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I've researched this and so can you. The national debt acrrued from our founding to 1980 (about 200 years, including paying for all the wars in that time span) was $900 billion. Yes, under 1 trillion. Today it's 31 trillion. Now, hear this: 200 years of debt up to 1980- under 1 trillion. Over the next 8 years the debt just about tripled(!) to 2.6 trillion. Tripled in only 8 years. Because, as this article states, we cut our tax revenue while maintaining most of our spending. Or, more accurately, Ronald Reagan and his Republican party cut taxes mostly for the wealthiest Americans. (Many Democrats went along but almost everyone soon realized the cuts were breaking the bank - Reagan did tax increases soon after)Unfortunately, most conservatives still believe in cutting revenue by letting the wealthy pay less percentage of their earnings than you or I. It partly that belief over the last 40 years that has ballooned the national debt. We should not waste money, nor should we pander to those with the most of it.
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Lets not mince words here. About a dozen or so republican crazies in the House - only a dozen- are about to drive America's and the world's economy off a cliff. This is an excellent and informative article about the nuances of raising the debt limit, and the serious consequences of not doing so. But after reading ii, I am much less ensconced in nuance and much more mired in outrage!Outrage, this is, at the republican party and their supporters. A massive $7.8 trillion was added to the national debt under president Trump! Nearly $8 Trillion!! And in those 4 years, there was not a peep from republicans about massive spending and the debt limit! Which should leave us with a nagging question. What good is today's republican party? Better yet, what good has it been for the last 60+ years!? ....Any doubts? Just look at the disastrous presidencies of the last 2 republican presidents for evidence!Pundits on cable claim that a functioning republican party is essential for democracy....No....Better for democracy is the collapse of this republican party and its replacement with another of a new name!!
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Celia Bedelia Yea I just moved into a gated community. Nowhere is safe but I spent a lot of money to get away from the ghetto Dallas apartments and riff raff. The homeless where you have to run a red light to get them away from sticking their head in your car, where you need eyes in the back of your head, when useless idiots think all they have to do is approach you "Hey Miss" in a parking lot. I am always on alert. There are so many hapless losers everywhere. I am older and have no empathy or sympathy. Just protecting myself. Meanwhile the City council tries its best to remedy this while do gooders file lawsuits to keep the homeless in the intersections begging. And no I do not own and will never own a gun. I just keep my eyes open 24/7. This Democrat has had enough.
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L The US will continue to lead the western world for as long as all other western countries rely on us for their national defense. Total defense spending by all NATO countries this year is $1.17 trillion, of which the US is contributing $812 billion or 69%. That means that the US spends 2.25x more than the 28 other NATO countries, combined. There will be no other leader of the western world so long as China, Russia, North Korea and Iran threaten the west, and that extreme monetary imbalance in defense spending exists.
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1-24-23 or 24-01-23 [neat!]Part IDE• “Darling, I would DE(4) it an honor if you would share that last piece of cherry pie with me.” “Forget it, sweetie, and the last scoop of ice-cream is MI(4) too.’• When we were young, my mother reDE(6) the books of S&H green stamps, which we had filled by licking stamps for hours it seemed, to purchase needed household items.• In my head, I can still hear my granddad referring to “jeans” as DE(5) slacks. As if that weren’t bad enough, my dad called them dungarees. I wonder what Levi Strauss called them?DI• “They’re a DI(4) a dozen, you know.” “Not anymore, they’re not!” • The lights DI(6), the curtains opened, and the play began.EM• If you add text to a motion, you AM(5) the motion. If you correct a text by changing something in it, you EM(5) it. • The editor EM(7) my book very little, and it appeared in print largely as I had written it.LI• Earworm alert: “He put a LI(4) in the coconut and drank it all up.” • Our designer wanted us to use bleached, or LI(5), oak for the kitchen floor, but my husband preferred ceramic tile.• The artist chose to LI(4) or draw an outline of the model’s profile using a dark charcoal color.• Her figure was LI(4)ed by the streetlights as she passed under each one during her evening walk. • In American football, the team’s LI(7) are positioned on the scrimmage line. OR my grandfathers worked as LI(7) on the railroad.
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There is too much profit involved in collegiate athletics for a reform to take place. Media, universities and related businesses readily exploit athletes while considering the devastating injuries and sham education of student athletes simply as collateral damage. Conference realignment for the most profitable TV contracts not regional competition, the transfer portal and NIL are symptomatic of the rot in sports. The NFL is the pinnacle but the foundation of the problem is much deeper.
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tanstaafl - Employers don't want to invest in training employees because the employees will then demand a raise and, when that is denied (it always is), they will leave. It'd be nice if employers actually gave the raises they promise, but if wishes were horses...
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Mr. Krugman, you are Nobel winning economist, and yet you think about our debt in children's terms.How unfortunate.Under your scenario, we're good to go. Only $31 trillion and counting. Full steam ahead. The interest payments are just a small percent of the GDP. No big deal.I am really sorry you have an influential voice.
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There are facts on the ground which obstruct all these wishes within this chat for US weapons to flow into Ukraine, and that is clearly the Russian forces in Belarus. Russia clearly has the option to invade from that country and seal off the Polish border and stopping 90% of the weapons flow. In fact they have also planned for the redirection of such flows from Romania and Moldova. So to all those pining for more war with Russia, Ukraine has no path to any kind of victory in this struggle and is bound to put another 100K UKR soldiers in their graves and lose Odessa and Kharkov if this conflict persists into next fall.
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Independent trump’s tax cuts for the rich caused a deficit of $1.7 trillion.
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Why make contributions to rent a Congressman when you can own one? In addition to the mysterious RedStone, Santos received substantial personal funds from a shady "alternative investment" company accused by the SEC of being a Ponzi scheme that allowed him to "loan" his campaign $700k. This has all the characteristics of money laundering. And, we are supposed to believe his campaign consultants did their work with no vetting of Santos. That's not how it works.Who owns George Santos?
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Didn't they just vote themselves a $35,000 raise?
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I tried to save my insurance company money… I travel a lot and can purchase humira abroad at up to 20-30% below the cost in my home market, but they like didn’t that.I also tried to take biosimilar, did for many years and it worked, also once a month dose, more convenient for me. Until they audited my treatment (which they do regularly, at least once a year) and decided it humira or stellara only. Delaying all pay outs and leaving me carrying three months of the cost on my credit card. Now I open my mail every day, waiting for another letter of rejection and trying to be a good, most expensive version of a patient I can be.
