremental advances, the true breakthroughs are in the two tails of the curve. Moving from being under-cited to ultra-cited requires that someone in a position of power, usually purse-strings-power, recognizes a breakthrough and opens doors.
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Re: “The validity of the public debt of the United States,” it declares, “shall not be questioned.” The law on the debt ceiling requiring was passed by Congress of the United States. Laws passed by Congress are US Law until overturned in CourtYour personal opinion, that this law questions the public debt is interesting but has no effect unless you file a suit to overturn it in CourtShould you set up a fund to finance such a suit I will donate to it,The chances are slim Precedent sets procedure, and the more precedents the more difficult an overturnBetween 1962 and 2011, the debt ceiling was raised 74 times, including 18 times under former President Ronald Reagan, eight times under former President Bill Clinton, seven times under former President George W. Bush, and five times under former President Barack Obama. From 2001, Congress has raised the debt ceiling 14 times from 2001 to 2016. The debt ceiling was raised roughly a total of $5.4 billion during President George W. Bush’s tenure, and it was raised roughly a total of $6.5 during President Obama’s tenure.It does not look likely to be overturned, but again, I will donate to a fund trying to do soIn the meantime, questioning the validity of law ought to be minimized
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Brianna I don't know why some of these responses to your comment are written as though corporations like Amazon and Starbucks are not investing MILLIONS of dollars into efforts to supress unionization. All of these reasons are interconnected. Of course profit is the core motivation around which all other ensuing strategies orbit. But it's a little wacky to me for folks to act like repressing worker power has absolutely nothing to do with these profitability math equations they're describing.
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Well, I sure am glad that we can send billions of dollars to another foreign country while Flint Michigan still has poisonous water.Of course, if we wanted to reduce the amount of suffering in the world, we could just stop helping the Saudis slaughter the Yemeni.I'm sure that billions pouring into Ukraine while we've ignored Flint has nothing to do with the color of their skin, or the massive profits the military industrial complex is making.
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The Prosecutor got over $300,000 added to his budget and hired a Special Prosecutor to shield himself....He had to prosecute to keep that tax money and his Prosecutor.... Budgeted money can never be given back...The DA knows that just isn't done..He had to protect his budget and his people....It's not about justice here, it's about the money and the power!!
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Kenneth Joseph Marsh Hard drug use is not a victimless crime, as so many progressives falsely assert, while setting up legal shooting galleries with clean needles and medical supervision, in San Francisco and other Democrat-led cities.Our prisons are too often run by gangs, and drugs are widely available even in the joint. This has to stop. But before resorting to harsh punishment, we should divert junkies into mandatory drug treatment, and do everything we can to help them redeem their lives -- and lock them up if they again resort to criminal activity to finance their addictions.Let's invest in mandatory treatment, job training and hope, which is the only real antidote to addiction.
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I will be retiring this year at the age of 56. I am exceedingly lucky to be able to do so through a combination of 20 years of government work that gave me a pension, 8 years of profitable private sector work that allowed me to save, and *a lot* of frugality. One of the most surprising things to me, as I near this milestone is actually how many people who can afford to retire are absolutely lost and can think of nothing to do with their lives other than the same old 9-5. So they keep working. I've even had people say to me that it is selfish to retire early. If I had a nickel for the number of times I heard someone say that if they quit their job, they'd have no purpose, I'd have retired 10 years earlier. This, to me, incredibly sad. In a world where having the means to retire comfortably at any age is not a given, there are a lot of people who keep slaving away a jobs they don't even like because they have no interests or friends outside of the office and cannot begin to imagine how to develop any. IMO, the idea that you are nothing but your work is just another aspect of the toxic American work culture. There's no better way to keep you chained to your desk than convincing you that you are nothing without it. The world is a big place. There are millions of things to see and do, and countless ways to have a meaningful purpose outside of a job. Open your eyes, people. Yes, the workplace needs to change, but so do we.
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Let's get serious with numbers. My family's gross is about 280K. Our take home is 181K. If the take home was about the same for a 400K income that would get you 258K. Even if you're spending 8K a month on a NYC mortgage (which would be like a 1.25 million dollar loan), that leaves you 162K, which is more than my take home after I pay my mortgage. And I live a good life, I pay for my kids expensive private college, I own 4 cars, I go out, I even travel some. Anyone making 400K a year in NYC is doing just fine thank you, they don't worry about buying eggs.
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To summarize, Physicists are clueless about a lot.Dark matter is a solution to a problem for which there is no evidence of its actual existence.Dark Energy MIGHT be the same as one item in Einstein's equation when he believed the universe was static, put in there to prevent the universe from expanding. Even worse, instead of a constant, the universe is apparently expanding at increasing rates.If you follow the Big Bang theory, you know that there is a mismatch in the predicted amount of Lithium and that one of the investors of inflation theory disavows it as inadequate.Add in the fact that the galaxies now being observed with the James Webb telescope, from very early in the universe, are way too developed for the short time they have been in existence and you should come to the conclusion that much of what is 'known' is not.Worse, the physics community is unable to recognize that what is needed is not just tinkering at the edges, but wholesale changes to our 'understanding.'
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I saw eggs at Walmart where I live up on Puget Sound, and they aren’t any more expensive than normal. I think they were about $2.49 a dozen.
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Mike Russia is NOT perpetrating any such blackmail…the US had driven the rest of the world to boycott purchase of Russian oil and gas. That is a FACT. It is also likely a fact that WE, and not the Russians, blew up the North Sea gas pipelines…after initially bullying the EU into rejecting starting up a new one being built to stop the UKRAINE from periodically shutting down has deliveries, or stealing gas intended for the EU. The other fact is a key reason the US has for DECADES been ever more aggressive in working to replace Russian gas with US gas, which comes a) at a price more than 50% higher, and b) at a further cost of requiring TRILLIONS be spent retrofitting EU ports to handle OUR LNG. The latest move to put in place an anti-free market ceiling on Russian oil prices is only further proof.
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