UPS has income that covers all of that. Not everyone does. Would be nice to get that kind of pay if it's possible. I'll tell you what. You let us build that wall, and remove all alien criminals from the country, and I'll gladly let those who's only crime is coming up here the wrong way stay. Stop the flood continuing to seek a life here, and get rid of the criminal element. We can only do so much, and immigration should be orderly and controlled with rights and privileges first and foremost for our own citizens whether they were born here or immigrated here the right way. Any citizen dying at the hands of an illegal alien is one too many that should have never happened.
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Went to a drug dealer's house one time. Had four huge pit bulls chained up around his yard that covered his front door from different directions. I could tell I'd better stay away from one of them but I ended up scratching the ears and petting the other three. They ate it up like all they wanted was a little love and attention. These were 100+ lb dogs with massive jaws and pure muscle. You should have seen the look on his face when I knocked on his door!
Browntown2014
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Turn off Fox News sis.
It was Republicans and Democrats and greedy Wall Street types and millions of people buying homes they couldn't afford that put us in that tough spot.
Wow, nice. Sorry, I have an affinity with dogs that I don't have with a lot of people. That drug dealer said "Mister, I just want to know one thing?" I said "Oh? What's that?" He asked "how the hell did you get past my dogs?" I replied that me and dogs get along really well. He had an incredulous look and just said "huh".
DriveInDriѵeOut
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Listen Karen, I'm not a boomer. I haven't had cable television in almost a decade.
DriveInDriѵeOut
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The purpose of the wall is to slow down border jumpers so patrols have more time to intercept. We should start with increased scanning technology at legal points of entry though.
The ideal deterrent would be to end the welfare state and birthright citizenship.
floridays
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I'll give you a virtual legal pad, the best place to start is with
1.
What are the underlying issues as you see them, what cost the most?
Be precise, I noticed you phrase some things as I do, be precise, you're new to me, consider this a get to knowing each other event, I'm overflowing in anticipation.
I'm feeling you out, not feeling you up.
Get busy.
fishtm2001
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Republicans tuck $8 billion for military weaponry in COVID-19 relief bill
The proposal stuffs $8 billion into Pentagon weapons systems built by defense contractors like Boeing.
fishtm2001
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Bob Greenstein at the Center on Budget points out the shortcomings in Trump’s “executive actions,” which is a more accurate description than executive orders. What’s missing:
Jakamoe
I work for teamsters, UPS contracted me
I couldn't possibly write all the issues as I see them, but I will try my best to summarize.
Are you familiar with the 30 basic human rights adopted by the Roosevelt administration? Approved by the USA via the UN in the 1940s? We basically break, broken, or ignore every single one of them; always have.
Our education system is not uniformed, proper or even close to world leading in any regard, at the elementary levels.
We spend way too much capital on our military, and abuse our military personnel; we praise them as heroes, yet ignore them when they go back to being civilians.
Our gov't values business over its people. In every way possible. Starting from wages, tax exemptions, import/export, allowing businesses to be treated as a people entity, allowing business to donate to political campaigns, allowing businesses to lobby. etc. I think you see the point here. We claim to be a democratic capitalist nation, but we do not practice it. We allow horrid practices such as stock buybacks, allow businesses to go so far in debt, and then pay that debt with taxes.
Our tax system as a whole is an issue. We pay way too much in taxes. By the time we get our paycheck we lose about 25%-30%. Then pay additional taxes for our property, which we technically don't even own anymore, although we should via the constitution. Then pay taxes on services, goods, imports, exports, healthcare, surcharges, the right to travel roads etc. By the time it's all said and done, we probably lose around 60% of our money just to taxes. But we refuse to fully tax businesses, religious groups, and then on top of that, even owe them money after deductions etc. Its a ridiculously complicated system that's not even taught in schools.
We are a democratic nation that cannot directly vote for our representation. The constitution was designed to allow white, rich, powerful men elect our representation. It has been tweaked over the course of the many years to encompass a more "democratic" way, but we, the people, still do not directly vote for our representation. Jerry meandering, electoral college and other processes have been adopted to rig the political process in a more favorable way to keep the same politicians in office, instead of updating with times.
Our news, which is directly mentioned via the Constitution, is a joke. There is no accountability, no fact checking, it is used to serve a particular political party, business or other powerful entity. Not to educate its citizens, but to demoralize, and divide.
We are not free. We are spied on by our government, spied on by big business. Every single day. We are controlled as a populace. We do not own anything. You own a home? Try telling Uncle Sam that when they want to build a freeway, or tell that oil company when they want to build a pipeline through your yard. You own a car to travel our public highways? Get ready to pay taxes to the DMV, endure travel checkpoints, pay taxes to even ride that highway, bridge, tunnel.
We are disillusioned to believe we are free, we have free public speech; unless of course that opinion is different from yours. The right to protest our gov't, unless it doesn't agree with their agenda. The right to bear arms to protect ourselves from a tyrannical gov't, but then they take away, or make impossible to own those said arms.
Lastly, we are stuck in a paradigm of 40 hour work weeks, low wages, high taxes, that has not changed since the early to mid 1900s. It used to be 40 hour work week, for the "man" of the house, who earned a livable wage for the entire family. Women typically stayed home to address home affairs (children, tending to housework, cooking etc.). Men would be able to pay for mortgages, feed their families and support them financially while women would be in control the house, children and daily affairs needed to keep up. Today, both parents are expected to work 40 hour work weeks, that when combined often don't equal what wages used to be for a single person. Then expected to come home, take care of the children, cook, tend to their property. Big business not only pays less per household compared to 40 years ago, but they gained 40 hour more work power from women. It is a physically exhausting system. We now ignore our children. Home skills are rapidly declining, we hire outside help to tend to our house. We use programs such as door dash or pay for already prepped food more. Etc. Because we are too exhausted from big business demands.
Phew. Any of this tickle your fancy?
fishtm2001
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Greed wins as labor loses leverage: A lesson from Depression history echoes in D.C. today
All of this has happened before: Economic desperation, a paralyzed legislature and a people's uprising
www.salon.com
newfie
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um no , Obama inherited an economy that had fallen so much that even with him enacting many very anti business policies it still rebounded. all trump had to do was strip the obama chokeholds on the economy and it took off like a bottle rocket.
i really dont care which of the two major parties you think you wish to blame.
It will be fine
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Which economic indicator took off like a rocket?
BrownFlush
Woke Racist Reigning Ban King
The American Voter?
BrownFlush
Woke Racist Reigning Ban King
fishtm2001
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"So now Schumer and Pelosi want to meet to make a deal. Amazing how it all works, isn’t it. Where have they been for the last 4 weeks when they were “hardliners”, and only wanted BAILOUT MONEY for Democrat run states and cities that are failing badly? They know my phone number"!
9:10 AM · Aug 10, 2020
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9:10 AM · Aug 10, 2020
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fishtm2001
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"Trump’s payroll tax cut — an idea that he’s long been musing over, despite its unpopularity in both parties — is also riddled with problems. Without an act of Congress, the taxes would be due at some point in the future, making it a risk for employers to stop taking the money out of employees’ paychecks now. Trump said that he’d consider making the tax cut permanent — but only if he’s reelected.
And even if the employers took the chance, it would take a while to change their systems. Critics have also been up in arms over the potential blow to Social Security and Medicare, both of which get some funding from the tax."
Kate Riga
And even if the employers took the chance, it would take a while to change their systems. Critics have also been up in arms over the potential blow to Social Security and Medicare, both of which get some funding from the tax."
Kate Riga
DriveInDriѵeOut
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Communist claptrap