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Biden, his family and everyone around him have made their multimillion dollar fortunes by exploiting the government working as a politician, lobbyist or running his campaigns. Several of those people worked out of this University of Penn office of which Biden was paid $900K to use, and of which classified material was found.What is the reason we are not being told where the second stash was found?
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The sudden reverse of zero covid tolerance policy and opening of its economy exactly reflects how quickly the Chinese government responds to its people's protest if you look at it from another perspective. The Chinese leaders did learn from their Tananmen Incident 3 decades ago and thus prevented nationwide massive protests. On the other hand, here in the US, we have been having protests like civil rights, racial discrimination protests for decades. Things have not been changed much. Otherwise there wouldn't have been BLM protests a few years ago.
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The Biden Administration should make it clear if Wall Street doesn’t want their investments to go down the drain, they need to lean hard on the Republican crazies controlling the House right now.And maybe they should reconsider supporting the Republican Party in the future.
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I believe activists are too quick to judge. Saying that the fossil fuel industry has no place at the climate talks is simply short sighted since all stakeholders have to agree to achieve something. Agreeing on for example limited investment into the f-f industry without involving the industry itself is just plain ridiculous. Moreover one should also realize that oil producing countries in the Middle-East have many conflicting interests here. While they want to continue production they also have to battle the unbearable temperature increase as well as the finiteness of f-f. They should be invited moreover having an oil executive as a lead might achieve something for a change. Looking at the previous summits not having an oil executive as head worked out quite well…..
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Are there legitimate matchmaking service that can actually find partners for women in their late 50s? I'm asking in all seriousness. My understanding is that few men use matchmaking services to find older women.Just now read an article that says age appropriate men paying thousands of dollars to a matchmaking service "feel that they are entitled to be matched with beautiful women who are 20 years younger".I also think Kwame's comment that "not all are accepted" is naive. From what I've heard, matchmaking companies will accept anyone who is willing to pay them.
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It’s not the debt it’s where the money goes that created the debt.Money well spent can yield enormous returns to the American people, but hundreds of billions spent on weapon systems that will be never user or be obsolete in 10 years is money not well spent.I believe we spent an estimated two trillion on the war in Iraq.That war killed American soldiers and ancillary support and killed tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians.That was not money well spent.Imagine the infrastructure improvements that 2 trillion could have brought to the country and the lasting positive economic benefits.
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Just dreaming, but it would be cool if these teams could develop some kind of exchange program with the lifeguard training programs in Broward County FL. I’m living in the Ft Lauderdale area and last summer met a 16 year old lifeguard who had never traveled out of the area and yearned to see snow in person. Some outdoor public pools in Broward stay open year-round. Most of the lifeguards I’ve met also trained in high school, and were certified by the Red Cross.
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What the "Varsity Blues" scandal has revealed is not merely Rick Singer's scheme to get his wealthy clients' children into selective colleges through an athletic admission "side door". The scandal has illustrated that the whole point of being admitted to a selective college is about joining a select group, being able to say "I went to Harvard, USC, Yale, Stanford, etc.", not about getting an education. The reality, hidden by "Varsity Blues" and the current US Supreme Court case about affirmative action admission decisions at Harvard and the UNC at Chapel Hill, is that if education were the real point of these institutions, they would eliminate legacy applicants, donor applicants (I'm looking at you, Jared), athletic and "special" talent applicants, set aside a random number of open admissions and institute "pass/fail" in place of the already inflated marks system (e.g, Harvard's average of "A -").
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Interesting read, but article contains no mention of Gary Marcus or his critique of OpenAI, ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Sam Altman’s acknowledgment of the problems and blind spots Marcus confronts, problems that should trouble us all. The sobering issues he highlights (as guest on Ezra Klein’ podcast) are getting glossed over or completely missed in media reporting, as this article does.
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George Campbell If they move out of high priced locations like Seattle and San Francisco, they won't need $350,000 a year. Granted, their standard of living might be a little lower. They have to come back to some reality, with all the layoffs at Twitter, Amazon, and Facebook combined.
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padem 'Smart people I know no longer read whole books at all.'if you're talking about me (told I had a high IQ) then yes I haven't read a whole book in a long time.Yet as a voracious reader since childhood (when I also learned speed reading) I often have 50 tabs open in my laptop browser, and spend hours reading articles both news and commentary on a wide range of topics - and that's without even going across to the apparently most popular way many young people learn skills these days - YouTubeNow retired, but when I was a teacher my students would say 'gee sir - how come you know so much ?' - I would simply reply 'I read - a LOT'still do - it even takes a while to browse comments like here for one NYTimes article ... ;-)Knowing it wastes time (and can confuse and distract causing dangerous errors, e.g. using a phone while driving) when switching between media, I tend to choose one at a time - laptop for news and emails, then later smartphone for phone calls and text messages, then after dinner maybe some pre-recorded favourite TV programs or documentaries.
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Su sans an e If you typically use your phone to play and have the "split screen" feature available, I recommend opening the comments, from that window enabling split screen (so it's the one on top) and then opening the NYT Games app as the bottom split screen. It keeps from having to scroll back to the comment, as the comment is always "open" on the top part of your screen.
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Sue Loomis i saw this. invest 30mil and not wonder why you never got a statement? not wonder how you could never lose money? and wonder how you could keep running this and think you would never get caught. i should think the stress would be horrific.
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You conveniently left out the part after the 1956 Suez crisis in which Eisenhower’s plan to make Egypt the U.S. bulwark against Soviet infiltration in the region ran up against Nasser’s hegemonic designs over the entire region. There’s a reason that, as Nixon later reported, Eisenhower considered his outreach to Egypt as a major diplomatic blunder that opened the door to the USSR.It wasn’t until Sadat who expelled all Soviet “advisors” that the Arab countries (with the exception of Syria) moved away from the USSR. In fact, it was Carter’s decision to include the USSR in a planned international peace conference that was the impetus behind Sadat’s going to Jerusalem in 1977. He had kicked the Russians out and had no interest in having them reassert themselves in any form. Everyone recalls the Camp David peace negotiations, but not the all important prologue.
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“The American people are the ones that’s demanding the cut in spending,” said Representative Jason Smith of Missouri, the new Republican chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, on Fox News last week. “We have to have fiscal reforms moving forward. We cannot just give an unlimited credit card.”Cool. I suggest starting with Rep. Jason's Smith farm-rich district in Missouri, which from 1995-2020 had its hand out from the federal government to the tune of $3 BILLION. Missouri, mostly to pay farmers to not produce anything on their land.California, by far the largest agricultural state in the U.S in terms of revenues produced, takes less in federal handouts than Missouri, which isn't even in the top 10 farming states in the U.S.And of course, Smith himself, and his "family" farm has had its hands out for millions....Hypocrites and propagandists.
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BD And I’ll wager that it was partly due to a drop in illegals crossing the border during that time.But it’s back to “normal” re open borders which is what businesses and the wealthy want.
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Under Rodrigo Duterte the Philippines was one of America’s most prickly allies. He visited China five times and Russia twice, but vowed never to set foot in the US, issuing threats and foul-mouthed warning to Obama not to criticise his arbitrary executions of alleged drug criminals. Since Marcos jr. came to power he has been rekindling relations with the US, Manila’s decades old treaty ally, allowing it to play a crucial role in the Indo-Pacific region. Last September he flew to the US to address the UN General Assembly and met Biden for the first time on the side lines. Biden was the first world leader to call and congratulate Macros after his landslide win in May 2022. After six years of destructive populism under Duterte, Marcos jr. appeared more acceptable on the global stage. He wants to continue fostering a relationship with Beijing while moving closer to the US. The question is whether his vice-president Sara Duterte shares her father’s hostility towards the US, which seeks to broaden its engagement in the region by bolstering a web of security alliances and partnerships amid China’s growing influence and ambitions. The northern Philippines is strategically located across a strait from Taiwan and could serve as a crucial outpost in case tensions worsen between Beijing and Taipei.The US had repeatedly assured Manila that it would come to its aid if the Philippines came under attack in the disputed South China Sea, much of which Beijing also claims.
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Google / Alphabet's net income was 16 BILLION dollars last quarter. 16 weeks of salary and 6 months of paid healthcare is hardly a generous severance package for the lowly employees who were terminated.
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Wall Street investment banks have been gaming markets for decades and making sure that the SEC is deliberately underfunded.
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Desantis is no middle of the road Republican. Along with Jim Jordan, he's one of the founding fathers of the "House Freedom Caucus". DeSantis voted to repeal the ACA and is one of 11 governors who did not expand Medicaid. Consequently, Florida ranks among the worse states for key health indicators (see America's Health Rankings 2022). What's more, he's wasted millions of dollars on "anti-woke" legal battles to erase citizens' voices and votes, arrested registered voters for voting, and is throwing away taxpayer dollars on cruel political pranks he played on legal asylum seekers. DeSantis advised GOP states on "alternate" slates of electors even before tRumps's lawyer Eastman did. He's full steam ahead MAGA and would be bad news for our democracy.
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Bee :Not $37k but you can go to Zillow and find brick ranches and bungalows in Detroit for about $150k. Enjoy.
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"The United States runs a budget deficit, which means it does not take in enough money through taxes and other revenue to fund its operations."So let's cut the IRS budget so we can collect even less tax revenue. Empirically, every dollar spent on IRS enforcement yields six dollars in tax revenue.
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I don't think it's anyone's place to say there's ONE quality that "makes a truly great video game"—let alone something so niche as random encounters in open-world formats.A person can appreciate what makes games like Fallout 3 and its successors "great"—and they absolutely are—while also having room for completely different types of games. In terms of their respective strengths, Fallout 3 is as different from The Last of Us as either is from a novel or a film. I feel fortunate to appreciate both.I'd also say this: there are many kinds of "immersion" in narrative media, and even within video games themselves. The Last of Us offers the player only the illusion of freedom. You don't make meaningful choices; you merely control a character's reaction to his/her environment within a predetermined story. And that's fine! I still find myself identifying in a deeper and more profound way with Joel, Ellie, or Abby than I do with any character I've played in Fallout—a format where I get to control pretty much everything that happens to my (faceless, soulless) "character." Indeed, I'm eager to see how that identification translates to a more passive televisual format. "Chernobyl" was outstanding, and I trust Craig Mazin to deliver the goods here as well.
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Like many people i was investing in total stock index funds and bond fund allocation. Even through I am years away from retirement, 2022 was a wake up call. What if I were to retire in a year like this where market lost over 25 percent of investment. Bond funds also surprisingly didn’t held up, and declined as well.This made me look into dividend stocks and dividend index funds for cash generation even when stock values are down. This portion is technically stock, but performance and stability are better than bond funds. I haven’t yet completed allocation yet but this is my project to have a good percentage allocated in dividend funds in the next few years.As for finding financial advisors, it seems daunting task. I find financial people difficult to talk to.
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8 billionthat is the world population and it is growing8 billion people is a taxation on our natural resources, especially waterheating, transportation, and lifestyle adds to the carbon in the atmospherewe do not need more people, people can immigrate to areas that need workersi feel very bad for the women of south korea if they are subjected to these double standards and not treated with respect. i had no idea that the women are in a culture that fosters abuse and subjugation. a president that plays on men's resentment to win votes, how is that good for the country? we have experienced the spurring of resentment and entitlement and look where it got us.....january 6th! not good for any country.
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Follow the money! Where did he get the $700,000 to fund his campaign? This needs to be investigated and prosecuted immediately. His “business” hardly exists; he doesn’t have real estate holdings; his past yearly income has been in five figures. Where did this money come from?
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Only $1.7b is in cash? And $5b is not the $8b that was lost.
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Paul Krugman: "But I've studied this a lot, and there are no historical examples of debt crises for country's whose situation resembles ours today."First of all, thanks for the reply. My worry is that we will reach some "tipping point" where we are no longer able to even pay down part of the debt.Before Reagan's first inauguration, the national debt was just under $1 trillion. By the time he left office, the debt was between $2.5 and $3 trillion. Of course, Republicans never mention this.Now, less than 40 years later, we're at $31 trillion in debt...and growing. And as far as I can tell, it's mostly due to government constantly spending more than it takes in. Then they make up the difference by borrowing, printing money, or both. Neither party is serious about reining in spending so that government lives within its means, lowering the overall tax burden, or both.This can not go on indefinitely.
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Joe should weather the witch hunt of Hunter and his own handling of classified documents for the next 16 months and then announce he is not running again for the presidency, "for the good of the country, so that it can move forward on more substantive matters, such as climate change, and the relentless assault on truth and democracy by Republicans."The GOP will have invested so much time and effort tearing down Biden that they will be hard-pressed to find as convenient a target to attack in the months left before the election.The Democrats in turn should spend the next year behind the scenes thoroughly researching prospective candidates for president within the party to reduce the risk that the one they choose isn't likely to have a scandal erupt having to do with missteps by family members -- or the candidate him/herself.The Democrats need to learn from experience not to shoot themselves in the foot, multiple times, which only takes the spotlight off misdeeds by Republicans.
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Dear Fellow Democrats,It is a fun popcorn moment to laugh at Kevin McCarthy and the House Republicans. And to watch Trump flailing, and his own flock ignoring him as he loses influence. While he may be soon drowning under indictment.But we must look several chess moves ahead.Ron DeSantis is the real threat. Some moderate Democrats even think he is reasonable. (Because of opening schools and businesses during COVID. And because of questioning talking to 3rd Graders about transgender people. Etc.)DeSantis is smarter, more disciplined, and more effective than Trump could ever hope to be. And, as such, he is much more dangerous.Ron DeSantis flew up to Pennsylvania to campaign for Doug Mastriano. An anti-abortion absolutist. With no exceptions. And an election denier.A President DeSantis would be America's Viktor Orban.
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Bill You could simply say: "I'm happy to give a statement but I'd like to have my attorney present"There's no reason a witness can't cooperate and speak to Police in the presence of their attorney or provide a carefully worded written statement that helps solve a crime while avoiding the obvious pitfalls of talking with the police in an open-ended way
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Mark Plus she would have paid a penalty (maybe 20%) for taking her retirement funds early so she lost more $$$!
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Michael I had a relative who was an iron worker for most of his adult life. Doing hard physical labor took a toll on his body, and he retired at 62. He died before he was 65, thus saving Medicare (and “the American Taxpayer(TM)”, for whom you apparently speak) whatever the government might have spent on his healthcare. There are many millions of seniors in this country — most of whom were and are taxpaying citizens. And most aren’t the affluent super-consumers presented in ads for financial services companies. Many seniors couldn’t afford any healthcare without insurance through Medicare. The fact that some younger people begrudge it to them is among the many compelling arguments for a universal healthcare system.
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I want to thank everyone for paying for my kids to get Covid tests at $59 each weekly for a year and a half. 11th grade and 8th grade. Zero exposure to the elderly. Fully vaccinated and boosted. And when they did test positive, zero contact tracing. About $7,000 in tests for no reason. Oh. And it’s a private school. Gotta love the legislative process.
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Time to educate yourself about the issues before spouting off nonsense like we have open borders. America does not have open borders and you cannot blame the Executive branch of the gov’t for this tragedy.
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Mary Excellent point. And carrier to liberty boat transfers are usually made in harbors. Transfers in the open ocean would be whole be a whole different thing. Besides many cruise passengers are elderly and would have difficulty negotiating the ladder and making the step from ship to boat would be a real challenge.
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Another NYT article allowed readers to look at local line items in the recent federal spending bill passed. I looked at the handful of projects in my county, and they received tens of millions of dollars! I’m very grateful that so much federal money is coming to my community, and that our federal budget provides so much funding for local projects. Seems like this bridge is a great candidate for the federal budget!
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Good. Thats all I got to say as an businesswoman who spent 10 years working just to raise $500k and in the process lose control of my company. Meanwhile, Zuck, who was at Harvard while I was at MIT, can do whatevef he wants and ppl lined up to buy points for tens of millions each.
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I was one of 4000 people laid off at a tech company 2 weeks before Xmas. (We get there’s never a good time to do it, but good lord there’s a bad time & they picked the absolute worst!) After literally winning awards and getting the best review of my life, I was axed 2 months later for no good reason. My previous employers have handled things a lot better than others, I will give them that. But man it’s a low bar & the WebEx call was a 7 minute nightmare, I think I would have preferred an email. The only reason they’re being so “generous” with severance and transition options is because they KNOW these layoffs are BS. The stock price is just fine, balance sheets are healthy and there’s plenty of money in the bank. Yet they’ve all convinced themselves that despite so much evidence to the contrary, a recession is imminent and all they know how to do is lay people off in response. The same call they announced layoffs, they also announced that they had the best quarter in the company’s history. At this point it’s just companies copying each other and others doing it because they’ve got the cover of an “imminent recession” that may never materialize & everyone else is doing it so why not us mentality. It’s already backfiring and will only get worse. We heard nothing but moaning about retention being the number one issue the last 2 years then they turn around & do this! But it’s truly their loss. Smart companies invest in a downturn, not lay people off. It’s so shortsighted.
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Time to mint a $1 trillion coin. It sounds silly except that, (1) it's legal and Biden can do it without any help from Congress, and (2) it perfectly threads the needle of nullifying the extortion leverage of House Republicans while protecting military families and Social Security recipients from hardship.
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Incorporeal Being There are open public spaces with seating and tables across the street from both entrances. In the summer those tables fill up quickly, but they exist.
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Animal experimentation has become a business. Experimenters can readily purchase animals, publish the "results" in an online journal, pad their CVs, and, all too often, get NIH to pay for it. Look at any issue of the journal Nutrients, from MDPI. You will see animals used cruelly for studies that could easily and ethically have been done in human volunteers. For example, researchers studied the 'antidepressant effects' of saffron, not by asking depressed humans to try it and rate their mood, but by force-feeding it to mice, then tossing the mice into water and timing their panicked struggles as a crude measure of their mood. Authors pay Nutrients $2600 per article. They pad their CVs, the journal makes $13 million a year. In the 1980s, animal laboratories were deemed "essential" for training medical students. Today, all US and Canadian med schools use nonanimal teaching methods exclusively. We once thought we needed animals to create antibodies for use in research. Today we create them in vitro; they are cleaner and better quality than the animal-derived versions. Of the 3 "Rs," the one that matters is Replacement. Instead of animal experiments, we need to focus on human biology, human behavior, human genetics, and, often, human diets to understand the disease epidemics we ask our clinicians to deal with. Modern methods allow us to do that in exciting ways. Replacing animals is not always easy, but it is ethically essential and it invariably improves research.
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It is one of our finest cliches that plant-based eaters do not/cannot get sufficient protein. Fact: The U.S. government subsidizes the livestock and dairy industry to the tune of $50 billion every year. It cannot be any wonder then that the dietary supremacy of meat and dairy will be the dominant narrative. Separately, 'The Game Changers' is a compelling, credible documentary about the many world class professional athletes (Novak Djokovic, Lewis Hamilton among many others) who are solely plant-based.
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A) Contemporary adjunct careers are barely sustainable. This affects all younger people.B) People of color, women, and other people not previously in academic history now are.Combine A and B and get C:C) Young people of color, women, and others not previously in academic history face barely sustainable careers. The results are fairly predictable. People make a splash, given how PR makes careers. Attack professors to get them fired or retired, to open decent career slots.Quality will eventually rise. It may take more time, come from unexpected places. Then the next generation will visit upon the current revolutionaries their own attacks.
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ME Dear ME,Your comment says it all, it is wonderful to hear that your husband fully recovered and that your congressman Rep. Suozzi literally represented you so well. The current Republican Party, with too many poisoned by fealty to the soulless Trump, seems beyond repair at this time as we await the opening of the U.S, Congress which promises to be completely dysfunctional.
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SJW51 “If you are willing to pay another $10,000 to $15,000 (above what your paying now) a year in taxes then let’s have universal health care, otherwise stop sounding off.”But everyone with an employer-based health insurance is already paying that! This is what your employer is paying your insurance company for you to get coverage - it is part of your compensation but you never see the color of it.I have lived and worked both in Canada and the US, and I can tell you that it is more or less the same in the end (probably cheaper in Canada in fact). In Canada you pay more in taxes but your employer can pay you a higher wage because they don't have to pay your health insurance company on the side. In the US your pay less in taxes but your employer is also paying you a lot less because they have to funnel a lot of money to your health insurance company (and to their HR department to handle it all).Basically, switching to a medicare-for-all system would get you an instant $10K-$15K raise from your employer, which would more than make up for your tax raise. You'd probably have more income in the end.
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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.” They’re scrimping to send their kids to college, driving a Camry, if they have a car at all, and wondering why eggs have gotten so damned expensive."First, this shows just how out of touch you are, Bret. No further comment needed on that point.Second, so your logic is, if those making over $400K are impacted by inflation, then they should be allowed to cheat on their income taxes, without fear of being audited? That makes no sense whatsoever. Sure, being audited is inconvenient, but if your returns are on the up-and-up, what's to worry about? Audits should be targeted to those who have the most opportunity to cheat. Lower income folks by and large get paid by W2's with taxes withheld. Not much opportunity to cheat there. But those who get income from self-employment, from pass through entities , etc. have a much greater opportunity to cheat. And, playing with much larger dollar amounts, also perhaps a greater temptation to cheat.
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The special form of rapacious capitalism that we have in this country leads to the formation of spectacular wealth in the hands of the top .01% and no one else. Neoliberalism, gigantic monopolies, employment 'at will', terrible health care access, no family leave, unrelenting discrimination against women and minorities are the aspects of American capitalism that make it so very 'successful.' The middle class slides into poverty while the greed of the wealthy expands exponentially. And here we are with a completely one-sided analysis of the 'problems' with workers! Wah, Wah, Wah. So sad. Can't imagine why US workers are so disgusted and disillusioned that they leave exploitative employers looking for better.
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That $160k cap is an outrage! And it was designed to extract the most wealth out of the middle class; it works exactly as intended.
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It’s great news that Joe has been able to get incentive money out there to get industry to build chip manufacturing facilities here in our nation. Something industry probably should have done decades ago on its own, knowing the whatever could hit the fan and we’d have our backs against the wall someday. But, yes, Asian countries pay their workers 10 percent of our workers so it kinda made sense for our country to import them and not invest billions to make them here. Thanks Joe for making this happen.
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EnEsEl Reviews are incredibly instrumental when traveling to a new city or country. You take them all with a grain of salt, but most are helpful whether it's learning if a museum or a site of interest is worth visiting despite a steep entrance fee, or what to expect when ordering a restaurant's signature dish. You compare the review to other reviews, and you also vet the reviewer based on the quantity or quality of their other reviews. I've stopped using Yelp long ago, I use Google map reviews and comments on Reddit are most helpful followed by Trip Advisor if I need to. (TripAdvisor has too many ads now for packages, sometimes it's difficult to sort and filter their reviews so I've stopped using them as much.)I think the majority of reviewers are reviewers like me who take the time to write a detailed review because they want to be helpful to others. The reviews help keep owners accountable and the reviews help give accurate info at the time they're written. The ability to make corrections on Google maps (for opening hours or an update that the business is closed) is also super helpful.
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We are in this mess because a large enough segment of the billionaire class and large corporations (shout out in particular to the fossil fuel industry) benefit from increasing levels of chaos, dysfunction and angry polarization they monumentally helped to sow which renders government’s ability to meet the real challenges facing average Americans, neutered and stymied. Follow the money; it’s now open-season on much of society at-large, we are collateral damage to the very survival and continuing success of powerful vested interests who have no regard for human life (other than perhaps their own) nor of the environment, the foundation for life itself on this planet. What’s been going on in Washington for some time is no accident of fate. It’s a slowly evolving Shakespearean tragedy.
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How much is Harry's self respect worth?
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Just follow the money.If the cash raised by Red Stone Strategies eventually found its way to Santos’s personal account ( who then lent it to his campaign ) then that should be very easy to track.It appears on the face of it that some kind of felony has been committed since there is no legal way that Santos could have earned the 700,000 that he lent to the campaign and the millions more that he claimed to have received as dividends from Devolder.
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Robert Its not can they, but will they? And restaurants who have tried it have said that customers won't. For whatever psychological reason, people are willing to spend $20 on a pizza, then at the end of their meal pay $4 as a tip. But for that exact same pizza, they're not willing to pay a $24 menu price, even if there's no extra tipping at the end. If all you care about is workers having a living wage, then you shouldn't care about the tipping issue at all and just focus on raising the general minimum wage to equal a living wage, because tipped workers have to be paid at least the full minimum wage. The lower "tipped minimum" number is just the number that the restaurant itself has to pay, as long as their workers hit the full minimum wage amount. For example, in NYC the minimum wage is $15 hourly and tipped is $15 with a $5 tip credit. That means if a person makes at least $5 an hour in tips, then the restaurant only has to pay $10 an hour salary and can count $5 of the server's tips against the $15 minimum. But if the server only made $2 in tips, then the restaurant would have to pay $3 to make up the difference so the worker made at least the full $15. Everyone should get a living wage that is reflected in the general minimum wage. But since servers are guaranteed the general minimum wage amount, I see no problem with allowing them the opportunity to make much more than that through tips, even if that extra comes direct from customers instead of their employer.
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Jerry,Let's see. My mother needed her passport renewed during a previous budget imbroglio, but couldn't because the passport office was closed in the shutdown. Her son and both her grandchildren live in the UK, so she would have been unable to visit even in an emergency. If you lose your job and have to sign up for the ACA midyear, surprise! you can't if the government is shutdown. Hope you don't have a heart attack while in health insurance limbo.If you work for a government contractor? You'll probably be furloughed, and unlike government employees you probably won't be paid retroactively.If you're a child living on an overseas military base? No school until congress gets its act together. If you're a retiree living on your 401K? The inevitable market slump means a regular monthly withdrawal is a greater percentage of your total assets.You and I personally depend on government functions we never see unless something goes very wrong. I don't know what happens to USDA meat inspections, FDA approval for new drugs, highway infrastructure improvements and OSHA safety enforcement if the government goes into an extended shutdown and _I really, really don't want to find out_.
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Indicative of the deeply entrenched duplicity and hypocrisy of the corporate mentality supporting right-wing, in their minds the egalitarianism of a "free market" should only extend to the owners of the corporate world, not it's "employees"."Employees" merely being the insignificant cogs in the wheels of Capitalism, rather than the saintly and deified "job creators".In their minds, and by their logic, "Without record executives... there'd be no music!".
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As has been extensively reported in the past, the United States has 9,000 Abrams tanks and Congress provides over $100 million every year for upgrades to keep the manufacturing line open. Clearly the scarcity excuse is a lie. We could easily spare a few hundred of these tanks.
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Re: ventilation, I'll never forget what an old time plumber warned me about: the blowing out of an unattended flame from a nearby window. There are of course sensible building code requirements about this. We added a through-wall vent fan right next to our propane cooktop, which also reduces water vapor (trapped winter moisture) when cooking in our northern climate. Yes, it leaks a bit of cold air into the house. And when cooking year-round, we don't open windows anywhere near the gas cooktop.
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Yes. Good thing Biden has opened up the border to over 5,000,000 illegals in just two years. That should help calm things down.
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MP Was it better than spending the $15b on public transit improvements? I grew up in the western suburbs but live in Lynn these days, which is a horror show, when you want to go *anywhere* from here, unless it's North Station. Driving in any direction, it's almost not even worth it. They've been talking about extending the Blue Line for 40 years, but it's not happening. What may conceivably get some traction is electrifying the commuter rail -- but that probably won't happen until I'm too old to hobble onto a train anymore....
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Their self-serving narrative just doesn't ring true. I live in London, and as far as I remember there was never a moment when Meghan overshadowed anyone. Harry is worth 60million£. Is that not enough for them to live on? Do they really think trashing their family is worth the money? Or is this just revenge because Meghan wasn't in fact the star?Meanwhile, William and Kate are spurring innovation to combat climate change and supporting institutions that serve young children.These two can only talk about themselves.And, ps, the British tabloids are awful to all the women in the royal family. (Waity Katy doors to crosscheck, Camilla the Rottweiler) The rest of them are just adult enough to ignore it. And, pps, Britain is a far more diverse society than the US.
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bob There's an ad for itty bitty gold plated violins on Truth Social. Only $79.95, and they come with an official Trump coin! Get yours today before they sell out!
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Nadal is a great player but age and recent injuries have diminished his skills. It is surprising that he is seeded number one in the Australian Open. I will be amazed if he makes it to the Semis. This in no way is meant to diminish his body of work over almost two decades. Just the reality of aging.
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Russian antipathy if not outright hostility to the West is engrained in its political, social and religious DNA. This will not change, with or with Putin. It is a result of the anti Western model, not its creation.This does not necessarily mean an open war, especially one with nuclear consequences. But, one can look at the Ukrainian adventurism as akin to the Spanish Civil War. That was the model upon which Hitler built his plan to expand across all of Western and especially Eastern Europe. Putin in turn is testing the West's commitment to democracy. If NATO and its political allies continue to appease Putin with half means, he will win. Consequently, if any REDLINE is to be drawn, it should be drawn by The West. At the same time, diplomacy must be intensified to assure The Russians that there is no goal of conquest or defeat. Putin and his government may not want to accept this premise now. But, with persistence and a strong, forceful will, the Russian Bear might be persuaded to return to its lair, and even go into a peaceful hibernation that in the most hopeful outcome, prove convincing that its hostility will produce no gains.
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TFD It’s a lot easier to invest when you’re making $200k per year. Salary is huge factor. About half of America doesn’t earn enough to really invest.
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Just finished 10 days of wearing a continuous glucose monitor. It was very enlightening! While I ate lots of vegetables and fiber, I learned that root vegetables (starchy) cause my blood glucose to spike almost as high as if I eat a cookie. Prolonged and drastic spikes lead to diabetes, which correlates highly with Alzheimers later in life.So, if I intuitively eat, even if perceived healthy, some foods don't work well with my body. This doesn't mean I never eat french fries or a sweet potato, but I eat them less often and when I do, make sure they're paired with healthy fats/protein/fibers. What I did observe is my blood sugar dips low when I'm hungry and if it spikes high, I'm really tired after 2-3 hours (the crash). So, intuitive eating should tell me that if I'm paying close attention to how I feel. The key would be not eating more high-spiking foods when I'm tired 2-3 hours later. I look forward to when tools like CGMs are used more widely and more affordable for everyone. There's a LOT to learn about one's own body. In the meantime, pay attention to how you feel before, during and for hours after a meal.
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Donations to Educational Institutions having more than a billion dollars in their endowment fund should not be tax exempt.It is just the rich giving to the very rich....For example, Harvard has over US$50 billions - how much is enough?
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Stephanie Wood That's right, there is no free lunch.We have to pay for our K-12 school somehow.There is also no free lunch for healthcare.The other countries pay taxes and spend about $5,500 per person and all have some form of universal coverage.A lot of our healthcare is through private insurance and we spend an average of $11,000 per person.We have medical bankruptcies and parts of the US with infant mortality rates of a second world country.Same for university. We don't pay taxes but student loan debt makes up the 2nd largest amount of debt in the nation behind mortgages.
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Before we get too high and mighty about overseas corruption, we should remember a certain former US president (who’s still revered by 1/3 of the population) came to power after a long history of running a fraudulent charity, a fraudulent university, serial philandering and sexual assault, years of likely tax fraud, and questionable dealings with money laundering gangsters and overseas oligarchs. And we now have a serving member in the House whose entire bio appears to be a fabrication. This same guy also appears to have ties to a Russian oligarch, worked at a firm in Florida that defrauded investors, and, probably committed campaign finance crimes.Of course we should monitor the flow of weapons and money into Ukraine. Hopefully, Ukrainians understand the requirements for continued aid including reconstruction money. It was probably easier after WWII due too well established civil societies in Europe and Japan. To a significant extent, we’ll be helping them build the civil society ‘plane’ while it’s in flight.But this is a fight we and our allies have to win for the sake of human rights and especially to defeat rising threats of autocracy around the world.
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Related anecdote that’s a somewhat chilling glimpse into the many mini FTX type companies around the globe:I lived abroad and taught English for a few years. My best friend was a British guy who was formerly a semi professional online poker player. He started teaching to get away from the stressful grind of greed that is pro poker.The guy is really smart but never really had a real job. After I returned home, he got into yoga and meditation. He moved to Nepal to become something of a monk. There, he met a wealthy guy who had started yet another “crypto exchange” in a sketchy city somewhere in Asia. The wealthy guy made my friend the COO — my friend, the 38 year old who never had a real job until becoming a crypto executive.The gift was clear and cynical: get a white educated guy with a British accent to be the squeaky clean front man for this sketchy crypto company.I mean when I heard of all this, my jaw literally hit the floor. Here I was wasting money on masters degrees, barely getting by and my chronically unemployed friend is now a financial executive.This is the world of crypto. And the crazy thing is this is the norm. My friend sent me a link to a crypto summit where such people converged to exalt crypto for several days. The guest speakers were all like SBF.
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Dave Your question about memories of coloring the margarine have opened up a cascade of responses of all kinds! I just finished reading all of them, from Jesus waltzing through a dayroom with his posse to a mother who got bored with mixing in the yellow food dye and instead dyed her margarine blue! These responses are worth their weight in gold! Or in golden butter! It would be a delight to compile them into a work of sole kind, “The Joys of the NYT Spelling Bee!” or something on that order. Plus, whoever did that informal survey of our ages and professions seems to have missed a hefty percentage of our fellow readers and commenters. Perhaps you could conduct such a survey one of these days. Or another of us could do so. It would have to be published at 3 a.m.EST, in order to touch as many readers as possible. So many people mentioned not having seen the recent survey, and willingly gave their ages and professions in the responses to your margarine question, that it seems to be something that would be worth repeating. I suppose I could do it, too. The new SB comes out at the very civilized hour of 9 a.m. here in continental Europe. Let me know what you think!
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I am a New York City Architect. First alarm bell should have gone off when I decided, along with my partner, to enter the Restaurant Business. The Second Alarm was when our Star Chef wisely backed out. The Third was our dwindling bank account. Yet, come late July we opened our East Village 50 seater and welcoming in our guests. We had solved the chef issue and were quite proud of our little gem. In fact this very publication gave us a glowing review. However, as the Front of House guy [my partner being a former chef under said Star Chef] it was my duty to deal with marketing. This all leading to the fact that I was not immune to posting fantastical reviews. This was 2007, the early years of Yelp. I didn't rave effusivelybut when I wrote on behalf of 'Out of Town Visitor' that the Brussel sprouts w bacon were great but could have used a touch more seasoning I was not only trying to get the word out but giving a not so subtle hint to my partner and team. I am not proud of my actions but I am not ashamed of them either. It was borne out of a financial necessity. In hindsight of course its demonstrably wrong and I can spot a fake rating when an establishment gets a 1 star review followed by a dozen 5 star review on the same items but I thought I would offer an insight as to why these things did occur, at least at the beginning. Alas, one calendar year after opening we shuttered the place. Id like to say it was fun while it lasted but Ill stick to being an architect.
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Did I miss the part where Mr Sasso explores where they got their ideas/beliefs. Who were there influences? $100 says 9 out of 10 listened to AM radio.
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Hal - Probably, but a sanitation failure with a family picnic gets only that family’s members ill. Restauranteurs who have to pay rent and taxes, plus maintain their premises ready for inspection at all times, don’t like this competition. Unlicensed business activity is a fact of tropical living, though—check out all the $30 parking you’ll find in front yards around the university before a Hurricanes game. Everyone’s trying to survive in an expensive town with few social safety nets, importing habits from the Caribbean to do so. Conflicts between the Black and Cuban communities are another phenomenon in Miami-Dade, given the latter group controls the politics there; an expanding range of source cultures that now includes Venezuela and Brazil is adding to them, along with the über-wealthy condo crowd. But it’s a fun place to visit, and safer than it used to be, crime-wise.
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And why can't we balance the budget in TEN years? Commentary below leads to a number of avenues to do so, starting with tax increases on the wealthy to pay their fair share. And what happened to the AMT on rich individuals? (One of whom paid only $750 two years and then zip the next.)
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There are not enough GOP millionaire voters to elect anyone to even town dogcatcher let alone Congress or state houses or the White House. So who are the millions of GOP voters who would rather commit financial suicide as they age rather than let people they don't know, and possibly some they do know, not benefit from a properly funded national government. Why do they support under-taxing the wealthy by not funding the IRS to audit people who pay millions to accounts to not pay their fair share of taxes. And that results in the rest of the working and middle-class population paying higher taxes to keep the government running. Is it really possible that other members of their church, synagogue or mosque are not being punished by there willfulness to hurt themselves? Raise the amount that can be deducted from people making over $200K or $300K and the SS and Medicare issues will be resolved. And do these voters not understand that every GOP politician has a generous pension so when they vote to limit SS payments so that the elderly struggling to live out their lives without going bankrupt it really may not be an issue for well-funded politicians.Why are GOP policies focused on cutting taxes for the wealthy not an issue for the majority of GOP voters? Finally, tax the corporations that are making windfall profits while they destroy our planet so that the young of today can have a home on earth on which to grow old. Vote for Democrats to get a government that works.
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Dr. Krugman,Thanks for your topic, today. At least you're telling us we won't deconstruct overnight!But the idea that Jim Jordan will be leading a committee is nauseating.So, what will the next two years bring? I would like to think it will bring an "opportunity" for the Democrats to make their case for the need for social programs like childcare and free community college for our citizens to create the workforce we will need for the Chips Act and new manufacturing that will return home.It is an ideal time for Democrats to say investing in Chips for our economic and military security cannot happen unless we invest in our people, too, to meet these labor needs and that foreign workers cannot be the first resort for the workforce requirements of this industry when talent is abundant in America when it is tapped and nurtured.That's what Democrats could say to show that they will "work for" and "be" on the side of working class citizens and that also means strengthening social security.If they say that loud and clear and often and refrain from identity politics, they will win in '24. !!
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D We have always had an 'Industrial policies'. For 40 years it's been to drive the three external costs of corporations towards zero (labor, taxes & capital) via the purchase of the fourth cost, corruption. Politics is a massive industry with a positive ROI if you can afford it. That $1,000,000,000,000 profit by US banks over 10 years didn't just happen. It was structured.
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It must be interesting in states that allow open carry and have stand your ground laws. The open carry makes your very presence an implicit threat and the stand your ground law allows you to shoot someone who is threatening you.
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Adam .Well, first, please keep in mind that what matters is the overall transportation mode share of public transit, walking and cycling combined..The pandemic has shown that roughly 1/3 of workers can work from home a fairly high proportion of the time..Second, there is a book "The High Cost of Free Parking" by Donald Shoup. It is a classic, standard urban planning text..It is well worth your time to read..Electric cars do not solve most of the high cost problems of car ownership in built-up urban areas..Cars monopolize too big a geographic and financial footprint for the ridiculously small amount of transportation they deliver. .Even if you are not burning gasoline, that cost per passenger-seat-mile is astronomical. Much of that cost has been shifted to taxpayers through public subsidies..For example, the cost of "free parking" on a city street amounts to a public subsidy of $ 10,000/year (+/-) per parking space. The land value of the parking space often exceeds the price of the car..In the average city, there are four parking spaces per car..That reality has profound consequences for land use and the cost of provision of public services..We have spent a century subsidizing the burning of gasoline, directly and indirectly..Remove the subsidies so that the market sends more accurate price signals, and Adam Smith's invisible hand will work faster and more smoothly than you might at first imagine.
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I wake up at 5am daily to get my workouts in the early morning. I start with stretching as I drink my tea, then an hour of HIIT, then a 45-minute swim. I'm done by 8:30, with the whole day ahead of me, and everything is quieter while I do so. This also allows me to get hikes and bikes in before 10am in the summer (post workout), before it gets too hot; and to ski the opening bell in the winter, to enjoy the powder or the groomers depending on conditions.
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Joy Ocean It must gall liberals to see Ronald Reagan ranked number nine on the annual ranking of Presidents by the Historians and Biographers list. Historians and biographers figure to be on the liberal side themselves."The remark of Gingrich fits every Democrat's notion of what the Reagan Administration was, A servant of the wealthy who preyed on the poor. The Democrats are suckers for almost anything that will not make them not look greedy in their politics."Democrats should just spare themselves from having to re-live Trump over and over and try to find a new cause to support .Gingrich's saying that government is the problem, without specifying the problem, makes it meaningless to those first discovering it now. All Gingrich was saying was that our economic power came from the people, and not the politicians, from raising capital and discovering where to sent it. He was believed strongly that when the number of non-users discovered how safe and effective public money was in the hands of private individuals they would praise capitalism for its existence.The public would be better off learning from Trump's landslide open book on the subject of his election. The books are disclosed in later episodes. There are no credible reasons for the that Vietnam war to have had anything except the outfit id did.
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In reviewing some comments, I detect a lack of imagination. We've all been brainwashed into believing that we must work at a job, no matter how miserable our employer makes us or how boring the same tasks are over time, just for a pay check. I worked for multiple decades at a number of corporations and never quit a job; however, when I was laid off during the financial crisis, I was determined to never be subject to the decisions of other people and live life on my terms. Employers don't care about us. Look, we only get one shot at this thing called life, so let's open our minds to ways we can enjoy life without worrying about a paycheck. For me, investing has given me the freedom to do whatever I want whenever I want, and I'd advise others to figure out how they can free themselves from a life of drudgery.
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Karen I agree with the previous poster. It’s definitely not easy to get quality work that truly reflects the experience. Someone has and meets their salary. preferences.And I agree we have a long way to go to make it a level playing field.But I know a lot of people in their 60s, who have kept their careers going by moving to contract work, taking a step back on the management, ladder, and learning new skills. Yes, and probably dying their hair. They’re earning about 80-90% of the previous salary.I think something else that comes into play, which is not an early age is on, is that the higher up one goes and experience an accomplishment, the number of available openings slims way down, regardless of age.
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This appears to be another very expensive drug with possibly scant potential to really help patients, and it comes with a very high price tag. It may represent a baby step toward better treatment, but until such time as a drug has real potential in slowing the progression of Alzheimer's, it's not worth tens of thousands of dollars per patient each year. We need real progress for these patients, not expensive and risky treatments with a low cost/reward profile.
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China does not think in terms of the "next economic cycle" nor the "next generation" they think in 50 and 100 year increments. We are now approaching the 50th anniversary of adoption of the one-child policy. As someone who has spend 3 to 4 weeks a year in China for over 20 years, mostly visiting factories, farms, or government offices I'll let you in on the worst kept secret in China. China's population has been declining for around a decade. The mass internal migration and urbanization has helped the government disguise that. Apparently the government has decided that now is the time to show that in their official statistics. When I wasn't in China I spent half my time rummaging through China's official statistics. China's official statistics are a lot like George Santo's resume and the show "The Crown" lightly inspired by facts and designed to make someone money.An aging population in China will be less of a burden than in the United States, China spend less than one-third as much of their much smaller per capita GND on health care and yet has an average life expectancy of the United States in the mid-1970's.Per capital GDP in China has increase by 6,800% since 1980 compare to 560% in the United States, which means the contributions of today's workers compared to those of retirees is much greater than in the United States. And they are expected to continue increasing at a faster rate than in the United States.Stop using western thinking about China.
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